In the world of web hosting, there are two control panels that are commonly used; cPanel and Plesk. Both solutions are usually offered by all web hosting companies on a VPS or dedicated server plan, and they are usually at about the same price. Sometimes you may find Plesk offered for less than cPanel, but that will be different. If you use a shared hosting solution, you are usually offered only the cPanel user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Compare cPanel and Plesk face to face in the table below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
| <\/th> | Cpanel<\/strong><\/th>| Plesk<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead> | Auto Install<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> | Yes\/No?<\/td> | Yes<\/td> | Yes<\/td><\/tr> | Statistics Features<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> | Services<\/td> | Analog, AwStats, Webalizer<\/td> | Webalizer, Plesk Traffic Manager, AWStats<\/td><\/tr> | Other features<\/td> | Custom Reports, Graphical Analysis, Logs, Log Rotation<\/td> | Real-time bandwidth, user reports, graphical user breakdowns<\/td><\/tr> | DNS features<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> | Services<\/td> | Bind<\/td> | Bind<\/td><\/tr> | Other features<\/td> | Clustering, Auto-tuning Hands-off<\/td> | Remote DNS, support for load balancing, master \/ slave management, automatic file mapping, DNS recursion, SOA settings<\/td><\/tr> | FTP Information<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> | Services<\/td> | proFTPd and PureFTPd<\/td> | Proftpd<\/td><\/tr> | Other features<\/td> | Access to letter to disk, anonymous FTP, image file manager | FTP upload, additional accounts<\/td> Anonymous FTP, directory upload, FTP Throttling, file manager<\/td><\/tr> | Database support<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> | Services<\/td> | MySQL, PostgreSQL<\/td> | MySQL, PostgreSQL<\/td><\/tr> | Admin panels<\/td> | phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin<\/td> | phpMyAdmin, phpPgMyAdmin, Secure Setup, Multi-user \/ Multi-DB<\/td><\/tr> | Mail Features<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> | Services<\/td> | Exim, Courier-IMAP, Courier-POP<\/td> | Qmail<\/td><\/tr> | Distribution list<\/td> | postman<\/td> | Mailman Aliasing, answering machines, groups, user access<\/td><\/tr> | Webmail<\/td> | Horde, Squirrelmail<\/td> | Horde imp<\/td><\/tr> | Anti spam<\/td> | SpamAssassin, BoxTrapper, Spam Boxing<\/td> | Spamassassin<\/td><\/tr> | Antiviruses<\/td> | Clamav<\/td> | DrWeb, Kaspersky<\/td><\/tr> | Web features<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> | Web servers<\/td> | apache<\/td> | apache<\/td><\/tr> | Scenarios<\/td> | Apache, CGI-Perl, PHP, SSI, JSP<\/td> | Apache ASP, PHP, Python, SSI, CGI, Mod_Perl, Ruby, FastCGI<\/td><\/tr> | Devlopement Tools<\/td> | Frontpage<\/td> | Coldfusion<\/td><\/tr> | Security<\/td> | SSL, phpSuExec, SuPHP, mod_security<\/td> | SSL, Suexec<\/td><\/tr> | access<\/td> | IP Deny Manager, Hotlink Defender, Anti-Leech, Passwords<\/td> | unknown<\/td><\/tr> | mistakes<\/td> | Recent 300 Errors, Custom Error Pages<\/td> | unknown<\/td><\/tr> | Account Types \/ Levels<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> | Reseller Login<\/td> | Yes, with WHM 11<\/td> | Yes<\/td><\/tr> | Login for domain owner<\/td> | Yes<\/td> | Yes<\/td><\/tr> | Mail user<\/td> | Yes<\/td> | Yes<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n | About cPanel<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n |
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