cPanel, paired with its WHM server administration layer, is the incumbent web-hosting control panel: a web UI for managing sites, email, DNS, databases, and PHP on any Linux server you bring. It has defined the category since the late 1990s and remains what most shared and VPS hosts expose to customers. Licensing moved to per-account tiers under WebPros ownership, with prices that have risen steadily. It suits hosts and agencies standardizing on the industry-default panel with the broadest ecosystem of integrations.
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Overview
- Founded
- 1997
- Pricing tier
- High
- Startup-friendly
- No
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Server control panel
- Supported providers
- Any Linux VPS/dedicated (BYO)
- Managed stack
- Apache/LiteSpeed, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, Exim (WHM/cPanel)
- Control panel
- Yes
- Auto-scaling
- No
- Automated backups
- Yes
- Staging / clone
- No
- Multi-provider
- Yes
- Free tier
- No