We could fix cPanel issues ourselves ~95% of the time, and I would say the average turnaround time for a seriously huge issue (that we could fix ourselves) was 6 hours. I previously worked for a decent sized webhost.
There are also a few other panels I haven't mentioned because I haven't used them, like Interworx which is supposed to be quite good. I think that's all of the panels I have installed and used (besides DirectAdmin + ISPConfig - only demoed those). Hopefully zPanel will improve though.Īnother thing I should mention is the bug tracker is also incredibly buggy, and I wish they would just use a standard bug tracker instead of trying to reinvent the wheel.
#WEBMIN VS CPANEL CODE#
When I had a trawl through the codebase, I didn't like the look of some of the code either. I tried reporting a few of them, and they were just closed without anyone looking into them. zPanel is actually pretty awesome, it has a nice user interface (I actually enjoy using it more than the user interface for cPanel and possibly even Plesk). I have used zPanel on a custom server for a while. I hope to go back to using Virtualmin once I can convince my clients to put up with the interface or once the interface improves. It's great for custom requirements in which cPanel/Plesk typically messes things up. One of the great things about Virtualmin is it tends to use config files for each service how they were meant to be used, and there is no/little custom crap like with cPanel/Plesk so you can typically edit files by hand if you wish. But for admins, Virtualmin is awesome and I'm hoping that I can go back to it. Virtualmin would my first choice, if the user-facing administration didn't look so terrible. Development has either stopped or is very slow.Ī lot of people use ISPConfig and DirectAdmin which I have only demoed and didn't really enjoy using either of them, and figured my users probably wouldn't enjoy it either.
However, a lot of it seems pretty out of date and you'll need to run it on Cent OS 5. Kloxo is actually pretty cool, and the user-interface is suitable for clients too. In the year that I have been running Plesk though, I have never needed to contact support. One thing that is great about cPanel is the support you are given - Plesk support is either expensive, or poor and support can mean a lot, especially in the hosting business. But I have pretty much given up on trying to understand why it's so popular. If anyone can convince me why cPanel might be better, I'd be willing to give it another go for the third time in a row. Plesk VPS licensing starts at 2EUR a month, cPanel VPS licensing was ~10EUR last time I checked. I never understood the whole "but cPanel is cheaper and Plesk is incredibly expensive!!1" thing either.
#WEBMIN VS CPANEL WINDOWS#
Maybe it's because people associate Plesk with Windows or something, but I have only ever used Plesk in Linux. Plesk and cPanel both offer extensive utilities for administering servers with CLI tools, and I don't understand why people think it's only cPanel that does. Previously I used cPanel.ĬPanel still has no IPv6 support, and SNI SSL has been in development for many, many years. I use Plesk on CentOS and absolutely love it. These are the two big panels that many companies use.