The following sections compare general and technical information for a variety of web hosting control panel software packages.
License and operating system support
Free and open source control panels Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
Control panel License Alive (last release) BSD Linux Windows Frontend Backend Plugin Support VCS IPv6 Support Multiserver Support AlternC GPL 2 2017-11-07 PHP PHP / Perl / Shell script git Domain Technologie Control GNU LGPL 2013/04/04 PHP MySQL git Froxlor GPL 2024-03-29 PHP PHP, MariaDB or MySQL git i-MSCP GPL, MPL 2018-05-16 PHP Perl, C git ISPConfig BSD ; PHP PHP, MariaDB or MySQL git Kloxo AGPL 2011/11/13 PHP PHP, MySQL git Usermin BSD style 2024-04-15 Perl Perl tarball Virtualmin GPL 2024-03-24 Perl Perl tarball Webmin BSD style ; Perl Perl git Zentyal GPL ; Perl Perl git
Proprietary control panels Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
Control panel Alive (last release) BSD Linux Windows Frontend Backend Plugin Support HTTP/2 Support IPV6 Support Multiserver Support cPanel & WHM 2024-04-19 EOL Perl Perl, MariaDB, MySQL DirectAdmin 2024-06-01 C++, scripts, PHP, Vue.js C++, scripts, PHP Plesk 2024-04-16 PHP PHP, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL "Apr 13, 2016 / UPD: HTTP 2.0 support is now available in Plesk 12.5 MU#28!" Virtualmin Pro 2024-03-24 Perl Perl
Remote access Some control panels allow shell (console) access to the underlying OS through a Java applet, requiring that the client-side computer use Java Virtual Machine software. Other control panels allow direct access using telnet or secure shell (SSH).
Control panel FTP Anonymous FTP Terminal File browse/upload/download HTTP frontend cPanel & WHM DirectAdmin Domain Technologie Control i-MSCP ISPConfig Kloxo Plesk Usermin Virtualmin Virtualmin Pro Webmin
Email management While all control panel software below supports multiple email accounts, the features they provide vary. Control panel Antivirus Antispam Forwarders Mailbox quota DomainKeys DKIM cPanel & WHM DirectAdmin Domain Technologie Control i-MSCP ISPConfig Kloxo Plesk Usermin Virtualmin Virtualmin Pro Webmin
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