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Plesk, cPanel or vDeck Which Control Panel is Best?
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One of the essential factors for efficiently running your web site is the control panel. Whilst most web site owners are using the cPanel control interface, there are several other interfaces available (depending upon your hosting provider).
The two control panels used by most of the ISP’s I’ve encountered are
Plesk and cPanel. Both of the feature sets for these control panels are pretty much comparable, both are quite fast, secure, and reliable. The biggest difference between the two control panels as far as I can see is the user interface. The Plesk user interface is slightly harder to use and customise than cPanel’s and most users seem to prefer the cPanel user interface (me included).
- As a general user (client) you can ignore what follows, but, from a techi point of view Plesk provides better support for automation with an XML-RPC interface allowing PHP or Perl scripts to call functions from a remote computer and has a large variety of plug-ins. cPanel on the other hand seems to have more software, such as billing software, available to integrate with it. For unlimited domain licenses, Plesk is generally cheaper to purchase than cPanel while cPanel is cheaper to rent per annum than Plesk.
A relatively new user interface is vDeck, which is claimed by the developers to be, ‘not a control panel, but it is also a next generation website management system’. vDeck is reported as being more powerful than cPanel, which is more useful for managing web sites of small businesses. However, many people found mastering the vDeck interface quite difficult, hence most still prefer cPanel.
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