Sometimes there are questions about why we have only a sipanel and whether other control panels will be added. In this article we will try to explain why cPanel is the best for web hosting.

• For those who are not in the topic

On our hosting, as on many others, the site is managed through the cPanel control panel. It is through it that you upload files, activate mail accounts, create certificates, etc. It contains many functions for managing the site and all of them are presented in a clear multilingual interface. It will not be difficult to figure out for a person who has not previously had experience managing websites.

• The main drawback

For some hosters, the price is completely unprofitable. Unlike other panels, the sipanel charges for accounts and is not divided into versions like "Lite", "Pro", etc. The more accounts, the lower the price. For small hosters, this becomes an occasion to look at alternatives, where, let it be, there will be twice as many opportunities, but the price is fixed and less than three times. A more or less adequate price can be obtained by buying 100+ accounts at once. Also, minor disadvantages include the lack of support for popular deb-based distributions. Supported OS: CentOS, CloudLinux, RHEL, Amazon Linux

Therefore, when another hoster (of course, with the exception of large hosters whose panels were designed to perform clear tasks) tells you how good his panel is and that the sipanel does not reach this level, then this is just an excuse to save money :)

• What is better than the others?

Interface. Getting to know the panel begins with the appearance. It is simple, convenient and modern here. You can easily find the settings you need, and with the help of several built-in themes, you can adjust the panel to suit yourself - as you like. In some other panels, there are much fewer features, more room for creativity, but when you look at the open browser tab, it seems that the year is 2007.

File manager. Using the sipanel, you do not need to have an FTP client or a text editor with syntax highlighting. All this is available directly from the browser tab. At the same time, it is equally good on mobile devices and on the desktop. If you take some competitors, they only have something like a file explorer, in which you are unlikely to be able to do something more complicated than creating a folder. If you manage to open the file (or maybe not because of the file size), then it is unlikely that the editing process will be convenient.

Security and antispam. cPanel contains built-in protection tools against various types of attacks, and also filters email from spam and most viruses.

Backups and statistics. Using the cPanel control panel, you get the opportunity to automatically save backups of your sites and analyze the traffic statistics of your sites..

Current software. Automatic update settings allow you to shift the worries about downloading and installing the latest software versions to cPanel. Select the components to update with a few clicks in the corresponding interface. Use only the latest versions of the software with the latest bugfixes.

Support for software developers. The universal system allows developers to easily and quickly connect their modules to the server. It's already worth buying cPanel for this. But there are other important advantages. For example, the ability to choose which version of PHP a particular site will work with. The built-in code editor and file manager allow you to make small edits to the site on the fly.

Multilingualism. Choose the language in which it is more convenient for you to communicate with the server. Russian is also available.

• Output

The high price is an absolute minus. However, the abundance of opportunities makes this disadvantage not so significant. Get used to high-quality software :)