Complete comparison for Web Hosting Control Panels - [updated 2026]

A Control panel refers in web hosting industry to the web interface provided by the hosting provider for the administration of the hosted websites, databases, emails and lot more. Today, almost all web hosting companies offers control panels on their shared platform, even on VPS or dedicated servers.

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Webhosting automated software available in today's market: CPanel+WHM vs Plesk vs Others

The chart below is generated from our system, based on the usage of web hosting companies
CPanel 5452
Plesk 1042
Directadmin 426
Webmin 235
Vesta 196
CentOS Web Panel 171
Virtualmin 144
ZPanel 122
H-Sphere 83
ISPConfig 83
vDeck 70
Ajenti 60
i-MSCP 43

NameFreeOpen SourceLast ReleaseUnixWindowsFrontendBackendIPv6Multi ServerPlugins
CPanelNoNo2017-04-14YesNoPerlPerlYesYesYes
PleskNoNo2017-04-27YesYesPHPPHP/MySQLYesYesYes
DirectadminNoNo2017-02-25YesNoC++C++, scripts, PHPYesYesYes
WebminYesYes2017-03-05YesPartialPerlPerlYesYesYes
IspmanagerNoNo2017-04-26YesNoC++C++/sqliteYesYesYes
VestaYesYes2016-11-25YesNoPHPPHP, BASH, CNoNoYes
CentOS Web PanelYesNo2017-04-28YesNoPHPPHP, MySQLYesNoYes
VirtualminYesYes2017-03-08YesNoPerlPerlYesYesYes
ZPanelYesYes2014-09-17YesYesPHPPHP,MySQL/MariaDBNoYesYes
H-SphereNoNo2013-12-02YesYesJavaJava,MySQL/PostgresqlNoYesYes
ISPConfigYesYes2017-01-25YesNoPHPPHP, MySQLYesYesYes
vDeckNoNo2012-01-31YesYesJavaJavaNoYesNo
AjentiYesYes2014-07-24YesNoAngularJS: JS, ES6 or CoffeeScriptGEvent: PythonYesNoYes
i-MSCPYesYes2017-07-10YesNoPHPPerl, CYesNoYes
HepsiaNoNoYesNo  NoNoNo
Hosting ControllerNoNo2018-01-26YesYes.NETMSSQLYesYesYes