Hepsia v. cPanel
cPanel is the most popular web hosting Control Panel out there. But that does not mean that it is the best – it has many faults and it has had them for so long that they are no longer regarded as imperfections by the majority of people. But only because something was OK in the year 2000 doesn’t imply that the same thing will be okay nowadays.
Here are the most essential differences between the cPanel Control Panel and the Hepsia hosting Control Panel:
1. Domain/billing/website controls
With Hepsia, you can administer your site, domain and billing easily, from a a single place.
With cPanel, you have two different Control Panel interfaces – one for your web site and another one for your invoices and domain names.
2. File structure
With Hepsia, each domain has its own separate folder.
With cPanel, you have 1 main domain name folder and all other add-on domain names are located inside it.
3. File Manager
With the Hepsia CP, you can use drag ‘n’ drop file upload right into the File Manager. It also supports archive/unarchive options and right-click contextual menus.
After certain recent updates, cPanel‘s File Manager performs and looks much better. In spite of that, it offers neither drag ‘n’ drop file upload functionality, nor archive/unarchive functions.
4. Free bonuses
With Hepsia, you obtain a lot of free bonuses.
With cPanel, the free extras you obtain depend on the web hosting provider, which implies that you can also obtain a bare-bones cPanel with nothing else.
5. Control Panel speed
Tests have revealed that the Hepsia web hosting CP is 3 to 5 times faster than the cPanel hosting CP.
While with the The cPanel web hosting Control Panel you do your work in time, it’s based on concepts from the year 2000 and can be slow at times.
6. Mutli-domain controls
Managing ten different web sites with the Hepsia hosting CP is not harder than managing 1 or 2 websites.
Hosting more than 10 sites in a single cPanel account is really hard.
7. Control Panel navigation
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel lists just the most essential sections on the home page and you can navigate using drop-down menus available in all of the sections.
the cPanel web hosting Control Panel displays all available icons on the home page. To navigate between sections, you always need to go back there.
8. Demo accounts
The Hepsia hosting Control Panel features a full-fledged demo version with just several functions disabled. You can even set up a whole site and check how it looks like prior to deciding whether or not to register.
The cPanel web hosting CP features a bare-bones demo version, which will only offer you a vague idea of what the cPanel hosting Control Panel can do.
This list can go on and on. But rather than merely reading about these hosting Control Panels, why don’t you give the Hepsia Control Panel a try with our Live Demo and discover for yourself how easy web hosting can be?
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