🆚 cPanel vs. DirectAdmin
- 📈 cPanel is much more popular than DirectAdmin.
- 🌎 cPanel is more popular in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 DirectAdmin is more popular in Luxembourg.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
cPanelType
Server management software
Server management software
About
cPanel is a 
Linux-based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools for managing servers, websites, and hosting accounts through a web browser.
It operates in a two-level structure with cPanel for end users and WHM for server-level administration, and enables management of domains, emails, databases, backups, and files.
DirectAdmin is a graphical graphical web-based control panel for Linux servers.
Headquarters
Houston, Texas, United States
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Pricing
Free version ❌Free 15-day trial
Solo (1 account)$17.49/month
Admin (5 accounts)$29.99/month
Pro (30 accounts)$42.99/month
Premier (100 accounts)$60.99/month
Free version ❌
Personal Plus (20 domains)$5/month
Lite (50 domains)$15/month
Standard (unlimited domains)$29/month
Categories
Server Management › Rank #3
Server Management › Rank #8
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The cPanel server management software is 28 times more popular than DirectAdmin.
Total websites
Market share
Server Management
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
cPanel is more popular in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, while DirectAdmin is more popular in Luxembourg.
United States
Australia
United Kingdom
Canada
Netherlands
Italy
India
Spain
Sweden
Romania
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Romania in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Croatia in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Israel in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bulgaria in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Server Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the Server Management category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Server Management category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Poland in the Server Management category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belgium in the Server Management category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Thailand in the Server Management category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
cPanel is more popular than DirectAdmin in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Plesk🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.