🆚 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.
cPanel
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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 web-based hosting control panel for Linux servers.
It uses a three-level administration structure for admins, resellers, and users, and provides domain and DNS management, email hosting, databases, backups, 
Apache and 
Nginx support, and SSL certificate automation through Let's Encrypt.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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 Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bulgaria 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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Turkey in the Server Management category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Server Management category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.