🆚 cPanel vs. Plesk
- 📈 Plesk is five times more popular than cPanel.
- 🌎 Plesk is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Spain.
- 🌍 cPanel is more popular in Romania, Israel, and Croatia.
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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.
Plesk is a web hosting control panel for Linux and 
Windows servers that allows users to manage websites, domains, email, and databases from a centralized interface.
It provides tools for domain and DNS management, mail servers with spam protection, database administration, file management, scheduled backups, and built-in security features such as a web application firewall and brute-force protection.
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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 Bulgaria in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Server Management category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom 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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🗃️ 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.