Comparison of web hosting control panels

The following sections compare general and technical information for a variety of web hosting control panel software packages.

License and operating system support

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

Control panel	License	Alive	Berkeley [Software Distribution\|BSD]	Linux	Windows	Frontend	Backend	Plugin Support	VCS	IPv6 Support	Multiserver Support
AlternC	GNU [General Public License\|GPL 2]	2017-11-07				PHP	PHP / Perl / Shell script
Domain [Technologie Control]	GNU LGPL	2013/04/04				PHP	MySQL		git
Froxlor	GPL	2024-03-29				PHP	PHP, MariaDB or MySQL
i-MSCP	GPL, MPL	2018-05-16				PHP	Perl, C
ISPConfig	BSD	;				PHP	PHP, MariaDB or MySQL
Kloxo	AGPL	2011/11/13				PHP	PHP, MySQL
Usermin	BSD style	2024-04-15				Perl	Perl		tarball
Virtualmin	GPL	2024-03-24				Perl	Perl		tarball
Webmin	BSD style	;				Perl	Perl
Zentyal	GPL	;				Perl	Perl		git

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

Control panel	Alive	BSD	Linux	Windows	Frontend	Backend	Plugin Support	HTTP/2 Support	IPV6 Support	Multiserver Support
cPanel & WHM	2024-04-19			EOL	Perl	Perl, MariaDB, MySQL
DirectAdmin	2024-06-01				C++, scripts, PHP, Vue.js	C++, scripts, PHP
Plesk	2024-04-16				PHP	PHP, MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Virtualmin Pro	2024-03-24				Perl	Perl

Some control panels allow shell (console) access to the underlying OS through a Java applet, requiring that the client-side computer use Java Virtual Machine software. Other control panels allow direct access using telnet or secure shell.

Control panel	FTP	Anonymous FTP	Terminal	File browse/upload/download HTTP frontend
cPanel & WHM
DirectAdmin
Domain Technologie Control
i-MSCP
ISPConfig
Kloxo
Plesk
Usermin
Virtualmin
Virtualmin Pro
Webmin

While all control panel software below supports multiple email accounts, the features they provide vary.