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Hepsia vs. cPanel

cPanel is the most widely used web hosting Control Panel nowadays. But that does not mean that it is the finest - it has many weaknesses and it has had them for so long that they are no longer regarded as imperfections by the majority of users. But only because something was okay in the year 2000 doesn't imply that the same thing will be OK nowadays.

Here are the most essential distinctions between the cPanel hosting Control Panel and the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel:

Hepsia
cPanel

1. Domain/billing/website controls

Hepsia - Domain/billing/website controls With Hepsia, you can manage your site, domain and billing very easy, from a one single place.
cPanel - Domain/billing/website controls With cPanel, you have two different Control Panels - one for your website and another one for your invoices and domains.

2. File structure

Hepsia - File structure With Hepsia, each domain name has its own independent folder.
cPanel - File structure With cPanel, you have one principal domain name folder and all other add-on domain names are located inside it.

3. File Manager

Hepsia - File Manager With the Hepsia hosting CP, you can use drag 'n' drop file upload right into the File Manager. It also supports archive/unarchive options and right-click context menus.
cPanel - File Manager After some recent updates, cPanel's File Manager works and looks much better. Yet, it offers neither drag 'n' drop file upload functionality, nor archive/unarchive options.

4. Free bonuses

Hepsia - Free bonuses With Hepsia, you get many free-of-cost bonuses.
cPanel - Free bonuses With cPanel, the charge-free bonuses you receive depend on the hosting provider, which implies that you can also obtain a bare-bones cPanel with nothing else.

5. Control Panel speed

Hepsia - Control Panel speed Tests have shown that Hepsia is three to five times faster than the cPanel hosting Control Panel.
cPanel - Control Panel speed While with the The cPanel CP you can get the work done, it's based on ideas from the year 2000 and can be sluggish at times.

6. Mutli-domain controls

Hepsia - Mutli-domain controls Managing ten separate sites with Hepsia is not harder than managing 1 or 2 websites.
cPanel - Mutli-domain controls Hosting 10+ web sites under a single cPanel account is really tough.

7. Control Panel navigation

Hepsia - Control Panel navigation The Hepsia CP lists just the most important sections on the home page and you can navigate using drop-down menus available in all of the sections.
cPanel - Control Panel navigation the cPanel web hosting CP displays all available icons on the home page. To move between sections, you invariably have to return there.

8. Demo accounts

Hepsia - Demo accounts The Hepsia web hosting CP offers a fully fledged demo account with only several functions disabled. You can even set up an entire web site and see how it looks like before deciding whether or not to open an account.
cPanel - Demo accounts cPanel features a stripped-down demo version, which will only offer you a basic idea of what the cPanel web hosting Control Panel can do.

This list can carry on and on. But instead of merely reading about these Control Panels, why don't you give the Hepsia Control Panel a shot with our Live Demo and see for yourself how easy hosting can be?