cPanel, xPanel & LayeredPanel

[loon loon]

Somebody told me if you want to get a free hosting xPanel & LayeredPanel are more suitable compare to cPanel. Anybody agree or disagree with it? and why?

[NDChris]

cPanel has millions of dollars to pour into their development.....

xPanel and LP do not.........nuff said lol.

[desiservers.com]

cPanel rules. xPanel and LayeredPanel sucks!

[Cherishes]

millions of dollars?

[influct]

look at their prices, for a owned license then consider how many servers are running that. 10's of millions I'd say!

Go with cpanel, clients are brand snobs (nothin personal:P) who like cpanel because their familiar with it, the extra revenue that cpanel brings because of this. Also bear in mind that cpanel is more secure than many others meaning you pay less becuase you get hacked less.

[Gipo_dinamia]

Cpanel is the post popular among the the other control panels. As for me I use cPanel, I got used to it. XPanel and LPanel ... hm I have never used them and I don't know how much they are effective in usage.

[JonnyH]

I personaly prefer Direct Admin to them all. cPanel is the most widely used though.

[zcoder]

cpanel can not be bought, a host can not own
it, it is leased, so their cost for it ontop of the server and everything else
dictates how much thay have to charge. same goes for free hsoing services.

Hosting would be cheaper if we quit using hosting service's using cPanel.
Oh, and fantatico can not be owned, it costs about $400.00 a year
those 2 cPanel, and fantatico put the burden on the users to pay more
for hosting.

Just my observation of the past 5 years.

Zcoder....

[AMC]

wrong you can buy a permanent lease, it costs about 1200 USD i think.
another good one is plesk, but i do prefer cpanel, and so do most others

[h0ster]

Cpanel X is better in so many ways than Xpanel. Layer Panel doesn't look to bad. One phrase 'supply and demand'....

[gatow]

what about ferozo? uh? hehe :|

[Brandon]

cPanel by far is the most-used, and therefore more users like it, but, I personally hate xPanel and layeredpanel, along with plesk. DirectAdmin is awesome though.

[James]

I've chosen cPanel for my free hosting service.. Simply, it's better.

[moneyballs2]

cPanel 100% of the way. So much easier than others. It may be a lot expensive but it's worth it, you got some good add-ons & it's both easy for the newbie and advanced (in WHM) for the pro.

cPanel is also more desirable because it's popular and people think if that company use cPanel they must be good. :p

[ddt]

cPanel is the best

[relix]

I personally say go with cpanel. Cpanel is much more secure than the other panels and is much more widely used. If you are thinking about starting a hosting company, go with cpanel. (lots of clients want that)

[ihostdev]

millions of dollars?

if you look it up you will find that cpanel is a multi million dollar company

[ihostdev]

cpanel can not be bought, a host can not own
it, it is leased, so their cost for it ontop of the server and everything else
dictates how much thay have to charge. same goes for free hsoing services.

Hosting would be cheaper if we quit using hosting service's using cPanel.
Oh, and fantatico can not be owned, it costs about $400.00 a year
those 2 cPanel, and fantatico put the burden on the users to pay more
for hosting.

Just my observation of the past 5 years.

Zcoder....

Not suire where you get your fantastico license's but from there main site they are only $90

[locolijo]

I have been working with cPanel for about 5 years, But recently moved to DirectAdmin And I can say for Sure that DirectAdmin is the best at the moment & the best of all cost less money.

[iLucas]

I've used zPanel once or twice. Isn't it somewhat like cPanel, just the "cheaper" version?

[0island-jeff]

Cpanel is the reigning champion, and I think it's arguably the industry standard when it comes to control panels. DirectAdmin would be a close second, as one of it's primary features is its stability. For budget users, LayeredPanel and XPanel (cgi-based and is unstable with high users, beware) is a good choice too.

[Kevsin]

I like cPanel much more than the others.

I'm currently trying out a host using layeredpanel, and I can't even seem to be able to edit PHP Files because its like a permanent WYSIWYG editor

[Kwek]

I prefer cPanel to the other control panels. I have tried cPanel, DirectAdmin, LayeredPanel and xPanel before. The only CP which can match up to cPanel is DirectAdmin. However, due to the fact that I am more used to cPanel, I would say that cPanel is slightly better than DA. DA's interface does seem much better but cPanel and WHM are easier to use.

[allanh]

H-Sphere was good when I last used it 5 years ago. However, I haven't seen much of it nowadays.

For the past 4 years, I have been using cPanel.

Used Ensim for a while but did not like it much.

[kjavia795]

cpanel is the most preferred, so you will get more customers if you are using that.... the moeny is worth it, go for it.

[pommy]

Seems nobody runs a large freehost here; I admin one for my job with > 100.000 members; cpanel will turn into complete crap after having 1000 sites on a server. We tried. Xpanel can do 5000-8000 and Layeredpanel can do 45.000-50.000. Cpanel is completely inefficient for freehosting and will not make you any money there, as you'll be installing 1000 servers with 1000 licenses. We run 3 servers with Layeredpanel and > 100.000 members making a profit of $25.000 a month; you can probably calculate what enormous loss the same setup would have with cPanel.

With their 'millions invested' in it, it has very little bugs, but it is slow and securitywise not a smart move for a freehost.

My 2 cents from experience with the above.

[INVIHO]

We use LayerdPanel for free hosting and Plesk for paid hosting. Cpanel is my 3rd option.
I've bought LayerdPanel a week ago and i like their way of coding. I can make tons of changes

[satu]

wow poomy, what's your webhosting name? I'd like to join that huge community of people using Layered Panel?

[Archbob]

Direct Admin is cleaner but doesn't offer all the bells and whistles of Cpanel. I use DA for my dedicated server but I've used Cpanel in the past.

And Ensim sucked, by the way.

[Richard]

DirectAdmin is the "best" but most people like cPanel because thats what they use everywhere else.

[youngrokss]

I can't understand why owners use layered panel.

because
Layeredpanel has too many limitions.

example)

extension limit
PHP Safe mode is on
ADS
cgi,perl isn't working
PHP environment is inconvenient for users.
.htaccess isn't allowed.
etc

[selmore]

I love cPanel, and lots of people do, so cPanel is best!

[Richard]

I love cPanel, and lots of people do, so cPanel is best!

Ever used anything else BUT cPanel?

[Galaxy-Hosts.com]

Of the three the OP mentions I would go with Cpanel.

[Kwek]

I can't understand why owners use layered panel.

because
Layeredpanel has too many limitions.

example)

extension limit
PHP Safe mode is on
ADS
cgi,perl isn't working
PHP environment is inconvenient for users.
.htaccess isn't allowed.
etc
I thought PHP Safe mode was configured in the PHP config file instead of LayeredPanel?

It can be tweaked to allow .htaccess. Or is the .htaccess limit actually in extension limits? Extension limits? It's due to the fact that the host wanted to limit those extensions. I am pretty sure that they can disable the extension limit.

[xd3vilx]

H-Sphere all the way. Preferred it advanced option that it offered. But I have to admit cPanel is well favourite in the free hosting market.

[Galaxy-Hosts.com]

H-Sphere all the way. Preferred it advanced option that it offered. But I have to admit cPanel is well favourite in the free hosting market. If you think H-Sphere would make a better panel, you should start a free host using H-Sphere. Cost wise there is not alot of difference between Cpanel and H-Sphere. I personally do not like H-Sphere, but there may be a market for the product.

[XFH-Jay]

H-Sphere is good too.. probably the most comparable with cPanel IMO.

LayeredPanel like others said is too un-reflexive with PHP.

[m2jay]

LayerPanel is worst.
Uploaded files will not be chmoded with ftp and easily abused.
File format restriction is nothing. ppls can upload any kind of files with simple uploading script and hogged for illegal Bittorrent spreading.

My fav is H-Sphere. It has powerful file manager with multi file chmod ability.
Cpanel cant do multi file chmod.

[h0ster]

millions of dollars?


cpanel can not be bought, a host can not own
it, it is leased, so their cost for it ontop of the server and everything else
dictates how much thay have to charge. same goes for free hsoing services.

Hosting would be cheaper if we quit using hosting service's using cPanel.
Oh, and fantatico can not be owned, it costs about $400.00 a year
those 2 cPanel, and fantatico put the burden on the users to pay more
for hosting.

Just my observation of the past 5 years.

Zcoder....

Well you've been wating 5 years then you gimp, you can but CPAnel and have been able to for ages

http://www.cpanel.net/purchase/cPanelandWHM/linux/cPanel_WHM.htm

If you use a good supplier you can CPanel for $8 monthly while DirectAdmin/ServerCP is $8-10 too. Its $1500 to buy CPanel, doh keep your misinformation to yourself.

BTW. CPanel support is the best i've ever had, they even ask you for feedback afterwards (on the level of support and how polite they were) This whole thread seems to be populated by people who have never used CPanel at Root level and so dont really have much idea of how it really works and how quick it is to set up a server and keep it managed, thats why I use CPanel.

[h0ster]

Whoever gave me bad rep for saying you can't get cpanel for $8 check out http://smokyhosts.com to name just one. I never said stand alone you knob head.

It just shows what this forum has come to when noobs can hand out bad rep to senior members/ web hosts because they're ignorant and basicly have no idea what they're talking about. This place is becoming a farce.

[ihostdev]

Whoever gave me bad rep for saying you can't get cpanel for $8 check out http://smokyhosts.com to name just one. I never said stand alone you knob head.

It just shows what this forum has come to when noobs can hand out bad rep to senior members/ web hosts because they're ignorant and basicly have no idea what they're talking about. This place is becoming a farce.

I am sure we can figure who it was and are running close to trademark infringement on there site from what i can see.

[ihostdev]

lol it's funny i post this comment and get bad rep also. What morons, and they can't even post back to the thread

[Deliah]

I like H-Sphere , CPanel and DirectAdmin

[snoopinc6]

I would use cPanel anyday.

[TaiLZ]

cPanel is probably the best solution with being the most well known, and possibly in my experience, the easiest and most reliable from the three given.

[cmartin]

Each CP has it's own pro's and con's, but I find cPanel to be the best (out of the three listed in the thread title). I find it to be the most professional-looking, and feature-wise, I find it superior to the others. IMO, of course.

Chris

[pommy]

I can't understand why owners use layered panel.

because
Layeredpanel has too many limitions.

example)

extension limit
PHP Safe mode is on
ADS
cgi,perl isn't working
PHP environment is inconvenient for users.
.htaccess isn't allowed.
etc

Spoken like a someone who doesn't know much;

- extension limit can be switched off/on
- php safe can be switched off/on, globally and per user
- ads can be switched off/on, globally and per user
- cgi/perl can be switched off/on, globally and per user
- what does 'inconvenient for users' mean?
- .htaccess can be allowed globally
- post the rest too please, so I can add more 'x can be switched on/off, globally and per user'

[pommy]

I love cPanel, and lots of people do, so cPanel is best!

Me too! If my free host would be making $100.000 / month. It doesn't, so I use Layeredpanel, which works like a charm and is really easy to customize so it looks like it is custom made (as all really big sites have; no really big free hoster uses cpanel/h-sphere/xpanel ; they use something custom built; layeredpanel or xpanel allow me to grow to that slowly, whereas 'the big ones' do not; layeredpanel is much more resource friendly so I chose that).

[Chibi]

Spoken like a someone who doesn't know much;

- extension limit can be switched off/on
- php safe can be switched off/on, globally and per user
- ads can be switched off/on, globally and per user
- cgi/perl can be switched off/on, globally and per user
- what does 'inconvenient for users' mean?
- .htaccess can be allowed globally
- post the rest too please, so I can add more 'x can be switched on/off, globally and per user'

Hi,could anyone tell me where you can change these? I use layered panel but can't find where I can change them in the admin panel.

Thank you!

[Sam2000]

I personaly prefer Direct Admin to them all. cPanel is the most widely used though.

I'm more fond of DirectAdmin, Plesk and cPanel/WHM.

But cPanel is my better choice.

Anyone ever used this?: http://www.cubepanel.com/

I was just browsing google and this was a sponsored ad. Its looks...okay..

[upineter]

C Panel is reaaly simple, I use it.

[cmartin]

My server was just updated to the latest version of cPanel/WHM (cPanel 11). Man, it looks fantastic. :-) Finally, we have some AJAX!

Chris