Cpanel vs VHCS

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Cpanel vs VHCS

In this comparison you will able to decide which of the available control panels are suitable for your personal or business needs. Guru-host is always trying to promote open source philosophy and therefore we are able to provide much more if you choose VHCS over Cpanel or Directadmin. We offer free installation and 2 months support at no extra charge for every dedicated box that you will get with VHCS on it!

Feature	Cpanel	VHCS
Debian Support	No	Fully Supported
Apache 2 Support	No	Fully Supported
Awstats, Bandwidth	Yes	Yes (we need to receive the domain that you wish to add)
Webmail	Yes (Horde, Neomail and SquirrelMail)	Yes (UebiMiau)
MySQL	Yes (4 & 4.1)	Yes (Any installed MySQL)
PHP/Perl	Yes (only version provided by Cpanel)	Yes, any version
PhpMyAdmin	Yes	Yes
Antivirus	No	Yes (ClamV)
Spam filtering	Yes (on server and client)	Yes (based on Server)
SSH access	Yes	No
POP3, IMAP, FTP	Yes	Yes
Cron Jobs	Yes	No (we can add them by submiting a support request)
Subdomains	Yes	Yes
Addon/Park domains	Yes	Yes
Pre-Installed CGI Scripts	Yes	No
Web Protect Folders	Yes	Yes
Redirects	Yes	No (we can provide a custom sulution wih same functionality)
Custom error pages	Yes	Yes
Your own DNS	Yes	Yes
DNS templates	No	Yes (you can update unlimited dns records in a minute)
Multilanguage support	Yes	Yes (you need to edit just one file)
Security Optimized	No	Yes
Ability to write your own scripts	Very limited because its complexity	Yes
DNS Cluster	Yes	No
GUI DNS management	Yes	No (admin can use the powerful DNS templates)
Backup / Restore	Yes	Limited (MySQL must be restored manually)
SSL over the GUI	Yes	No (you need to send us a support ticket in order to install your SSL)
Skin-based GUI	Yes	Yes - 4 skins pre-installed
Price (per server)	Usually $54 per month	Free

The main advantage of VHCS over Cpanel is the fact that VHCS does not update itself automatically as it depends on the already installed packages.
This means that you have the total freedom of your installed packages. Also you can make use of HA Linux (High Availability Linux Project) and build an excellent cluster in order to achieve better uptime.

You can do/configure any server package on your system and VHCS will use it without changing anything on it. On the other hand Cpanel is doing updates very often and many times it does not work as expected. It also takes lot of time to do this as it compiles everything and use its own provided packages. Bugs are too many for a commercial project.

On the other hand Cpanel offer great support and has a superb support forum as well. VHCS luck of support and you must know what you are going otherwise you might get into serious problems!
The last months unfortunately VHCS team drop down support via their forum for some reasons and this is getting tricky when you are planning to deploy VHCS without having a clue about Perl, PHP and C which VHCS is build on.

If you have any comments related this article I would appreciate if you can drop me an email at admin [at] guru-host.com with your questions or suggestions.

Posted on: 19/06/2008

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