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Plesk or cPanel – Which Control Panel is The Best
Since it is the central place you go to administer your website, your control panel is one of the most important features of your web hosting services. There are tons of control panels available, including web hosting provider specific custom control panels. However, the two most popular control panels for web hosting providers to use are Plesk and CPanel. They are basically like the Apple and Android of the control panel industry. We’re going to compare both of these applications in this article so you can make a wise and educated choice about which control panel is the best for you. 
Introduction to Plesk and cPanel
CPanel is a very popular control panel platform that was started in 1996. It’s used on millions of websites and is most frequently used in many Linux based shared hosting packages. It can also be used for dedicated servers and cloud hosting. For dedicated server configurations, cPanel usually comes with WHM (Web Host Manager), which is a server administration interface. 
Plesk also has become a dominant force in the web hosting control panel industry since its inception in 2001. Plesk Onyx is the most recent version of Plesk and comes with over 100 extensions, as well as being available in three different versions. These versions are Web Pro, Web Admin, and a special version for web hosting providers. 
Operating System Compatibility
CPanel only works on Linux servers and is incompatible with Windows. It is compatible with popular Linux platforms such as CentOS, CloudLinux, and Red Hat Linux based operating systems. 
Plesk on the other hand, while originally developed for Windows, can also be used on a wide variety of Linux platforms such as Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Red Hat Linux, and CloudLinux. In this it surpasses CPanel in terms of operating system compatibility. 
In many cases though, which control panel you get depends on which operating system your server is running on. Most web hosting providers use Plesk with Windows based servers, and CPanel with Linux based servers.
User Interfaces
Both Plesk and CPanel features very easy to use control panels. However, Plesk comes out slightly ahead in its ease of use due to using a standard software layout that most people are already familiar with. Very much like the WordPress control panel, Plesk places all of its control panel options in nested menus on the left side of your screen. When an item is selected in the left panel, it shows up on the right part of the screen. There are more options featured in the right-hand side of the screen for each option selected on the left-hand side. To further enhance its ease of use, Plesk features icons for each menu item on the left-hand side of the screen. 
The interface for CPanel is laid out differently. There is no left-hand menu, and instead, CPanel lists all the options on the main screen in groups. Like Plesk, there are icons f