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

License and operating system support

Free and open source control panels

Proprietary control panels

Remote access

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 A Java virtual machine (JVM) is a virtual machine that enables a computer to run Java programs as well as programs written in other languages that are also compiled to Java bytecode. The JVM is detailed by a specification that formally describe ...

software. Other control panels allow direct access using

telnet Telnet is an application protocol used on the Internet or local area network to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control i ...

secure shell The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Its most notable applications are remote login and command-line execution. SSH applications are based ...

(SSH).

Email management

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

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