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cPanel Hosting: Cheat Sheet

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Rianna MacLeod

Rely on cPanel Hosting services that scale with your needs. With 99.9% uptime guarantees, you’ll enjoy unmetered bandwidth, superior performance and nimble load times.

Benchmarks designed to meet your requirements 

With plans designed for a single project to multiple websites, cPanel Hosting offers robust features to fuel your business — and support your visitors. Perfect for designers and developers who are launching, growing and expanding their websites, these scalable options are ideal for building and deploying demanding web applications.  

Unmetered bandwidth ensures that any traffic spikes won’t impact monthly costs.

As site visitors grow, upgrade your tier to increase your disk space, RAM and processing speeds — and ensure your users get the exceptional web experience they expect.                  

 Economy Deluxe Ultimate Maximum 
Free domain with annual plan     
Websites 1 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 
Disk space 100 GB Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 
Monthly bandwidth Unmetered Unmetered Unmetered Unmetered 
CPUs 1 1 2 2 
Memory 512MB 512MB 1GB 2GB 
Input/output (I/O) 1024 1024 1024 2048 
FTP users 50 50 Unlimited Unlimited 
MySQL databases 10 x 1 GB 25 x 1 GB Unlimited x 1 GB Unlimited x 1 GB 
Database backup/restore     
Direct database access     
DNS management   Premium DNS Premium DNS 
Access with www.     
External domains Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 
Subdomains 25 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 
Multiple websites  Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 
Alias domains Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited 
cPanel 86.0.24 86.0.24 86.0.24 86.0.24 
Easy application installer     
phpMyAdmin     
CloudLinux     
CageFS     
Password protected directories     
SSH access (secure shell)     
FTP over SSL (FTPS)     
Raw access logs     
Site statistics     
Premium DNS     
SSL certificate    Standard SSL AutoSSL 
Cron jobs     
File manager     
Number of files Up to 250,000 Up to 250,000 Up to 250,000 Up to 250,000 
ImageMagick     
125+ free applications     
Drupal     
WordPress©     
phpbb     
PHP 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 5.6     
Custom PHP.ini     
Python     
Perl     
Web mail     
Exchange     
Email alias for Hosting + O365 email     
Auto-responder     
Fraud, virus & spam protection     
Email privacy & protection with 256-bit encryption     

Affordable specs and web hosting features for cPanel hosting

Each Linux plan comes with the intuitive cPanel control panel to help you access and manage the web hosting features and settings you need to support your sites and web applications.  

On-demand resources help scale as you grow — without busting the bank.

Take your site to the next level with fast and reliable cPanel: 

  • One-click cPanel plan upgrades add more CPU, RAM, entry processes and I/O 
  • Effortless hosting for multiple domains within a single account 
  • Stats dashboard helps you monitor resource performance 
  • External and alias domains support 
  • Unlimited site and storage options 
  • 1 free domain for all annual plans 
  • Premium DNS management features 
  • 256-bit encrypted email privacy and protection  
  • Version support for PHP 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 5.6, 5.5 & MySQL 5.7, 5.6 
One-click app installs make it easy to build your business.

Choose from over 150 free server-side applications to develop and customize your website, including Python, PHP, CloudLinux OS, WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. 

Automated SSL security & cert renewals 

Forget about SSL costs. Upgrade to cPanel’s Maximum plan to enjoy free, unlimited AutoSSL and ensure every website on your account has a valid DV certificate for strong encryption. New SSL certificates are automatically requested and assigned on expiry, guaranteeing protection for all your sites. 

Upgradable resources with a single click 

Upgrading your cPanel plan is simple. On-demand resources mean that if you outgrow your current plan, one click upgrade your tier for more CPU, memory, entry processes and I/O whenever you need it.  

Support from knowledgeable professionals 

Our experts love to help. With award-winning support, our team is only a call, ticket or chat away. 


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