MaxPanel is a Linux control panel for shared hosting. From $1.50/month to $19/month per server, capped. No per-account fees. No add-on tax.
Run cPanel and you don't pay one subscription — you pay four or five. The things shared hosting actually needs (customer isolation, working backups, real speed, an actual security stack) each come from a different vendor, on a different invoice.
Stack it up and that's roughly $95 to $180 per server per month depending on your customer count — before you sell a single hosting plan. And every year, the renewal emails bump it up.
Three tiers per server. After 25 customers, the bill stops growing.
| Customers | cPanel | CloudLinux | Imunify360 | LiteSpeed | JetBackup | Stack total | MaxPanel | You save / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (Solo) | $29.99 | $18 | $12 | $26 | $8.95 | $94.94 | $1.50 | $93 |
| 25 (Pro) | $53.99 | $18 | $12 | $26 | $8.95 | $118.94 | $7.50 | $111 |
| 100 (Premier) | $69.99 | $18 | $12 | $26 | $8.95 | $134.94 | $19 | $116 |
| 250 (Premier+) | $114.99 | $18 | $12 | $26 | $8.95 | $179.94 | $19 | $161 |
List prices from cpanel.net, cloudlinux.com, imunify360.com, litespeedtech.com and jetapps.com (cloud-VPS / single-server tiers); your numbers will vary with annual vs. monthly billing and volume discounts. LiteSpeed shown at the Web Host Pro tier (LSCache included); Imunify360 at the single-license rate. cPanel Premier covers 100 accounts; beyond that it's $0.30/month per extra account. At 250 customers on one server, the stack is about $1,930 a year more than MaxPanel — per server.
The features that cost extra in cPanel-land — these all ship in the box with MaxPanel. No subscription, no add-on store.
Each customer is sandboxed. If one site spikes, the others keep running. The "why is my site slow" tickets stop being a coin flip about whose neighbour is having a bad Tuesday.
Turn on the page cache and repeat visits are served straight from cache, not a fresh PHP request. PHP workers stay warm, so there's no cold-start lag on the first hit. WordPress and WooCommerce sites get a one-click helper that clears the cache the moment content changes. The speed people buy LiteSpeed for, on the stack you already run.
A web application firewall with an industry-standard rule set screens every request at the edge, and an IP-reputation firewall drops the addresses already known for hammering other servers. Files get scanned for malware and quarantined automatically when something turns up — and an automatic cleanup step strips the infection, restores clean files from backup, and re-checksums WordPress core. The job you'd buy Imunify360 for — already running.
Customer wants to try a new plugin? They click "create staging", get a working copy of their site, edit safely. Click "promote" when it works. Roll back if it doesn't. The panicked midnight emails stop.
Customer deleted a config file at 2 AM. You restore that one file in 90 seconds — not the whole site, just the file. Their site is back before they wake up to email you.
They edit files in their browser. They open a terminal in their browser. Installing WordPress is one click. The "I broke something, help" emails drop because they didn't have to break anything in the first place.
Click export. Click import on the new server. Their files, databases, mailboxes, DNS — all there. Move 10 customers before lunch.
Add a mail domain, the right records publish themselves. Your customers don't have to learn DNS to send mail. (We won't pretend to fix the parts outside the panel — IP reputation is still on you.)
Every action — suspending a customer, changing a plan, stepping into someone's account at 3 AM — recorded. Searchable. When something goes wrong, you know.
Add a server, add $19. Add ten servers, add $190. No renewal hike emails. No "we've updated our pricing" announcements. The number stays the number.
Including where MaxPanel falls short. We update this when prices or features change.
| MaxPanel | cPanel | Plesk | CyberPanel | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill caps as you grow | ✓ | no, per-account fee | tiered | ✓ |
| Customers isolated from each other | ✓ | CloudLinux required | partial | ✗ |
| Disk + inode limits | ✓ | disk only | partial | ✗ |
| Browser terminal for customers | ✓ | install separately | add-on | ✗ |
| Nightly incremental backups + S3 | ✓ | JetBackup ~$8.95/mo | ✓ | basic |
| WordPress staging | ✓ | WP Toolkit Deluxe | ✓ | ✗ |
| Edge page cache (LiteSpeed-class) | ✓ | LiteSpeed license | add-on | ✓ |
| WAF + malware scan + IP reputation | ✓ | Imunify360 ~$12+/mo | add-on | partial |
| Operator audit log | ✓ | no unified log | ✓ | ✗ |
| Import from cPanel + DirectAdmin | ✓ | cPanel→cPanel | cPanel only | partial |
| Windows hosting | never | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
Worth knowing before you start the trial.
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