cPanel, without the four add-ons it needs to do the job.

Let's be fair

What bare cPanel actually includes

cPanel is mature and it covers the basics well. Out of the box, with no add-ons, you get:

• Accounts & resellers — WHM for you, cPanel for customers, reseller accounts.
• Web + multi-PHP — Apache (optionally nginx), multiple PHP versions via EasyApache.
• Email — Exim + Dovecot, webmail, spam filtering.
• Databases & DNS — MySQL/MariaDB + phpMyAdmin, a DNS server, FTP.
• SSL — AutoSSL issues and renews Let's Encrypt certs.
• File manager + basic backups — browser file manager, full-archive backups.

That's a competent panel. The problem isn't what's there — it's everything shared hosting needs that isn't, and what each missing piece costs.

The add-on tax

What cPanel makes you bolt on

Each of these is a separate paid product. None of it is in cPanel itself. All of it is in MaxPanel.

• CloudLinux — ~$18/server/mo — per-account memory, CPU and I/O limits, a filesystem cage between customers, inode quotas, the end-user PHP selector. Without it, one bad customer drags the whole box. MaxPanel: built in — hard per-account limits, disk and inode quotas, and a filesystem cage.
• Imunify360 — ~$12+/server/mo — web application firewall, malware scanning, IP-reputation firewall. cPanel ships none of it. MaxPanel: built in — a web application firewall with industry-standard rules, IP-reputation blocking, and malware scanning with auto-quarantine and automatic cleanup that strips infections and restores clean files from backup.
• LiteSpeed Enterprise + LSCache — ~$10–46/server/mo — the cache and PHP setup people switch to when sites feel slow. MaxPanel: built in (edge page cache + purge, warm PHP workers, a per-account object cache, Brotli).
• JetBackup — ~$8.95/server/mo — cPanel's own backups are full-archive only; incrementals, S3 / SFTP, and single-file restore need this. MaxPanel: built in (nightly incrementals, remote targets, restore one file / mailbox / table).
• WP Toolkit Deluxe / Softaculous — extra — WordPress staging, cloning and a one-click installer are paid tiers or third-party add-ons. MaxPanel: built in (install, stage, promote, roll back).

Add the panel and the four it leans on and you're at roughly $95 to $180 per server per month — before you sell a plan. MaxPanel is $1.50 to $19, capped. See the full cost breakdown →

Switching

Bring your cPanel accounts with you.

Point MaxPanel at a remote WHM and it pulls accounts over — files, databases, mailboxes and DNS — using cPanel's own account-backup format. Migrate in batches, on your schedule. No customer re-uploads anything.

Honest about the edges: a few cPanel-only conveniences don't have a one-to-one equivalent yet, and very large accounts take a while to stream. Try a batch during the trial and see how your real data lands before you commit.