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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    cPanel

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AcPanel headquartered in Houston provides website hosting providers with workload and server automation, as well as a management console for creating and launching websites, managing email and web files, and other administrative tasks.

    $15.99

    per month

    HPE Systems Insight Manager (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AHPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) was a solution for managing hardware across a variety of HP servers, in addition to storage and networking product. Some key features include: Inventory Management and Reporting, Health Management, and Firmware and System Software Updates Management. The product has been discontinued, and is no longer available for sale.N/A
    Pricing
    cPanelHPE Systems Insight Manager (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    cPanel Solo
    $15.99
    per month for 1 account
    Admin
    $24.99
    per month up to 5 accounts
    Pro
    $35.99
    per month up to 30 accounts
    Premier (on cloud)
    $53.99
    per month up to 100 accounts
    Premier (on metal)
    $53.99
    per month up to 100 accounts
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    Pricing Offerings
    cPanelHPE Systems Insight Manager (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    cPanel
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
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    cPanel
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    VMware vCenter
    Score8.4 out of 10
    VMware vCenter
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    VMware vCenter
    Score8.4 out of 10
    VMware vCenter
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    cPanelHPE Systems Insight Manager (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (14 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    cPanelHPE Systems Insight Manager (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    cPanel
    I personally use it for any website hosting I do for me and others. There are a few others but I have stuck with the old tried and true and it always works for me and I know how to get around it so it has become a breeze for me. For those who are extremely new to websites and hosting or to those with very little technical know how cPanel could be very overwhelming and they might want to do like a managed WordPress hosting where they don't really have to see or deal with cPanel. I also probably wouldn't use it for straight email hosting. If you have thousands of cPanel accounts it may get very expensive and that could be a factor.
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    This software is suited for a smaller organization with a small datacenter that uses mainly HP hardware. Once the environment gets larger it would pay to move to some of their paid for products
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    Pros
    cPanel
    • The dashboard is very intuitive. Even beginners can figure out how to do things without very much help.
    • The online community is very helpful and the online documentation makes administering any tasks a lot easier.
    • User creation and administration for FTP access is also very simple.
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    • One point of view the events of servers's farm.
    • Tools that show an inventory update of hardware componenet of each servers.
    • Include a wonderful module that permit to upgrade remotely the firmware of all of them.
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    Cons
    cPanel
    • The costs can be a limiting factor for some businesses if you are not using a web hosting company that uses it. I have been experimenting with Cloud hosting, which can be very daunting for the novice. There is an option to install it on the cloud but it is expensive.
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    • I think some of the areas that HP Systems Insight Manager can improve is non HP hardware.
    • This software also sometimes struggles handling larger environments.
    • This software also has issues managing environments that aren't set up perfectly.
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    Usability
    cPanel
    Although it can be a little bit bloated with a lot of options and configurations, it's very straightforward to use and maintain. So it's a great option even if you don't have large experience in hosting configuration. The WHM tool is more suited to heavy users since it requires more expertise, so it has a steep learning curve to better understand how to use it.
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    The gui is really useful to do many things. We are a compliance team that hace a reduce user con this platform that they are using on its monsthly technical audit. Ther are very happy with SIM. In the other hand, they are a sysadmin teams that usually use SIM all of day to detect a reporte to HPE Technical Support for hardware fail. All of then are on the moon with SIM.
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    Support Rating
    cPanel
    The support comes in the form of an extensive library of how to articles and community input. For most situations this will give you plenty of information and resources to trouble shoot. Live support really then would need to default to the hosting provider who provides the cPanel for your use.
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    Implementation Rating
    cPanel
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    Discontinued Products
    It's good for small organizations that use HP branded equipment
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    Alternatives Considered
    cPanel
    The direct server management tool access provided by cPanel hosting accounts is far superior to any shared or "standard" web site hosting packaged offered by any of the numerous web host providers I have used and or evaluated over the 20+ years of my experience working in the internet industry.
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    Discontinued Products
    The project of deploy SIM in our company came from one project to buy HPE Hardware and sevice for Data Center.Fastly we knew that the potenciality of this product over the new HPE's servers, switches and storages.Nowaday, our Data Centers have device from different vendors like Lenovo, Dell and HPE. For example we have Dell OpenManage for managing Dell Powereldge servers. And in comparative with SIM is useless for no technical user.
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    Return on Investment
    cPanel
    • cPanel makes back end server administration easy. This saves time and overall effort.
    • cPanel is readily available with most hosting packages. It integrates with both Apache and Nginx.
    • cPanel allows you to perform some of the same functions as WHM, but with an easier interface.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Since this software is free if you buy HP hardware the cost is nothing which is nice for cash strapped businesses.
    • This software has a somewhat difficult time handling large environments where systems are not configured perfectly for this software.
    • I would always recommend having multiples of this software installed for redundancy because generally unless it and the environment is properly configured it can require maintenance.
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