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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

    OpenText SiteScope

    Score6.5 out of 10
    N/AOpenText's SiteScope is an agentless application performance monitoring tool with hybrid support across a variety of systems and vendors. Sitescope also offers automated workflow and incident identification and remediation capabilities, and rapid installation-to-monitoring processes.N/A
    Pricing
    cPanelOpenText SiteScope
    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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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    cPanelOpenText SiteScope
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    cPanelOpenText SiteScope
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
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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
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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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    Features
    cPanelOpenText SiteScope
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of cPanel and OpenText SiteScope
    Feature
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    Ratings
    OpenText SiteScope
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings6.16 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings8.76 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings9.15 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings6.65 Ratings
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    cPanelOpenText SiteScope
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    Medium-sized Companies
    VMware vCenter
    Score8.4 out of 10
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    VMware vCenter
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Splunk AppDynamics
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    cPanelOpenText SiteScope
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (14 ratings)
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (9 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    cPanelOpenText SiteScope
    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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    OpenText
    SiteScope is definitely well suited in an HP server environment. It is also well suited for virtual server environments. It is also well suited for those who are happy with email and text based message alerting. It may not be appropriate in other environments where monitoring physical components is critical. Because HP SiteScope does not monitor certain physical components, it does fall short of being able to be a "one stop shop solution" in regard to monitoring. It is not well suited for those looking for logic in how alerts are sent and cascade to other people or groups.
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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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    OpenText
    • Alerts can be configured as per business requirement.
    • It can take remedial action, when defined for a particular situation.
    • Severity, priority of tickets which are created upon a trigger can be well defined.
    • The teams which need to be alerted can be configured in the tool itself, in case of any event.
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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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    OpenText
    • Sitescope is particularly used for infrastructure monitoring. Other kinds of monitors cannot be set using HP sitescope.
    • Sitescope cannot have graphs like splunk which is why we have splunk as well which is an additional cost for the company.
    • We can't have a direct regex operations on data inside HP sitescope. We need to have the logs placed as a single log and then do that.
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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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    OpenText
    Very straightforward and easy to use once you get past the short learning curve.
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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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    OpenText
    Can't really answer this. Setup was easy and no support has really been used at this point.
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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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    OpenText
    SiteScope unified console is a powerful tool for operators to easily detect warnings and alerts grouped by its hierarchical organization with real-time status displaying continuously the whole health map.
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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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    OpenText
    • Sitescope does exactly what it was purchased for. It may take some time to set it up but once its set up it is a rock solid product.
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