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'll end up paying three subscriptions, not one — because the things that actually matter for shared hosting (real customer isolation, working backups) aren't in cPanel itself.
That's $57 to $142 per server per month depending on your customer count — before you sell a single hosting plan. And every year, the cPanel renewal email bumps it up.
Three tiers per server. After 25 customers, the bill stops growing.
| Customers | cPanel | JetBackup | CloudLinux | cPanel total | MaxPanel | You save / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (Solo) | $29.99 | $8.95 | $18 | $56.94 | $1.50 | $55 |
| 25 (Pro) | $53.99 | $8.95 | $18 | $80.94 | $7.50 | $73 |
| 100 (Premier) | $69.99 | $8.95 | $18 | $96.94 | $19 | $78 |
| 250 (Premier+) | $114.99 | $8.95 | $18 | $141.94 | $19 | $123 |
Prices from cpanel.net, jetapps.com, cloudlinux.com (cloud-VPS tiers). cPanel Premier covers 100 accounts; beyond that you pay $0.30/month per additional account. CloudLinux drops to $14/server at 5+ servers and $13 at 50+. At 250 customers per server, you're saving roughly $1,475 a year, 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.
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 | ✓ | ✗ |
| Operator audit log | ✓ | no unified log | ✓ | ✗ |
| cPanel migration tool | not yet | — | ✓ | partial |
| Windows hosting | never | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
Worth knowing before you start the trial.
15 days free. Cancel before then and there's no charge.