Posted by MegaHostings on January 19, 2012 under Hosting Resources | 
Despite the many web hosting solutions available in the market today, there are only a few which grab potential users’ attention owing to the features, tools and customer services they offer. cPanel and Parallels Plesk Panel are two such noteworthy solutions, offering a multitude of competing features, tools equipped with more than just essential functionalities and a 24/7 technical support which never fails the customer.
With the sound marketing strategy and excellent customer feedback, these two solutions have managed to acquire a fair market share. Despite the market lead, the two have competing factors between them which make the decision on future investors’ part difficult. It’s for their ease that we bring forth the precise and accurate analysis of cPanel and Parallels Plesk.
Starting with the features, we reassert our declaration on the availability of essential features. Both the solutions offer components and setup tools equipped with intuitive interface, guide-through wizards and on-the-spot help for their novice users. For the technical experts including administrators and developers, a wide range of emerging tools, applications and APIs are made available on as required basis. cPanel, however, gets an edge by offering training to the techies on their annual conference.
The online website management and monitoring tool comes with user friendly and simple interfaces which render the desired application manipulation, authentication and authorization settings, site relocation and the like in the matter of few minutes.
The system requirements for usage of management and monitoring tools don’t require anything more than the normal web browser – and at times Java runtime installation on user’s system. Also, many of the development components are manageable from within the browser.
The security aspect has been paid genuine consideration. Hence, the both solutions offer antivirus, root kit detection and removal tools and anti-spam tools as an integral part of the web hosting packages. Parallels Plesk takes the lead here by offering Greylisting which essentially blocks 95% of the spam by bouncing back the initial messages from unsolicited senders. Since the spammers’ mailing servers don’t try resending their messages, the spam messages are filtered out.
Both the solutions take loading balancing, server response optimization and resource allocation seriously. Also, the user hierarchy with appropriate roles and responsibilities is an integral offering by both the solution providers. Parallels Plesk’s five level of user classification suffices for corporate needs, again yielding an edge to this solution provider.
Both the solutions offer a decent reseller support. However, only cPanel comes with customizable management and monitoring tool which assists the customer in letting its customer manage servers and deploy web application through branded web interface.
Parallels Panel might not be resilient with its reseller services, but it offers quite an interesting pack of features which make it more appealing. These features, first of all, include multi platform support along with internationalization. Secondly, its generosity with technical offerings, like e-commerce and billing solution for the reseller customers, support for API RPC Protocol 1.6.0.0, migration utilities and PCI compliance makes it win over its competitor.
Further, with a wide range of supported hosting types (VPS, Shared and Dedicated Hosting) Parallels Plesk seems to win over for e-business and corporate customers. But, cPanel doesn’t fall short either. Therefore, the actual decision in accordance with the current needs rest with the potential customer.
Posted by MegaHostings on January 9, 2012 under Hosting Resources |
As the name suggests, it is a web based application which offers the web hosting management and monitoring component as well as the online customer support application. The customizable features and interface makes this solution ideal for a wide range of businesses with absolutely distinct business processes.
Owing to its web-based implementation, this application is available from absolutely anywhere as long as the users are connected. It frees the businesses from office-based operations and long waits for the manual processes. The on-the-go availability speeds up processes and makes the businesses profitable. Further, the online help desk enhances the response time of business support staff, prevents ill management of issue management, and effective 24/7addressing of concerns.
The managerial components like customer repository facilitate users with excellent administration of resources. The component ensures that each business gets an ample view of all customers along with activities, rights and requirements. Further, the hosting business gets the option of report generation, which suffices for the managerial needs. Ten open-sourced reports, including monthly revenue reports, support review, income growth, customer balances and upcoming transactions, render a complete picture of business health.
This also indicates that the billing module offers adequate features which in turn yield these reports. The invoice management feature of the billing module allows the accumulation of billable items, acceptance of credit cards, logging of check numbers and management of invoices. Additional features include the file sharing and management component, and customizable interface, to look after all the e-resources crucial to the effective running of business in accordance with the business processes dictated by the venture.
Overall, with availability of excellent features for a reasonable price ClientExec is definitely a good choice for web hosting businesses.
Posted by MegaHostings on January 3, 2012 under Hosting Resources |
Parallels has many products focused on the hosting automation and virtualization industry. Parallels hosting control panels will fully automate your offerings. Parallels virtualization software will increase server density and create super efficiencies in your servers. One of their products, the Parallels Plesk Billing software package is a commercial web hosting billing and automation program. Originally called ModernBill, the product’s name was changed to Parallels Plesk Billing as Plesk bought it in January 2008.
There are a good number of billing and support systems out there in the market, but hardly any one of them closer to what Parallels Plesk Billing system. It’s the features offered by this system which set it apart. It is primarily designed and developed with the features, functionality and flexibility most desired for the web hosting, ISP and WISP businesses.
The most notable attributes of this system include signups, payment processing, account provisioning, online recurring and web-based billing, all of which is automated. Additionally the system is rich with availability of more than thirty panel, gateway, and registrar modules.
The best things about this software include the ease of installation, the availability of installation wizards, single sign-on and updated simple and user friendly interface. Further, it offers the reseller layer, which allows the administrators to create accounts for resell customers who also get the option of account creation and management for their customers. The oversell option allows the administrator efficiently allocate resources to a large of number of users without hampering server availability and performance. Along with zero effort installation and seamless application integration, these features make this system stand out among its competitors.
As if these features were not enough, the system developers added support for a multitude of currencies and introduced internationalization – just to facilitate the client coming from all around the globe. And, this isn’t because of this one feature. There’s this consistency, ease of usage and 24/7 technical support which shortens the users’ learning curve and leverages outputs.
It won’t be wrong to say that Parallels have had a good reputation for their web hosting solutions. This billing system is no exception. Considering the plethora of offered functionalities, all the potential investors are advised to take this system into serious consideration prior to making any investments in web hosting solutions.
