Today choosing an ideal control panel for your hosting server can be quite a challenging task since there are so many players in this field. But two major ones are Parallels Plesk and cPanel. I will compare those two so you could find out which one suits your specific needs better.

1. Operating system. The first difference is the operating system both panels can be installed on. While cPanel is Linux based, Plesk Panel can be installed on both Linux and Windows operating systems.

cPanel supported operating systems are CentOS versions 5.x, 6.x, Red Hat® Enterprise and CloudLinux 5.x, 6.x.