We chose Enhance to replace cPanel because it gives our customers a faster, cleaner and more secure hosting experience. Here’s what that means in practice.
Which panel are you on? We’re moving our existing customers from cPanel to Enhance in stages. Hosting plans already on Enhance have (Enhance) after their name – check in your products and services.
Designed for people, not server technicians
cPanel shows you dozens of icons, most of which you’ll never use. Enhance has a clean, modern dashboard with everything grouped where you’d expect it, so it’s easier to find what you need, whether you’re technical or not.
Built for speed
Enhance spreads the work across separate servers for websites, databases and email, instead of running everything on one server. In our testing, websites, webmail and the control panel itself are all noticeably quicker as a result. A faster website is better for your visitors, and site speed is one of the things search engines take into account.
Security built in
Each website runs in its own isolated container, which keeps it separate from other websites on the same server and helps stop a problem on one site from spreading to another. This works alongside the other protections on our platform – see how secure is PAC.
Better for WordPress
- Log in to WordPress with one click
- Manage updates, plugins and themes from your control panel
- Clone your website to a staging copy to test changes safely
- Install WordPress in a few clicks
Backups you can restore yourself
Your website and email are backed up automatically, and you can restore a whole website, or just some files or a database, from your control panel – see how to restore a backup of your website or email.
Modern email tools
- Spam filtering you can adjust, with your own allow and block lists
- Out of office replies and forwarding
- Webmail you can open straight from your control panel
Free SSL, automatically
Every domain gets a free SSL certificate, issued and renewed automatically.
Enhance and cPanel compared
| Feature | cPanel | Enhance |
|---|---|---|
| Ease of use | Many menus and icons | Clean, modern dashboard |
| How it’s built | Everything on one server | Separate servers for websites, databases and email |
| Website isolation | Limited | Each website in its own container |
| Backups | Available | Automatic, and you can restore them yourself |
| WordPress tools | Basic | One-click login, updates, plugins and staging built in |
| Functional but dated | Adjustable spam filtering, out of office and forwarding |
Want to know more about the move? See our cPanel to Enhance FAQ.
