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Not to kick a dead horse, but I agree with everyone that there's too much text. It isn't just a problem on the front page, but all across the site.

On another note, why is your software better than cPanel?




"On another note, why is your software better than cPanel?"

That's actually the same note. If you had the question when looking at the website, others will too. ;-)

I'm working on a new comparison chart (the old one was too wordy) to post to the website sometime soon.

Short answer:

We're mobile capable. Nearly everything in the browser UI degrades to a usable mobile accessible version

We're clean and polite to the underlying system. Sysadmins who've dealt with cPanel or Plesk on the command line will know how valuable this distinction is.

Comprehensive and easily scriptable command line and remote API.

Ruby on Rails and Gems support in the next release this weekend

PHP 4 and PHP 5 simultaneously with php.ini and PEAR modules management

mod_fcgid with suexec (rather than the old and rather clunky suphp)

spam/AV filtering per-user and per-domain

built-in WYSIWYG website builder

nice database GUIs for MySQL and PostgreSQL (I believe they are nicer than phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin, but if the user disagrees we also provide those)

70+ easily installable applications (compare to Fantastico at $199 extra), including SugarCRM and a few others that nobody else has the guts to touch because they're so damned complicated to install

comprehensive monitoring and alerts (also mobile capable)

optional Google Analytics (and Quantcast and MyBlogLog) injection into all pages, regardless of how they're served--static, PHP, Ruby, CGI, whatever

tiered pricing, so someone with a couple of domains doesn't have to spend $450

There's more, but I'm talking too much again...




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