SWPanel, the best alternative to CloudPanel for managing your hosting.

Because CloudPanel only covers a portion of hosting: it serves websites and apps, but does not include email (its official documentation explicitly excludes it), DNS server, billing, or reselling. As soon as you need to provide complete service to clients, the free option turns into a separate email stack, a separate WHMCS, and hours of administration. SWPanel D30 costs €12.99/month with all of that included.

Not from the panel. The official CloudPanel documentation indicates that it does not offer email in order to keep the panel lightweight, and refers to external solutions such as Mailcow or third-party services. This implies setting up and maintaining a separate email server, with its DKIM, anti-spam, and backups, outside the panel. In SWPanel, email is part of the hosting: accounts, aliases, anti-spam, and webmail are included.

For a developer managing their own PHP, Node.js, or Python applications on one or two VPSs, without hosting clients, without server-based email, and with a zero budget, it's a reasonable and well-performing tool. However, once there are clients, email, DNS, or billing involved, it ceases to be comparable to a full-fledged hosting panel.

Yes. Since there isn't a standard account format in CloudPanel, the migration is done by importing each site (files and database) to the equivalent hosting in SWPanel. Our support team will assist you throughout the process, and you decide when to change the DNS, ensuring no downtime for your websites.

CloudPanel relies on its community, primarily through Discord, without official manufacturer support with an SLA. SWPanel includes manufacturer support in Spanish, with priority level 24/7, in addition to the knowledge base and manuals.