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cPanel and WHM alternative: Tenvara

cPanel and WHM is a long-standing hosting control panel: WHM for the server and resellers, cPanel for each site owner, with email, DNS, databases and WordPress tools. MSPs who look after customer websites use Tenvara to run them through the agent already on the server, with no panel to install. Sites, certificates, databases, deploys, backups and WordPress updates sit next to the customer's tickets and devices, and site problems become alerts and tickets like everything else.

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Tenvara: Proxmox and web hosting

The tool today

What cPanel and WHM does

Hosting control panel with WHM for server admins and resellers, and cPanel for site owners. Made by cPanel. This is how the vendor describes it, in our words.

  • WHM for server administration and reseller accounts, cPanel for each site owner.
  • Email accounts, DNS management, databases and backups.
  • SSL certificates with AutoSSL.
  • WP Toolkit with staging, cloning, syncing and safe update testing.
  • Git repository support and Node.js app hosting.
  • Account migration from remote servers and custom branding for hosts.

Side by side

Tenvara vs cPanel and WHM

The Proxmox and web hosting jobs that matter most, and how each product handles them. Then what else comes with Tenvara, such as a service desk, backup and Microsoft 365 backup, in the same app.

Create and manage websites

Tenvara Yes

PHP, Laravel, WordPress, Node.js and static on nginx Guide

cPanel and WHM Yes

Accounts per site owner

SSL certificates

Tenvara Yes

Let's Encrypt with automatic renewal, or upload Guide

cPanel and WHM Yes

AutoSSL

Databases

Tenvara Yes

MariaDB or MySQL, dumps and restore Guide

cPanel and WHM Yes

Database management

Git deploys

Tenvara Yes

Atomic releases, deploy on push, instant rollback Guide

cPanel and WHM Yes

Git repository support

WordPress management

Tenvara Yes

Guarded updates with rollback, hardening checks Guide

cPanel and WHM Yes

WP Toolkit with staging and cloning

WordPress admin sign-in

Tenvara Yes

One-click wp-admin sign-in and password reset Guide

cPanel and WHM Yes

WP Toolkit 1-Click Login and Change Admin Password

Site checks you choose

Tenvara Yes

Path, status, keyword, JSON or header checks Guide

cPanel and WHM Add-on

Site Quality Monitoring plans, powered by koality

Site backups

Tenvara Yes

Scheduled on the server, plus Tenvara Backup offsite Guide

cPanel and WHM Yes

Backups built in

Site, certificate and disk alerts into tickets

Tenvara Yes

Web server alerts follow your alert rules Guide

cPanel and WHM Partly

Resource usage and bandwidth monitoring

DNS management

Tenvara Yes

Cloudflare, Route 53 and more, with your own accounts Guide

cPanel and WHM Yes

DNS management tools

Reseller and site owner accounts

Tenvara Yes

Reseller and site owner accounts in the panel Guide

cPanel and WHM Yes

Reseller accounts and a cPanel for each owner

PHP settings per site

Tenvara Yes

Memory, uploads, time limit and functions, within your limits Guide

cPanel and WHM Yes

MultiPHP INI Editor per domain

Containers

Tenvara Yes

Docker hosts found by the agent, image updates with roll back Guide

cPanel and WHM Partly

Podman containers through the ea-podman script

Also in Tenvara

What else you get with Tenvara, in the same app

PSA and service desk

Tenvara Yes

Tickets, SLAs, time and contracts on the same customer record Guide

cPanel and WHM Add-on

Separate product: WHMCS

Endpoint, server and VM backup

Tenvara Yes

Image, folder and Hyper-V or Proxmox VM backups Guide

cPanel and WHM Add-on

Separate product: Comet Backup

Microsoft 365 backup

Tenvara Yes

Mail, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams backed up and restored Guide

cPanel and WHM Add-on

Separate product: Comet Backup

Microsoft 365 management

Tenvara Yes

Every customer tenant, its users, licences, starters and leavers Guide

cPanel and WHM No

Not included

Remote access

Tenvara Yes

Control a device's screen from the browser, with every session logged Guide

cPanel and WHM No

Not included

Quotes and proposals

Tenvara Yes

Branded proposals with customer e-signature Guide

cPanel and WHM Add-on

Separate product: WHMCS

IT documentation

Tenvara Yes

Customer records and knowledge base articles, linked to devices Guide

cPanel and WHM No

Not included

Credentials vault

Tenvara Yes

Encrypted logins and two-factor secrets, with every reveal logged Guide

cPanel and WHM No

Not included

Add-on means the vendor sells it as a separate product or paid extra. cPanel and WHM details come from the vendor's own website, see sources.

The one-app pitch

What else you'd replace

Most MSPs running cPanel and WHM pay for several other tools beside it. Tenvara does these jobs too, on the same customer record, with one agent and one login.

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Switching

Moving from cPanel and WHM

A calm move, not a big bang. Run both side by side until your team is happy.

How a gradual move to Tenvara works
  1. 1

    Build a server and install the agent

    Site operations run on Linux with nginx (Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 12). Install the Tenvara agent the same way as on any server.

    Installing the agent
  2. 2

    Adopt the server

    An administrator adopts it, setting the backup folder and the contact email for certificates.

    Web servers
  3. 3

    Create each site and move it across

    Create the site with its runtime and domains, then bring the code in by a git deploy, an uploaded build or SFTP.

    Creating and managing sites
  4. 4

    Point DNS and issue certificates

    Once DNS points at the new server, issue a Let's Encrypt certificate from the site page. Renewals then run by themselves.

    Creating and managing sites
  5. 5

    Schedule site backups

    Set a backup schedule for each site and its databases on the server, then retire the cPanel server once everything has moved.

    Deploys and site backups

cPanel and WHM pricing

cPanel and WHM publishes its prices on its website. Check its pricing page for current prices and terms.

Vendor pricing page

Tenvara pricing

One product with every feature included, hosted or self-hosted. Tenvara is new and in beta, and pricing is announced before launch.

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Questions

cPanel and WHM vs Tenvara: FAQ

Site operations run on Linux servers with nginx (Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 12), and on Windows Server with IIS for static and .NET sites. Apache and IIS servers are also reported and checked, including certificates and HTTPS checks.

Static sites, PHP, Laravel, WordPress and Node.js, each with its own Linux user and its own PHP-FPM pool or Node.js service behind nginx.

No. Tenvara runs site operations through its agent on the server once an administrator adopts it, so the server is managed from the same app as your tickets and devices.

Tenvara checks core, plugins and themes, runs guarded updates with automatic rollback, and can harden each WordPress site.

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Apply for the beta to run Tenvara side by side with cPanel and WHM before you decide, or get launch updates and hear first when pricing is announced.

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Comparison based on publicly available information as of September 2026. cPanel and WHM is a trademark of its owner; Tenvara is not affiliated with it. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll correct it.

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