Introduction to cPanel Hosting Compatible Technologies
Choosing the right hosting technology is essential for optimal website performance, security, and feature compatibility. For users of cPanel hosting—whether Shared or Reseller services—knowing which technologies, applications, and configurations are supported can make a significant difference in site management. This guide offers a comprehensive overview of the technologies and tools compatible with cPanel hosting, helping users understand what is available, what limitations exist, and how to maximize the functionality of their hosting environment. From content management systems like WordPress and Joomla to programming languages and server-side utilities, this list will help users align their website needs with the capabilities offered in a cPanel hosting environment.
Service: Shared/Reseller
| Feature | Compatibility |
|---|---|
| 3rd Party cPanel Skins | No |
| Ad Server | No |
| Adspy Sites | No |
| Ajax | Yes |
| Alias files, aliases | Yes |
| aMember Pro | Yes |
| Apache 2 | Yes |
| Apache Flex | No |
| Apple, iWeb, Mac Mail | Yes |
| ASP.Net 1.1 (available only with Server 2003) | No |
| aspell, pspell | Yes |
| Autolearn, autossh | No |
| AWstats (included) | Yes |
| browscap, browscap.ini | No |
| C, C++, GCC, C Compiler | No |
| CakePHP | Yes |
| Clam AV | No |
| CentOS 5 (included) | Yes |
| Clip Share / File Sharing | No |
| Code signing | No |
| ColdFusion (You purchase installation and License. Please email sales@domainindia.org for a quote.) | No |
| Colo, Colocation Services | No |
| Compressed Files (.rar, .zip, .tar.gz, .bz2) | Yes |
| concrete5 | Yes |
| cPanel | Yes |
| cPanel Pro | No |
| CRE Loaded Sites | Yes |
| CRE Loader (Not Included, but you can install it) | Yes |
| Cron jobs (included) | Yes |
| Crypt SSLeay | TIX |
| CS-Cart | Yes |
| cURL, libcurl, PHP/CURL (included) | TIX |
| Cyberduck FTP | Yes |
| DBI Module | Yes |
| Delavo | Yes |
| dimdim | No |
| disabling PHP open_base dir | Yes |
| Django (shared requires fastcgi) | Yes |
| dl() function | No |
| Dolphin 7 (You provide installation and License) | No |
| Ray, Orca, & older Dolphin versions (Boonex.com) | Yes |
| Drupal (included) | Yes |
| Dundas | No |
| e107 | Yes |
| eAccelerator | No |
| eGroupWare | Yes |
| elgg | Yes |
| emacs, vi (requires SSH) | Yes |
| Email Piping | Yes |
| ExpressionEngine | Yes |
| Fantastico De Luxe (included) | Yes |
| fastCGI | Yes |
| FFmpeg - http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu | No |
| Flash FLV (Browsers must have MacroMedia Flash Player Installed) | Yes |
| Flash Media Server FMS | No |
| Flash remoting using AMFPHP | Yes |
| Flv2tool - http://inlet-media.de/flvtool2 | No |
| formail | Yes |
| formmail | Yes |
| fopen | Yes |
| FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu (all at your own risk) | No |
| FrontPage extensions (included) | Yes |
| fsockopen | Yes |
| FXP | No |
| Feature | Compatibility |
|---|---|
| Game Server, gaming | No |
| GCD Google Cash Detective | No |
| GD2 Library (included) | Yes |
| GET, WGET | TIX |
| Ghostscript | Yes |
| Git client | Yes |
| Git server | No |
| gnome / kde (You provide installation) | No |
| GnuPG | Yes |
| Google Adsense & Adwords | Yes |
| Google Apps & Email | Yes |
| GZip | Yes |
| HTTP Digest Authentication | No |
| HTTP streaming (audio/video) | Yes |
| If-Modified-Since HTTP header | Yes |
| ihtml | No |
| ImageMagick, Image Magick (included) | Yes |
| IMAP | Yes |
| imap_open | Yes |
| innoDB | Yes |
| ionCube Loader | Yes |
| IRC | No |
| Java, .jsp, tomcat | No |
| JavaServer Faces (JSF) | No |
| JavaScript, JSON, JSE | Yes |
| JIRA | No |
| Joomla (included) | Yes |
| JRE, JVM | No |
| Kayako | Yes |
| KVM | No |
| LAME MP3 Encoder - http://lame.sourceforge.net | No |
| Latex (but we do not support the binary) | Yes |
| LDAP, openldap | No |
| lib_curl | Yes |
| Libogg + Libvorbis - http://www.xiph.org/downloads | No |
| Linux with Oracle XE (We do not officially support Oracle 11 since it requires an X windowing system, but it can be done.) | No |
| Live streaming, webcam, radio, TV broadcast | No |
| Load Balancing | No |
| lynx | TIX |
| Magento | Yes |
| Mail - Exim | Yes |
| Mail - any other MTA (postfix) | No |
| memcached | No |
| Microsoft Exchange (no longer Requires AD) | No |
| Midnight Commander, MC | No |
| MING PHP Module | No |
| Miva empresa | No |
| mod_layout | No |
| mod_mime | Yes |
| mod_pagespeed | No |
| mod_perl, mod_python, mod_gzip, mod_sql_auth, mod_deflate, mod_ruby | No |
| mod_rewrite, mod_speling (must enable in .htaccess) | Yes |
| mod_security, mod_sec | TIX |
| mokoala | Yes |
| Mono | No |
| Moodle | Yes |
| mpeg2enc | TIX |
| Mplayer + MEncoder - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html | No |
| MVC (for ASP.NET) - Publish option | No |
| MySQL 5 (included) | Yes |
| MySQLi | Yes |
| MySQL Clustering | No |
| nginx | No |
| NNTP / Usenet | No |
| nulled scripts (forbidden per our TOS) | No |
| NuSphere PhpExpress | No |
| Feature | Compatibility |
|---|---|
| Online Chat Program | Yes |
| openSSL 0.9.8o | Yes |
| paFileDB | Yes |
| ParaChat | No |
| Payment Gateway / Merchant Provider | Yes |
| PCI Compliance (included) | Yes |
| PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expressions | Yes |
| PDFlib (requires commercial license) | No |
| PDO or pdo_mysql | Yes |
| Pear MDB2 | TIX |
| PEAR modules - full list | Yes |
| PennyWize | No |
| Perl 5, Python 2, CGI, CPAN (all included) | Yes |
| PHP 5 (included) | Yes |
| php APC | No |
| php iconv | Yes |
| PHP and PECL modules - full list | Yes |
| PHP shell_exec | Yes |
| PHP tokenizer | Yes |
| PHPArcadeScript, phpas | Yes |
| phpFox, php fox | Yes |
| phpmotion, php motion | No |
| PHP Multibyte String | Yes |
| phpMyAdmin (included) | Yes |
| Pinemail / Pine Mail | No |
| podcast | Yes |
| POP3 (included) | Yes |
| PostgreSQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase Solid, Generic ODBC | No |
| postini | Yes |
| PrestaShop | Yes |
| procmail | Yes |
| Proxy Server, Socket Server, SOCKS 4, 4a, & 5 | No |
| Push Email | No |
| quickbooks | No |
| QuickInstall (included) | Yes |
| Rapid Leech, rapidshare | No |
| Red5 | No |
| Remote Desktop, RDP | No |
| RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux | No |
| RoR / Ruby on Rails (included) | Yes |
| Round Robin DNS | No |
| RSS Feeds | Yes |
| rsync | Yes |
| Safe Harbor Certified (included) | Yes |
| sem_get | No |
| server clock adjustments (other than Central Standard Time), Day Light Saving dst | No |
| Server Redundancy | No |
| session_gc, probability, divisor, maxlifetime | No |
| SetupTools | Yes |
| shared SSL | Yes |
| SharePoint, share point server (requires license) | No |
| Shopping Carts | Yes |
| shtml, SSI, server-side includes (all included) | Yes |
| ShoutCast, Icecast | No |
| SimpleXML | Yes |
| Site Builder, SiteBuilder (included per request) | Yes |
| Site Studio, SiteStudio (included per request) | Yes |
| Smarty | Yes |
| SMF Forum Boards | Yes |
| SMS Gateway, MMS | No |
| SMTP (included) | Yes |
| SOAP php | Yes |
| SourceGuardian decoder | Yes |
| SoX | Yes |
| SpamAssassin, spamd | Yes |
| SQLite | Yes |
| SRV record, Service Record | Yes |
| SSH2 (included) | Yes |
| Feature | Compatibility |
|---|---|
| SSH Tunnel | No |
| SSL Wrapper stunnel | No |
| streaming Flash | No |
| Subversion SVN Client | Yes |
| SVN / CVS Repository | No |
| SWFTOOLS, swf tools | No |
| Tom Cat | No |
| tmpfs (configuration requires bill for admin time) | No |
| Trac, TracInstall | No |
| Urchin Stats (please include your root pw in the ticket) | No |
| vBulletin | Yes |
| vBSEO | No |
| Vidscript | No |
| Virtual Machine VMware | No |
| VirtualEnv | Yes |
| VNC (You provide installation) | No |
| Voice Servers (TeamSpeak / Ventrillo) | No |
| VPN / VPS | No |
| vTiger CRM, Sugar CRM (You provide installation and License) | Yes |
| WAP | Yes |
| Webalizer (included) | Yes |
| Webdav Class 1 | Yes |
| Webdisk Class 1 | Yes |
| WebMail Access: Horde, SquirrelMail, RoundCube (all included) | Yes |
| WHM | Only Reseller |
| Wiki (MediaWiki, PhpWiki, TWiki) | Yes |
| wildcard SSL, multi-domain SSL | Yes |
| Woopra | Yes |
| WordPress (included) | Yes |
| WordPress MU | Yes |
| WSGI, mod_wsgi | No |
| X Windows | No |
| XAMPP (Linux already has LAMP, so this shouldn't be needed. Windows dedi can install this for yourself.) | No |
| XCache | No |
| xdebug | No |
| Xen | No |
| XML, xml-rpc | Yes |
| XMPP (You provide installation) | No |
| Xoops | Yes |
| XSitePro (http://www.xsitepro.com/) | Yes |
| xslt | Yes |
| XSSI (extended server-side includes) | No |
| Yamdi | No |
| Zend Core | No |
| Zend Framework | No |
| Zend Optimizer 3.2.x | Yes |
| zip_open | Yes |
| zlib compression Library | Yes |
| Zope / Plone | No |
PHP Modules List bcmath, hash, mime_magic, Reflection, wddx, calendar, iconv, mssql, session, xml, ctype, mysql, SimpleXML, xmlreader, curl, imap, mysqli, soap, xmlrpc, date, ionCube Loader, openssl, sockets, xmlwriter, dom, json, pcre, SourceGuardian, xsl, exif, libxml, PDO, SPL, zip, filter, magickwand, pdo_mysql, SQLite, zlib, pspell, tokenizer, ftp, mbstring, pdo_sqlite, standard, gd, mcrypt, posix, tidy, gettext, mhash, GMP (GNU Multiple Precision)
Zend Extension Manager Yes
ionCube PHP Loader Yes
With the provided list of hosting compatible technologies and features, the article presents a comprehensive overview of the services and tools available for users who choose to host their websites using cPanel.
Additional Resources
-
A Comprehensive List of PHP Extensions and Their Functions
Understand the various PHP extensions available and how they can enhance your applications.
-
Installing PHP Extensions and Complex Libraries Across Various Operating Systems and Control Panels
Learn how to install additional technologies and extensions on different hosting environments.
-
PHP Extensions and Their Crucial Role in Web Development
Explore how PHP extensions can significantly enhance your web development projects.
-
Installing Composer and Using It to Manage PHP Libraries: A Comprehensive Guide
Manage your PHP dependencies efficiently using Composer.
-
How to Enable Essential PHP Extensions on a VPS with CentOS and cPanel
Step-by-step instructions to enable necessary PHP extensions on your VPS.
-
Understanding Disallowed PHP Extensions and Resource Overconsumption in cPanel/DirectAdmin
Be aware of extensions that may cause issues on shared hosting environments.
