Coming from another panel?
What moving to RespireCloud brings, what is different by design and what is not there yet. Each page states facts about the other product only where its own public pages say so, with the address and the date.
- Coming from cPanel & WHM
cPanel alternative
RespireCloud is a self-hosted server panel with the account model hosting businesses already use. It imports cpmove backups with a dry run and a full rollback. It is in early access, and this page says plainly what is not there yet.
Read the comparison - Coming from Plesk
Plesk alternative
RespireCloud is a self-hosted server panel for Linux with resellers, plans and one app for desktop and phone. It reads Plesk backups and builds a test copy before it commits. It is in early access and Linux only, and this page says plainly what is not there yet.
Read the comparison
DirectAdmin, Hestia and FastPanel backups are recognised too, but only their parsing is tested: an import from them has not been run end to end, so they have no page of their own yet.
The same on every page.
Different by design
- The web panel cannot run commands. The panel runs as an unprivileged user. Work that needs root goes to a separate agent that accepts typed operations only, never a command line.
- Every change is shown before it happens. A change is a plan with the exact difference. You approve it, risky ones with a passkey, and it can be undone.
- Isolation is in the base product. Every hosting account is its own Linux user with its own systemd slice, its own PHP-FPM pool and quotas, in every edition.
- An assistant, and a guide for beginners. Ask in plain words and get a plan to approve. RespireSoft AI comes with every licence as a monthly allowance and turns itself on; or with your own key for a model provider, or a model on your own server. A guide walks new users through their first steps.
- Updates that go back by themselves. The panel updates itself from signed releases, keeps the previous release and a copy of its database, and goes back on its own if the new release does not start. Every server and Store module follows.
Not there yet
- A public release. RespireCloud is in early access. There is no public download, the production signing keys are not made and prices are not set. One install has run on a real server; everything else ran in our lab.
- Proof on real backups. The importers have run end to end only on archives we built to match each format. A backup taken from a production server has not been imported yet, so expect differences.
- A second web server. Sites are served by nginx. Apache .htaccess rules, PHP ini overrides and redirects are not translated by the importer: a site that depends on them needs its rules rewritten.
- Recovery to a moment. A database restore goes back to the time of a scheduled dump. Recovery to a chosen moment between backups is not built. The database tool (Adminer) is built; it covers MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL on the server itself.
- An independent security test. An external penetration test has not started.
Tell us what you run today.
Which panel, how many servers and accounts. We will say honestly whether RespireCloud is ready for them.
cPanel, WHM, Plesk and DirectAdmin are trademarks of their respective owners. RespireCloud is made by RespireSoft and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them. Their names are used here only to say what RespireCloud can import from and how it differs.