{"id":6292,"date":"2026-09-18T10:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:22:08","slug":"cpanel-vs-spanel-white-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/cpanel-vs-spanel-white-label\/","title":{"rendered":"cPanel Can’t Rebrand Its Login Page. SPanel Can. Here’s Why That Matters for Resellers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SPanel<\/strong><\/a>, ScalaHosting’s free control panel, white-labels from a single Branding<\/em> screen. You can set your company name, upload your logo, switch the panel’s Login URL to the neutral \/hostpanel path, and your clients log in at their own domain under your brand. What\u2019s more, these options are included for free on every managed cloud VPS<\/strong><\/a> with Scala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In comparison, cPanel’s own ecosystem documentation states that its login page cannot be rebranded and that its white-labeling spans several separate tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A login page that quietly advertised the wrong company<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here is a scenario for you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom\u00e1s runs a 25-client web studio in Porto. He sells web hosting as part of his monthly retainer, and for years his clients logged in to a panel that showed someone else’s name in the corner. Twice last year, a client Googled that name, found the upstream host’s retail pricing, and asked Tom\u00e1s why they were paying him more. Nothing about his service had changed – only what the login page advertised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That login page is the sharpest line between cPanel and SPanel white-labeling. cPanel’s makers admit it can’t be rebranded; SPanel rebrands it with a single switch on the client’s own domain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article walks both workflows side by side and is honest about what white-labeling never covers – on any panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What white-labeling a hosting panel actually means<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

White-labeling a hosting panel means presenting it under your own company name, logo, and login URL, so users see your brand rather than the panel vendor’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a reseller, this isn’t just some fancy decoration. Your clients pay you, not your infrastructure provider, and the panel is one of the few surfaces they touch every week. When it carries a third-party name, it plants a small questionyou\u2019d rather never raise – who actually runs my hosting?<\/em> For many hosting providers, white-labeling has traditionally been offered in a reseller tier or as a per-account add-on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The login page: where the two workflows split<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

cPanel has earned its place. It has an intuitive interface, a deep feature set, and it sets the standard that the rest of the industry measures against. None of what follows is a knock on the product – it’s how branding works inside it, documented by cPanel and the hosts that build on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In cPanel and WHM, branding is assembled from a few places. Company name and logo go into the WHM Customization area<\/strong>, visual styling is handled by copying and editing a theme<\/strong>, and panel icons are generated through a command you run over SSH<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each is doable; together they’re a small project you revisit as you grow. The piece that stops it short is the login page. Cpanel’s own customization documentation, echoed by host knowledge bases, states the login screen cannot be rebranded. Resellers on the WHMCS forums have also flagged that the panel login link can send a client to the upstream provider’s domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPanel takes a different approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Admin Interface’s Branding screen,<\/strong> you set your company name, upload your logo, and switch the panel’s Login URL from the default \/spanel to the neutral \/hostpanel. That one change rewrites the panel path across every domain, updates the proxy configuration, rewrites the integrated webmail’s entry links, and reloads the web services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The login page is part of what gets rebranded, not the exception. Because the panel answers through every hosted domain, your client logs in at client-site.com\/hostpanel\/login – their domain, your brand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To recap:<\/strong> “Branding either survives every new domain and every panel update, or it isn’t branding – it’s a setting you’ll have to remember.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Side by side: the two white-label workflows<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What you’re branding<\/strong><\/td>cPanel \/ WHM<\/strong><\/td>SPanel<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Company name & logo<\/td>Set in the WHM Customization area<\/td>Set on the Admin Interface Branding screen<\/td><\/tr>
Login page<\/td>Documented as not rebrandable by cPanel’s makers<\/td>Rebranded by the same Login URL switch<\/td><\/tr>
Where clients log in<\/td>Commonly a shared server or provider address<\/td>The client’s own domain at \/hostpanel\/login<\/td><\/tr>
Steps to apply it<\/td>Customization for the logo, a theme copy for styles, an SSH command for icons<\/td>One switch on the Branding screen<\/td><\/tr>
New domains as you grow<\/td>Re-check styling as accounts are added<\/td>Inherit the branding automatically<\/td><\/tr>
After a panel update<\/td>Customizations can need re-applying<\/td>Reasserted by the updater, webmail included<\/td><\/tr>
API endpoint<\/td>Tied to the panel’s own naming<\/td>Follows the branded path (documented)<\/td><\/tr>
Typical cost model<\/td>Often part of a reseller tier or paid add-on<\/td>Included free on every ScalaHosting managed VPS<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

cPanel can carry your brand across much of the interface, and many resellers run good businesses doing exactly that. The differences are the login page, the client-facing URL, and how many moving parts you maintain – SPanel collapses those to one switch. For the hands-on version, see the five-minute SPanel branding walkthrough<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weighing a reseller setup?<\/strong> On a ScalaHosting managed VPS, SPanel branding lives on one screen and reaches every hosted domain – login page included, at no extra cost.<\/p>\n\n\n

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