⚜ Benchmarks
Goose Panel vs cPanel
Same hardware. Same WordPress site. Same traffic. Real numbers.
Test Setup
| Server | DigitalOcean 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / 80 GB SSD |
| OS | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS |
| Stack | nginx 1.26 + PHP 8.3 + MariaDB 10.11 |
| Site | WordPress 6.7 + WooCommerce + 50 products |
| Traffic | Siege — 50 concurrent users, 5 minutes |
Results
| Metric | cPanel 122 | Goose Panel | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idle memory usage | 1.2 GB | 512 MB | Goose (58% less) |
| WordPress TTFB (avg) | 340 ms | 180 ms | Goose (47% faster) |
| Requests/sec (siege) | 210 | 380 | Goose (81% more) |
| Failed requests | 1.2% | 0.01% | Goose (120x fewer) |
| SSL certificate | Manual / paid | Auto Let's Encrypt | Goose |
| Backup size (daily) | 380 MB | 45 MB | Goose (88% smaller) |
| Panel overhead | 800 MB | 120 MB | Goose (85% less) |
Why Goose Panel Is Faster
No Apache. cPanel bundles Apache + PHP-FPM + Passenger. Goose Panel uses nginx directly with minimal config — no extra process tree, no mod_rewrite chains, no .htaccess overhead.
Elixir, not Perl. The Goose Panel backend is Phoenix/Elixir on the BEAM VM — designed for concurrency and low latency. cPanel's backend is Perl CGI scripts that fork a new process per request.
No cPanel baggage. cPanel ships with 50+ services (cpsrvd, cpdavd, cpanellogd, queueprocd, tailwatchd…). Goose Panel runs 4: nginx, PostgreSQL, the Phoenix app, and your sites. That's it.
Smarter backups. Goose Panel backs up only what changed, deduplicated and compressed. cPanel backs up the entire account directory every time.
Benchmarks run on identical hardware. Your results may vary — but the architecture makes the difference clear.