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ERPNext on cPanel or shared hostingWill it run on my hosting? Usually not.

Tick what your host allows and see why —then what to do instead.

Check your host

Untick anything your hosting plan does not give you.

A command-line (SSH) loginEverything is installed and run with bench, a command-line tool.
Root or sudo, to install system softwareFrappe’s guide installs MariaDB, Redis, Node 24 and Python 3.14 with the system package manager.
Programs that run all the time in the backgroundERPNext keeps gunicorn, background workers, a scheduler, two Redis servers and a Node Socket.IO server running permanently.
A MariaDB user that can create databases and usersbench new-site logs in as the database super user to create the site’s own database and user.
Control of the web server’s configurationNginx must pass /socket.io to the Node server and everything else to gunicorn.
About 4 GB of memory for you aloneFrappe’s single-server Docker guide recommends 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and a 50 GB SSD.

It can’t run here

No — 5 things are missing, and ERPNext cannot run without them.

✕Root or sudo, to install system software
✕Programs that run all the time in the background
✕A MariaDB user that can create databases and users
✕Control of the web server’s configuration
✕About 4 GB of memory for you alone

What to do instead

A small cloud server

Any Linux VPS with root access runs ERPNext properly — the same stack, with nothing taken away.

Frappe Cloud

Frappe’s own hosting. Nothing to install; you pay for computing resources, not per user.

Keep cPanel for the website

Your website can stay where it is. ERPNext lives on its own server at erp.yourdomain.com.

Questions, answered

Frequently asked questions

Not on ordinary shared hosting. ERPNext needs root to install MariaDB, Redis, Node and Python, programs that run all the time, a database user that can create databases, and control of the web server — shared plans give none of these.

No. It serves one web application, while ERPNext also needs background workers, a scheduler, two Redis servers and a Socket.IO server running permanently.

If you have root on the server, ERPNext can run there — but install it with bench or Docker as on any Linux server, not through cPanel’s tools.

Yes. Keep the website where it is and run ERPNext on its own server at a subdomain such as erp.yourdomain.com.

Frappe’s single-server Docker guide recommends 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and a 50 GB SSD as a starting point — more than a shared plan gives one account.

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