Web hosting companies provide their services and you can use different control panels. In this series of articles that we've prepared each control panel advantages and disadvantages are described. The most popular control panels are CPanel, WHM, DirectAdmin, HSPHERE, Plesk and Helm, most of them are designed for both Windows and Linux-based Web Hosting.
CPanel
This web site control panel was developed by DarkORB Communications Inc and now it's being distributed by the CPanel Inc. It was designed for the ultimate consumer and allows them to control every aspect of their activity.
The main peculiarity of this operating system is that it has double-level organization and there's almost everything what a beginner might require.
Backup
Backup allows you to create a reserve copies of account files and databases and restore some part or all the user's account. Backup menu also allows you to download any automatic backups that were downloaded by your server administrator.
Email
This server provides you with a possibility to add, remove, change password while managing email accounts. CPanel is also provided by Webmail for the accounts, Auto responders, Forwarders, Mailing Lists, Spam filtering and some more.
Stats
There are different tools to survey your site popularity and efficiency. Those are Webalizer web stats, Webalizer FTP stats, Analog stats, AWStats, View latest visitors, View bandwidth usage, View error log and a possibility of Downloading raw log file.
FTP
With CPanel control panel you can Manage FTP accounts (add, remove, change password for its access), Anonymous FTP controls, Ability to change FTP login message and Ability to kill FTP sessions.
Site Tools
There are such tools available for your use, which are Web Protect (.htaccess editor), Ability to change site and FrontPage password, Custom error pages, Redirects, Ability to edit MIME types, Ability to edit Apache handlers, Install/Uninstall FrontPage Extensions, Search engine tool submitting and File Manager.
Subdomains
You have an ability to add or remove subdomains, Subdomain Redirects and its Stats.
Advanced Tools
You are provided with tools of SSH access tools, Manage GPG keys and Cron jobs.
There are also some Pre-Installed CGI Scripts , which are available for your use. Those are Interchange Cart, Agora Cart, Bulletin Board, Java Chat, HTML Chat, phpMyChat, CGI Wrapper (for non-suexec installs), Random HTML generator, Advanced Guestbook, Counter Generator, Java Clock Generator, Java Countdown Generator, Secure FormMail clone, CGIEmail, Entropy Search, Entropy Banner.
Network Tools are DNS Lookup and Traceroute.
Database Management includes Managing MySQL databases and phpMyAdmin access.
Resume
CPanel control panel is a very suitable web site control panel for the beginners but not that useful for the experienced users. The control panel is pretty stable; email operating is organized in a very convenient way. CPanel works with most of browsers, such as IE, Opera, Firefox and others.
Author: Victoria Nikolayeva
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