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What is cPanel?
cPanel is a fully featured web-based control panel that allows you to manage your domain through a web interface. The idea is to transfer as much of the control and responsibility of managing your web site to you. You have the ability to manage all aspects of e-mail, files, backup, FTP, CGI scripts, and web site statistics.
cPanel Client Features:
To the client, cPanel provides front-ends for a number of common operations, including the management of PGP keys, crontab tasks, mail and FTP accounts, and mailing lists.
Several add-ons exist for an additional fee, the most notable being Fantastico, a bundle of scripts which automate the installation of, but not the update of (see article), web applications such as SMF, phpBB, Drupal, Joomla, TikiWiki, Moodle and over 50 others.
Unlike some other web hosting control panels, cPanel manages some software packages separately from the underlying operating system, applying upgrades to Apache, PHP, MySQL, and related software packages automatically. This ensures that these packages are kept up-to-date and compatible with cPanel, but has become a cause for consternation to some, as it becomes difficult to easily install newer versions of these packages.
cPanel WHM Web Host Manager:
WebHost Manager (WHM) is a web-based tool used by server administrators and resellers to manage hosting accounts on a web server. WHM listens on ports 2086 and 2087 by default.
As well as being accessible by the root admin, WHM is also accessible to users with reseller privileges. Reseller users of cPanel have a smaller set of features than the root user, generally limited by the server administrator, to features which they determine will affect their customers' accounts rather than the server as a whole. From WHM, the server administrator can perform maintenance operations such as compile Apache and upgrade RPMs installed on the system
cPanel Explained
cPanel is the control panel that comes with all of our web hosting accounts. It is from cPanel that you will be able to do such things as setup email accounts, setup MySQL databases, view visitor statistics, and a whole lot more.
You can access cPanel directly from your browser, or any other browser (i.e. you do not have to be at your computer to access it.... you can be at someone else's computer.... as long as you have access to the internet, you can access your cPanel).
cPanel Recommendation:
If you are new to cPanel, we find cPanel to be the easiest control panel to learn and use. See below for all hosts that offer cPanel control panel access.
We hope the above better explains cPanel Hosting to you. If you think cPanel Hosting is right for you, please look below for our most recent cPanel Hosting customer reviews. We are positive you'll be able to choose the right cPanel Hosting company that is right for your needs.
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