cPanel is one of the most popular control panels used to manage a web hosting account.
Some of the benefits offered by cPanel include:
1. Support and reliability.
cPanel is one of the most widely used web hosting interfaces that provides a full range of features such as security, web analytics, database management, and more.
2. Intuitive graphical interface.
cPanel is extremely easy to use with an icon-based menu that gives you access to all of its features and functions. Plus, it also can be customized according to user preferences.
3. Different operating systems.
cPanel can be installed on the world’s most popular and stable operating systems used for web hosting purposes such as RedHat, CentOS, and CloudLinux.
4. Easy implementation of third-party applications.
Third-party programs and auto-installers (Softaculous) can be easily implemented in cPanel.
5. Security management.
cPanel offers the latest security technologies, allowing website administrators to configure a variety of different security settings, set directory passwords, and control access to files and online resources.
6. Administration of databases.
Databases are critical to content management systems (CMS), online shopping, and many other e-commerce applications. cPanel provides step-by-step instructions to create, configure and manage MySQL databases.
7. Domain administration.
You can easily configure and manage an unlimited number of domains using a single cPanel installation, allowing you to have total control over your domains.
8. Manage files.
cPanel allows users to create file backups, upload and edit web pages, manage disk space, and create/manage FTP accounts.
Information on the allocated resources.
Using its intuitive interface, you can easily find information referring to:
– Hosting packages
– IPs hosted
– The number of subdomains assigned
– The number of parked domains
– The number of additional domains
– The number of databases
– The space occupied and the space left available
– The size of the databases
– Traffic consumption per month
– The number of email accounts
– The number of auto-responses and filters used
– The number of FTP accounts.
Through cPanel, we can also manage the following services:
– An email server and email management
– Files management via File Manager
– Creating passwords for folders
– Creating Subdomains for each domain hosted on cPanel
– Backups
– FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
– Common Gateway Interface (CGI) -allows you to run scripts for external application interfaces
– Web Stats – Provides detailed information about the webpage you own, such as error logs and a full monthly visitors summary
– The ability to reset or change a password
– Database administration – adding, modifying, deleting, managing databases and their users using MySQL Databases
– Manage parked domains and active domains
– Adding, modifying, or deleting cronjobs – Cronjobs are created when we want a particular script to run at a specific date and time.