First, you should know what cPanel is. It is a way of managing your website and your hosting options. It is a control panel as a GUI, though technically it is a graphical, web-based interface. With your control panel, you can quickly manage your website, you can automate tasks, and you may manage your hosting options.
A company offering cPanel Hosting are merely allowing you the use of this GUI within your hosting package. Otherwise, it would be up to you to find your method of managing your website and hosting options.
If you have cPanel then there is no saying as to the limit of website and accounts you may manage from it; unless the hosting company created a limit. If not then you can add as many email accounts, user accounts and websites to it as you wish. With cPanel you may automate tasks to make them more comfortable for you, and you can even sell off your server space and set people up with cPanel. It means that if you buy the use of a whole server and find that you do not need as much as you thought, then you can get a bit of your money back.
Here are a few things that cPanel hosting gives you:
- Manage FTP accounts
- View website page statistics
- Create and manage your new domains
- Upload and manage your files using a File Manager
- Edit MIME types
- Set up your redirects
- Edit Apache handlers
- Create and manage your subdomains
- View error logs and usage logs
- Install and Uninstall FrontPage Extensions
- Manage your GPG keys
- Set up any Cron jobs
- Backup your website files and restore your backups
- Set up an SSH access
- Install scripts for things such as forums, surveys, etc.
- Manage MySQL
- A Manage PostgreSQL
- Manage other databases
Here are a few things that cPanel hosting gives you with regards to emails:
- Set-up auto-responders for your email accounts
- Create and manage your email accounts
- Manage spam filtering with your emails
- Set-up forwarders and aliases
- Set up your mailing lists
- Access webmail via cPanel
- Modify an MX entry
- Implement any custom mail filtering
Cpanel hosting makes working with your host a little easier. You can manage your services and your website quickly, and you can allow staff access to your server services. It makes your hosting package a lot more flexible, to the point where you can allow others to purchase a little web space from you.
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