CPanel has one of the easiest to use interfaces to let you be in control of the environment in your hosting account. Someome with little computer experience is unlikely to mess this operating system up. The Cpanel has embedded features into the panel making it even easier to use. See examples of the features, we have some of them listed below.
Explore the Site Tools
The tools you have available for your use should not be overlooked. Available tools for you to use are the .htaccess editor more commonly known as the Web Protect, Redirects, custom pages for errors, a search engine submitting tool, and the file manager. Users are given the ability to edit Apache handlers, edit MIME file types, and you can also uninstall or install FrontPage Extensions.
Email
The email program gives you the option to add, remove and change passwords all while your managing your email accounts. Webmail provides you with a Cpanel along with forwarders for email, auto responders, Spam filtering and the availability to having email lists and more.
Backups
The backup lets you create copies of your databases and other account files. You can also download any of the automatic backups that have been downloaded by the administrator of your CPanel through the backup menu.
Statistics
You will find different tools to find out the efficiency and popularity of your site. These tools include the Webalizer web stats, the Webalizer FTP stats, Awstats, Analog stats, and you can view your latest visitors along with viewing the bandwidth usage and your error log modules.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Inside the module for controlling your FTP accounts you can add and remove and easily change passwords for access to it. You will also find anonymous FTP controls, the capability to change the login message for the FTP and you can also kill your FTP sessions.
For the Advanced
In the Cpanel you can create or remove your sub domains, it’s redirects and the statistics for it.
More Advanced Tools
You will have access to the SSH access tools, and be able to manage the GPG keys and other Cron jobs.
You will also find CGI scripts that are already installed including:
- Interchange Cart
- Agora Cart
- Bulletin Board
- Java Chat
- HTML Chat
- PHPMychat
- CGI Wrapper, for installs that are non-suexec
- Random HTML generator
- An Advanced Guestbook
- Counter Generator
- Java Clock Generator
- Java Countdown Generator
- Secure FormMail clone
- CGIEmail
- Entropy Banner and Search
The network tools available are the DNS lookup with Traceroute for your convenience.
To manage your Database, you will find database management system and gives you the management capabilities for both your MySQL databases and your phpMyAdminaccess.
Beginners find the Cpanel options are easy to use and it is easy to learn. Most popular browsers like IE Firefox, Opera and many others all display the Cpanel correctly. |
