CPanel is a fully featured web-based control panel that allows a web hosting customer to manage an Internet domain through the web browser and an easy to use web interface. The basic idea behind cPanel is to transfer as much control of a domain and the responsibility of managing your web site to to the hosting client.
The hosting clients then has the ability to manage all aspects of e-mail, files, backup, FTP, CGI scripts, and web site statistics. This ability reduces waiting time for clients when needing basic support. Instead of waiting for the support team the client can easily do most of the day to day tasks himself.
Can a hosting client install cPanel on his account himself? No, cPanel is a server-based application. The web host needs to license cPanel on a per server base and can then offer the web control panel functionality to his clients.
Does the client needs to turn to the makers of cPanel when needing help with cPanel? No, the web host is and stays the main point of contact to the client. If there is a need for cPanel help, the web host would then contact cPanel support.
What features are included into cPanel?
Backup
Mail
- Backup
- Restore
- Manage email accounts (add, remove, change password)
- Webmail for all accounts
- Auto-responders
- Custom mail filtering
- Forwarders
- Mailing lists (mailman)
- Ability to modify an MX entry
- Spam filtering (SpamAssassin)
Stats
- Webalizer web stats
- Webalizer FTP stats
- Analog stats
- AWStats
- View latest visitors
- View bandwidth usage
- View error log
- Download raw log file
FTP
- Manage FTP accounts (add, remove, change password)
- Anonymous FTP controls
- Ability to change FTP login message
- Ability to kill FTP sessions
Site Tools
- 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 submit tool
- File Manager
Subdomains
- Ability to add/remove subdomains
- Subdomain redirects
- Stats for subdomains
Advanced Tools
- SSH access
- Manage GPG keys
- Cron jobs
Pre-Installed CGI Scripts
- 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
- DNS Lookup
- Traceroute
Database Management
- Manage MySQL databases
- phpMyAdmin access
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