Web Hosting Control Panel - What Is cPanel?

 

The cPanel, also known as the control panel of your hosting account - It is an online Linux-based graphical interface (GUI) used as a control panel to simplify website and server management. Developed by cPanel, L.L.C., an American corporation, cPanel became one of the most popular control panel in the world. With your control panel you're be able to make changes to and customize your server account. Following main operations can be done with the cPanel:

Email

In your cPanel you can create new email accounts, manage, change passwords, modify quotas, edit spam filters of the email account and much more.
 

Domains

Your Primary Domain is the main domain that your cPanel account is configured with. You can add an Addon Domain, create Subdomains and also create Domain Aliases.

 

File Managment

Using cPanel, you can create FTP accounts to allow access to your files remotely for different users. cPanel also includes a File Manager to create, modify, and delete your files directly on the server. You can also create / manage backups of your entire hosting account using Backup Wizard

 

Database Management

With cPanel, you can easily create a MySQL / PostGRE SQL databases, manage them, create and manage database users, passwords, and privileges. You can also access phpMyAdmin to import/export MySQL databases using cPanel.

 

Security Center

You can run cPanel's AutoSSL Feature to automatically install/update SSL certificate for your domains, or you generate Keys and CSR (Certificate Signing Request) to install branded SSL Certificate on your websites.

 

Software

There're lots of different plugins and software developed by 3-rd party vendors, which are integrated into cPanel giving you an ability to install such popular CMS as WordPress with one click. Softaculous plugin offers more then 500 script installations with 1 click through cPanel.

 

cPanel is a commercial application with FREE technical support included for the licence holders. However, fully featured cPanel control panel is offered FREE of charge for the web hosting and reseller hosting users.

 

How To Login To cPanel?

You can login to your cPanel using the address bar of your browser. Type in your website address followed by a colon and then 2083. Accessing your cPanel would look like this https://yoursite.com:2083.

If you have a new website and the nameserver records have not yet propagated through the internet, then you can use the server hostname or IP address instead. You can view cPanel and server login information inside your billing account, under the "Server Info" section.

cPanel is multilingual. If you need to switch interface to other language, then select your language from the list at the bottom of the cPanel login screen.

Once you are on the cPanel login screen, enter your username and password and click the Log In button. After that, you will be redirected to your website control panel where you will see all the settings described above.

You can also log in to your cPanel by typing in /cpanel after your website address. When you use this method to log in to your cPanel, it would look like this: https://yoursite.com/cpanel.

To view all cPanel features in a live mode, you can launch cPanel Demo and test it for free.

 

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Published on: 24-06-2020