Control panels are must for managing your webhosting account and are offered for free or at much cheaper cost. All webhost offers you control panel with their hosting plans. You have range of webhosting control panels available, you can choose any one as per your requirements and budget. Most popular webhosting control panels are cPanel, Plesk, Helm, WHM etc… Control panels are very useful for managing your webhosting account they give you freedom for managing all your domains, subdomains, FTP accounts, email accounts, adding blogs, forums to your website etc… If you are not much technically sound then webhosting control panels are made for you. They have very user friendly interface and are easy to navigate and manage.
What to look while choosing control panel :
You should go through demo version for your provided control panel so that you can go through its interface and can crosscheck for its functionality. Most webhost offers you with control panel but as a webmaster you should always check its functionality. You should also check for its Graphics Interface, OS they support, their features etc…
Graphical Interface : Structure and design of your control panel should be easy to understand and navigate as you would be using it most of the time and thus its interface should be easy to understand and operate. Almost all control panels provides you with different skins which can be customize as per your feel and requirements, you can change fonts, colors and structure for design of your control panel.
Support for operating system : This is most important feature which should be look into before proceeding with any host. Make sure the OS you are using is supported for the provided control panel. Most control panel support Windows OS and Linux OS but if you are using Apple Mac OS X then you should check if provided webhosting control panel would work fine on Apple systems.
Fulfilling your needs : Make sure to check if the control panel which is provided by your webhost has all features that you are looking for. Your webhosting Control panel should fulfill all your technical stuffs which you may need to get done. If your main concern for using control panel is for setting domains and email accounts for your clients then make sure you can manage these stuffs easily using your control panel.
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This post was written by on September 29, 2008
