Control panel is most important for managing your webhosting account depending on your webhosting platform you can opt for preferred hosting control panel, such as if you have Linux platform you have choice of WHM/cPanel and if you have Microsoft Windows platform you can opt for Plesk. You can use Plesk as your control panel even on Linux platform as it works well with Linux website hosting platform.
You will get license copy for your control panel at much cheaper rates from your hosting service provider as compare to their provider. While choosing control panel you should look at all features of your preferred control panel which will help you to manage your hosting account easily.
Most webhost provides you free control panel with shared hosting packages but you need to pay for control panel if you opt for higher hosting plans such as VPS,Dedicated servers etc… Control panel help you to manage your webhosting account easily you can add new domains, can setup new email accounts, manage your databases, upload data, set redirects etc…
There are few more control panels available in webhosting world which are more cheaper such as LXAdmin Helm, DirectAdmin, Hosting Controller, ServerCP and many more… few of then are free and some are paid versions.
Following are most important features of Control panels :
*)Managing domains, subdomains, parked domains for your account.
*)Setting up emails accounts, FTP accounts, DNS setting.
*)Managing databases, SSL certificates, Web directories, Frontpage Extensions.
*)Apache Handlers, can take backups and restore them.
*)Image Tools, hotlink protection.
*)Setting up cron Jobs.
*)Can crate Custom Error Pages.
*)Can manage CGI scripts
Thus control panel provides you with range of features using which you can create your fully functioning website having all advance features without needing technical knowledge.
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This post was written by on April 5, 2008
