When you buy a hosting account to host your own website, you need a portal to manage all the services that it offers. These services include emails, FTP accounts, creating sub-domains, managing databases, and many other services that are essential in the day to day workings of a website. Since not every website owner has the technical know-how to handle the backend of a website, it is important that the control panel, the portal one needs to manage the site, is easy to use. This is where a cPanel comes in. It makes managing the website so easy that even non-programmers can handle it.

Useful Features

Installing Applications

For non-programmers, a Content Management System like WordPress is a must-have. These systems allow people to create websites without the need to learn to code. With a cPanel, installing these CMSs is a breeze. Most of the time, you will have a one-click install service that will install the application on your website with a single click! The most popular modules in this category include:

• WordPress
• Joomla
• Drupal
• phpBB

Managing Domains

It is quite common for people to own multiple websites. However, you don’t need a separate hosting account for each website. One hosting account is usually sufficient for unlimited emails. For such people, add-on domains make it possible to host multiple websites on the same hosting account. Other important tools that are of interest n this category include:

• Aliases
• Redirects
• DNS Manager
• Sub-domains

Security

The security of your website is perhaps the most important issue you will have to deal with. Security issues come up more often than one expects, so it is vital that an easy to manage security system is in place. cPanel allows you to manage all your security details from one place. It offers the following modules for your website’s protection:

• Hotlink Protection
• SSL/TLS
• SSH Access
• IP Blocker

Metrics

Keeping an eye on your website’s performance allows you to make it a success. If you don’t know which areas your website is underperforming in, you are unlikely to be able to improve those areas. With the metrics modules available in the cPanel, you can easily read the analytics of your website, where the visitors are coming from, what errors are there on your site, how much resources your website is taking, etc. The popular modules in this category include:

• Errors
• Visitors
• Bandwidth
• Awstats
• Webalizer