The Popular Control Panels For Web Hosting

Today, getting online has become an extremely easy process with the improvement in technology. There are lots of options that are available on the internet to do business and be successful. There are lots of web hosting companies who provide various their service and products along with different features and plans.

These features include the disk space, the bandwidth, the memory, some softwares, hardware, applications, web tools, control panels, and many others which makes your web hosting very simple.

The control panel is the most important feature of any web hosting server. Focusing on the control panels, there are many different types of control panels which are present on the internet today. However, the best one out of all these control panels are the CPanel and the Plesk.

cPanel (CPanel, short for Control Panel)

The cPanel was mainly designed for high speed web hosting. Now-a-days, the cPanel is very popular and widely used control panel by lots of web designers and the web developers. Also, the cPanel is the offered with a lot of web hosting plans.

The most important advantage of using this control panel is that, the cPanel uses the Perl script and requires absolutely no access to any kind of database. This cPanel is very user friendly and extremely easy to use due to its easy graphical user interface (GUI) which helps the user in getting familiar with all the options that are present in the control panel very easily, when compared to any other control panel.

cPanel even has lots of different attractive and useful features like the instant backup facilities, the domain and sub domain control, e-mail management facility and many more. The cPanel even provides a tool called the FTP that is the File Transfer Protocol, using which you can easily transfer the files and the data from one web hosting server to another web hosting server or even to your system.

The cPanel has an extremely easy and simple graphical user interface that displays a wide range of statistics about your website and its features on the sidebar. All these statistics include the domain and the sub domain names, the web space usage in a particular period of time, memory that is used by all the applications, the monthly bandwidth used, statistics on various e-mail accounts that you have, the database statistics, statistics about the applications and softwares, and the information on various other web tools that are being used by your website and the web hosting account.

The cPanel also provides you the information about the web traffic that is coming to your website along with the area from where the people are visiting your website.

Your cPanel web hosting can also be migrated or transferred from one web hosting company to another web hosting company having the cPanel service. This can be easily achieved without the loss to its structure and data in any way.

The cPanel also helps the web developers and web designers to build their own application and add-ons like the ‘Fantastico’. Fantastico can be used to install lots of popular PHP scripts such as the Mambo, the PHPbb, the Wordpress, and many others.

Fantastico is one of the easiest ways to setup all these important PHP based scripts. Fantastico will also do all the configuration of the script that you want and you do not have to manually upload and then install each and every script, which is a real time saver.

CPanel also allows you to easily edit and modify the database. The cPanel is one of the most powerful control panels which are also used for configuring the web hosting servers. CPanel has a lot of features and options that makes it extremely easy to host multiple websites under the same domain names. CPanel can be learnt even by a beginner who has not worked previously on any control panel and can handle this control panel very easily due to its extreme user friendly structure.

The cPanel is also very cheap when you compare it to some other types of control panels that are available on the internet. This reduces the overall cost of your web hosting account. CPanel even allows you to change the entire content and the structure of your website and web pages.

CPanel has a very important feature that is usually used for reseller web hosting. This feature allows you to easily set up different reselling accounts and use the unwanted web space by reselling it to many different users.

Then using this control panel, you can easily keep track of all their statistics. It is also very easy to protect your web hosting account with the help of cPanel as it allows you to set passwords to different sections of your website, thus making the data present in your website as well as your web hosting account very safe.

Plesk

Plesk is another important control panel that is being used by a lot of web designers and programmers all across the world. There are many different versions of Plesk. However, the latest version of Plesk control panel is considered to be the most secure, reliable and stable version for the UNIX and the Linux operating system. The Plesk allows you to use the same control panel for a number of operating systems that are available.

Like the cPanel, the Plesk control panel also offers you some very different useful and attractive features like managing different domain and sub domain names, easy file upload and download features, e-mail accounts, and other statistics about a particular web hosting account. Using all these control panels you can even easily create a web user account. Plesk even helps in creating and modifying a MYSQL or SQL database.

When compared to the Plesk, the cPanel is the most favored control panel due to all its user friendly features and also since there is no restrictions unlike some other control panels. The cPanel is a powerful but very easy tool that can really give your website a professional touch.

All these features that are provided by these two control panels that is the cPanel and the Plesk are extremely useful to create and develop your website and the web hosting account. If used carefully, you can certainly to make your website popular which will not only increase its ranking, but also bring success to your online business as well as to your website.