You can control and manage your host account environment with an easy user-interface based software called CPanel. The main peculiarity of this operating system is that it so simple to use that even a below average computer user can’t really mess it up. It’s got wonderful features embedded in its panel. Here is a list of the primary and most used features:

Website Tools – There’s many tools available for your use including: Web Protect, htaccess editor, customized error pages, redirects, the ability to edit MIME types and Apache handlers, Install/Uninstall FrontPage Extensions, Search Engine tool submissions and File Manager along with many others.

Email – The email management area gives you options to add, remove, and alter passwords while dealing with your email accounts. CPanel also provides you with Webmail for the accounts, so that you always have access to your emails from any computer in the world with internet access or if your home PC is having problems and you need to access any important emails, Auto responders, Forwarders, Mailing Lists, Spam filtering and some more.

Backup Functions – Backup allows you to create copies of all your important account files and MYSQL databases. Also, inside the backup menu, you will have the ability to save all automatic backups that were made by the Cpanel administration that you can then download onto your laptop or PC to safe keep.

Website Stats – Here are many different tools to survey your site popularity and efficiency and to track a variety of information regarding the visitors to your website. Those include Webalizer web stats, Webalizer FTP stats, Analog stats, AWStats, View latest visitors, View bandwidth usage and View error log modules.

FTP Accounts – There is a control unit for FTP accounts that let you add, delete, and alter your password to access it, FTP can be controlled anonymously; The login message for FTP can be changed and the FTP sessions can be stopped.

Additional Stuff – You have an ability to add or remove new domains, subdomains, subdomain redirects and also their stats.

Advanced Tools – You’ll be provided with several useful tools such as SSH access, GPG keys and cron jobs that will allow you to easily automate important processes on your website.

In addition, you can add many different pre-installed CGI scripts to your website with very little effort. Those include Interchange Cart, Bulletin Board, Agora Cart, Java Chat, phpMyChat, HTML Chat, CGI Wrapper, Random HTML generator, Counter Generator, Advanced Guestbook, Java Countdown Generator, Java Clock Generator, Entropy Search, Secure FormMail clone, CGIEmail and Entropy Banner. Network Tools are DNS Lookup and Traceroute. Some programs that can help you manage your database include MySQL databases and phpMyAdmin.

For advanced users or even beginners, CPanel possesses a very intuitive and easy to use interface that contains many useful and very powerful options. The great news is that CPanel works well with just about every web browser including the most popular ones such as: Firefox, IE, Opera.

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