I am sure you are like me; When you buy something important like a website host, you open dozens of different sites in your browser and check and compare each and every feature of each brand or package offered. One of the things that may have caught your attention in these reviews is cPanel.
cPanel is the name of a very popular control panel for hosting. By installing this control panel on your host, you can easily manage all its different parts.
To put it simply; There is no such thing as a CPanel host! CPanel is the same control panel as we said; And when it is installed on your hosting space(s), you have a cPanel-equipped hosting. So if you see cPanel somewhere, know and be aware that their user panel is cPanel.
As I mentioned before, with cPanel you can easily manage your web hosting space; But let's get a little more specific and get acquainted with some very useful items:
- Adding different domains to the host
- Set up site emails
- Simple installation of content management system (for example WordPress) on the host
- Backing up the website
- Easily upload files to the server
- Check the bandwidth used
- Apply various security settings
- Installing additional programs on the server
- Installing a new database
- Database management
- DNS management
- And other uses!
Of course, the features of cPanel do not end here. Once you get started with cPanel, you can learn and use any of them as per your needs.
Let me say an important point first; CPanel control panel can only be implemented on Linux hosts. Therefore, if you want to use a Windows host, you should avoid cPanel. If you look carefully at the plans provided by hosting companies, only Linux hosts are equipped with cPanel.
- Easy to use
- Good user interface
- Easy to learn
- Has many educational resources
- Strong support
- Ability to automatically install software
- Compatible with all web browsers
- Support for IPV6
There are more than 100 different control panels for hosting management. Even some companies providing website hosting services have designed a dedicated control panel for their users; But Direct Admin and Plesk are two very good and popular control panels that you can use instead of CPanel.
Each of these control panels has special features that you should familiarize yourself with in order to choose the one that suits your needs.
Should we use cPanel or Plesk for Windows hosting?
CPanel and Plesk are both suitable for Windows hosts. But due to the lack of a legal license for cPanel, we suggest that you use Plesk for more security.
How to login to cPanel?
There are 3 ways to enter cPanel: using URL address, using IP and using host name. Example: https://example.com:2083 (put your domain name instead of example).
cPanel is the most widely used web hosting control panel which makes your web host environment more convenient to control. When you are using cPanel for adding domain, creating email, or dealing with databases there are many options for its usage. Read about it as well as its advantages and disadvantages, and discover what other choices are out there, such as Plesk for Windows hosting.
