What is cPanel?

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cPanel Site ManagercPanel® Makes Life Easier For Website Owners, Offering Powerful Tools to Help You to Perform Essential Tasks Quickly, Easily, and Reliably.
cPanel for website owners provides the world’s most familiar user interfaces for managing a website. With cPanel software, website owners can easily manage their email accounts, databases, applications, security, FTP, and control every aspect of their websites.

Creating Accounts
Website owners can use cPanel software to create email accounts, available through the standard protocols including POP, IMAP, and SMTP, all with or without SSL encryption. cPanel software also supports Push Email via IMAP IDLE, enabling fast incoming and outgoing mail delivery designed with mobile users in mind. 

Webmail Access
cPanel software provides several web-based interfaces for checking email, including Horde, Roundcube, and SquirrelMail. You have the ability to access your email from any web browser, as well as configure many account options including email forwarding and auto-responders. 

Spam
To help kerb spam, cPanel software gives you the option of using powerful spam filters, SpamAssassin, and BoxTrapper. These powerful utilities analyse your incoming mail, looking at the source and content of the message, as well as comparing it against lists of known spammers. You can also setup spam filter rules which route messages to a spam folder, helping to keep your inbox uncluttered at all times.

Email Forwarding
cPanel users can set up email forwarding which allows account holders to have an address in one domain (such as ) and forward incoming messages to another (such as ).

Email Filtering
For power users, mail filtering is available for improved organisation and handling of incoming mail, as well as a mailing list function to enable your users to engage in discussions via email. 

Backups
Backing up data is simple with cPanel software’s “Backup Wizard.” With a few clicks, cPanel software will make a full backup of your databases, email, and websites, which you can download to your computer or send to another server over SCP or FTP. 

Databases
cPanel software makes it easy to manage databases. All of your database tasks, ranging from creating databases to manually editing tables, can be done through cPanel. As a standard, cPanel supports MySQL databases, with the ability to add PostgreSQL as well. 

Easy Setup Wizard
To minimise setup time, cPanel software includes a “Getting Started Wizard,” which will walk you through the initial configuration of your account. Step-by-step tutorials, on-screen documentation, and other useful information are available through the Wizard. 

Manage Domain Names
While most Web site owners manage only one domain for their Webhosting account, there are many others who use a combination of domains. Through cPanel, you have the ability to manage:
* Subdomains are your domain (example.com), with a prefix (sub.example.com).
* Parked Domains are additional addresses that point to the website.
* Add-on domains are addresses that can point to a specific section of your hosting, allowing you to run several Web sites from your account. 

Managing Files
With cPanel software, you have several options for managing your website content.
* Easily upload and manage web pages in cPanel’s File Manager
* Drag and drop files into your account using cPanel’s Web Disk feature
* Utilise traditional file transfer methods (including FTP, SFTP, and FTPS).
* In addition to offering various file management tools, cPanel® software makes it easy to manage FTP accounts for employees or colleagues, enabling other users to upload files with optional security restrictions. 

One-Click Applications
With a few clicks, you can install commonly used web-based applications, such as WordPress blogs, simply by answering a few quick questions through your cPanel interface. cPanel’s intuitive and highly customizable interface will provide you with an environment that will grow and evolve as your needs change. 

Account Statistics
cPanel software offers a range of built-in log file statistics. Through log processing programs such as Webalizer, Analog Stats, and AWStats, you can see how many times your websites have been visited and how many emails you’ve been sending.

Create and Manage E-mail
cPanel software provides powerful tools for email creation and management. Tools like Account Level Filtering, Auto Responders, and Deliver Reports are just the tip of what cPanel & WHM software provides Website Owners. 

Manage Files/Pages on Your Website
cPanel & WHM software puts the Website Owner in control of their files. Tools such as Backup Wizard, File Manager and Web Disk, empower the Website Owners.

Enhanced Security
From Password Protected Directories and SSL/TLS to HotLink Protection, cPanel & WHM software puts the Website Owner in control of their website. 

Manage your Domains
cPanel & WHM software features tools to control every aspect of a Domain. Sub-Domains, Addon Domains, and Redirects give Website Owners the ability to direct and control where and what users get when they type in different addresses.

cPanel Documentation
Access various video tutorials, documents and forums. These can be beneficial to especially new users who wish to better understand cPanel’s workflow process.

 

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