What Is CPanel? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Matt Carter   
Sunday, 21 September 2008 13:09

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At Best Cheap Website Hosting, we ONLY use and endorse cPanel and include it with all of our hosting packages.

CPanel is a fully featured web-based control panel that allows you to manage your domain through a web interface. The idea is to transfer as much of the control and responsibility of managing your web site to you. You have the ability to manage all aspects of e-mail, files, backup, FTP, CGI scripts, and web site statistics.

 

cPanel [Domain Owner Login]: Within cPanel, a domain owner has all the tools they need to create an impressive web presence. They can add mail accounts, access their files, use website builders, add a blog to their site, and a whole lot more. With cPanel, your web hosting clients have access to a huge variety of hosting features that can put your hosting business, and their web site, on the map!

 

Mail [Mail User Login]: Every person who has a mail account on a cPanel domain has access to webmail, spam filtering, message filter, and many more settings so they can get a great mail experience.

Usability

Getting to the tasks you need to perform is crucial, and getting to them quickly is easy with cPanel.

Getting Started Wizard

Getting Started Wizard

The new getting started wizard walks a new account owner through setting up the aspects of a web hosting account. From email to web disk access, the wizard will get your clients up and running in no time at all!

One-click Feature Access

The home screen of cPanel clearly lays out the options that are available to users so they can locate and access them quickly. Even better, the menus can be rearranged by simply dragging and dropping them to put the most used features at your fingertips. Menus that are not needed can be minimized to save space but are easily accessed if needed.

Integrated Content Relevant Help

Help

Clicking the Help button on a page within the cPanel interface will provide your clients with a description of the concept behind that feature or function. It will also provide a quick link to the full interface documentation which has been reworked to provide more content and understanding.

Enhanced Notifications and Error Messages

It's important to keep on top of what's going on with your hosting account. To ease this process, a new notices area provides information about access, email account disk usage issues, and more. Along with these notices, the Stats area has been enhanced to provide easily identifiable visual clues to the status of an account. With a quick glance, it's easy to make sure everything is under control.

Enhanced Information Display

It's important to be able to access specific accounts and settings quickly. With this in mind, the display of large quantities of information has been reworked for cPanel 11. Tables are sortable by many different aspects, visual feature queues have been added throughout the interface, and zooming has been added to keep your information within a reasonable screen size. With these new information display enhancements, your clients can quickly locate and access accounts and features, while keeping a close eye on their account.

Web Disk Access

New Web Disk Access allows your clients to put a shortcut on their desktop to their hosting account. They can then drag and drop files to their account just like it is part of their local filesystem. This feature allows for easy publishing and eliminates the need for for FTP or publishing software.

Email User Filters

Email users can now add account specific filters to route their email. This new, easy to use interface provides all the flexibility and usability of a desktop mail client's filtering system.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 05:06
 
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