Using cPanel to Manage Your Host Files
CPanel is a user-friendly website that provides you with the ability to manage the environment of your host account. The primary distinguishing feature of this operating system is that it is so uncomplicated to use that even the most novice of computer users will have no trouble mastering it. The panel itself has a number of useful features, some of which are detailed further down in this article.
Site Tools
You have access to tools like Web Protect (an editor for the.htaccess file), Custom error pages, Redirects, the capability to modify MIME types, the capability to change Apache handlers, Install/Uninstall FrontPage Extensions, Search Engine Tool Submitting, and File Manager.
While managing your email accounts, the email application gives you the option to add, delete, and change passwords as needed. In addition to managing accounts, Auto responders, Forwarders, Mailing Lists, and Spam, CPanel's Webmail service also offers a variety of other features.
Backup
The feature known as "backup" enables users to generate backups of their databases and account files. You are also given the ability to download any automated backups that were created by your CPanel administrator and made available to you via the backup menu.
Stats
You may evaluate the effectiveness and popularity of your website using the following tools. Those are Webalizer web stats, Webalizer FTP stats, Analog metrics, AWStats, View the most recent visitors, monitor your bandwidth use, and investigate any errors that have occurred.
FTP
There is a module that has the capability to control FTP accounts (add, delete, and change the password for its access), Anonymous FTP controls; the ability to edit the FTP login message; and the capability to end FTP connections.
Advanced Stuff
You have the power to create or delete subdomains, as well as control which redirects they use and see their statistics.
Advanced Tools
You have access to tools such as Manage GPG keys and Cron tasks in addition to SSH access tools.
Additionally, there are CGI scripts that come pre-installed. These include the Interchange Cart, the Agora Cart, the Bulletin Board, the Java Chat, the HTML Chat, the phpMyChat, the CGI Wrapper (for non-suexec installs), the Random HTML generator, the Advanced Guestbook, the Counter Generator, the Java Clock Generator, the Java Countdown Generator, the Secure FormMail clone, the CGIEmail, the Entropy Search, and the Entropy Banner. DNS Lookup and Traceroute are examples of Network Tools. The Database Management tools offer access to phpMyAdmin as well as the ability to manage MySQL databases.
CPanel has a large number of settings that are intuitive to use, making it ideal for novice users. CPanel is compatible with a large majority of browsers, including Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox, and others.