| Before deciding upon the hosting provider, it is | | | | interface which can be easily accessed by your |
| important that you check out their control panel. | | | | web browser. They offer both the basic option |
| It is a very important decision to make as this will | | | | for configuring a new web site as well as |
| be a long term decision and you will have to live | | | | advanced configurations. Both these interfaces are |
| with it through out. Most of the web sites have | | | | easy to maintain but they have their differences. |
| an option that will actually let you test the option | | | | With cPanel server the level of administration that |
| on their site as you browse. | | | | is provided to the user is based on the privileges |
| A web hosting control panel is software that helps | | | | that is signed by the administer of the server. |
| you to control your web hosting account. Each | | | | With cPanel servers, the highest levels of |
| web hosting service provider offers some type | | | | administrative fuctions are housed in one control |
| of control panel, generally this control panel helps | | | | panel, called the WHM or the Web Hosting |
| you to add email accounts, change your | | | | Manager. This control is not for every ones use |
| password, access your files, and also back up | | | | and is intended especially for the use of system |
| your site. cPanel server, Plesk server and other | | | | administrator the primary technical contact of the |
| dedicated servers are used as interface by | | | | server. Here you can create individual hosting |
| customers. | | | | accounts, you can perform system wide back |
| Some of the control panels that are on offer are | | | | ups, you can also change the system wide |
| difficult to use as they are clunky, thee are | | | | configurations of the individual services that are |
| others that are too graphical and take time to | | | | tat are hosted on your cPanel server. The |
| load. The control panel is the backend of your | | | | individual users are provided the interface with a |
| web page that is this is the part that can be seen | | | | slightly different web address. Individuals here can |
| by only you and no one else. Here you can set up | | | | perform a lot of functions such as restoring their |
| MySQL database and email accounts, you can also | | | | sites, making back ups, and creating email and |
| check the number of visitors here.cPanel server | | | | FTP accounts. |
| and Plesk server are both powerful graphical user | | | | |