Chủ Nhật, 14 tháng 8, 2011

Is cPanel the Best Control Panel?

By Matt Ewing


CPanel is a Unix control panel designed for web hosting exclusively and which has a graphical interface/automated tools that make web hosting a much easier process to handle. It also is a diverse tool that can serve as either a successful virtual private server or a server that is totally dedicated in nature. It is also capable of supporting other operating systems such as CentOS, FreeBSD and Red Hat Linux.

CPanel is the perfect interface that not only provides GUI but also API-based access in addition. It is API-based access which permits developers, web hosting companies and third-party software sales professionals or vendors to be able to initiate system administration functions that are automated. These various system administration functions include managing PGP keys, mailing lists, crontab tasks, to name only a few.

Choosing a control panel for your website is something you must strongly consider before deciding on a certain kind of control panel specifically. The thing you must think over most is what your specific needs are for a control panel and then go from there. A good control panel choice should be one that will benefit everyone on all fronts. Web hosting is just web hosting without the right control panel to support and back it up from day one. Therefore, it makes it all the more vital to only come away with the right control panel choice, which will bring forth all of the benefits to benefit everyone from the web host right down to the customer. Choosing a control panel for your website demands that you get only the best control panel that will be easy to use and easy to understand as you apply it to your specific website. The right control panel that is the right fit for your website. Will also prove to be the one that is the right for you. Simple as that.

There have been different versions of cPanel to be released from cPanel 2 to cPanel 3 which made its debut in 1999. CPanel 3 had an advantage over cPanel 2 in that it was able to upgrade itself automatically and had its very own Web Host Manager. Nonetheless, cPanel 3 was said to have some bugs, one of which was not a good interface. J. Nick Koston made improvements with cPanel as time went by and removed all of the kinks from it. It was due to him that cPanel became the fully stable and dependable control panel that it is today.

Some of the factors to strongly take into consideration when deciding on a control panel for your website is what it will cost you in the end. What features and the compatibility that each control panel does offer is also something to examine closely in addition.

CPanel is very special to web hosting needs and to the whole world of web hosting is a very much needed control panel for a multitude of functions only it can provide to people.




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