Friday 6 May 2011

Using cPanel In Order To Manage Online Web Host Pages

By Chad Ross


Cpanel provides an easy-to-use interface that is based on software and allows you to manage as well as control your hosting account. This OS is fool-proof - it's ease of use makes it almost impossible to do damage to it, even for someone who it not very computer-literate. There are fantastic features as part of the platform and the best of these are described next.

Web Site Tools - There's a great deal of tools available for you for use, that includes the following: Ability to edit Apache handlers, Web Protect or htaccess editor, Search engine submitting tools, Ability to edit MIME types, Redirects, Install/Uninstall FrontPage Extensions, Custom error pages and a File Manager amongst quite a few others.

Email - Your email management area gives you the ability to remove, add and also change passwords while managing any of your email accounts. Your CPanel web hosting account also includes webmail which give you access to your email from any computer connected to the Internet.

Back-Up - With these options, you can make copies of all your most important files and folders as well as databases in case the server encounters problems. The backup menu also allows you to download any automatic backups that were downloaded by your CPanel administrator for you to store on your home desktop for safekeeping.

Website Statistics - here you can find several tools to check up on the popularity of your site as well as to keep track of info concerning all the visitors to your site. These include: Analog stats, Webalizer, AWStats, Webalizer FTP stats, View bandwidth usage, View latest visitors as well as View error log modules.

FTP - Within Cpanel, there's a module that allows you to remove/add, alter passwords for any account, change the FTP login message as well as terminating any current active sessions.

Other Stuff - You will also be give the ability to add/remove domains, subdomains, manage redirects and also handle their stats.

Advanced Tools - You'll be provided with several useful tools such as SSH access, GPG keys and cron jobs that will allow you to easily automate important processes on your website.

In addition, you can add many different pre-installed CGI scripts to your website with very little effort. Those include Interchange Cart, Bulletin Board, Agora Cart, Java Chat, phpMyChat, HTML Chat, CGI Wrapper, Random HTML generator, Counter Generator, Advanced Guestbook, Java Countdown Generator, Java Clock Generator, Entropy Search, Secure FormMail clone, CGIEmail and Entropy Banner. DNS Lookup and Traceroute are the Network Tools. Database Management tools includes Managing MySQL databases and phpMyAdmin access.

For amateur and novice users, CPanel has an intuitive interface that has many useful, user friendly options. CPanel works with just about all the popular web browsers, such as IE, Opera, Firefox and others and is provided these days with most web hosting accounts.




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