Managing your web hosting with CPanel
Whenever you sign up for a web hosting service, chances are good that you are going to find some version of the Cpanel software running on their server. Why is this – why is Cpanel so popular? To understand why Cpanel is used by so many web hosting services, first we should talk about exactly what Cpanel is and what it can do – Cpanel is a front end for various functions of a web server. Using a graphical interface through the medium of a web page you can access all of the different parts of a web site – things such as the email accounts, the ftp server information, the different users who can take advantage of the features on the server, ways in which files on the server may or may not be accessed and so on – all of these things are controllable through Cpanel.
Because Cpanel presents all of these things which the user of a web server would like to control through a unified web page interface, Cpanel makes it so that the person who is setting up the web site does not have to learn the intricacies of a wide variety of internet protocols and software packages to set up a site. All that you need to do to get your web site running is to pay the web hosting company, and the Cpanel software will come up in most cases as soon as you log into your web hosting account. (sometimes the web hosting service may send you to an account page first, and then give you a link to click on which will take you to the Cpanel page).
From Cpanel, all that you need to do to add a page to your web site is to load the File Manager page on Cpanel, and you can then upload your HTML files directly into the directory structure of the web server. You do not need any kind of software other than the web browser which you used to access your hosting provider’s site – you do not even need to have a separate FTP program to upload the files. Just click on the upload button in the File Manager page and you can put anything that you have on your home computer onto the web – it’s that easy!
Cpanel is also available to web hosting companies for a moderate fee, which has put it well within the price ranges of all web hosting companies and has made Cpanel the standard for the world wide web. You, as the person setting up a web site through a hosting company, do not have to pay anything to use Cpanel, and you get to use this great front end for all of the features of your web site free of charge. For all of these reasons, Cpanel is a very popular piece of software, and is only expected to increase in popularity as the years go on. New versions of the Cpanel software are constantly being developed, and the functionality of the software is increasing as the number of things that you can do on the world wide web increase as well.