A Quick Look at the CPanel

I know what you are thinking, CPanel ( short for control panel ) that sounds like a pretty daunting prospect, unless you are a computer expert or a website programmer. Well absolutely not, the progammers have made it as simple as possible, with "novices to website creating", foremost in their thoughts. The time will come if you want your own website, to choose a hosting provider, and you will definitely want to select a host that offers cPanel. This is one of the most useful and essential tools for anybody wishing to create a website that will look professional. It enables you to create your webpages with text, images, and links. With cPanel you will have complete control over your website content, allowing you to perform website tasks, and maintenance that you would likely be unable to do otherwise.

The majority Web Hosting Companies offer cPanel on their servers because it not only makes website management easier for the webmaster ( you ). Wow that sounds grand ! When they have a cpanel it greatly reduces the need for their direct technical support to the webmaster.

Here are just a few of the tasks you can do through your cpanel :

 Use Different Site Builders

 Multiple Email Account

 Set up Autoresponder and Forwarder

 Build Mailing Lists

 Create Blogs with Wordpress

 Create Support Tickets

 Add Other Domains

 File Manager

 Check Statistics

 and the list goes on.......

Some of the essential things to look for, apart from the above features are, bandwith, disk space, and the number of domains that can be included in your hosting account, which can be important, if you are thinking of having more than one website. You will only need a basic hosting account to publish your website, but a dedicated server may be needed later, when your site begins attracting large volumes of traffic.

All website administration can be accessed from one central panel, which is password protected, this being imperative! Security being very, very important, hackers as usual, have found ways to penetrate a cpanel, and gain access to customer's accounts.

Aside from security, you should look at various features such as disk space, bandwidth, the cost per month, customer reviews, and special items such as the number of domains included and the number of email addresses included.

To assist you in the initial stages of your learning curve with the cpanel, you may want to have some help, although the cpanel itself does have some good tutorial's to assist you.

I hope you found this article interesting and informative.

"YOU already Have Everything you Need to Succeed Online...Inside of You...All that is Missing is a Nudge in the Right Direction"

To Your Success

Ken Renfrey