cPanel manages your host files

cPanel is an user friendly site that lets you control your host account environment. The main point for this operating system is that it so easy to use that a below average computer user can even not mess it up. It has got great features embedded into its panel and some of the features are listed below.

Site Tools
There are such tools available for your use, which are Web Protective and has security features (.htaccess editor), Redirects, Custom error pages, Ability to edit MIME types, Ability to edit Apache handlers, Search engine tool submitting, Install/Uninstall FrontPage Extension and File Manager.

Email
Email program provides you with the best possibility to make additions, removal or even change the passwords while managing email accounts. CPanel is also provided by Web-mail for the accounts, Forwarders, Auto responders, Mailing Lists, Spam filtering and some more.

Backup
Backup allows you to create copies of your account files and databases. The backup menu also allows you to download any automatic backups that were downloaded by your CPanel administrator.

Stats
There are various tools to review your site popularity and competence. Those tools are called the Webalizer web stats, Analog stats, Webalizer FTP stats, AWStats, View latest visitors, View bandwidth usage and View error log modules.

FTP
There is a unit that controls FTP accounts (add, remove, change password for its access), Anonymous FTP controls; skill to change FTP login message and Ability to kill FTP sessions.

Advanced Tools
A person will have a facility to add or delete sub-domains, sub-domain redirects and its Stats. You are provided with tools of SSH access tools; manage GPG keys and Cron jobs.
There are also Pre-Installed Common Graphical Interface Scripts. These are basically the Interchange Cart, Java Chat, Agora Cart, phpMyChat, Java Clock Generator Bulletin Board, HTML Chat, CGI Wrapper (for non-suexec installs), Random HTML generator, Advanced Guestbook, Counter Generator, Java Countdown Generator, Secure FormMail clone, CGIEmail, Entropy Search, Entropy Banner. Network Tools are DNS Lookup and Traceroute. Database Management tools includes the management of MySQL databases and phpMyAdmin access.
For beginners, CPanel has a lot of options, which are easy to use. cPanel works with most of browsers, like Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox etc.
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