Using cPanel to Manage Your Host Files

CPanel is an very simple interface that allow you change your web hosting environment. The main peculiarity of this operating system is that it so simple to use that your below average computer user can't mess it up. It't got great features embedded into its panel and some of the features are listed below.

Site Tools

There are different kind of programs there for your use, which are Webprotect (.htaccess editor), Custom error pages, Redirects, Ability to edit MIME types, Ability to edit Apache handlers, Install/Uninstall FrontPage Extensions, Search engine tool submitting and File Manager.

Email

The email program provides you with the possibility to add, remove, and change passwords while managing email accounts. Hostgator and bluehost CPanel is also provided by Webmail for the accounts, Auto responders, Forwarders, Mailing Lists, Spam filtering and some more.

Backup

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

Stats

Here are different tools to survey your site popularity and efficiency. Those are Webalizer web hosting stats, Webalizer FTP stats, Analog stats, AWStats, View latest visitors, View bandwidth usage and View error log modules. 

FTP

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

Advanced Stuff

You have an ability to add or remove subdomains, Subdomain Redirects and its Stats.

Advanced Tools

You are provided with tools of SSH access tools, Manage GPG keys and Cron jobs.

There are some PreInstalled CGI codes. Those are exchangable Cart, Agora Cart, Java Chat, HTML Chat, Bulletin Board, phpMyChat, CGI Wrapper, Random HTML generator, Guestbook, Counter , Clock Generator, Countdown Generator, Secure FormMail, CGIEmail, Entropy Search, Entropy Banner. Network Tools are DNS Lookup and Traceroute. Database Management tools includes Managing MySQL databases and phpMyAdmin access.