Get to know CPanel - The Website Server Administration Tool
Last Updated: April 28, 2024
If you are thinking about starting an online business and want to create and launch a website, one of the questions you may have already come across is the terms domain and hosting.
The second situation you will encounter is the administration of your website at the server level.
If you have a CMS (Content Management System) You will probably be able to do almost everything in the administrative area of your website, but first, you will have to complete some procedures on the server, in addition to the fact that you may need to access it to resolve operating problems with the website.
This is where CPanel comes into play. In this article, we will demystify CPanel, the world’s most popular tool for website server administration.
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What is CPanel After All?
CPanel is a software that, as a rule, web hosting companies install on your server to make administration possible for less advanced users.
Basically, it allows you to manage your server through a graphical interface without having to resort to command lines of code or complex techniques to get the things you need to have your website online and active 27/7/365.
What Does It Allow Us To Do On The Server?
First of all, it will allow you to:
- Install a CMS or Content Manager so you can later build and customize your website without knowing anything about programming.
Among many other things, it will also allow you to:
- Manage your website files.
- Create custom Email Accounts ending with your domain (e.g.:seunome@seudominio.com).
- Manage your website’s database.
- To Manage your SSL Certificates.
In addition to other things. However, the ones mentioned are the ones that will serve you best in the future.
The Appearance of CPanel
The appearance of this tool may vary from server to server, however, even though CPanel has “several layouts”, as a rule, everything you need to manage your server will be there, in a very intuitive way and distributed in sections as shown in the images below.
The hosting that I personally use for my websites is NameCheap. The images below will be the CPanel from NameCheap.
As I already told you, the looks of CPanel may vary depending on the hosting company you are using, but practically everything will be more or less accessible and organized in the same way.
Check out the Cpanel images below:
CPanel Entry with Access to Softaculous and Other Tools
The image below is the screen we see as soon as we enter the CPanel.
File and Email Administration Section
In the image below we have the section that allows us to manage files, and create and manage our professional email accounts ending in our domain.
What about that? Quite intuitive, no?
Database, Domains, and SSL Certificate Administration Section
Below we then see the section that allows us to manage the website’s database, the domains linked to our hosting, and the SSL certificates.
Further down, there are other sections, which will normally be distributed precisely in order of importance and frequency of need.
In conclusion, CPanel is the best and most popular Website Server administration tool implemented by practically all quality web hosting companies.
Its intuitive interface, with all the features accessible to the website administrator, make CPanel an asset for companies themselves which, by standardizing server management with a single software, guarantee few technical problems and therefore, won’t clog up their support services with basic questions.
When registering in a hosting company, prefer quality. Always prefer the CPanel. If a web hosting company does not offer you CPanel, run away.
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