WHAT IS CPANEL?

Anyone looking for web hosting has seen many providers brag about their "cPanel web hosting" packages, and many have wondered what in the world they are talking about.

Simply put, cPanel is a control panel for your web host. This may seem like a vague explanation to some but, if so, then you have probably been using web hosting with cPanel already. cPanel hosting is so popular that many people do not even realize there is anything else or, more to the point, that some providers lack it.

As more and more people that are not necessarily professional web developers have begun building a presence on the Internet, web hosting providers have been scrambling to find ways to make their packages more attractive to those who are not experts. There are many software applications that make web development far easier than it used to be, such as WordPress, but hosting providers needed an easy way to get those programs installed and activated on their servers so that people could use them. This is where cPanel comes in.

A cPanel host can customize with addons that do all sorts of things. From the point of view of the subscriber, however, one of the most useful is the automated install of many popular software packages. With cPanel web hosting, the steep learning curve that comes with setting up any type of web presence beyond a social blogging account is considerably lessened.

WHAT CAN IT BE USED FOR?

The biggest difference between web hosting with cPanel and web hosting without tends to be the graphical user interface, or GUI. Although cPanel is Unix based, Windows users feel quite at home with the large, expressive icons that are neatly sorted into various groups for easy use and access. Before cPanel hosting, the amateur web developer would often feel lost after being given access to an FTP server and not much more. Now, the sheer amount of what one can easily do when using web hosting with cPanel can be overwhelming in itself, but in a good way. Everyone agrees that they would rather have too many options than not enough and, with cPanel web hosting, explanations are generally pretty easy to find. If nothing else, the sheer amount of web hosts now using cPanel ensures that there are plenty of people that are quite knowledgeable about web hosting with cPanel, so help is but a web search away. Changing web hosting providers is also becoming easier since so many of them are now using the same control panel interface which mean Europhase can transfer your website over to our service with ease.

The most important thing that cPanel web hosting has done for both hosts and developers alike is bring a sense of continuity that did not previously exist. cPanel is rapidly becoming the benchmark against which all other control panel applications are measured, and though there are plenty of imitators, web hosting with cPanel is still the easiest, most effective way for both the amateur and the professional web developer to establish their presence on the web.