subject: cPanel WebHosting: What is it All About? [print this page] If you are looking for the industry's leader for turning standalone servers into a fully automated point-and-click hosting platform, you must be referring to cPanel Web Hosting. cPanel hosting was originally designed by J. Nicholas Koston as the control panel for High Speed Hosting, which is a now defunct web hosting company. It is a Linux-based website hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site. It is designed as a dedicated server or virtual private server, which also supports CentOS, Red Hat Linux, and FreeBSD. Team of the application-based support are as follows: * Apache
* PHP
* MySQL
* Postgres
* Perl
* Python
* BIND Whereas group of the e-mail-based support include: * POP3
* IMAP
* SMTP cPanel is commonly accessed on port 2082. To provide added functionality for administrators, resellers and end-users, a 3-tier structure is used to control various aspects website and server administration using a standard web browser. The GUI interface cPanel also has command line and API based access that allows the following: * Third party software vendors,
*For web hosting organizations; and
* developers to automate standard system administration processes. For the longest time, cPanel hosting has won the loyalty of many people around the globe with its many features applications supported by a magnificent team of developers, tech support and 24/7 quality assurance staff support. Replaced by web interfaces and API-based calls, cPanel is designed with multiple levels of administration including administrator, reseller, end user, and email-based interfaces. These multiple levels provide the following securities: * Ease of use; and
* Flexibility for everyone from the server administrator to the email account user. cPanel powers website hosting companies and organizations that have a need to automate and offer competitive hosting services. To sum it up, cPanel Webhosting is a/an: * easy-to-manage,
* stable,
* full featured,
* widely-known, and
* widely-used web hosting Control Panel everybody will enjoy.
