A control panel is the application used to maintain and control your web hosting account, and ultimately your field. Control panels will allow you to maximize your website’s productivity by making server/field maintenance and administration a simple task. There are many choices a user has in regards to choosing a control panel, though the following five control panels are considered the most well loved and useful control panels in the industry today.
cPanel
cPanel is by far the most well loved and maybe even the most user-friendly control panel around. Cpanel provides more services and features than any additional control panel in the industry, and it’s customer service is said to be second to none. Cpanel is an all-in-one web hosting solution, allowing it’s customers to administer all aspects of field hosting, counting FTP, email creation, and database maintenance. Cpanel customers also have the option to resell the web hosting services with a reseller’s account. The cPanel interface is so well designed that becoming an expert at using it takes only a few hours at the most. Since cPanel is the most well loved control panel, it also has the most tutorials available online. All of this combines to make cPanel the most favored web hosting control panel on the internet.
Plesk for Linux
The Linux version of Plesk is said to be one of the most stable and powerful control panel on the market today. Though Plesk does not carry as many attributes as cPanel, the learning curve for this control panel is very small. In fact, most of the functions are specifically designed to automate any administration function. Plesk for Linux is capable of controlling up to thirty domains by defaulting, but you have the option of upgrading to an boundless amount of domains if you’d like.
ServerCP
ServerCP is another user-friendly control panel that often comes integrated with VPS and dedicated hosting packages. ServerCP is also an extremely powerful Linux-based web hosting solution, equipped with countless useful features. ServerCP supports boundless domains by defaulting and also comes with a very user-friendly installation application that lets you install various well loved web hosting applications such as blogging platforms (like WordPress), photo galleries, and even e-commerce shopping carts. ServerCP is currently available as a free edition (ServerCP Lite, or you can upgrade to the premium version of the software.
Virtuozzo Power Panel
Virtuozzo Power Panel is made by the company Parallels. This control panel is available in multiple versions designed to support Windows and Linux VPS’s (virtual private servers). The virtuozzo power panel allows you to access all administrative functions directly from your web browser. Some of the functions that can be accessed via your web browser include web service management processes, server reboots, backup restoring, log data viewing and server resource monitoring . The Virtuozzo Power Panel allows you to have an unprecedented amount of control via your web browser, and is said to be the most optimal control panel for users of Virtual Private Servers.
