WebHosting Control Panels
What is WebHosting
A web hosting control panel saves you from executing all task using CLI. Instead, it provides an intuitive GUI ( Graphical user interface) to do day to day activities. It’s a piece of software installed in the server machine and provides a dashboard to manage hosting infrastructure. It comes handy for people who do not know anything about web hosting. It becomes very easy for them to host a website even though they may not have much technical knowledge.
What is WebHosting Control Panel
A web hosting control panel is a web-based interface provided by a web hosting service that allows users to manage their servers and hosted services.
WebHosting Control Panel Includes
- Web Server (Apache, IIS, Ngnix, etc..)
- Domain Name System Server
- Mail Server
- FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- Database
- File Manager
- System Monitor
- Web Log Softwares
- Firewall
- PhpMyAdmin (DB managing Software)
Paid WebHosting Control Panels
cPanel is the company that builds cPanel & WHM. cPanel & WHM is an online Linux-based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site to the website owner or the "end user".
Plesk is a commercial web hosting platform with a control panel that allows a server administrator to set up new websites, reseller accounts, e-mail accounts and DNS entries through a web-based interface.
DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based web hosting control panel designed to make administration of websites easier. DirectAdmin is often called DA for short.
Free WebHosting Control Panels
CentOS Web Panel (CWP) is a free web hosting control panel that offers easy managemet of multiple servers (both Dedicated and VPS) without the need to access server through SSH for every small task that you need to complete.
ISPConfig is a widely used Open Source Hosting Control Panel for Linux, licensed under BSD license and developed by the company ISPConfig UG. The ISPConfig project was started in autumn 2005 by Till Brehm from the German company projektfarm GmbH.
Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for Unix-like systems, although recent versions can also be installed and run on Windows.
Vesta control panel (VestaCP) is an open source hosting control panel, which can be used to manage multiple websites, creat and manage email accounts, FTP accounts, and MySQL databases, manage DNS records and more.
