cPanel is an award-winning control panel you will find offered in numerous web hosting plans.\u00a0 Its web-based Graphical User Interface is designed to provide users with the ability to handle website administration with ease, a reason why this control panel is preferred by many novice users.<\/p>\n
Owned and distributed by cPanel Inc., the software is intended for the use of commercial web hosting companies, meaning it requires the purchase of a license.\u00a0 However, cPanel is available for certain entities at discounted prices.\u00a0 For example, non-profit organizations such as educational institutions can obtain a cPanel license for a reduced cost and sometimes free.\u00a0 Dedicated and managed hosting companies can also purchase licenses at a reduced price when installing the control panel with their operating system.\u00a0 cPanel is platform specific and runs on the Linux operating system.\u00a0 Some of the variations it supports include CentOS, Fedora, Mandiva, Red Hat and SUSE among others.<\/p>\n
Brief History of cPanel <\/strong><\/p>\n The cPanel software was originally designed for Speed Hosting, a web hosting company that is now defunct.\u00a0 Speed Hosting eventually merged with Web King, another web hosting provider that began using the software.\u00a0 From there, the new company moved its servers to VDI, (Virtual Development Inc.), a web hosting company that is no longer around as well.\u00a0 An agreement was made and cPanel was only made available to customers hosting with VDI.\u00a0 It was not until 1999 that cPanel became a significant force on the control panel market.<\/p>\n 1999 marked the release of cPanel 3, a version that offered many new improvements, including the addition of WHM (Web Host Manager).\u00a0 Version 3 underwent a few upgrades including bug fixes and a facelift that gave it the default theme we all know today.\u00a0 Because of internal conflict between VDI and original developer Nick Koston, the software was divided into two separate control panels – cPanel and WebPanel, with the latter being used by VDI.\u00a0 Koston went on to work with other web hosts before deciding to focus solely on cPanel.\u00a0\u00a0 Now on version 11, cPanel is stable, reliable and the most widely used control panel on the market.<\/p>\n cPanel Features<\/strong><\/p>\n cPanel offers a great level of control to the end-user, allowing you to handle various operations such as managing files and FTP accounts, administering PGP keys, adding domain names and much more.\u00a0 The software also supports a number of third-party applications, the most popular being Fantastico.\u00a0 With Fantastico, you can install a wide variety of programs such as WordPress, phpBB, Drupal, Tiki Wiki, Joomla and more than 50 others.<\/p>\n cPanel sets itself apart from many web hosting control panels with the ability to manage applications independent of the operating system.\u00a0 For example, it can be used to automatically apply upgrades to software packages like PHP, the MySQL database server and Apache web server.\u00a0 This functionality helps web hosting companies make sure that packages are always up to date and remain compatible with cPanel.\u00a0 The power and simplicity of this control panel makes it a number one choice for server administrators and end-users alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" cPanel is an award-winning control panel you will find offered in numerous web hosting plans.\u00a0 Its web-based Graphical User Interface is designed to provide users with the ability to handle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,19,20,350,25,409,50,61,410,411,351],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-control-panels","tag-centos","tag-control-panel","tag-cpanel","tag-fantastico","tag-fedora","tag-gui","tag-joomla","tag-linux","tag-mandiva","tag-red-hat","tag-wordpress"],"views":103,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}