What is cPanel?

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Q. What is cPanel?

A. cPanel is the leading hosting control panel software, and extremely powerful. cPanel is designed for the end users of your system and allows you to control everything from adding / removing email accounts to administering MySQL databases.

Here is a listing of its main features:

Backup

Backup
Restore

Mail

Manage email accounts (add, remove, change password)
Webmail for all accounts
Auto-responders
Custom mail filtering
Forwarders
Mailing lists (mailman)
Ability to modify an MX entry
Spam filtering (SpamAssassin)

Stats

Webalizer web stats
Webalizer FTP stats
Analog stats
AWStats
View latest visitors
View bandwidth usage
View error log
Download raw log file

FTP

Manage FTP accounts (add, remove, change password)
Anonymous FTP controls
Ability to change FTP login message
Ability to kill FTP sessions

Site Tools

Web Protect (.htaccess editor)
Ability to change site and FrontPage password
Custom error pages
Redirects
Ability to edit MIME types
Ability to edit Apache handlers
Install/Uninstall FrontPage Extensions
Search engine submit tool
File Manager

Subdomains

Ability to add/remove subdomains
Subdomain redirects
Stats for subdomains

Advanced Tools

SSH access
Manage GPG keys
Cron jobs

Pre-Installed CGI Scripts

Interchange Cart
Agora Cart
Bulletin Board
Java Chat
HTML Chat
phpMyChat
CGI Wrapper (for non-suexec installs)
Random HTML generator
Advanced Guestbook
Counter Generator
Java Clock Generator
Java Countdown Generator
Secure FormMail clone
CGIEmail
Entropy Search
Entropy Banner

Network Tools

DNS Lookup
Traceroute

Database Management

Manage MySQL databases
phpMyAdmin access

For more in-depth information about cPanel, visit this site.