Cpanel hosting or something else?
Setting up a new website can appear to be a daunting task. Aside from choosing a catchy domain name which is relevant to your business and finding the right web host, the real test of a website owner’s resilience comes when it is time to actually upload the site to their host’s server and setup their hosting account. This is where a control panel, such as the one that comes with our Cpanel hosting, comes into play. The right control panel can make life easier for you while the wrong one can make you want to tear out your hair.
When choosing a web hosting provider, it is best to determine the type of control panel that the company offers in addition to other important aspects such as hosting resources, tools and uptime guarantees. Because of the fact that so many control panels exist today, the control panels that are offered can vary from one web host to another and different control panels provide varying levels of usability. Some users may consider one control panel easier to use as compared to others, while another set of users could consider the exact opposite to be true.
Among the most popular control panels that are in use today are cPanel, Plesk, Helm, Ensim, H-Sphere and Webhost Panel. True to its name, a web hosting control panel provides functionality which is a lot similar in many respects to the functionality that a standard Windows control panel has to offer, the only difference being that the web hosting panel is used for managing your hosting account as opposed to your PC. The basic purpose that it serves is to make it easier for an average web user to control and manage various aspects of the web hosting for their website.
The most important factors that can help you determine which control panel is right for you include ease of use, price and community support. Most control panels offer graphical user interfaces (GUI) which are fairly straightforward, providing easy access to key features such as creating email accounts and forwarders, setting up databases and granting FTP access. In addition to performing these basic tasks, a good control panel allows users to perform more advanced functions such as DNS management, domain forwarding and setting up subdomains with relative ease. Asking your web host to give you a free demo of their control panel is a great way to gauge its ease of use.
The price factor generally comes into effect for users who need high end hosting solutions in the form of a VPS or dedicated server. In this respect, Plesk is considered to be a lot cheaper than its biggest rival, cPanel. The operating system that a control panel supports also plays an important role in the decision making process. For instance, cPanel can only run on a Linux machine and so is feasible for websites that are powered by PHP/MySQL, whereas Plesk supports both Windows and Linux platforms.
In spite of the many options that are available to website owners, most choose to stick with the one that they are most comfortable with, have been using for a number of years and which allows them to perform routine tasks quickly and with little or no hassle. At InspiroHost, we have found that Cpanel hosting is highly regarded in terms of user-friendliness and capabilities.
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