Website Management Made Easy

 

Getting your website hosted takes care of all the technicalities behind keeping your website’s uptime close to 99% on the internet and making sure every element on it is working efficiently. But what do you do when you want to tweak your website just a little bit?

 

You have two options when it comes to making changes on your site - get in touch with your host’s technical support, or simply install a control panel to be able to do it yourself.

 

The first option is not very feasible, and will lead to waste of time as you’re fully dependent on the response time of the support team (which may not be very prompt always!). So that means you’re left with the second option. To make things easier for you, we’ve listed some of the most popular control panels in the industry:

 

1. cPanel

 

A web hosting control panel software that lets you manage your website with ease using a graphical, web based interface. The control panel lets you manage unlimited number of websites, email accounts, etc. Although it can be used only on Linux operating system, it is one of the most popular control panels.

 

Here are a few things that this control panel enables you to do:

 

Site management:

 

• Create and manage new domains/sub domains.

• Manage all FTP accounts.

• Upload/manage files using the file manager.

• Create redirect pages.

• Install/uninstall extensions/plugins on the front page.

• View website analytics.

• Backup/restore web logs.

• Manage databases.

• Install scripts such as forums, blogs, etc.

 

Mail management:

 

Create and manage email accounts under the hosting plan you have signed up for.

Access web mails.

Setup and manage auto responders.

Setup spam detection and filtering programs.

 

2. Plesk

 

A control panel that lets you manage your web hosting account, using a web based interface. It can be used with any hosting plan, be it shared hosting, dedicated hosting, VPS or cloud. It automates almost all web master tasks, reducing the operating and resource costs of a website.

 

Here are a few things the control panel lets you do:

 

• Upload and manage files using the file manager.

• Create new user accounts for file transfer protocols.

• Create and manage email accounts.

• Create and manage domains/subdomains.

• Create and manage databases such as MYSQL.

• View website analytics/logs.

• Manage DNS.

• Manage website resources depending on its requirements.

 

3. Virtuozzo

 

Also known as Parallels Power Panel, this is a web based control panel used to manage virtual servers in a VPS environment. It gives you administrative access to all the virtual containers (servers) to enable management. Here are a few things that this power panel lets you do:

 

• Start/stop/reboot a container.

• Manage container processes like stopping/restarting an unresponsive program.

• Monitor container resources such as disk space, bandwidth, etc.

• Backup/restore container.

• Start container in repair mode in case of a technical breakdown.

 

Ask your web host the control panels it offers along with the hosting plan and, depending on the interface you’re comfortable working on, install one on your website. Apart from these, there are other less known ones that you can opt for. To know more about them, click here: http://loyalpelchat.wix.com/thewebinfo#!control-panels/c13ps