cPanel

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cPanel is a graphical web hosting control panel used to make managing and hosting a web site much easier.  This control panel is used on Linux hosting servers and is used by every level of hosting from the server administrators right down to the end user.

Many of the features it employs include third party apps such as sitebuilding programs, hosting tools, and web stat tracking.  The great thing about cPanel is that there are many great features and tools that can be added to it without any problems.  Every hosting company customizes it’s version of cPanel to fit their particular customer.  So some hosting providers might offer web disk, for example, and others might not.

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