Web hosting control panels with hosting features

Here are some hosting plan features to follow:

Often hosting plan features are tightened into the type of control panel that is offered with the hosting service. Most people think that a control panel should be part of the package, but in smaller countries outside the USA this is often a 'luxury' that is not part of the hosting package!

The first important feature that you should think about is searching out whether your hosting server provider offers a control panel to manage your website. It is unacceptable to sign up for a hosting package without control panel. Common control panels for Linux hosting are:

Cpanel

Plesk

DirectAdmin

Helm

All these control panels have their supporters and detractors.

I have to honestly say that my preference is CPanel to offer a lot of a user-friendly interface and functionality.

The following features are available with CPanel hosting:

FTP:

If you want to upload your files and manage your website, you should have FTP access to your website. This is essential. Cpanel also permits you to register new FTP accounts. In this way it gives other people access to your website. But don't bother about this, because you can keep their access under restriction to specific folders on your website.

Website statistics:

Most hosting providers provide statistics facilities. Some hosting providers think that the statistics programs use too many resources on a shared environment and some of them remove the facility. But when you are planning to set up a website, statistics and the ability to analyze your traffic is required. Make sure a hosting provider that you have selected does offer you access to a web stats package. My personal favourite is AWStats. You can read an article on the different types of statistics programs as well as how to interpret your statistics here: http://www.tm4y.co.za/internet-marketing-tips/website-statistics.html

Add On Domains and Subdomains:

You can add sub domains and even Add On domains. It depends on whether your hosting provider gives you permission for this.

Pre-installed scripts:

The Fantastico installer is one of the best features of the CPanel control panel to help you to quickly and easily install lots of Open Source tools and utilities such as forums, shopping carts, project management tools, WIKIS and much more.

The CPanel control panel permits web hosting companies to make a lot of web hosting plan features available to clients who can then easily manage these features themselves.

Redirects:

This is very helpful to temporarily or permanently redirect pages to another website or other website pages. Be careful though with using temporary redirects, this might cause problems with the search engines.

Backups:

This allows you to make a backup of the files on your server, as well as to backup your MySQL database if you have one. This is very useful and should be done regularly. You cannot rely on the backups led by the hosting service provider, as the service provider itself might just get close its doors and you cannot have access to your site.

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