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A Control panel in web hosting refers to the interface provided by the hosting company for the maintenance and monitoring of the hosted website.

Some of the commonly available modules in most control panels:

Proprietary software Notable software often used as a web-based control panel include








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A Control panel in web hosting refers to the interface provided by the hosting company for the maintenance and monitoring of the hosted website.

Some of the commonly available modules in most control panels:
  • Access to server log
    Server log

    A server log is a Data logging file automatically created and maintained by a Server of activity performed by it.A typical example is a web server log which maintains a history of page requests....
    s.
  • Details of available and used webspace and bandwidth
    Bandwidth (computing)

    In computer networking and computer science, digital bandwidth, network bandwidth or just bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bit/s or multiples of it ....
    .
  • Email account configuration.
  • Maintaining FTP
    File Transfer Protocol

    File Transfer Protocol is a network protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network such as the Internet.FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging and manipulating files over a Transmission Control Protocol computer network....
     users’ accounts.
  • Managing database
    Database

    A database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. The structure is achieved by organizing the data according to a database model....
    .
  • Visitor statistics using web log analysis software
    Web log analysis software

    Web log analysis software is a simple kind of Web analytics software that parses a Server log from a web server, and based on the values contained in the log file, derives indicators about who, when, and how a web server is visited....
    .
  • Web based file manager
    File manager

    A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems. The most common operations used are create, open, edit, file viewer, computer printer, streaming media, rename, move, file copying, file deletion, attributes, properties, search/find, and permissions....
    .


Software packages


Proprietary software

Notable software often used as a web-based control panel include
  • cPanel
    CPanel

    cPanel is a graphical web-based Control panel , designed to simplify administration of websites. cPanel handles aspects of website administration in its interface....
  • Cortex
    Cortex

    Cortex may mean any of the following:In anatomy:* Cortex , the outermost or superficial layer of an organ, and especially in the brain:...
     from EMS-cortex
  • DirectAdmin
    DirectAdmin

    DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based Control panel designed to make administration of websites easier....
  • H-sphere
    H-Sphere

    H-Sphere is a web hosting Automation Control Panel for shared web hosting services. It is currently available for Linux, Unix and Microsoft Windows environments and works with MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases....
     from Parallels
  • InterWorx
    InterWorx

    InterWorx is a Control panel developed as part of an effort led by Chris Wells of Nexcess, LLC. The InterWorx control panel has also been referred to as the InterWorx Cluster Panel as it's designed to support software-based load balancing and clustering via a web interface, similar to the H-sphere control panel....
  • ISPmanager
  • Lxadmin
    LxAdmin

    LxAdmin is a proprietary Control panel . It comes in two flavors: LxAdmin Host-in-a-box is a light weight solution which uses lighttpd and djbdns....
  • Plesk
    Plesk

    The Parallels Plesk Control Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc....
     from Parallels
  • MachPanel
    MachPanel

    MachPanel Provisioning System is a commercial control panel software for traditional as well as SaaS hosting services. Originally this control panel was released under brand name eJadSPM System and it was re branded to MachPanel Provisioning System ....
     from MachSol, Inc.


Free and open source software - FOSS
Foss

Foss may refer topeople*Foss , people with the last name Foss*Foss Shanahan , New Zealand diplomat*Foss Westcott , English bishop*Lasse Bergan-Foss , Norwegian footballer...

Web-based control panels licensed under the GPL/other free licenses:
  • DTC (Domain Technologie Control)
    Domain Technologie Control

    Domain Technologie Control is a World Wide Web-based GPL control panel aiming at commercial hosting. for admin and accounting hosting services for hosting e-mail, File Transfer Protocol, and web services....
  • ehcp
    Ehcp

    ehcp is an open source hosting control panel for Ubuntu Linux and all debian based Linuxes. ehcp is licensed under GPL license....
  • ISPConfig
    ISPConfig

    ISPConfig is an open source hosting control panel for Linux. ISPConfig is licensed under BSD license. ISPConfig simplifies the complicated details of setting up DNS, multiple unique domain name websites on one physical server box, and e-mail accounts for multiple users on those websites....
  • Gnupanel
    Gnupanel

    GNUPanel is a Control panel for Debian. It is written in PHP and published under the GNU GNU General Public License . Is an application specifically designed to run on Debian GNU/linux web hosting servers in 32 and 64 bits....
  • Usermin
    Usermin

    Usermin is a web-based user interface for Unix-like systems. It is a simplified version of Webmin, can be used by any user on a Unix system, and is distributed under the BSD licence....
  • Virtualmin
  • Webmin
    Webmin

    Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for OpenSolaris, Linux and other Unix-like systems, although recent versions can also be installed and run on Microsoft Windows ....


See also

  • Control panel (engineering)
    Control panel (engineering)

    A control panel is a flat, often vertical, area where control or monitoring instruments are displayed.They are found in places such as nuclear power plants, ships, aircraft and mainframe computers....


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