As cPanel is a graphical user interface, the users can access it as a front-end tool to carry out the various website operations. The other important features that can be easily handled through the cPanel are the file manager, mailing lists management, autoresponder, Crontab tasks, PGP keys, and email management, mail forwarding, webmail and spam filtering. These are great features to help any type of website.cPanel is generally accessed using https on port 2083 or simply by adding “/cpanel” to the end of the host name that host the cPanel.
Web Host Manager (WHM) , is a powerful part of the software that allows administrative access to the back end of cPanel. WHM provides a lot more control and flexibility when managing either a few very popular and resource intensive sites, or large number of sites. On top of giving you the ability to sell hosting services to other people, WHM also provides option to create and manage multiple cPanel accounts.
cPanel’s Features
Usually cPanel control panel used by hosting web master users ,allowing those users to graphically managing hosting accounts and web site hosting including emails features including email management, mail forwarding, webmail and spam filtering.
cPanel also helps to create account or site creation, redirects, management of additional domains, and other features to build and edit web pages and the website. The Cron job helps trigger automate tasks at given time schedules.
cPanel File Management Actions like edit, delete and move hosting files using an online File Manager. Manage FTP accounts, sessions and privileges.
cPanel Domain Management for Create sub-domains, add domains to their hosting account, or park domains. cPanel makes these features available cPanel user accounts.
cPanel Software features allow edit PHP Multi Language Support and edit Multi PHP INI version file ,Manage PHP PEAR Packages and Perl Modules,fantastico scripts, CGI/Perl modules that maybe use in cPanel websites,
Database Management
Managing the vital aspect of database creation and maintenance has also become very easy with cPanel. cPanel comes with free software phpMyadmin that allow the developer users to manage MySQL database engine.also the addon cPanel contains Database section to create and maintain MySQL databases and create and assign database users with specific permissions to access the database, also its allow the web hosting users to Import/Export databases As “Backup/Restore” Process.
cPanel’s Statistics infromation
Many other useful add-ons can be used through the cPanel is located in Metrics section , the basic statistics feature display the visitors logs and daily bases or hourly , monthly visits report .cPanel Statistics contains one of the important option to display the bandwidth report of the web site ,giving the clear idea about resources usage per domain.
WHM (Web Host Manager)
WebHost Manager (WHM) is a web application that is used by administrators and resellers to maintain and manage web hosting accounts on a web server. WHM can be accessed by the administrators and users with reseller privileges on ports 2086 and 2087, whereas the cPanel is accessed on ports 2082 and 2083.
WHM/cPanel Plugins
Arguably One of the greatest feature, WebHost Manager (WHM) is the Plugin option , this Plugin feature allow the root user to add plugins that may useful on WHM GUI or on cPanel User GUI , most of the most WHM/cPanel Plugins are :
Softaculous Plugn:
Softaculous is one of the most public software that allow the cPanel user to add more than 400 scripts including (WordPress,Joomla,Durpal,Magneto,..) as CMS (Content management system) , BLogs , E-commerce softwares in one click installation process .
ConfigServer Security & Firewall (csf)
CSF is designed for WHM administrator users to manage server firewall , deny IPs , Allow and add IPs to firewall white list ,open firewall ports for different protocols e.g “TCP”,”UDP”,also allow the user to Add Custom iptables Rules ,CSF in general work as Anti-DDOS attack that may prevent unauthorized process from access WHM/cPanel Server.
CSF Comes with Login Failure Daemon (LDF) service , the main objective of LDF is to send notification to the administrator for any unusual or suspension process or activities on the WHM/cPanel Server.
