We had a client who had us build their website but we didn't host their site. They had problems with there host and the problem was so large that it effected 30% of their clients, in this case there was no phone service because their system shut down. A hacker had loaded a virus to one of their servers and it infected 10's of thousand of website plus our clients website. Because of this their site was banned from the internet by Goggle. When their site was viewed on search engines, a warning appeared telling users not to use the site and that the site they were viewing contained a virus. You would think that the larger company hosting the site would be responsible and help their client resolve this issue, this was not the case because the virus had embedded a piece of code in every site. This company was so large the the infection was in 10's of thousands of sites. It was also days before they even knew how to resolve this issue. Since we built the site we were able to fix the problem in about an hour after our client called, they then switched their hosting to us.

Panel is an easy user-interface site that lets you control your host account environment. The main peculiarity of this operating system is that it so simple to use that your below average computer user can’t mess it up. It’s got great features embedded into its panel and some of the features are listed below.

Site Tools
There are such tools available for your use, which are Web Protect (.htaccess editor), Custom error pages, Redirects, Ability to edit MIME types, Ability to edit Apache handlers, Install/Uninstall FrontPage Extensions, Search engine tool submitting and File Manager.

Email
The email program provides you with the possibility to add, remove, and change passwords while managing email accounts. CPanel is also provided by Webmail for the accounts, Auto responders, Forwarders, Mailing Lists, Spam filtering and some more.

Backup
Backup allows you to create copies of account files and databases. The backup menu also allows you to download any automatic backups that were downloaded by your CPanel administrator.

Stats
Here are different tools to survey your site popularity and efficiency. Those are Webalizer web stats, Webalizer FTP stats, Analog stats, AW Stats, View latest visitors, View bandwidth usage and View error log modules.

FTP
There is a module that controls FTP accounts (add, remove, change password for its access), Anonymous FTP controls; Ability to change FTP login message and Ability to kill FTP sessions.

Advanced Stuff
You have an ability to add or remove sub domains, Sub domain Redirects and its Stats.

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Panel is one of the leading site management platforms today.  It has a point-and-click user interface that makes site administration a breeze.  If you are the website administrator, getting information about your site is very important.  cPanel makes this administrative chore an easy task by providing its users accessible stats.  This article describes the process for checking your site statistics using cPanel.

cPanel can give you all the site information that you need to run your site efficiently.  Statistical information such as total number of requests, number of site visits, referrers, bandwidth usage, disk allocation usage, and others can be easily viewed through cPanel.

To view your site’s stats, you must first log on to your site’s cPanel.  The usual place for logging in is at http://yourdomain.com/cpanel (where “yourdomain.com” is your actual domain name).  For security reasons, the hosting control panel is password-protected.  To gain access to cPanel, enter your username and password at the login page and click on the “Submit” button.

The main page contains several clickable icons for various automated site administration tasks.  The “Web/FTP Stats” button, in particular, is what you will need to click.  It will lead to the site statistics page.  After clicking the button, select “awstats” in order to view the page containing various stats about your site.

Updated only once a day, the statistics will show information that you can use to analyze the traffic coming into your site.  Among other things, the stats will reveal how many visitors went to your site, which country they were from, how many visitors dropped in for a particular period, referrers (i.e., URLs that lead a visitor to your site), pages viewed by each visitor, the operating system and browser used by the visitors to view the site pages, lists of keywords that visitors used when searching for information on the site, and many more.

Site stats are useful in their numeric form, but displaying the information in graphic form will greatly help in analyzing the information further.  To show the site stats in graphical form, select Webalizer from the stats page.  A new page will show the statistical information in the form of graphs and charts.  You can also view interesting information only about the last 300 site visitors.  To restrict the stats display to just the last 300 visitors, click on the “Latest Visitors” link.

You can also choose to print the stats reports.  Many web administrators review their sites’ statistics to find out which webpages on their sites are popular and which ones are not so popular.  Knowing such information helps the administrators make changes so that the low-traffic pages will have more site visitors.

Because of cPanel’s point-and-click interface, generating and viewing site stats reports becomes extremely easy and flexible.  For web developers, this translates to more accurate information, better analysis, and wiser decision making.

 

The Databases section allows you to create MySQL and PostgreSQL databases and users, to modify databases and access to them. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is an international standard in querying and retrieving information from databases. PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system. MySQL is essentially an SQL server - it responds to requests for information that are written in SQL. You can communicate with MySQL using a wide variety of programming languages (PHP being one of the most common). MySQL is Open Source software and free for use. There are several features in the cPanel Database section: