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cPanel control panel is a graphical web-based management tool, designed to make administration of web sites as easy as possible. cPanel handles all aspects of website administration in an easy-to-use interface.
It is designed for commercial use by web hosting services. It does not have any personal use license and is not sold to the retail consumer. At the current time it is only available for UNIX based systems and runs on a variety of Linux installations.
The hosting client enjoys front end graphical support for a number of common operations like the management of PGP keys, cron jobs, mail and FTP accounts, and mailing lists. A file browser similar to
Windows Explorer is also included. It does for web hosting management what windows did for DOS.
One of the more popular add-ons for cPanel is the Fantastico script installer which provides automated installation of open source web applications such as WordPress and about 40 others.
WHM, or Web Host Manager is the part of cPanel that is used to administer accounts.
A sample demo
of both WHM and cPanel can be found here.
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