cPanel/WHM is one of the applications hosting control panel of the most popular. Many hosting companies offer / use this application.

With application hosting control panel, you can manage your hosting account that is more easily through the browser. Ie including uploading files to your hosting account, install a web application, create email accounts, etc…

Some uniqueness cPanel/WHM:

* A Fantastico, to facilitate the installation of web applications ranging from CMS Joomla, phpBB, etc…

Some shortcoming cPanel/WHM:

* Currently there is no facility for users to manage DNS;
* Backups cannot be accessed as a file via the web by the user;

Some things you can do with cPanel:

1. Add / delete / modify email accounts.
2. Upload a file from a browser
3. Installing software / scripts
4. Password protection for folders
5. Edit the files your web site directly from your browser
6. View web site statistics

Plesk

Plesk is a popular hosting control panel application. Some hosting companies offering/using this application. Plesk now available for OS Windows and Linux servers. These are two different products, although given the same brand of Plesk.

With application hosting control panel, you can manage your hosting account that is more easily through the browser. Ie including uploading files to your hosting account, install a web application, create email accounts, etc…

Some uniqueness Plesk:

* Interface is something like a GUI OS Windows XP.
* Available for Windows and Linux.

Some shortcomings Plesk:

* A complex interface makes little slow in comparison to another control panel.

Spanel

Spanel is a hosting control panel is used and developed solely by MWN. Although it also offers hosting services with servers based on other control panels like cPanel and Plesk, MWN is still active Spanel also used for hosting servers as well as many internal servers / other publics. This is because since Spanel developed in accordance with the features and needs of MWN.

Some uniqueness Spanel control panel other than (commercial or free) to this:

* Based on Debian. Few hosting control panel that supports Debian, let alone a commercial. In fact, MWN many using Debian as a server operating system platform that’s proven and familiar.

* Security features. Some security features are developed in Spanel: execution protected with cgi-USER, RBL for CGI scripts, Sendmail wrapper more stringent, featuring SMTPD filtering/blacklisting more, etc…

* Options PHP execution. Some features on Spanel PHP: php.ini per sub domain/per site, the option to choose PHP4 and PHP5, the option to select the mode CGI or Apache module mode.

* Backup with s.d. history 3 months. In many other hosting control panel , not as much offer backup systems, such as cPanel only 1 daily + weekly + 1 monthly 1. Spanel also provides a web-based interface to hosting regular user can do a backup and restore from the backup history, thus reducing the burden of support staff.

Webmin

What is Webmin? Webmin is a system of Web-based Unix admin. So whether it’s the system admin? If your network setup, web server, DNS, firewall called admin system. More or less:).

System Unix or Linux admin with Webmin can be done with any browser, the File Manager module for the Java plug in required.

What can I can do with Webmin? Many, of course. In the Webmin user interface, there are 7 main menu, three of which Systems, Servers, and Networking. Each of the admin menu there are many settings that can be done.

Direct Admin

Direct Admin is one of the control panel used to manage hosting owned by a person or company, with DirectAdmin you can do something on your hosting such as Uploading Files to the server, Create a sub domain, Creating the MySQL database, a database with PHPMyAdmin Importing, Creating E-mail Accounts, and you can also use Installatron to install joomla, drupal, wordpress etc. Here below we show features you can get with DirectAdmin :

your account

* Domain Setup
* Login History
* DNS Management
* Create/Restore Backups
* FTP Management
* Subdomain Management
* MySQL Management
* Password Protected Directories
* File Manager

email management

* E-mail Accounts
* Catch-All E-mail
* Forwarders
* Autoresponders
* Spammassassin Setup
* Mailing List
* SPAM Filter
* Webmail

advanced features

* Server Information
* Cronjobs
* Apache Handlers
* phpMyAdmin
* Installatron Script Installer

your account

* Domain Setup
* Login History
* DNS Management
* Create/Restore Backups
* FTP Management
* Subdomain Management
* MySQL Management
* Password Protected Directories
* File Manager

email management

* E-mail Accounts
* Catch-All E-mail
* Forwarders
* Autoresponders
* Spammassassin Setup
* Mailing List
* SPAM Filter
* Webmail

advanced features

* Server Information
* Cronjobs
* Apache Handlers
* phpMyAdmin
* Installatron Script Installer

Kloxo

kloxo (formerly LXadmin, change the name because of trademark issues) is the control panel [shared hosting] wrote quite popular because of low-cost (starting around $ 0.5 / VPS / month). hypervm the control panel for manage vps (at the level hypervisor / host) with a package of popular kloxo and sama2x budget vps providers because they are inexpensive (starting from $ 3/month). both are created by K.T. ligesh, lxlabs single developer from India 32 years old who lived in Bangalore, who eventually committed suicide because of an event, then the kloxo be finally free open source

Template DNS settings are one of the leading facilities or Kloxo LXadmin. In one VPS can be made more than one DNS Template. This is very useful to provide private name servers for resellers or a specific domain account.

Virtualmin

Virtualmin is a webmin modul of the management function to perform a virtual host like CPanel. This supports the creation and regulation of Apache virtual hosts, BIND DNS, MySQL database and email (send mail or Postfix).

Virtualmin can also be used to create a webmin user account for each account in the virtual host, where the account is restricted to a domain and the file itself.

Configuring the Virtualmin now widely recognized by other systems, so that the user account migration process such as the cPanel can be done more easily or automatically.

cPanel is designed to function on a dedicated server or virtual private servers that can be used on CentOS Operating System, Red Hat Linux, and FreeBSD. Supported applications include Apache cPanel, PHP, mySQL, Postgres, Perl, Python, and BIND, by email such as POP3, IMAP, SMTP services.

Disk Space, storage capacity offered by webhosting. So you just may save the files for the package on offer by hosting. If according to the example above, you just may save the files of 50MB or 75MB or 100MB. Of course, according to the package purchased.

Bandwidth is the quota access to the data tapes. For example, you had 10KB of web pages. Now, 10 KB web page that when accessed by 1 user, then the data bandwidth used is only 10KB, but when the page is accessed by 100 users, the data bandwidth will be multiplied by 100 as well.

Park domain is a feature provided for your webhost to put the domain their customer wrote in had. During this domain in the parked state, then the domain can not be used to create a website, create email aliassing, and so forth. So basically, the domain is only occupy the house.

Add on domain, as domain parking, but the difference, add on this domain name may be used should an existing domain. Can be used to create a website, email aliassing, dllsb.

phpMyAdmin is an application made with PHP programming language intended for the management of MySQL databases through the Internet. The project started in 1998 by Tobias Ratschiller and in 2001 passed through the SourceForge development by Olivier Müller, Marc Delisle and Loïc Chapeaux.