What is cPanel?

cPanel, often referred to as control panel, is the panel used to make changes to and customize your hosting account with InMotion. Some of the great features that cPanel includes are:

• Email: Within cPanel you can create new email accounts, modify your existing accounts, modify your MX records, change email passwords, set up mail box quotas and much more.
• Domains: Under the domains section of cPanel, you can configure new domains to your account, set up parked domains, create subdomains,  set up and manage redirects, and much more.
• File Management: In the files section of cPanel, you can backup your cpanel account, access/ modify your files stored in your account, review your disk usage, and create/ manage FTP accounts
• Databases: In databases, you can create/ manage new databases, set up remote access to MySQL, access the databases using phpMyAdmin, and much more

cPanel is very user friendly and is quite robost. There's numerous tools within cPanel to handle a wide variety of tasks. It contains a full help menu that is easy to use.

cPanel is VPS Optimized

Did you know that there is a version created specifically for VPS servers? Click here to read more.

Please check the next article on How to log into cPanel. For more information on this course please visit Getting Started in cPanel