CPanel is the most popular interface used by web hosts, and at least until recently has been more popular with bloggers and home users than the more expensive Microsoft offering.

CPanel lets you control your host account environment. The main advantage of this operating system is that it is so simple to use that your below average computer user cannot easily mess there sites up!

CPanel also has an easy to use email utility which helps to create email account for the users with user friendly interface.

Many hosting providers advertise that you can host unlimited sites, create your own packages and control it all within a slightly more expensive reseller package. This is achieved by using a software add-on to Cpanel called WHM.

If you are thinking of starting your own web site hosting wv service, we recommend that you offer your customers quality products like cPanel and Fantastico.

The larger hosting providers offer four different dedicated home and business server hosting options to provide something for every individual and all sizes of business.

Having sung the praises of Cpanel, Plesk is also a very capable system, although if you are familiar already with the Cpanel it will need a little while to learn. The current Plesk version (8.1) is reportedly the most stable and secure Plesk software for Linux and UNIX ever released.

We like the CPanel Email Account Creator which is the perfect script to setup a Hotmail / Yahoo like web email system to allow your users to signup and start sending emails to friends and family with your hosting.

Having said that CPanel is easily learnt, you will find though that individual hosting companies do customize it extensively.

Some include all the features of paid hosting companies, such as MySQL databases, Fantastico script installer, cron jobs manager, add-on domains, Email management tools, AWSTATS and the Webalizer and other website statistics programs, and so on.

SpamAssassin is available on many CPanel hosting sites. If so, you will find that SpamAssassin can be easily enabled and configured for your account directly through the CPanel hosting control panel.

The first impression of cPanel’s control panel can be expressed as basic, but don’t be fooled by apparent simplicity.