Most webhosting service provider do not provide control panel as standard addon with your hosting plans. They charge extra for having a control panel with your server. If you want to have control panel with your server you will have to pay extra cost for it. There are many control panels available for managing your hosting account and server. Having a control panel will make your life easy for managing your hosting account thus you can concentrate more on your business rather then concentrating on managing your server. Its always recommended to have a control panel with your server. If you are on Windows Platform you have Plesk as control panel and you have WHM/cPanel as your control panel on Linux Hosting platform. You will have dedicated license copy for your cpanel with your dedicated server box. cPanel has partnerships with leading datacenters around the world and thus they offer cPanel license at much discounted rates. If you don’t want control panel with your server you can have plain server without any control panel. Make sure you will have to manage your server your own. If you want to use WHM/cPanel as your control panel you will have to opt for linux web hosting platform. If you want to go with Windows Hosting Platform you have option of Plesk control panel. WHM/cpanel comes with many useful features which are must for managing your server/hosting account.
Once you ordered your server with WHM/cPanel you will get server login details using which you can manage your server easily. First of all you need to setup nameservers, then you should secure your server by tuning security settings. You should also check if all services are running fine on your server. You have to install all required add-on scripts that you are looking to offer your clients. If you have some custom security scripts then you can install them using your control panel. Thus you have secure server, if you want you can ask your host for installing all security patches on your server, always try to order your server with a host who offers you 24×7 live support. Thus you have a dedicated technician for your server hosting related technical issue.
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This post was written by admin on August 17, 2008
