“VPanel Hosting by Veretekk”

cPanel is a Unix based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site. cPanel utilizes a 3 tier structure that provides functionality for administrators, resellers, and end-user website owners to control the various aspects of website and server administration through a standard web browser.

In addition to the GUI interface cPanel also has command line and API based access that allows third party software vendors, web hosting organizations, and developers to automate standard system administration processes.

Application-based support includes Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Perl, and BIND (DNS). Email based support includes POP3, IMAP, SMTP services.

cPanel was originally designed as the control panel for Speed Hosting,[1] a now-defunct web hosting company. The original author of cPanel, J. Nick Koston, had a stake in Speed Hosting. Web King quickly began using cPanel after their merger with Speed Hosting. After Speed Hosting and Webking merged, the new company moved their servers to Virtual Development Inc. (VDI), a now-defunct hosting facility. Following an agreement between J. Nick Koston and VDI, cPanel was only available to customers hosted directly at VDI. At the time there was little competition in the control panel market with the main choices being VDI and Alabanza. cPanel 3 was released in 1999; its main features over cPanel 2 were an automatic upgrade and the Web Host Manager.

cPanel 3 tended to be buggy and did not have a good user interface. The interface improved when Carlos Rego of WizardsHosting made what became the default theme of cPanel. Eventually due to internal problems between VDI and J. Nick Koston, cPanel split into two separate programs called cPanel and WebPanel. WebPanel was the version run by VDI. Without the lead programmer, VDI was not able to continue any work on cPanel and eventually stopped supporting it completely. J. Nick Koston kept working on cPanel while also working at BurstNET. Eventually Nick left BurstNET on good terms to focus fully on cPanel. cPanel has been updated and improved over the years. It is now a stable and reliable control panel.

To the client, cPanel provides front-ends for a number of common operations, including the management of PGP keys, crontab tasks, mail and FTP accounts, and mailing lists.

Several add-ons exist for an additional fee, the most notable being Auto Installers like Installatron, Fantastico, Softaculous, and WHMSonic(Shoutcast/radio Control Panel Add-on). Auto Installers are a bundle of scripts which automate the installation and update of, web applications such as WordPress, SMF, phpBB, Drupal, Joomla!, Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, Moodle, WHMCS, and ZamFoo. Fantastico is a popular Auto Installer but is losing market fast because of lack of updates and fewer number of scripts.

cPanel manages some software packages separately from the underlying operating system, applying upgrades to Apache, PHP, MySQL, and related software packages automatically. This ensures that these packages are kept up-to-date and compatible with cPanel, but makes it more difficult to install newer versions of these packages.

cPanel is the industry leader for turning standalone servers into a fully automated point-and-click hosting platform. Tedious tasks are replaced by web interfaces and API-based calls. cPanel is designed with multiple levels of administration including admin, reseller, end user, and email-based interfaces. These multiple levels provide security, ease of use, and flexibility for everyone from the server administrator to the email account user.

cPanel is an organization that wins the loyalty of customers around the world by providing feature-rich applications backed by a team of developers, technical support engineers and quality assurance experts that provide stable builds, direct support, and fantastic customer service.

cPanel powers web hosting companies and organizations that have a need to automate and offer competitive hosting services.

After using Plesk for a number of years, this author finds cPanel much easier to conceptualize, and the ease of creating compelling and powerful blogs for promoting purposes is simply unmatched. Without having to implement FTP into the routine, the Fantastico function allows for the creation of blogs in seconds. There is no need to buy an additional FTP program, and creating blogs, forums, Joomla websites, classified ad sites, shopping carts and literally an unlimited amount of digital services, is possible when implementing cPanel into any marketing campaign.

For newbie marketers this is an additional plus as blogs can be created quickly, and after that, the process of adding keyword specific content is simple and easy. This powerful promoting tool called cPanel is unlimited except by the imagination on setup and use. This is the appeal of the introduction into the already powerful system called Veretekk.

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Butch Hamilton
Internet Marketing by Butch Hamilton
Director of Marketing Veretekk