The following cPanel 11 video tutorials will help you manage your websites using cPanel.

Manage Email Accounts in cPanel

• Manage the email accounts associated with your domain – cPanel official tutorial
• Manage Email forwarders – cPanel official tutorial
• Manage Email Auto-responders – cPanel official tutorial
• Manage Email Mailing List in cPanel – Official cPanel tutorial
• Learn how to enable/disable Spam Assassin
• How to use cPanel Webmail in your domain

General site maintenance activities using cPanel

• How to set the Preferences in your cPanel – SiteGround Hosting
• How to manage Domains via cPanel – SiteGround Hosting
• Updating Your Contact Information and Preferences – cPanel official tutorial
• Learn all about creating and managing subdomains via cPanel – cPanel official tutorial
• Learn to manage parked domains – cPanel
• Learn web page redirects in cPanel
• Password protect directories of your website via cPanel
• Hotlink Protection – Prevents other websites from directly linking to files on your website.
• IP Deny Manager – Block a range of IP addresses to prevent them from accessing your site.

Manage database in cPanel

• Learn to create and modify MySQL databases in cPanel
• MySQL Wizard – Create and manage MySQL databases with this step by step wizard.

Manage site backup via cPanel

• How to make Website backup via CPanel

There are a lot of other cPanel tutorials that we will be adding to this post, so you may want to bookmark this page and come back again.

Technically, you can install more than one control panel on a server but that’s a very bad approach. Primarily because each control panel works entirely different from any other control panel and the way they use the system services and resources to perform several administration related activities also tend to differ. So, if you plan to offer multiple control panels to your customer, do so but have separate servers or VPS for each type of control panel you wish to offer.

Secondly, don’t offer multiple control panels if you don’t know how each of them work as later on you would find it difficult to support each control panel that you had previously offered. The most popular control panels you may want to offer your customers are cPanel, Plesk and Direct Admin. cPanel being the easiest of all in terms of functionality and support. The learning curve associated with cPanel is relatively less when compared to other panels and support issues are also less.

An ideal approach, if you really want to offer multiple control panels, would be buying reseller accounts with each type of control panel you wish to offer and selling it to your end customers. This way you can start with minimal investment and support and later on stop offering the least chosen control panel to focus on the most requested control panel in terms of learning it yourself and supporting it.

• Security Center with comprehensive security tools
• Substantial Back-end code upgrades
• Apache 2.0.x and 2.2.x support
• Increased interface speed
• Web disks
• Site Owner Interface Upgrade
• Site Owner “Getting Started Wizard”
• Upgraded branding and better language support
• Easy Perl, PHP and Ruby module installers

cPanel plans to roll out the new version in multiple parts so that it becomes easy for users to upgrade from their existing cPanel and WHM versions to the newer release.

For a list of new features and release schedule, click here. Also, take a look at the cPanel 11 Preview Site.

• Creating email accounts.
• Creating FTP accounts.
• Upload files to your hosting account.
• Create new hosting accounts.
• View log files, display visitor statistics.
• Setup custom error pages, cron jobs.

You may not need a control panel, if you

1. Understand Unix/Windows administration.
2. Are familiar with most common system administration related tasks.
3. Are required to manage only few websites.

If you an individual having a dedicated server and are familiar with system administration, control panel is optional. But if your will site run on a shared hosting account then almost every hosting provider will provide you with a control panel along with the account.

For resellers, using a control panel helps you and your end users to manage many aspects of the hosting account without having to know system administration. The simple to use GUI (Graphical User Interface) will let you and your end users manage most of the common and simple administration related tasks without much difficulty. Also, since many end users are not tech savvy, simple to use GUI based control panel system will help them manage their hosting accounts themselves and relieve you from the burden of supporting them for every single issue.

Some popular hosting control panels are CPanel, Plesk and H-Sphere.