cPanel-Plesk Webhosting Control Panel

When it comes to host your website you need to consider what hosting platform you would be choosing, if you are using any Microsoft owned application for developing your website then you will have to consider Windows Plesk hosting plans else Linux would be good option for your hosting needs. One of the important tool you would be using for managing your website is control panel which would be offered by your webhosting service provider. If you are hosting your site on Linux shared hosting plans then you may get cPanel as your control panel which is usually offered for free and you would be getting Plesk as hosting control panel if you are hosting website on Windows Shared Hosting package. Both cPanel and Plesk control panels are widely used control panel using which you can easily managed your website hosting account. Plesk can also be offered on linux hosting packages thus plesk control panel can be used with Linux as well as Windows Hosting packages. If you are hosting your website on higher hosting plans such as VPS or Dedicated server then you may have to pay extra for getting control panel with your hosting accounts it all depends on the policies led down by your webhosting service provider.  You may think is it necessary to get a webhosting control panel ? yes, its is always recommended to get a control panel with your webhosting account. Following are the most important features which you would get from your control panel.
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Webhosting control panel cPanel and Plesk both offer similar basic features. You can easily create, or edit, or delete e-mail accounts thus you can easily manage all email accounts, as well as can perform all domains or sub-domains maintenance using both control panel. Both control panels allows you to upload all your files/directories and thus can manage your web files and directory from the control panel itself. There are many other useful features which you will have with your control panel. Thus control panel will ease your website hosting environment.

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This post was written by admin on November 15, 2008

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Website backup usign cPanel.

Taking backup of your website is most important part which will be useful in case of server crash or some hardware failure. If you have backup of your site then you can easily restore it so as a webmaser you should always be prepared with backup copy of your entire website. if you opt for linux website hosting plan you may get cpanel as control panel using which you can easily upload your website, can take backup of your site including home directory, databases, emails etc… you can keep backup  of your website in
zipped file which can be restored anytime you want.
For better security reasons it is always suggested to have automated backup for your website for this you will have to set such setting [ cron jobs ] using your cpanel. Using cPanel you can take Full backup, Home directory backup, MySQL database backup, email forwarders or filters which can be restored anytime.
If you opt for full backup of your site, you will have an archive of all files and configurations of your website. If you want to restore your Full website backup them you will have to contact your webhost, you cannot restore Full backup using your cPanel you will need to contact your webhost.

Steps fort taking Full Backup using cPanel :
*) Login to your cpanel and go to ‘backup’ section under “Site management”
*) Click on “Generate/Download a Full Backup”
*) Just choose proper option for backup of your site, if you want to copy full backup of your site onto other ftp server you can do so, else you can easily generate backup in your home directory of your account, which can be used further in case of server crash.
*) Proceed with email ID.
*) Finally, complete process by pressing ‘generate backup’
Taht’s all you have backed up full website usign cPanel.

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This post was written by admin on April 9, 2008

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