One of the most important aspects of running a website is creating and managing your site's email accounts. cPanel provides several easy-to-use features that can help. Using cPanel, you can:

• Create and manage email accounts for your site.
• Use Webmail to access email through a web browser.
• Block unwanted email using BoxTrapper and SpamAssassin.
• Use Forwarders to direct incoming email from one address to another.
• Send automatic responses to incoming email if, for example, you are out of the office.
• Default Addresses will catch misdirected email that is sent to your domain.
• Use Mailing Lists to send an email to multiple addresses at once.
• User Level Filtering allows you to filter and redirect mail for a specific address.
• Account Level Filtering lets you filter email for your domain's main email account.
• The Email Delivery Route feature helps you troubleshoot mail problems by viewing the path an email takes from your domain.
• Use Import Addresses / Forwarders to create multiple email accounts or forwarders at once, by uploading a list of usernames.
• Email Authentication helps secure your mail server.
• The MX Entry feature allows you to route a domain's incoming mail to a specific server.

Stats / Analytics:

Knowing who visits your website is essential to gauging its effectiveness, and correcting any problems. The cPanel Logs section lets you:

• View information about the last 300 visitors to your site.
• Monitor how your bandwidth is being used.
• Analyze details about your web traffic, using the Webalizer, AWStats, or Analog Statistics programs.
• Use Webalizer FTP to view detailed statistics about who is using your FTP server.
• See what content has been viewed on your website using the Raw Access Logs.
• View the last 300 errors encountered by users on your website.
• Use Raw Access Logs to dispense with graphs and see who has accessed your site.

Preferences:

This area of cPanel lets you manage the settings for your cPanel account.

• The Getting Started Wizard guides you quickly and easily through the setup process. Video Tutorials are available to help you navigate through the setup process.
• Select the Change Password feature to edit your cPanel password.
• Update Contact Info allows you to edit your primary contact email addresses. cPanel uses these addresses to send you important information regarding your website.
• The Change Language feature allows you to select the default display language for cPanel.
• Change Style lets you to alter the appearance of the cPanel interface within your web browser.
• You can create a cPanel shortcut on your desktop, and access your account with a single click.

Databases:

Databases are essential for if you want to provide a bulletin board, content management system, or online shop. cPanel provides several useful features for managing databases, such as: Databases offer a method for managing large amounts of information easily over the web such as bulletin boards, content management systems, and online retail shops.

• A step-by-step guide to setting up a MySQL® database.
• The ability to configure databases that will be accessed remotely by other web servers.
• phpMyAdmin, a tool that allows you to manipulate MySQL databases over the Internet

Domains

If you want to host several domain names from one central location, cPanel can help. It lets you:

• Create and manage subdomains (such as sub.example.com).
• Create addon HYPERLINK "http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/CPanelGlossary#CpanelDomain" domains — a separate domain that points to a subdirectory of your account.
• Park a domain on top of your main domain.
• Create and manage domain redirects from one domain name to another.
• Configure certain DNS records.

Files:

Your website consists of a collection of files that reside on the web server. You'll want to keep all your web pages up to date, using cPanel's Files features. cPanel lets you:

• Easily and quickly make backups of your files.
• Use the File Manager graphical interface to upload and edit web pages.
• Use the Web Disk to drag and drop files onto your site.
• See how much disk space your site uses, and how much is available to you.
• Create and manage FTP accounts for transferring files to and from your site.
• Control who can connect to your site via FTP, and enable or disable anonymous users.

Security:

Safeguarding your server - and your peace of mind - are important to us. That's why cPanel offers the latest technologies including virus protection, rootkit detection, and a host of other tools, to help keep your server secure.

• WHM's Security Center allows you to easily lock down your server and configure different security settings.
• Password Protect Directories lets you control access to your content.
• Control access to your content and resources using the IP Deny Manager feature.
• Generate SSL certificates, signing requests, and keys for your site with the SSL/TLS Manager.
• You can transfer files and run commands via SSH/Shell Access.
• HotLink Protection allows you to prevent other websites linking directly to your files, which saves you bandwidth and money.
• Leech Protection helps reduce the effects if a user gives out their password to restricted areas of your website.
• GnuPG Keys encrypt your outbound messages for your protection.

Software / Services:

cPanel helps you get the most out of your website by making it easy to install blogs, guestbooks, and other software modules.

• Use CGI Center to configure and install scripts and additional functionality to your site.
• Site Software allows you to easily instal components packaged as cPAddons, such as Blogs
• Install Perl Modules to perform Perl based tasks on your website right through the cPanel interface.
• PHP PEAR Packages are collections of functions that allow you to perform tasks in PHP.
• PHP Configuration shows how PHP is configured for your site.

Advanced:

Your website is unique, and complex. With cPanel, you can configure every aspect of it the way YOU want it to be.

• Apache Handlers allow your site to process specific file types according to your requirements.
• Image Manager is a feature that allows you to view and edit images on your website. You can change the size of your images, convert to other file types or simply view them.
• The Index Manager lets you control how your directories are viewed.
• Use the standard, predefined error messages, or customize your Error Pages to display a message that best suits your business style.
• Cron Jobs allow you to automate and schedule your tasks.
• Network Tools help you get information about other websites as well as finding out how your traffic moves.
• MIME Types allow your site to handle custom file types the way you want them handled.
• If you run into an issue that you can't quite figure out, Submit a Support Request. We're here to help!