Know About The Web Hosting Control Panels
By vinnie
There are so many players in the web field from individual to big corporation. Web service is a highly competitive field and this drives the web players to offer feature rich plans at affordable cost. Web is the basic thing a webmaster needs to make his website presence, to the whole world.

The competitiveness of the web field compel the web companies to excel each other. So almost all the top companies are giving very efficient technical support. The extra features like free domain name and site builder and the pricing are varying from company to company. But the control panel makes a difference and you have to pick up the correct service which suits your need.

The control panel is a soft ware provided by the web company to control and manage your web site hosting. It is like a vital part of your body. Through control panel you can mange all your activities like email creation, opening of your FTP accounts, statistics report and many more. Though control panel alone can not be used as a yardstick to judge the quality of a web service, it is important to know about the control panel as it is an vital aspect of a web service.

Control panels for Windows Only platform

Helm is a Windows only web control panel. Helm control panel has many customer friendly features and the most striking feature is the billing information. Except the H-sphere, all most all the commonly used control panels do not provide billing information inside the control panel. Helm is easy to operate and has a good standard interface.

Hosting Accelerator is another windows only web control panel. It seems to make a best impression by showing more stuff, but showing too much won't make a best impression. It makes an impression that the interface is not planned properly and it lacks in extra feature. It suits the seasoned players.

Control Panels For Linux Only Platform

cPanel occupies the number one place among the control panels, because of its many features with easy operation and inexpensive aspect. It is based on Linux platform and serves for over ten flavors of Linux. Many companies prefer it, as it costs only $20 per month/server.

Interworx has many features and deserves to be ranked at the top of Linux only platform web control panels. Considering the fact that there are more

Linux based web providers, Inteworx has dedicated to the Linux platform. It has a feature to see the up streams and sown streams. Interworx has a clean interface.

DirectAdmin is another control panel serving Linux platform. DirectAdmin provides low cost at $10 per month. It is the easiest control panel to use. Though it claims to have more features, needs lot of improvements to match the other Linux only control panels.

The disadvantage of both Linux only and Windows only control panels is that they lose the customers of the other platform.

Control Panels For Both Linux And Windows

Plesk, because of its availability for both Linux and Windows platforms, has little advantage over the panel control panel. Many web providers who serves both Linux and Windows customers prefer Plesk. Plesk interface looks like Windows XP and it is expensive as it serves both the platforms. The website builder tool and other features integrate well with Plesk.

H-Sphere is another control panel for both Linux and Windows. Through H-Sphere is widely used by the web sites, it lacks some features when compared to Plesk and cPanel. But it offers many features from key functionalities to complete automation.

Ensim, another control panel for both Windows and Linux, has to cover more grounds when compared to other web control panels serving both Linux and Windows.

As per the ratings, cPanel is preferred for Linux platform and Helm control panel is for Windows platform.

Author Information: After deciding on the control panel, choose the web service which offers extra features, apart from good technical support, at a reasonable price. The extra features you can look for are, free domain name, website builder, unlimited sub domain and many more.

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