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cPanel Linux VPS

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cPanel Linux VPS Explained

cPanel Linux Virtual Private Servers Explained:

Having your own dedicated server would cost big bucks therefore virtual private servers are created to offer you the same convenience, privacy, and control offered by dedicated servers at the fraction of the price. VPS allows multiple users to share one dedicated server by partitioning it with the use of software platforms to run as if it’s on its own dedicated machine. To make it clearer, a dedicated server with 200GB disk space running on 4GB of RAM and a processor with 4 GHz installed, if it is subdivided to 20 VPS accounts each account holder would get about 10GB of disk space, 500MB of RAM running at 200 MHz speed. Of course this is an ideal case but basically that’s how Virtual Private Servers operate.  cPanel Linux VPS is one type of VPS hosting that is using the Linux Operating System and using the cPanel and Webhost Manager as its web hosting control panel system.

cPanel is the leading control panel and had been designed back in the 90’s. It had various transformations and improvement thus it is the most stable in its field. The cPanel Linux VPS makes your server administration easy with its WebHost Manager and cPanel version 11 control system. It is multihosting secured unlike with the Plesk control panel where security on virtual hosts depends on their only security mechanism “php_safe mode” and by turning on the open_base_dir.

Thinking of disadvantages on cPanel Linux Virtual Private Servers is far more difficult than with showcasing the many advantages of choosing this type of server.  First of all, if you had already bought hosting before, you would already be familiar with cPanel. It’s the most commonly used control panel as it had been around for many years. Also, you can host an unlimited amount of domains with just one account on cPanel VPS plans even with their standard versions. You can create a site backup and you can backup MySQL databases and restore the entire site through those backups.

The use of cPanel and WHM 11 has a 4-level access which is provided with all types of cPanel Linux Virtual Private Servers. Being the server administrator, you are on top of the control pyramid. With Webhost Manager, you can create an access to a reseller with provisions so the reseller has his own reseller panel with features and limitations set by the server administrator.  Resellers get their own unique logons and control panel. The reseller could then create new domain accounts to his clients with backup and access to tools through his access to Webhost Manager.  Domain owners would all get a cPanel access where they could create their own web interface with the tools they need which are all provided by cPanel. Domain owners could then create mail accounts to each of his domains. The last level of access is the mail user login. Users with email accounts created for the domains with the use of cPanel would get an access to the email server.

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cPanel VPS Hosting

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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.

cPanel is designed to function either as a dedicated server or virtual private server and it supports CentOS, Red Hat Linux, and FreeBSD.

Application-based support includes Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Perl, Python, and BIND (DNS). Email based support includes POP3, IMAP, SMTP services. cPanel is commonly accessed on port 2082, with an SSL-secured server operating on port 2083.

History

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.

Add-Ons

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 Fantastico, Softaculous and Installatron. Auto Installers are a bundle of scripts which automate the installation and update of, web applications such as WordPress, Soholaunch, SMF, phpBB, Drupal, Joomla!, TikiWiki CMS/Groupware, Moodle, WHMCS and over 100 others. Fantastico is the most popular Auto Installer but is losing market fast because of lack of updates and less 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.

WHM (Web Host Manager)

WebHost Manager (WHM) is a web-based tool used by server administrators and resellers to manage hosting accounts on a web server. WHM listens on ports 2086 and 2087 by default.

As well as being accessible by the root admin, WHM is also accessible to users with reseller privileges. Reseller users of cPanel have a smaller set of features than the root user, generally limited by the server administrator, to features which they determine will affect their customers’ accounts rather than the server as a whole. From WHM, the server administrator can perform maintenance operations such as compile Apache and upgrade RPMs installed on the system.

Backend

According to support staff at cPanel, cPanel “runs primarily on Perl, and … with cPanel we are unable to support anything higher than [Perl] 5.8.8″ and not the current version of Perl, 5.10, released in December 2007.

Source: wikipedia