What is a control panel for?

A control panel is not a must. It's just easy and comfortable if you are going to host a website on a VPS and you are new to all this.  

With a control panel you can use a VPS even if you are not an experienced server administrator, because it helps manage a server via web interface. Manuals and tips are there in the Internet from a panel developers and all the basic software is already installed with a panel - web-server, PHP, MySQL. A control panel has a user friendly web interface and makes server management easy. With a control panel, you can:

• add domains and subdomains;
• upload/delete websites content;
• make backup copies;
• use webinterface for mail access;
• create email addresses and FTP-users;
• setup SPAM filters;
• create mailing lists;
• create databases and their users;
• view metrics and logs;
• create your own error pages;
• edit DNS zones for domains
• etc.

We provide cheap cPanel for servers, which is one of the most popular control panels, as well as some other panels. Have a look at the control panels we offer.