cPanel Hosting

cPanel hosting gives website owners a wide variety of options and a high level of control, all with an easy-to-use and approachable user interface. If you’re a web developer looking for a deeper level of information and control than simple content management systems or website templates, cPanel web server hosting is an excellent option for you to consider.

cPanel offers access and control over the following site elements:

• The site’s attached email accounts, including autoresponders, filtering, email authentications, and spam filters
• The privacy and security options such as banned IPs, password protection for directories and files, and several other built-in security features
• Domain management like subdomains, parked domains, addon domains, and redirects

cPanel web hosting also offers the user a wide variety of third-party apps – of which there are plenty, considering that it’s been consistently used since 1997.

Other prominent features of this system include easily accessed, modified, and managed files, a straightforward file browser, and site statistic logging. With these, you’ll be able to not only control the files you put up for the world to see but also view the data of the users who work with those files.

Besides the features above, cPanel gives webmasters control over their data and content via MySQL and PostgreSQL database management. User-created and user-submitted content is often one of the main factors in developing a website that keeps users coming back repeatedly, and direct database management through cPanel is a highly useful feature of our hosting service.

Start by following the simple instructions you receive to access your site’s cPanel main page. From there, an easy-to-use search feature and a clear, efficient, and pleasant presentation ensure you’ll find the services you’re looking for as quickly as possible. You can also follow our cPanel Tutorial.

If you ever run into any problems or issues, you can seek help from the massive archive of discussions relating to cPanel online. Since it is such a well-established piece of software, your question or issue has almost certainly been encountered before, and you’ll be able to find a fix easily. Of course, you always have access to A2 Hosting’s 24/7/365 support team as well!

Besides this basic functionality, cPanel offers its users access to many third-party apps that can automate tedious, repetitive processes and expand upon cPanel’s already versatile capabilities. You’ll be able to customize cPanel to show only the information you need, ensuring that you can spend the bulk of your time on the website itself rather than back-end features that users will never see.

Choosing cPanel Hosting offers ease and flexibility in managing your website. Renowned for its reliability, cPanel simplifies web management by providing a suite of powerful tools through an intuitive, easy-to-navigate interface. It grants you, the website owner, comprehensive control over every aspect of your site – from deep database management to the finer points of your site’s aesthetics. You also have the freedom to dive into the technical details or use external applications for assistance, all while maintaining ultimate oversight.

Opting for cPanel means choosing autonomy for your web projects. Your site remains entirely under your control, allowing you to engage with its content and design as intensively or minimally as you prefer. Focus your efforts where they matter most to you without being obligated to master complex software just to perform basic tasks. Unlike other web management platforms that demand a steep learning curve for simple operations, cPanel’s user-friendly design and graphical interface let you execute your plans efficiently without constant reference to guides or forums.

We offer the fastest hosting services at some of the lowest prices available! We are a cPanel host that offers SSD hosting, providing a massive boost to your site’s speed, as well as several available data centers, ensuring that you’re not sending content around the world and back again to reach local users.

A2 Hosting is a cPanel host that combines the strength and versatility of cPanel itself with blazing fast connection speed, 99.9% uptime guarantee, extremely helpful customer service and support, and a broad list of powerful features that other web hosts in the world can’t provide.

Your A2 Hosting account is loaded with features all designed to make your life easier! Below is a breakdown of just some of the features included with your account!

• File Manager – View and manage all files in your cPanel Hosting account. Use the File Manager to add folders, upload, copy, move, download, delete, restore, rename, and edit files. There is also an HTML editor within the File Manager.
• Image Management – This gives you the ability to edit and manage all of the images included in your hosting account. You’ll find a number of image tools, including:
  • Thumbnails – Generate thumbnails within your image directories.
  • Image Scaler – Edit the size of the images in your image directories.
  • Image File Converter – Update the file type for your images including .jpg image files and .png image files.
• Directory Privacy – The directory privacy feature enhances the security of your hosting account. When enabled, the directory privacy feature users who attempt to access specific directories will be required to enter a username and password.
• Disk Usage – View the amount of disk space used by each of your hosting accounts’ directories.
• Web Disk – A Web Disk account allows you to edit, upload, view, and download files on your hosting account.
• SFTP Accounts – With the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), you can manage your web hosting account’s files with SFTP clients like Filezilla. Create and manage your FTP accounts within cPanel!
• SFTP Connections – See who has accessed your account via SFTP and stop connections from unwanted users.
• Backup – Download all your hosting accounts’ files to a zip file. It’s a good idea to download your site from time to time. That way, you have a backup in case you make a mistake on your site and need to revert it to a previous version.
• Backup Wizard – Gives you another option to download your site or restore it from previously saved backup files.
• Git Version Control – Do you have multiple users working on your account? Version control allows you to save your site’s files and keep track of any changes made to them.

Easily install the most popular software like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and OpenCart to your account with a few mouse clicks. There’s no need to upload or download files. Softaculous will just walk you through installing the software in a few simple steps.

Just some of the options included are:

• Blogs – WordPress, Nucleus, b2evolution and more
• CMS – Joomla, Drupal, MODX, Concrete5 and more
• eCommerce – AbanteCart, PrestaShop, OpenCart, Magento, osCommerce and more
• Project Management – Mantis, eyeOS, Feng Office, phpCollab, Traq and more
• Frameworks – Laravel, CodeIgniter, yii, Booststrap, CakePHP and more

Manage all of your account’s databases in cPanel! Here are all of the database features available:

• phpMyAdmin – Use PHPMyAdmin to manage your SQL databases, including importing, exporting, and updating.
• MySQL Databases – Create, modify, and search your databases.
• MySQL Database Wizard – The MySQL Database Wizard will walk you through the setup of your databases. Use the wizard to create a database, create database users, and add users to your databases.
• Remote MySQL – Allows you to add a domain name for your visitors to connect to your MySQL databases.
• PostgreSQL Databases – Create and manage PostgreSQL databases.
• PostgreSQL Database Wizard – Use the Wizard to create PostgreSQL databases, set up PostgreSQL database users, and add PostgreSQL users.
• phpPGAdmin – Use this tool specifically designed to manage your PostgreSQL databases.

You can manage all of your domains with the domain features found in your cPanel account.

• Site Publisher – Choose a template and quickly design a site with the built-in What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor. While you can use the Site Publisher to design your permanent site, it’s also a great tool for generating a temporary site. That way, you can announce your online presence, and your audience can find your contact information. That’s much better than a “Coming Soon” or “Under Construction” page.
• Domains – Create new domains, manage your domains, and set up email!
• Addon Domains – The perfect way to host additional domains on your account.
• Subdomains – A subdomain allows you to create a new website without using a new domain name. “subdomain.a2hosting.com” is an example of a subdomain. Create new subdomains by selecting the domain you want to use.
• Aliases – A domain alias allows your domain to be viewable from a different domain. For example, a domain alias would allow a2hosting.net to be viewed on a2hosting.com.
• Redirect – A domain redirect permanently moves one domain to another. This is often important for SEO purposes. For example, if you wanted to permanently move a2hosting.net to a2hosting.com, you would use the redirect tool.
• DNS Zone Editor – The Domain Name System (DNS) converts your domain name into IP addresses that computers can read. DNS zone files configure your domain name with the correct IP address. Manage your A Records, CNAME Records, and MX Records for each of your domains with the DNS Zone Editor.

cPanel is loaded with tools to help you get the most out of the email hosting features included with your A2 Hosting account!

• Barracuda Spam Filtering – At A2 Hosting, you can get enhanced spam filtering via Barracuda. Barracuda will scan each incoming email for potential scams, spam, and potentially dangerous messages. Each day, you will receive a summary email with the messages flagged by the Barracuda filter. You can then view the messages and decide if you want to have those messages delivered.
• Email Accounts – Create email accounts, delete email accounts, and check emails.
• Forwarders – A forwarder automatically sends an incoming email from one account to another. This is especially helpful if you have multiple email addresses but only want to check one email box.
• Email Routing – Configure the route of an email message so it’s sent to a specific server.
• Autoresponders – Configure automated email responses to incoming messages. This is a great way to stay in contact with anyone emailing you when you’re on vacation or away from your computer.
• Mailing Lists – Send a message to a single email address that sends to multiple email addresses.
• Global Email Filters – Filters make it much easier to manage messages you receive for all email accounts on your cPanel account. Some of the available actions include automatically deleting the message, redirecting the email to another address, sending it to a specific folder, and more.
• Email Filters – Set up filters for individual email accounts.
• Email Deliverability – Use this tool to find any issues with your email-related DNS records for each domain. The system uses your records to ensure other servers can trust it as the sender.
• Spam Filters – Our Spam Filters use Apache SpamAssassin. When you turn this tool on, emails with spam scores higher than 5 will have headers updated identifying the message as spam. You can also set up Auto-Delete to automatically delete those emails with high spam scores.
• Encryption – Use cPanel’s encryption feature to prevent your messages from reaching and being viewed by unwanted readers. Encrypted email messages need a key to be able to be read by the message’s recipient.
• BoxTrapper – Requires each person who sends you an email to be on your whitelist before the message is delivered. If the sender is not on your whitelist, they must click a link in a verification message.
• Calendars and Contacts – cPanel uses the CardDAV address book client which allows you to share and access contact information on a server. cPanel also uses CalDAV, an internet standard for accessing calendar data on a server.
• Email Disk Usage – Delete old messages on your account to recover additional disk space on your account.
• Remote MX Wizard – Set up the MX records and other services for your email provider. For example, you can use G Suite with your account allowing your email service to be hosted by Google.

A2 gives you the best Web Hosting cPanel account because it has software to help you build your account and maximize its performance.

• Cloudflare – Cloudflare is a versatile Content Delivery Network (CDN). When you use Cloudflare, you get access to features like:
  • Global Caching – Improve your site’s performance with content caching from over 100 global datacenters. Your site’s static content is stored in a data center hosted close to your visitor, decreasing latency.
  • Enhanced Security – CloudFlare helps protect your site against DDoS attacks and other vulnerabilities.
  • CDN Statistics – Get insights into CloudFlare’s performance including the number of security vulnerabilities it has protected you against and the amount of bandwidth saved.
  • Site Performance – CloudFlare offers a number of tools to help you get the fastest site performance including image optimization and network connection optimizations (meaning third-party tools won’t be able to slow down your site!).
• PHP Pear Packages – Find and install PHP extensions, allowing you to perform PHP tasks.
• Perl Modules – Find and install Perl Modules to help you with your Perl development.
• Optimize Website – Improve your site’s performance by selecting content compression settings.
• DropMySute – Sign up for an enhanced account backup solution complete with:
  • Daily backups
  • Instantly download backups and restore your site on demand
  • Database backups
  • Search backup files
• Setup Node.js App – A2 Hosting is the leading provider of Node.js Hosting! Use our Node.js tool to create your applications!
• Select PHP Version – At A2 Hosting, you select the version of PHP you want to use! This is just one of the reasons why you won’t find a better  PHP Hosting provider anywhere. Choose from PHP v5.6, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 or 8.0. You can also select and de-select the PHP extensions you want to use.
• Setup Python App – Create your Python apps using this tool!

A2 Hosting takes security seriously! In fact, we have our own exclusive Perpetual Security features that are always running on your account. Below is a breakdown of the security features included in cPanel, as a part of our Perpetual Security initiative.

• AutoInstall SSL – Did you buy an SSL Certificate from A2 Hosting? Our AutoInstall SSL feature offers you the quickest and easiest SSL installation. The AutoInstall SSL will generate your Certificate Signing Request (CSR), install your certificate, and verify that the installation has been completed.
• SSH Access – Secure Socket Shell (SSH) provides secure file transfers and remote logins through your internet connection. Use the SSH Access feature in cPanel to manage your SSH Keys, which are used during the authentication process.
• IP Blocker – Designate specific IP addresses you do not want accessing your site.
• SSL/TLS – Create, view, and upload your private keys, Certificate Signing Requests (CSR), and SSL Certificates.
• SSL/TLS Status – View the SSL status for each domain.
• Hotlink Protection – Prevents users from directly linking to your site’s files. For example, this would prevent someone from displaying an image from your site on their own site using an tag. This feature ultimately helps you save and maximize your account’s bandwidth.
• Leech Protection – Stops your account’s users from sharing or posting their passwords to your site. Any accounts that have been compromised can be redirected to a URL of your choosing.
• Two-Factor Authentication – An excellent way to prevent unauthorized access to your account. With Two-Factor Authentication (2FA), not only do you need your password to log into your account, but a unique passcode will be generated on the smart device of your choosing when logging in. That passcode will also need to be entered to access your account. That means even if your password is compromised, unauthorized account access will be prevented because the malicious user will not be able to generate and enter a unique passcode from your smart device.

Yes, cPanel is an excellent choice for hosting, as it is easy to use and provides a comprehensive set of tools for website and server management. Its intuitive graphical interface and automation tools make it simple to manage domains, emails, databases, and much more.

At A2 Hosting, we leverage cPanel’s capabilities to enhance our hosting services. We offer features like the A2 Optimized tool that ensures optimal performance and security settings for various applications, making it a top pick for anyone building a website, no matter how experienced they are.

While cPanel itself is a paid software, many hosting providers, including A2 Hosting, bundle it with their hosting plans without any additional cost to the user. This effectively makes cPanel free for the end-user within the context of a hosting package.

A2 Hosting incorporates cPanel into all of our plans, such as the Shared Web Hosting and Managed VPS Hosting, ensuring customers have access to this powerful control panel as part of their service package.

No, you can’t get paid or free web hosting with cPanel, as that is just the control panel software web hosting providers use to give customers a user-friendly way to manage their websites, set up email accounts and databases, and install web applications.

However, if you purchase a hosting plan from A2, you get free cPanel with it, so it makes more sense to look for similar plans instead of buying a separate cPanel license. This partnership between cPanel and hosting providers facilitates a smoother, more accessible web hosting experience for users.

The cost of hosting a website with cPanel depends on the hosting plan and provider you choose. A2 Hosting, for example, offers a range of cPanel hosting options tailored to different needs and budgets. Shared Hosting plans with cPanel start at a low monthly fee, offering a cost-effective solution for small websites and blogs.

For larger sites requiring more resources, A2’s Managed VPS or Dedicated Server plans include cPanel and provide greater power and flexibility. The specific price points vary, reflecting the diversity in hosting needs and the comprehensive features and support of A2 Website Hosting plans.