Introduction to Cpanel Shared Hosting and Fantastico De Luxe

There are a number of Unix flavored shared hosting out there  to choose from. On the less expensive end of things there is a great hosting control panel system known as Cpanel. Cpanel can come bundled with a number of features and one in particular that is very useful for those getting started with a website is Fantastico DeLuxe. Fantastico is an automated installer for popular open source scripts. Cpanel also has a good number of other features aside from Fantastico.

In perhaps an oversimplified sense there are two flavors or types of shared hosting available. One can either go with Windows or Unix based hosting. Windows is among other things great for using windows based scripts and software applications on. It is after all designed for this. Unix or Linux based hosting is available on a number of platforms or operating systems that for the most part provide the same end results. Unix based shared hosting tends to be less expensive than its Windows counterpart.

Just as there is a great number of hosting platforms there is even more shared hosting control panels to choose from. One very popular control panel is called Cpanel. Cpanel has many features especially if the hosting provider enables all of them! It allows email management, FTP and Web stats, MySQL database management and on and on. One of the add-ons for Cpanel that is of particular interest is Fantastico De Luxe. It allows even beginners to install scripts like content management systems such as Joomla, blogs like Wordpress, forums like phpBB and so on. It does it all in just a few clicks. This can save hours of FTP transfer, file permission configuration and other setup.

Cpanel also has a good number of other features that make it a popular choice. The later versions have video tutorials, extensive help and management of just about every detail of your shared hosting account including access to error logs. Cpanel is definitely recommended for a shared hosting control panel.