If you are making a website or are planning to do so and you have purchased a hosting service, then you should definitely be aware of what WHM’s cPanel is. If you’re asking “What is cPanel” at this stage then you just may be a little behind. cPanel stands for “control panel” and is software, which is available to you as a web-based graphical interface for the administration of many web hosting services (but for the most part it is available with web hosting services that are built upon the Linux platform).
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What is cPanel