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Virtual Private Servers are one of the best solutions for expensive web hosting introduced some time ago. Nowadays, VPS hosting is one of the cheapest ways of hosting web applications and gained much popularity among the home and home-office users. The main advantage of VPS is that it is fully controllable by the end client. For controlling their own VPS, clients are given many facilities and CPanel is one of those useful tools for managing Virtual Private Servers. Therefore, CPanel VPS hosting has become one of the main services of VPS hosting. In this short post, we try to understand about CPanel and the unique strengths it introduces to VPS hosting.

In VPS, the client gets the full access to a virtual server including the password for root access. Usually there are two ways of strongly managing a VPS; shell access and CPanel. In shell access, you are given the root privilege access to the server and you can do anything to the server. For this, the client needs to access the server through SSH and perform Linux command line access. But the main issue with this method is that not all the clients are fluent in Linux commands and mistakes can wipeout the entire software installation in Linux. There have been number of cases where clients have mistakenly deleted files in the VPS so the hosts had to restore the backups and reinstall the VPS. 

Since non-geek users had issues with shell access, they required a simple user interface for managing their virtual private server. CPanel was introduced as the solution for this and it has almost become ‘the’ solution for addressing this issue. When it comes to managing a VPS and its software, there are many tasks to execute. There is a number of software to be installed such as MySQL, PHP, Perl, etc. If someone to install these in the native way, they need to know how to work in Linux shell. What CPanel introduced was a couple of dropdowns and buttons for this task. So, CPanel simplified complex technical tasks into simple UI interactions. This made CPanel to be popular among the non-geek VPS users and sometimes among the geeks as well. 

When it comes to hosting, it is just a matter of integrating CPanel in to VPS so the clients can easily manage their VPS. If you are a reseller, then the reseller package will include CPanel access for your client as well. If you are a web hosting service provider, then you will see that virtual private servers with CPanel will have a lot of sales compared to conventional shell access VPS. If you are really keen on getting more clients to your newly started web hosting business, CPanel VPS hosting may be the best option.