Whilst cPanel is very powerful & feature rich, it is very easy to use & it is perfect for beginners or non technical people. It has an easy to use interface & whilst there are many features available, if you are just starting out then you will find that you can manage your website files & emails easily with a very short learning curve.

Yes, there is a cPanel demo that you can try for yourself

Anyone can use it. Whether you are completely new to hosting or you are a dyed in the wool techie, cPanel puts you in total control of your web hosting service.

In order to login to the cPanel platform to example.com/cpanel (replace example with your domain name)
You will be presented with a login page, there you need to enter your cPanel username and password.
We would have sent you that information via email when you signed up to the hosting service.

Setting up & managing emails is very easy. Just create your new email addresses, give them a password & you are up & running. You can then configure your emails to download to your favourite email client such as Outlook or you can access them via your mobile phone or via webmail.

You can set up auto-responders and email forwarding too.

Via Pickaweb's cPanel platform. If you are managing your website through an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program such as Filezilla then you can manage your accounts easily via the control panel.

This allows you to upload & download files directly to your hosting space. You can also manage permissions for your files too.

You can even manage your files using cPanel’s built in File Manager.

cPanel is the control panel that the end user would use to manage their hosting account.
WHM is the control panel used for administering a cPanel server and is available on plans aimed at resellers and sysadmins. WHM is included in reseller hosting, Linux dedicated servers and VPS.

There are a number of really useful domain features which give you plenty of flexibility to set things up exactly as you want. For example, you can set up any of the following with our web hosting plans:

• Parked Domains: By setting up domain parking you can allow other domain names to re-direct to your main website. For example, if your main domain & website is located on a .com domain name, you can set up the equivalent .co.uk domain name as a parked domain name. This way, if someone forgets your exact website URL & type in the wrong one (in this case the .co.uk) then they will still be taken to your main website (i.e. the .com website in this case).
  
  
• Addon Domains: If you have multiple domain names & you want to setup multiple websites for each one, rather than purchasing a hosting plan for each one, you can set up addon domains to your main domain name & each one will be allow you to set up a website & emails for each addon domain. This can save you a lot of money if you have many domains.
  
  
• Sub Domains: Using sub domains allows you to create specific folders to be used for specific purposes & it helps you to give a logical structure to your hosting space. For example you can set up sub domains for blogs or forums.

It allows you to easily manage the set up of feature rich software which you can use on your website. For example you can set up a blog or a forum or an ecommerce shopping cart all from within the control panel.

We use a tool called Softaculous which allows even inexperienced users to quickly install amazing applications into their website.

Below is a list of some of the most popular Applications that you can install via Softaculous:

• WordPress
• Joomla
• Drupal
• OsCommerce
• Prestashop
• phpBB
• Magento

It comes with a range of useful security features built in to help ensure that you keep your website & your files safe & secure. Whether you want to password protect a directory, ban an IP address or install an SSL certificate you can manage it all from within the control panel.

It allows you to easily back-up your website files either to your local PC or to another location such as a server.

The beauty of this is that if any files become corrupt or you overwrite something in error then you also have a full backup of all your files. These can then be restored easily.

You can also schedule backups to be performed automatically using the CRON feature. This means that you won’t forget to run a backup as it is all done automatically for you.

You can set up databases, add users & manage permissions all from within cPanel. You can easily create & manage MySQL databases.

You can also use more advanced features such as allowing external web servers to access & interrogate your databases.

A CRON allows you to create and manage tasks at a pre-scheduled time or at regular intervals.

For example, if you have a billing application that needs to generate invoices on a daily basis you can create a CRON rule (a CRON job as it is known) which will run at midnight or another time that you specify each day. The CRON can be instructed to run a script instructing the database to create any invoices due on that day.

Your cPanel account will be setup instantly. Once payment has been made you will receive an email with all the information required to use the service.