Feature comparison: new vs. old |
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"How Do I do that in cPanel?"
This chart lists all the cPanel tools, and what their equivalent was in the old system. It's grouped the same way the icons are in cPanel for easier reading. (Note: your cPanel may not include everything listed depending on your hosting plan).
New cPanel Tool |
"Control Center" Eqiuvalent |
Description |
| PREFERENCES | ||
| Change Password | Change Password | Update your master password |
| Update Contact Info | Account Management | Enter contact email addresses, set notification preferences |
| Change Style | N/A | Lets you pick different color schemes for your cPanel |
| Change Look and Feel | N/A | Lets you switch 'skins' for your cPanel |
| Language | Language (4 to choose from) | 24 languages for your cPanel |
| Getting Started Wizard | N/A | Walks you through common setup tasks for your new cPanel |
| Access cPanel Shortcuts | N/A | Creates bookmarks and desktop shortcuts for easy cPanel access |
| Video Tutorials | N/A | Step-by-step video instruction on many cPanel functions |
| EMAIL MANAGEMENT TOOLS | ||
| Add/Remove E-mail account(s) | Mail Manager | Create and delete email addresses |
| Read Webmail | WebMail | Provides simple link to WebMail portal |
| Webmail Manager | N/A | Edit and assign WebMail profiles for multiple users. |
| Auto-Responders | Mail Manager | Create and manage auto-responders (use sparingly!) |
| E-mail Forwarders | Mail Manager | Set up an email address at your domain that forwards elsewhere. NOTE: forwarding is not permitted to the following ISPs: aol, hotmail, msn, comcast, yahoo - see "important stuff" page! |
| E-Mail Address Trace | N/A | Show the delivery path to an address you specify. |
| Mailing Lists | Mailing List/Mail Manager | Create and manage mailing lists |
| MX Entry Maintenance | N/A | Update your domain's MX record if you use off-site mail service |
| User Level Filtering | N/A (though WebMail allowed user-based filters) | Create mail filters for specific email addresses |
| Account Level Filtering | SpamVault (add-on) | Create filters that affect all users in your account |
| MailScanner Configuration | AntiSpam Suite (add-on) | Powerful configuration tool to control how spam, viruses, etc are handled |
| ANALYSIS AND LOG FILES | ||
| Latest Visitors | Site Statistics / Urchin (add-on) | See the latest visitors to your site updated fresh |
| Bandwidth | Resource Meter | Traffic graphs, usage and history |
| Webalizer | Site Statistics / Urchin (add-on) | Comprehensive stats |
| Webalizer FTP | N/A | Stats for FTP usage/activity |
| Awstats | Site Statistics / Urchin (add-on) | Nicer-looking graphical stats analyzer |
| Raw Access Logs | N/A | Download raw log files to your computer |
| Error Log | N/A | View the error log for your account |
| Choose Log Programs | N/A | Not necessary in new setup |
| FILES | ||
| Backup | Archive Manager (limited, no MySQL backups) | Easily make backups of site, databases, & email settings in cPanel |
| Backup Wizard | N/A | Walks you through creating and/or restoring from backup sets |
| Legacy File Manager | File Manager | Graphical interface to work with your files - previous version from cPanel 10 |
| File Manager | File Manager | Grpahical interface for working with files & folders, cPanel 11 version |
| Disk Usage Viewer | Resource Meter (sort of) | Shows you usage and where it's coming from (how much is in each folder) |
| FTP Accounts | FTP User Manager (add-on) | Create FTP users, assign home folders & quotas |
| FTP Session Control | N/A | Allows you to monitor & control FTP connections to your account in real-time |
| Web Disk | N/A | Make a drag & drop folder on your computer for easy access to files |
| DOMAINS | ||
| Sub Domain Stats | N/A | Visitor info for your subdomains |
| SubDomains | N/A | Create & manage subdomains (something.yourdomain.com) and determine where they point |
| Manage Redirects | Redirect URL | Redirect visitors to a different URL |
| DATABASES | ||
| MySQL Database Wizard | N/A | Easy way to quickly create a new DB |
| MySQL Databases | MySQL | Create & manage your MySQL DBs. |
| Manage Remote MySQL Access | MySQL | Allow external web sites/servers to access your MySQL databases |
| phpMyAdmin | MySQL | Work with your MySQL databases |
| SECURITY | ||
| HotLink Protection | N/A | Prevent other websites from stealing your bandwidth by disabling the ability to link directly to your images. |
| IP Deny Manager | N/A | Block IP addresses and ranges from accessing your site |
| Web Protect | Protect Directories | Password-protect folders in your account. |
| Manage OpenPGP Keys | N/A | Manage GnuPG encryption |
| SSL/TLS Manager | GeoTrust QuickSSL | Generate keys, signing requests and install SSL certificates you have purchased. |
| SOFTWARE | ||
| CGI Center | FormMail, Counter | Useful scripts including FormMail, counter, guestbook and more. |
| Fantastico! (available on the Fantastico package only) | CartXpress, ContentXpress, SiteXpress, PowerScriptz! (add-ons) | 30+ tools including blogs, bulletin boards, CMS, more (the only add-on we have now!) |
| Perl Module | N/A | Install Perl Modules and get info on server-installed modules as well |
| PHP PEAR | N/A | Install & manage PHP Extensions and Applications |
| PHP Configuration | N/A | Display important PHP configuration information to help you in coding PHP. |
| RubyGems | N/A | Install & configure modules for Ruby on Rails |
| Ruby on Rails | N/A | Create & manage Ruby on Rails applications |
| ADVANCED TOOLS | ||
| Mime Types | Mime Types | Add/configure mime types |
| Apache Handlers | N/A | Create user-defined file types and tell Apache how to treat them |
| Cron Jobs | Cron Manager (add-on) | Schedule & configure cron jobs |
| Networking Tools | Network Troubleshooter | Basic domain lookup, ping, trace |
| Index Manager | N/A | Control how your folders are viewed online (or not) |
| Custom Error Pages | Error Manager | Create custom error pages for 404 and other common error conditions |
| FrontPage Extensions | MS Frontpage | Enable/disable FP extensions |