The cPanel Control Panel was indeed the proven No 1 player among hosting management interfaces a few years ago. Once hosting became popular, the cPanel platform could not fit into the new standards and come up to the requirements of the changing hosting market anymore.

The Octopus Hosting Control Panel has been made to run on a cloud web–site hosting setup and can quickly be changed every time a brand new functionality is designed. It’s really a one–stop site management solution for maintaining your web presence together with your domains, sites, billing and your support requests.

1. Domain name/billing/website controls

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With the Octopus Hosting Control Panel you are able to manage all your websites, domains and emails within the very same place. You do not need to count on any additional billing or domain name interfaces.

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The cPanel Control Panel doesn’t provide synchronised handling of domain names and web sites. You get one invoicing panel for your domain names and invoices, and yet another Control Panel for your sites.

2. File Arrangement

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Using the Octopus Hosting Control Panel, all the sites and subdomains are going to be free from each other. Every single website can have its own folder segregated from the rest inside the home folder of your hosting account. You can quickly move from focusing on one web site to maintaining another.

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If you decide to control several web sites from one cPanel account, it can be very perplexing. You have just one master website and all additional web sites and subdomains are going to be incorporated into its folder as sub–directories. If you want to have an independent directory for every single website, you will need to work with different Control Panel tools for each.

3. File Manager

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The Octopus Hosting Control Panel incorporates a simple point–and–click File Manager, which lets you upload files just by dragging them in the browser. You’ll have quick access to all capabilities through convenient right–click context menus. You can also take advantage of back–end code and WYSIWYG tools. All characteristics are are super easy to use.

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The File Manager featured in the cPanel Control Panel was revised a couple of times in recent times, nevertheless it still doesn’t provide good results when compared to other online data file manipulation instruments. You are not able to work with a drag & drop functionality to upload data files, the archive/unzip tool could be hard to rely on sometimes and also the file editing user interface is restricted in features.

4. 100–percent–free Add–ons

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With the Octopus Hosting Control Panel, you will receive many free–of–charge gifts developed by us. They’re available without cost with each website hosting solution, which uses Octopus Hosting’s Control Panel. With each plan, your able to use tools such as the Website Installer, the Application Installer, the PHP Framework Installer, the Cost Free Site Building Tool, a collection of Advanced Instruments, and more.

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Each individual web hosting company providing cPanel decides on its very own exactly what zero–cost gifts to to incorporate into your cloud hosting plan. Also, since cPanel is a commercial Control Panel, the cost–free extras also need to be covered by the web hosting supplier. This will certainly affect the price of your hosting package, so the free–of–cost bonus tools featured in your service will in reality be paid for.

5. Control Panel Operational Speed

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We have improved the Control Panel to run smoothly with our software and hardware only. This will make it way quicker than alternative website management tools. We have at the same time designed it to

make use of the total capacity of your Internet connection – the quicker your net connection is, the quicker our website management interface will work.

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cPane is built to be set up on a variety of platforms using a variety of hardware setups. Because of this, it’s not absolutely geared up to operate on a specific platform, which might have compromising result on performance rates and security. Furthermore, It may be even slower at times of higher server load.

6. Multi–domain name Management

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With the Octopus Hosting Control Panel, you’ll be able to control many different domains and web sites from one place. Transitioning between domain administration and site management is performed just by changing to a different part of the Control Panel. You don’t have to sign into a separate web address to handle your websites.

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The cPanel Control Panel helps keep different elements separated – you’ll have to maintain your domains from one login area and your sites from a different one. Each site possesses its own Control Panel. Handling a number of sites within one Control Panel is also possible, but could be puzzling because virtually all added domains will be kept in the directory of the main domain.

7. Control Panel Navigation

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With the Octopus Hosting Control Panel, you are able to quickly navigate from one area to a new one working with our very useful top navigation menu. It has links to each section of the Control Panel along with a brief explanation of exactly what you can do there. This way, even if you do not understand what the specific area signifies, you will have the ability to fairly quickly become familiar with its functions.

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On the cPanel main page, you will notice icons to all areas of the Control Panel. As a result, even though you may never employ a section, you will still find it in the index page. In addition, to switch between the different sections, you always have to browse back to the main page and then go to another section.

8. Demo Accounts

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The Octopus Hosting Control Panel features a full–featured demo that includes virtually every menu and function it is bundled with. You can start setting up a website, install web apps, set up email addresses, etc. This way, you can obtain a far more all–embracing idea of its interface and capabilities before you sign up.

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The cPanel Control Panel offers a general demo interface that will not supply you with access to the key website managing tools you need to test out. It will reveal to you the way a common home page appears to be and you’ll have access to a small percentage of all the featured controls. All other areas will be disabled till you join.

Using the Octopus Hosting Control Panel, maintaining your sites will be easy and enjoyable. Just take a peek at our Site Control Panel demo and examine the included features and tools to see by yourself.


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