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What's cpanel?

• ipaddr 3y ago
  One click Admin page for your server. Install a library of programs, setup email accounts, landing pages, 404,etc. stats
  • justusthane 3y ago
    Just to add, it’s included with most shared hosting providers.
  • vachina 3y ago
    > One click Admin page Understatement of the year. cPanel feels janky but it works, and works very well. OP could’ve one clicked a Wordpress installation and hammered away with the default theme (which is quite readable already). My $20 DNS hosting comes with cPanel and I never had to lift a finger on sysadmin.
    • gexla 3y ago
      And Wordpress can do automatic updates.
      • Jnr 3y ago
        I have been using Wordpress auto updates for many years now, works great. Once in a while I have to also `docker compose pull` to update the PHP version (~once a year?) Hosting up to date Wordpress instance requires no effort. And Wordpress has a really nice editor.
  • gadders 3y ago
    They stuck their prices up massively in 2019. Put me off having a fun blog. Still not EUR400/year though.
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• oliyoung 3y ago
  didn't know a hackernews comment could make me feel old with two words
  • topato 3y ago
    Why? Shared/managed hosting solutions (read: not a VPS) are almost universally running cPanel, Plesk, or Webmin. I guess it was more well known in the days before AWS, when that was how almost all webhosting ran lol