What is control panel?

[Krishnan]

Hello everyone,
While looking for the web hosting plans I have seen some of the companies provide control panel access to their customers. But, I am confused about what control panel is?
Can you guys help me with that?

[Ritu]

Hey,
you might have seen control panel in Windows hosting plans, as it is a feature of the Windows Operating system that allows its users to modify, control and manage their hardware and software tools Keyboards, Display and Power points, Administrative tools respectively.

[sonam]

Control Panel is a part of Microsoft Windows that provides you the ability to view and change system settings. You are allowed to add or remove hardware and software, control user accounts, change accessibility options, access network settings.

[Gandhar Kulkarni]

Control Panel is a part of Microsoft Windows that provides you the ability to view and change system settings. You are allowed to add or remove hardware and software, control user accounts, change accessibility options, access network settings.

The control panel, in the context of Windows, is a software module used to perform administrative and management operating system tasks and/or provide access to specific software features.

[Keeran]

Control panel is the centralized configuration area in Windows. It is mainly used to make changes in every aspect of the operating system. Which includes keyboard and mouse function, power management, desktop backgrounds, sounds, hardware, program installation and removal, speech recognition, parental control, etc.

[DipakS]

Hello everyone,
While looking for the web hosting plans I have seen some of the companies provide control panel access to their customers. But, I am confused about what control panel is?
Can you guys help me with that?

The basic definition of a control panel, it is used to configure and manage almost all features of Windows, including keyboard and mouse functionality, users and passwords, power options, network settings, desktop background, monitor settings, sound settings, mouse settings, hardware and software settings, installation and uninstall a program.
But when we take a reference of a control panel in web hosting, a web hosting control panel is a web-based interface provided by a web hosting service that allows users to manage their servers and hosted services.
In a web hosting control panels you get following features:

• Web server (e.g. Apache HTTP Server, NGINX, Internet Information Services)
• Domain Name System server
• Mail server and spam filter
• phpMyAdmin
• File Transfer Protocol server
• Database
• File manager
• System monitor
• Firewall