A control panel is a web-based graphic interface that enables you to manage different aspects of your hosting service. A few examples of what you will be able to do through this type of a software tool are e-mail and file management, DNS records editing, URL forwarding, etcetera. As you can find many different control panel brands, the services that you can control are also different and may also depend on the attributes that the web hosting company offers. For instance, you may have a certain option in one control panel and not in another, or it could take additional steps to perform a certain task. Such an instrument offers you the chance to use a point-and-click interface instead of inputting commands with complex syntax in a command line. Even though some users would rather have the aforementioned option, the vast majority of users welcome the easier level of administration that a control panel offers.