A control panel is a web-based graphic interface which permits you to manage numerous aspects of your web hosting service. Examples of the things that you will be able to do using this kind of an instrument are e-mail and file management, DNS records editing, URL forwarding, and so on. As you will find various control panel brands, the services that you can control are also different and may also depend on the attributes that the hosting company offers. For instance, you may have a specific option in one control panel and not in another, or it could take more steps to do some task. Such an instrument provides you with the opportunity to use a point-and-click interface instead of entering commands with complex syntax inside a command line. Despite the fact that some users prefer the aforementioned option, the majority of users welcome the easier level of administration which a control panel provides.