A control panel is a web-based graphic interface which makes it possible to manage various aspects of your Internet hosting service. A few examples of things you will be able to do through this kind of a tool are email and file management, DNS records editing, URL forwarding, and many others. As you will find many control panel brands, the services that you can manage are also different and can also depend on the features that the internet 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 some task. Such an instrument gives you the option 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 majority of users appreciate the easier level of administration which a control panel can give.