lol coothead
Yeah its just a server panel for those that dont want to remember all the server commands to do stuff via command line (remember DOS) somewhat similar.. There are two major players, cPanel and Plesk. There are also free panels UI (User Interface) one can install but some of those you get what you pay for. Some are better than others, some require you to know everything but you can use the UI to do it, and some require alot less knowledge about commands just click and go with no real eye candy. But what is eye candy anyway right.
When i had my Dedicated server i spent so much time either updating dependencies (updates and stuff we had to have loaded) and researching commands because i did not use a panel, it was worth it to find a panel . For the most part once you get a server up and running alot of it is taken care of but there is enough to still do and its alot of typing to do it via command line.
Panels make everything easier, they handle all that command line stuff for you, even to just edit a file via command line is more troublesome than you might think. I decided on cPanel because i think its the lessor of evils. It has its issues as well, its a corp bloated for profit company and like all of those kinds of companies the relationship with the consumer has changed since the early days (when they were hungry for business) if you know what i mean. But i find the UI layout simple and organized much better than Plesk IMO.
Both of the major players have panels that you can do just about everything with, there are still some things from time to time that might need adjusting via command line. Those things are either done by customer support from the share hosting company if you ask them, or if you have a VPS or a Dedicated server you can log into the command line and do it yourself.
VPS is Virtual Private Server - they just take a disk and chop it up into little pieces digitally and each piece becomes a server on its own with its own environment. Its an inexpensive way to have a server environment without paying for a dedicated server. A dedicated server you have the whole space to yourself with noone else on the server but you. Most dedicated servers come with the OS installed already and then you take it from there. They also have what is called a bare metal server which means that it comes with nothing (disk is empty), they turn it on and you take it from there.
When you hear the word colocation it just means where is the server located, usually its a city name. They have cages in colocations where you can rent a cage if you are local and you have secured access to walk in and set up your server in the cage and then lock the cage when you are done. Or they have pre-setup servers you can rent of all kinds and specs.
Anyway sorry i didnt explain, sometimes we assume everyone knows what we are talking about.
PS also i did find out there html editor is disable for everything other than html files, no css, no php nothing but html ext files can be edited... so no im not using that poopy stuff.
