Software Overview
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Everything you'll need to manage software on your website is in this section:
SOFTWARE
Apps in red are of particular importance in the ongoing administration of your
web hosting. The listed order is the order that appears in cPanel.
| Cloudflare Cloudflare is a secure content distribution network (CDN) that uses proxy servers and an edge computing architecture to deliver content safely and quickly from the cloud. Cloudflare has a network of servers around the globe to help their customers improve performance metrics and deliver content as quickly as possible. CloudFlare Free is included with your hosting account. |
| Website Builder Website Builder is full-featured and includes 768 design templates. It's similar to SitePad. |
| WordPress Manager by Softaculous cPanel&WHM has provided a feature called WordPress Manager which allows you to manage new or existing WordPress sites on your cPanel account. This WordPress Manager interface will allow you to view your WordPress database name and user etc. It is also helpful to manage each site's automatic updates configuration. |
| PHP PEAR Packages PHP PEAR packages are software components that developers write in the PHP language. The PHP PEAR Packages interface allows you to search for and add PEAR packages to your website, or view all of your website's available PHP packages. |
| Perl Modules Perl modules are software components in the Perl language. This interface allows you to search for and install Perl modules from the CPAN repository to your website. Note: You must install Perl modules before you can use them inside of a Perl program. |
| Optimize Website This interface of cPanel helps you to enable gzip compression. Apache allows you to compress the data before sending it to the browser and then web browser extracts the data and displays the webpage. All modern browsers support gzip compression. |
| Application Manager This interface allows you to deploy applications with the Phusion Passenger® application server. A Phusion Passenger server functions as a process manager, reverse proxy, and provides operations tools to its users. |
| Softaculous Apps Installer Softaculous Apps Installer is an auto script installer, which installs the most popular PHP, JavaScript, Perl applications in just a few clicks. You can install the applications, modify the installation and Create as well as Manage Backups. |
| Setup Node.js App Node.js is a run-time environment which includes everything you need to execute a program written in JavaScript. It's used for running scripts on the server to render content before it is delivered to a web browser. |
| Select PHP Version It allows the user to switch between different PHP Versions, such as PHP 5.2, PHP 5.3, PHP 5.6, PHP 7.0, PHP 7.1, 7.3, 7.4 and 8.0 as well as enable more than 120 PHP extensions and modules, like APC, MySQLi, GD, PDO, SOAP and etc., entirely based on the user's needs. |
| Setup Python App Setup a complete Python environment in cPanel. |
| PHP X-Ray App PHP X-Ray is a tool available in your web hosting cPanel account that allows you to deeply analyze website performance and tells you where the bottlenecks are. For example, it can tell you which WordPress plugin cause website slowness. |