A Control Panel is a software tool that is used to manage the content of a hosting account. Including, but is not limited to, files, email messages, databases, statistics and different operations executed with them. The Control Panel offers a web-based interface to control all of these things and anything else associated with the hosting service through different sections where you can access functions through menus and/or buttons. The less complicated to use a CP is, the simpler it will be for you to handle your web presence in its entirety. In the typical case, the Control Panel is the web hosting account’s back office, while a separate billing account is used to handle payments and domain name registrations - if the company provides that service. Trouble tickets may be dealt with from the billing account or via a different system.