No matter what type of web hosting solution you pick, whether it be a free web hosting offer or a paid (hopefully cheap) web hosting provider, you know you need a software solution to manage your web site (or multiple web sites). There are many different solutions, and here are some of the more popular ones.

cPanel is an organization that wins the loyalty of customers around the globe by providing feature-rich applications backed by a team of developers, technical support engineers & quality assurance specialists that provide stable builds, direct support, & fantastic customer support. The product allows you to manage multiple websites through a single interface and administrate every thing from web site design to complex databases. Traditionally a Linux-based solution, cPanel also developes a Windows Server counterpart named Enkompass.

A very popular cPanel alternative is brought to us by Parallels, and is called Plesk Panel. Plesk is a similar solution to cPanel in that it serves as a web hosting solution that includes the provisiong of new sites and automated billing, as well as a site builder to build new web site content. Plesk works in both Windows and Linux server environments.

If you are looking for more of a single site web design software there are plenty of offerings, including:

* Microsoft Web Expressions
* Adobe Dreamweaver
* Web Studio 5.0
* CoffeeCup
* Google Page Creator