A Control Panel is a software tool which is used to manage the content of an Internet hosting account. Including, but is not limited to, files, emails, databases, statistics and various operations performed with them. The CP offers a web-based interface to control all these things and everything else relevant to the web hosting service using different sections in which you can access features through buttons and/or menus. The less complicated to use a CP is, the simpler it'll be for you to handle your world-wide web presence as a whole. In the general scenario, the CP is the hosting account’s back office, while a different billing account is employed to manage payments and domain name registrations - if the company offers this service. Trouble tickets could be managed via the billing account or via a different system.