A Control Panel is a web-based user interface via which you can control numerous aspects of your web presence. As an example, you could set up or modify website files, create and check email messages, handle databases, check visitor statistics and so forth. These things are executed via buttons and menus inside an internet browser and the CP may also be called ‘back office’, i.e. the administrative area associated with your website hosting account. Most of the Control Panels on the market will permit you to control all hosting-related matters, but you'll commonly require a different system to control payments or to get a new domain name when the company offers domain registrations. With respect to the platform they employ, you may be able to use the billing account to open a support ticket to ask a question or to diagnose a problem as well, or you may have to use a third system.