I'm as neophyte as they come, but I am accustomed to the cPanel on other hosting services. What is the equivalent of that control panel and where is it to be found?
much obliged
This is unmanaged hosting, no control panel. Well unless you install one.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-ispconfig3-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-vesta-control-panel-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-ajenti-control-panel-on-ubuntu-13-04
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-utilize-virtualmin-on-a-vps
Hope this helps
You can even buy cPanel if you want that..
Since the VPS it self is cheap enough, if cPanel could have come at little cheaper, I might have went for its license..
All these free Panels has a major advantage, compare to cPanel they are very resource friendly..
I would recommend creating VPS with Ubuntu 12.04 and install zPanel.. Very Similar to cPanel but runs fine with 512MB and keeps a lot of RAM free too
Thanks..