Cpanel is the back texts area offered by many web hosting services, such as Hostgator. This is a terrific tool, but at first it can be a bit overwhelming. This guide will cover some of the very nice features offered by Cpanel so that you can use them on your website.
First of all, if you have cPanel on your website, you can access it by going to your site and then / cpanel. Then you will see the login screen and you will need to enter the username and password that your hosting provider has provided for your site. Once you do this, you will come out with a large number of icons. The latest version of Cpanel has a tutorial, and I would suggest using it if you are using Cpanel for the first time. Between the tutorial and this tutorial, you should get a good idea of the many features you can use to improve your site.
The cpanel window is divided into categories. The first of the two categories is likely to be unique to your web host. For example, if you use Hostgator, the first area gives you discounts from other services that are partners with Hostgator, and the second area gives you access only to Hostgator areas, such as payment systems and applying for support. In these areas you should come to parts of Cpanel, which are almost the same for everyone.
The first area relates to cpanel. It has a link to the above tutorial, an area for changing your password, if you want to do this, an area for updating your contact information, and an area for changing the language and style in which Cpanel is displayed. The latter feature, shortcuts, is quite nice and allows you to create a desktop icon for quick access to Cpanel. In general, you are probably not going to use this area, except, perhaps, when you first start using Cpanel. It's nice to have it, the functions are nice, but in fact it means little to your site.
In the next area, you can set up email accounts from your domain. Depending on the service you choose, you must have a certain number of email addresses that you can create, for example, with Hostgator without restrictions. The email accounts icon allows you to create new accounts, for example, johndoe @ yoursite dot com. You can set functions for accounts, for example, how much space their email can take, what their password is, etc. The Webmail icon provides you with several services that you can use to access your email from any computer via the Internet. It's nice when you are not on your main computer and do not have access to Outook or other email readers. Of those that they offer, Cubemail seems to be the best for me, but this is just my opinion.
Box trapper is an anti-spam feature that allows you to create a list of people from whom you accept e-mail. Those who are not on the list will receive an email to which they must reply, or their email will be deleted. This may or may not be a good function for you, depending on how reliable your new customers are before you get them on the list. Spam killer is another anti-spam tool that filters your email and tries to get rid of spam before it gets into your inbox. The remaining icons allow you to do many things, such as a set of answering machines, i.e. from the office, send email from one address to another, and create filters to protect the information coming in and out of your organization. There are a lot of nice things here, and you just need some time to pass.
The third area that we will look at is the File area. It has some important features that you will regularly use with your site. The first two icons for backup. You should regularly back up your site. Cpanel makes it very easy. Just use the backup wizard and follow the instructions. It will create a full backup of all parts of your site and compress them into a zip file that you can download. Then backups are saved on your site. I would advise depending on how often your site is updated, you have frequent updates, at least weekly. There is nothing more disappointing than making a website work the way you want it, making one mistake and starting all over again. The following two icons are for the file manager.
This gives you the opportunity through cpanel to view your files on the site, edit them, delete, change server permissions and upload new files. Honestly, it is much better to use the ftp program for this, but in extreme cases it works very well. There is even a simple WYSIWYG html editor for making changes to your pages. The webdisk area allows you to place files on your site and use them as storage for these files. The use of this depends largely on what your hosting provider allows. Disk space shows how much space you use, how it is used and how much space you have left. Finally, the last three allow you to set up ftp (file transfer protocol) accounts to access your site using ftp software.
The fourth section is called magazines. I will not go through each icon, because the whole area simply tells you who is accessing your site and what they do when they get there. This is great for viewing how much traffic you get, as well as which points on your site people leave. If you regularly monitor these tools, you should get a good income from the number of people visiting your site and be able to fix any problems they face. Of all of them, if you just want Atesats to use a clean net view of your traffic. Just remember that his data is always for the whole day.
The fifth section is dedicated to security. The first icon allows you to password protect folders. Thus, if you want part of your site to be completely closed, you can do it. When someone tries to access it, they must enter a username and password to pass. The second icon allows you to set IP addresses that are not allowed on your server. This can be done to prevent spammers, hackers or other unwanted visitors. The SSL / TSL icon allows you to encrypt parts of your site so you can do things like securely retrieve credit card numbers for purchases. Your ability to do this will depend on your hosting provider and may cost extra. Protection Hotlink allows you to protect sites from theft of your bandwidth. For example, if you have a photo on your site that others want to use, they cannot simply link to your site and use your bandwidth to display the image. Depending on what the bandwidth limitations are, it can be very important for your website to become very expensive very quickly. Finally, GNUPG allows you to create encryption keys to encrypt your email messages so that only someone with the right key can read them.
The sixth section is the domain section. This area allows you to do several different things. First you can create subdomains. This allows you to create areas of your site, such as billing.yoursite.com or firstgrade.yoursite.com. Add-on domains allow you to have multiple sites on the same account. This feature may or may not be enabled by your provider. For example, I am currently running three domains from the same hosting package with Hostgator. It saves me a lot of money. Parked domains are those that you have, which you can simply point to your site. This is good if you want to have .com, .org, .net, etc. Your domain, and they all go there too. Finally, redirection allows you to pinpoint exactly where people end up typing your address.
The seventh section is the database section. I am not going to describe this section without giving you a warning. Do not mess with this area if you do not know what you are doing, or provide instructions for this. Many server programs now use MySQL databases, and that’s where they are managed. If you communicate with him without knowing what you are doing on your Wordpress blog, or your Wiki can easily stop working and not have an easy solution. I know this from personal experience. Do not mess with this section if you have no reason to do so.
The eighth section is probably the coolest. Here you can install a lot of cool software, such as Wordpress, Coppermine Image Gallery, etc. I’m going to cover only one icon in this section, as the others are a bit complicated without knowing such things as PHP. This icon is Fantastico. If you click here, you will be taken to a large menu of software that you can install on your website for free. Some of the really cool ones include
- Wordpress (very good blogging software)
- Joomla (web content manager allows you to create many different types of websites)
- Live Help Center (allows you to use live support chat, assuming you have someone completing the computer, otherwise a ticket system is provided)
- phpBB (full featured forum system)
- Coppermine Photo Gallery (allows you to upload and organize photos into attractive galleries)
- Tikiwiki (good wiki software)
- Moodle (allows you to create online courses)
- Web calendar (allows you to create an online calendar)
There are a lot of really cool programs here, but this is a sample of the best. You can get all sorts of functionality on your website from these programs, just be prepared to take the time to learn them. Hey, you can't beat the price and trust me, there are a lot of software packages you can get to do the same, but cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.
The final region is called extended and is called for some reason. As in the database area, you probably should not contact this area if you have no reason. There are two exceptions, and the first is the Image Manager icon. It allows you to view images on your web site and even convert them to popular file extensions, such as .jpg. The second is the Front Page extensions. If you are using Microsoft Frontpage (I think it's called Expressions now), you will need to enable these extensions to take advantage of all the features of the software.
Overall, Cpanel is an amazing set of scripts and programs from which you can manage your site. If you are lucky enough to have a hosting provider that offers it, it is in your interest to use it. Of course, I hope that this guide will help you see the value of Cpanel and that you will be lucky with it in the future.
