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cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

By : Aric Pedersen
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cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

By: Aric Pedersen

Overview of this book

"A great book for getting the most out of your cPanel-supporting web host" If you have web hosting requirements beyond the most basic, you should look for a host that offers cPanel. cPanel gives you tight control over every aspect of your web site, email accounts, and domain names. But once you've got a web site with cPanel support, how do you go about using it? While the documentation included with cPanel may provide a quick reference, to really get the most from it you need a more detailed, systematic tutorial. Read this book to find out exactly how to get the most from cPanel in all aspects of your web site management: web, email, FTP, security, domains, back ups, and more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
cPanel: User Guide and Tutorial
Credits
About the Author
Preface
Glossary

The Main cPanel Interface


If you have successfully logged into your account, you should be presented with the main cPanel interface, shown below:

Your web host may offer more or fewer features than you see in the screenshot. Also, it is possible that your web host uses a different cPanel theme. To see some other cPanel themes, please turn to Chapter 12.

At the extreme top right side of the cPanel interface you will see two links, HOME and LOGOUT. Clicking HOME will bring you back to this main cPanel screen from wherever you are and clicking LOGOUT will end your session in cPanel.

At the top of the screen you will find information about your web hosting account. You are welcomed to your domain (domain.com) and next to that there is the IP address of the last person that last logged into your cPanel account (if this is your first time logging in you should see None Recorded as shown in the previous figure). The IP address display may help you figure out if your account has been compromised or...