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cPanel
cPanel, often referred to as control panel, is the interface used for making changes to and customizing your hosting account with InMotion Hosting. Some of the great features that cPanel includes are:
- Email: Within cPanel you can create new email accounts, view/modify your existing accounts, modify your MX records, change email passwords, set up mail box quotas and much more.
- Domains: Under the domains section of cPanel, you can configure new domains to your account, set up parked domains, create subdomains, setup redirects, and much more.
- File Management: In the files section of cPanel, you can backup your cPanel account, access/modify files stored in your account, review your disk usage, and create/manage FTP accounts.
- Databases: Here you can create new databases, set up remote access to MySQL, access the databases using phpMyAdmin, and much more.
cPanel is very user friendly and is quite robust. There are numerous tools within cPanel to handle a wide variety of tasks. It contains a full help menu that is easy to use.
Getting Started in cPanel
- How to Log Into cPanel *Highly Recommended
- The cPanel Layout/Interface
- Changing Your cPanel Password
- How to View Your PHP Version in cPanel
- How to Setup Backups in cPanel *Highly Recommended
Using Email
- Creating an Email Account *Highly Recommended
- How to Log Into Webmail
- How to Modify MX Records Using cPanel
Using Softaculous
Softaculous is a tool located within your cPanel you can use to help you easily install other programs. Softaculous does the tedious work involved with software installation. No more uploading installation files or creating and configuring databases, you can now install programs such as WordPress and Joomla by simply clicking a link.
- FAQ – Installing Programs with Softaculous
- List of Programs in Softaculous
- How to Install Programs Using Softaculous
- How to Uninstall Programs in Softaculous
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The What and Why
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Logins & Passwords
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Account/Server Info
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cPanel Security
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cPanel SSLs
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cPanel Backups
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cPanel DNS
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File Manager Basics
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cPanel FTP
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Resource Usage
Did you know cPanel lists useful information about your account Statistics directly on the main page? Details about your CPU and memory usage, MySQL Databases, Read More >
Want to know what is taking up space on your server? Luckily, your cPanel includes a tool for easily reviewing disk usage. In this tutorial, Read More >
You can see the server logs for the latest visitors to your website in cPanel. This information is routinely rotated by gives you a quick Read More >
If you need to find out how much space you’re using with your hosting account, the best tool to use is the Disk Usage tool Read More >
Other Tools
Often you’ll find that various server admin tasks can be automated or completed faster when compiled into a series of command line instructions. Now, cPanel Read More >
As we continue our BoxTrapper series, we will now show you how to enable BoxTrapper in cPanel. This allows you to utilize the BoxTrapper tool Read More >
The cPanel in your WordPress-optimized server uses Nginx as a powerful caching proxy in front of Apache. This means your visitors will enjoy quick page Read More >
cPanel Appearance
In this tutorial: Change from Basic to Retro Change from Retro to Basic In this tutorial, we will show you how to change your cPanel Read More >
Since you have successfully logged in to cPanel, you will see the cPanel interface. This can be a bit overwhelming if you have never worked Read More >
Your cPanel allows you to customize the look and feel of the interface by collapsing or moving sections. But, you may want to restore cPanel Read More >
Topic: cPanel’s upgrade from x3 to Paper Lantern. Status: Updates will be completed no later than June 30, 2017. Updates will begin the first week Read More >
Due to cPanel phasing out the older x3 theme interface, we are encouraging users to change to the Paper Lantern theme. In this tutorial, we Read More >
cPanel PHP & SQL
When you are managing a website, there may be times when you need to know what version of PHP your server is running. For example, Read More >
The latest versions of cPanel make it easy to choose what PHP version your site is using. With just a few clicks, you can switch Read More >
Whether you are looking to make some custom changes to your PHP settings or just switched PHP versions and the wrong settings are being loaded, Read More >
cPanel’s MultiPHP INI Editor lets you make configuration changes to your PHP settings. This complements the MultiPHP Manager, which lets you change PHP version of Read More >
In this guide, we will introduce you to phpMyAdmin, a web based mySQL client you can use to manage your databases. There are many tools Read More >
Advanced Topics
This article will assist you with migrating your website from another hosting company that uses cPanel to InMotion Hosting. InMotion Hosting offers Shared Hosting Plans, Read More >
cPanel provides a tool that you can use to transfer from cPanel to cPanel, from one server to another. This is a very powerful tool Read More >
A cron job is an automated background task scheduled to happen at a specific time. A few examples include checking for updates, backups, or sending Read More >
Hosting with cPanel uses a graphical interface to make web hosting super easy, but there are command line tools you could familiarize yourself with for Read More >
ModSecurity is server software for Apache that comes bundled with cPanel. ModSecurity helps protect your site from brute force attacks and, by default, automatically runs on Read More >
WebHost Manager
In this tutorial, we will walk you through creating cPanel accounts within WHM. With WHM you can manage and host separate cPanel accounts independent from Read More >
With your Reseller, VPS, and Dedicated Hosting plan you can create cPanel accounts and upgrade/downgrade those accounts through WHM. You can also suspend and unsuspend Read More >
Pricing for hosting providers and consumers that use cPanel, and WebHost Manager (WHM), is changing in a significant way as cPanel introduces a new licensing Read More >