hey everybody Scott Mitchell here with InMotion Hosting welcome to our what is cPanel video now
cPanel is a program that runs on Linux based web hosting servers. It's currently the industry
standard and it's used by most web hosting companies out there now. It's designed to make
managing your web hosting account much easier by using a graphical interface with lots of different
tools in it. So in this video we're going to show you a general overview of cPanel and we're gonna
go over some of the more common tools that are used in web hosting environment okay . So to get
to the cPanel you need to log in and it's pretty straightforward. As far as logging into your cPanel
it's usually tied to your domain name. So if you have a domain name of example.com the cPanel login
URL is usually example.com slash cPanel. If you don't have the domain name pointed yet to your
web hosting server then you can use a server name. So if the server name say for instance is randomABC.webhostingcompany.com then you need to use randomABC.webhostingcompany .com/cPanel
okay. And you come up with a login page like this you would enter your username and
password for you or hosting account and click the login button. That takes you right over to the
cPanel. This is the main page for the cPanel. Now, it's basically divided into two sections you have
the left panel here in the right panel. The right panel has all the different categories and all the
different tools represented by icons over here, and the left-hand panel kind of gives you some
stats that you can look at on the fly so if you need to know something come a quick look kind
of thing I'll run down the stats really quickly and then we'll explore the right-hand panel the
stats can be expanded or collapsed there's a lot of stats here you can collapse them down
to you know just a handful by hitting that button there but we start off with the main domain which
is the domain name that your account is listed under okay your home directory which shows on
this server itself where we're being located and you can notice here that's gonna have this little
cPanel user name here that's the username used to login okay where you last logged in from or
where's the last person to log was from their IP address how much disk space bandwidth email
accounts subdomains part domains add-on domains FTP accounts databases all this stuff here how
much you've used out of the amount it's allowed on your plan now in this case theater have 0 or
infinity this is on a test server so it's not a typical plan but say for instance you have this
space usage I've used 29 Meg's out of infinity so I have unlimited usage if you're on a plan that
has a limit you can kind of monitor it here again same thing with the bandwidth here email accounts
I have one out of infinity and maybe you have count leaves you a hundred and you have two needs
to have 98 left it'll show up in a progress bar here like you're halfway done you can see it kind
of halfway filled up subdomains park domains al domains subdomains are part of your main domain so
if you have a main domain example.com and you have a blog section and that's kind of separate you
want that under blog dot example.com that's what a sub domain is and you can have a minutes case and
limited but maybe you have 25 or 50 or whatever the your hosting account allows Park domains are
relatively low in number if I have example.com and I want example net to share the same website
I would park it there the compart domain and if anybody typed in either one they would see the
same website that's a party domain and add-on domain is a completely different website so if
I have example.com and it's about widgets and then I'm going to make a website about sake
puppies then I would have puppy comm over here a completely different website completely different
everything that's what add-on domain is it's added on to the account but it's not necessarily tied to
any of the other domains or any other websites it can be completely separate thing FTP accounts are
used to upload and download files and you can have a certain number of those and this tells you how
many others you're using your cPanel username is automatically created as an FTP account it's not
listed here as one of these so this would be additional once the GPO user is automatically
the master account so that one can do anything the other accounts you can actually point to specific
folders if you want to limit them sequel databases tell us how many you have then down here it says
my sequel databases some hosting accounts have different types of sequel databases we have my
sequel and Postgres sequel and in this case we are only using two my sequel databases if I had
a couple Postgres sequel databases they may be listed here as well under Postgres sequel
databases how much disk space you're using what hosting package you're using if you have that
different ones your server name again this is our test server so it's right here but you might have
you know random one two three it would be here and then use add the dot hosting company comm in
our case in motion hosting comm will be the full server name your cPanel version what theme are
using the Apache PHP and my sequel versions that are on your server okay the architecture structure
this is a server thing operating system tells you but it's again a server thing your shared
IP address this is the IP address that is for your cPanel and if it's a shared IP probably
other see panels as well if you do something like buy an SSL security certificate then in that case
you'll probably have a dedicated IP address and that IP address will be only for your cPanel but
in the case of shared environments this is usually shared by several accounts paths to send mail suit
some developers might need to know where that is this quick reference here also to pearl pearl
version and then the kernel version the cPanel Pro and service status if you want to check that
out click and see what that looks like and it shows you the status of different things right
on the server you can see they are up servers running full with full services ok so if you
want to have a question about servers a service on your server then you can go here and see if
it's up and running so that's the left hands that side that's a quick reference for everything else
now the right hand is all your categories they are not listed in a particular order this is a
kind of a default but they're not listed in alphabetical order but you can move them you
can grab them here and you can drag them around so if you decide to make your own configuration
please do so okay you start with preferences here this is kind of some general stuff doesn't really
go anywhere else some getting started guides and video tutorials you know changing your password
it's pretty important you know what that is if you want to change your language say your first
language is Spanish or Russian or something like that you can click here and change the cPanel to
that particular language so you don't always have to read the English version mail a lot
of tools here for mail email accounts is the most used because that's how you create email
accounts other things here such box Trapper and the spamassassin are used to manage their
programs to manage spam and filter out some spam you can do that a little bit further by using the
account and user level filtering so if you have specific email addresses or specific subjects
or something you want to limit on your own that's not getting caught by the other stuff you can also
block those here other tools here your forwarders and autoresponders if you're going on vacation you
want to set a response say hey I'm on vacation we back next week you do something like that so
that here so anything having to do with email okay even an email DNS which would be your MX
records are amazed here in the mail section okay down here is the files category you'll
spend a lot of time here particularly in the file manager well wouldn't show you example of that if
I open the file manager I have two panels again left hand right hand left hands kind of like the
main folders and shows were you know kind of where I am by highlighting it and the right hands here's
all the details inside this public HTML folder are these folders and these files here you can upload
download edit you know there's even an HTML editor in here if you want to create a page directly in
this in the file manager here but this is where you would go to see your files whether there are
images or code or whatever again you can edit and stuff like that here too so you'll spend a lot of
time here especially if you're developing or moving things around alright so backups
is another thing with a wizard and the regular backups so Wizards kind of makes it easier but
you can go the backups they can choose a little bit more customize settings very important so make
sure you are backing up your website on a regular basis even though the server may do a backup for
you always keep your own it's like a nice little insurance policy over here FTP accounts I mention
those earlier if you want to create additional FTP accounts just go over here click there and
you can create those as needed ok logs another one it's pretty popular you can see different types of
logs here how much bandwidth you're using where the latest visitors come from to access log the
raw access logs it's kind of hard to read but it's there if you want to see who's been accessing your
account download that and look at it error logs if you're having problems on your site and then
you have webalizer and AW stats here and those are kind of error reporting programs and they report
all kinds of things while your traffic by the day by the month by the year even where it's coming
from which country is sending the most traffic stuff like that ok so what's going on down to
security you have the ability to pass or protect certain directories to keep people out ok you
can deny certain IP addresses from accessing your site on all together if you want to allow a shell
access to your account so one wants to work on it remotely through command line that you can kind of
activate that here ok domains here we talked about the subdomains add-on domains and park
domains before this is where those will be listed individually and their own little lists ok you can
also manage the DNS for each one of those and your main domain is using a simple or advanced DNS zone
editor ok databases here we have the my sequel group my sequel databases gives you a list of the
databases that's just on your account the database wizard here helps you create them the PHP myadmin
is pretty intense tool it allows you to see every website on every database on your website it also
allows you to manage these by you can create new ones you can add columns and you can add tables
and you can change the data and you can import you can export so it's a very very useful tool
and the remote my sequel tool here is used to add IP addresses if you want to use a remote tool to
manage from your home computer you just put your IP address in there so you can see it otherwise
it won't let anybody do it so it's a security tool down here for software and services and advanced
are more for the advanced users except for the Softaculous application installer this is for
everybody and this isn't an installer okay there's 280 plus different software listed in this thing
so whether you're putting WordPress in there or you're putting ecommerce platform in there you're
letting a yardsale program it's pretty much all kinds of different programs in here you can pick
from and this is a quick installer that lets you install it a much faster it creates the database
for you installs the program so you don't have to do it all manually so that's probably the
most used tool out of here for the more advanced you guys have you know the different perl modules
pair of packages just like that PHP configuration is useful if you need to change the version of
PHP you use for your account again I told you over here you can see the PHP version for the
server but say if you want to use 5.2 or 5.6 whatever you can change that for your account
here in the configuration tool and then down here is the advanced stuff the most used item here is
the cron job and cron job is when you're gonna set a script that you've written or purchased
or whatever to run at a certain time see maybe you set a script through your backups for you
automatically every day at midnight you would set that here a cron basically means chronological so
think of it that way it's your timing jobs or timing tasks to do something and then of
course they have the different managers for images index Apache handlers and stuff like that for the
advanced user so if you don't know what these are you probably don't need them if you do need these
then you know what they are kind of thing but this is where you would find all these tools again you
can drag things around and make it a little easier to manage all right and this is the cPanel this is
the all the different tools and icons in here that you can use to manage your web hosting account
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