SUBJECT: Lesson #3 - 6 Major Uses Of Your cPanel!

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So, the question begs.. "What Can Be Done with cPanel?"

If your web hosting doesn't offer shell access, cPanel will be
the only way to manage your web hosting, cPanel is a web based
server control software that allows you to do the following
operations and a whole lot more. Common operations such as
adding FTP users, creating databases, creating mail accounts and
a multitude of other hosting operations can all be performed
with cPanel.

Creating Mail Addresses

If you have the domain xyz.com and you would like to create a
mail address called info@xyz.com, you can perform the following.
Firstly click on the Mail tab from the front page. There you
will see options to create, modify or delete mail accounts. If
you to forward mail to an existing account here you can set an
addres to forward to the account of your choosing. To read
emails access the Webmail tab from the front page

Managing your domains

You may want more than a single address directed towards one web
site, for example if you owned xyz.com and xyz.net, this can be
achieved by using the Parked Domains tab, here you can type any
address that you own to point to one of your web sites. If you
hosting provider allows you to have more than one web site on
your account, you can add domains via the Addon Domains tab. If
you hosting provider supports the creation of sub domains you
can create these via the Sub Domain tab.

FTP Options

You can create additional FTP users, set their access levels and
other FTP related tasks using the FTP tab.

Database Tasks

To create a new database, or modify existing databases use the
Database tab. Here you can perform all allowed database tasks,
to perform more advanced database operations you will need to
use phpMyAdmin, this can also be accessed from the Database tab.

Analyze The Logs

When running a web site you need to know what your visitors
like, where they are coming from, which search engines are
bringing the most visitors and all other data about them.
Normally you will have access to the raw log files, but these
are hard to analyze, to see data that is formatted about your
visitors in an easy to read way go to Web/FTP Stats, here you
will have the option to review your sites statistics using a
variety of software such as Webalizer or AWStats.

Fantastico

Most if not all cPanel installations these days come with
Fantastico which is an auto installer for many php based
scripts. Fantastico can be used to install popular php scripts
such as Wordpress, Mambo, phpbb and many other php products.
Using Fantastico is the easiest way to setup these php based
scripts and will save you having to manually upload the scripts,
and more often than not Fantastico will do all the configuration
of the script for you which is a real time saver.

cPanel is a very advanced application for configuring your
hosting and learning all the tricks can take some time, but
hopefully you now have the basics down and you can progress from
here as your experience with web hosting increases.

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