cPanel User Guide and Tutorial

Your guide to web site administration with cPanel

Key Features

• Everything you need to manage files, email, and databases using cPanel
• Organise your web site… create subdomains, custom error messages, and password protected areas
• Analyse site logs, ensure your site and data remain secure, and learn how to create and restore data back ups
• Use advanced features, find powerful cPanel add ons, and install web scripts from within cPanel: osCommerce, Mambo, phpBB, and more.

Book Description

"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.

What you will learn

• Once you read this book, you will:
• Learn how to find hosts that offer cPanel with their web hosting packages
• Discover how to access your cPanel account in several different ways, even behind a firewall
• Familiarize yourself with the standard cPanel layout so you can find what you are looking for quickly
• Discover what the information you see on the main cPanel interface means and how to use it to keep track of what is happening with your hosting account
• Create, manage and remove FTP accounts so you (or your web master) can upload, access and remove files from your website
• Set up, manage and learn how to access e-mail accounts, including e-mail aliases (forwarding), web mail access, e-mail quotas, mail filtering, spam blocking and mailing lists
• Create, manage and delete databases from within cPanel
• Learn how to protect and control access to information on your web site using the tools that cPanel provides
• Monitor site traffic using web stats
• Discover how to create an effective backup strategy using cPanel s web site backup and restore features
• Explore some advanced tools that cPanel offers to help manage your web site
• Learn basic techniques to keep your web site safe from hackers and learn what to do if the worst happens
• Examine some common third-party add-ons and themes that your host may choose to offer
• Discover a wealth of external tools that make the aspiring web master s job easier

Who this book is for

Anybody who has a web hosting account that provides cPanel, and who wants to get the most from this very powerful tool.