When you buy a domain or a hosting The first thing you face is cPanel. That is why we wanted to dedicate this article to explain what it is and what it is for, so you can feel more relaxed when facing this platform, and the best thing: you will be able to take full advantage of the tools that compose it.
So, let's start by telling you what cPanel is.
The first thing you should know is that regardless of the provider, most hostings have this popular program installed so that you can manage your hosting. In cPanel you have the opportunity to create:
- E-mail accounts.
- Databases.
- FTP accounts.
- Among others.
However, it is also important to keep in mind that it is one thing to manage your web site and a completely different thing to manage your hosting.
Where does the difference lie?
The administration of your web site is generally done through WordPresswhich is a program that helps you design a functional and graphically attractive website. When you manage your website you are focusing more than anything else on the content you are going to publish and the path you are going to create for your potential customers to buy your products.
When we talk about managing your hosting, we refer directly to the internal part, to the configuration that is behind the image and that is what makes it possible for the information to reach your users in a functional way.
If we could put it in simpler terms, we could say that the administration of your hosting is the machines behind your company, while the administration of your website is the facade that faces the street or the physical store where your product arrives.
Well, we've talked about how you can manage your hosting from cPanel, but let's go a little deeper into what you can do.
What services can you manage from cPanel?
The first thing you should know is that when you contract a hosting with ClickPanda, you immediately have access to the administration of your hosting and your website. Once you have logged in to your account, you will go to the left side of your screen and click on the option to enter cPanel.
Once there, you will find, divided by groups, all the tools that you can manage from this platform. You will see something like this:
Within these services that cPanel offers you (and that you find categorized as you saw in the reference image), the main ones are:
- Administration of files: this option allows you to visualize the folders and files that you have previously located in your hosting account. To enter or delete items, you perform the actions you do every day from your computer: copy, paste, move, delete and also gives you the ability to compress and decompress your files. Also from the files, you can install applications such as WordPress that will be useful for the creation of your page.
- Domain configuration: here you have the opportunity to manage the different domains that you may have under your care, and includes the option to create subdomains and redirects to other domains.
- Mail account management: your company's emails that are linked to your domain are assigned, deleted or modified from this function, allowing you to have any number of emails under your domain name. Of course, depending on the amount you have contracted with your provider.
- MySQL database management: creates or modifies the databases of your domain that are stored by the installation of programs such as WordPress, Joomla or by the incoming subscribers of the page.
- Resource management: There you will find, at an informative level, statistics about your free disk space, monthly bandwidth consumption, among other points that help you to have a better control of the space and use of your hosting.
After knowing what cPanel is and what it is for, you are probably wondering how to use it or how to configure it to start using it, in this case, we recommend you to read the following article that we created to solve this concern: how to upload the website to cPanel?
