After you
have registered your own domain name and purchased a
Hosting package to host and setup your website, your host
provider will direct you to a panel from where you can
access and control your hosting account. This panel is
called the Control Panel, more popularly known as
cPanel.
The
cPanel is password protected and it is from this panel that you
can perform all the tasks pertaining to your domain account
like creating email accounts, sub-domains, MySQL
databases, Error Pages, Redirect, etc. You can also
install blogs like Wordpress or Content Management sites like
Joomla or Drupal and also Forums and Shopping Carts. It is also
from this panel that you control and protect your websites by
performing backups and restore. Typically, you can access your
cpanel through this URL format:
www.yourdomain.com/cpanel.
For
the new website owner looking at the cpanel for the first
time, the experience can be daunting. And if you start
trying to perform certain tasks all on your own, it can be
frustrating for most people. Even for people with considerable
experience with websites, performing certain tasks still
remain a chore to be
avoided.
There are many free ebooks you can download
to improve on your understanding of cPanel. Or you can watch
this series of Video Tutorials which I recommend that will walk
you through the many different aspects of cPanel very much
needed for the management of your website hosting account. The
cPanel is an important piece of your online business that
serves like the Dashboard of your website Hosting account
and you definitely will want to know more about
it.
Watch the first video to believe how your knowledge of this
topic can be expanded in a matter of hours and you will save
yourself from the many frustrations of trial and possibly
expensive
errors.
This
is another additional great value resource that compliments the
cPanel Mastery videos. It's very recent and it covers several
topics not mentioned in the earlier
series.