Shared hosting plans are managed in cPanel. You do not need to remember a separate address or password for it.
Opening it
Sign in to the client area, open Services, click the hosting service, and press the button to log in to the panel. You are signed in to cPanel directly. The username and password are on the same page if you ever need to log in some other way, and the server's hostname is listed there too.
Files and databases
- File Manager: browse, upload, edit and extract files in the browser. Your website lives in
public_html. - FTP Accounts: for uploading with an FTP client instead. The main account's credentials are the ones on the service page.
- MySQL Databases: create a database and a user, then add the user to the database with the privileges it needs. Applications need all three steps.
- phpMyAdmin: run queries and import or export a database dump.
Domains and e-mail
- Domains: add subdomains and aliases. The entry-level plans carry one website; check what your plan allows before adding a second.
- Email Accounts: create mailboxes, set their quotas and read them in webmail. The settings for a mail client are shown on each account.
- Zone Editor: the DNS records for the domain, if the domain is using our nameservers.
Security and certificates
- SSL/TLS Status: shows which domains have a certificate. A free certificate is issued once the domain resolves to the account.
- Imunify360: the malware scanner's reports for your account.
- IP Blocker and Directory Privacy: simple access controls.
Applications
- Setup Node.js App and Setup Python App: run a small application inside the hosting account without a server.
- WP Toolkit, on WordPress plans: install WordPress, open a staging copy and see updates for every site on one screen.
- MultiPHP Manager: the PHP version used by each domain.
Watching the account
The resource usage pages show how close the account is to its CPU, memory and disk limits. Accounts on a machine are isolated from each other, so a busy neighbour is not your problem. But your own limits are real, and a site that is being throttled shows up here before it shows up as a complaint.