Month: July 2016

Once you have logged into Plesk  ,let’s learn more about Plesk. Its available features, and how to navigate the various available pages.

Now, we’re currently signed in to the Home page of Plesk which you can always get back to by clicking Home link at the left menu.

Let’s have a look at the quick links located in the Main Menu.

This is Mail Accounts section for our domain where we can quickly add new mail resources and adjust mail settings.

Now, click on the Applications.

 

Here we can install various web applications for our domain.

In Settings section we can see the most commonly used Plesk features, scroll down to see all of them.

 

Next, scroll up and Click Up Level option here to get one level up.

The click on the Up Level option will take you to Home page again. Double-click Visited Pages to see the pages we’ve visited.

Double-click Favourites link to Add to Favourites.

Click My account to see the account’s preferences.

Back to Home page,there are many tools available , and are therefore divided into different groups.

The Mail group tools allow to create different mail resources and adjust their settings.

The Website group allows adding subdomains, domain aliases, web users and adjust the general web hosting settings.

The Files group contains File Manager, Backup Manager and SSH Terminal Tools.

In Applications & Services group you can install various web applications and order services such as Domain Registration.

The Statistics group tools allow monitoring your website’s traffic, resources and analysing logs.

With the help of the Additional Tools you can set up Scheduled Tasks, install SSL certificates, Limit bandwidth and create Custom Buttons.

The Domain Administration group provides tools for managing your personal account’s data.

Now scroll up.

In the top section we can see the IP address of our domain, the Disk space allotted and the Traffic used.

 

Now you should be more familiar with the Plesk new interface, its various features and tools available.

 

 

 

Before you can login to Plesk, you must first open an internet browser window, and go to the IP address.

 

The IP address you use is the one provided to you by your web hosting provider. To login as a Domain User, enter your domain name as your login username. Then enter your password and login.

 

You’re now logged into Plesk as the Domain User, and can begin to set up email addresses, subdomains, databases, and dozens of other features.

Click Settings to configure a variety of settings for your account.

To click logout click the link here.

To create POP email account login to your cPanel, click on the email accounts icon as shown in the following screenshot.

Here, enter the new email address for this POP account. If you have more than one domain in your account(i.e. with domain parking or addon domains), be sure to choose the correct domain  for which you want to create your POP email account.

Enter your password, and then re-enter your password again.You can set a quota limit on this email account. Then create the account.

That’s it! Your new POP email account is created.

From the listed email account, you can change the password, change quota, set up mail client or delete the account.

You can enter as any POP email accounts as your hosting plans allows.

 

WHM( WebHost Manager) is a resellers control panel. It is what reseller customers use to manage all the hosting accounts in their reseller plan.

cPanel on the other hand, is the end user’s control panel. It is what the reseller’s customers use to manage their
individual hosting acounts.
If you are logged into WHM, you can look at a list of hosting accounts in the reseller plan. Click on the Account Information link. Then click on the List Accounts link.

 

Here you will see the list of accounts in this WHM’s reseller plan. Once again, each of these accounts will have their own individual cPanel, and we can login to their cPanel by clicking the corresponding link.

As you can see here, we’re now in the cPanel control panel for the newdomain.com hosting account. Resellers have the ability to login to their customer’s cPanel control panels without their username or password. This can be useful in helping customers how to use their cPanel.

After you close the cPanel page, you can now return to the home page of the WHM.

You now know the difference between cPanel and WHM:
cPanel– end user’s control panel
WHM – reseller’s control panel

In order to login to WebHost Manager, you must first have login details including: Login IP address, username, and password.

Assuming you already have this information, and have navigated to the IP address login page as shown below:

 

Now you enter your username, password to gain access.

Once you have successfully logged into WHM, you can begin setting up new web hosting accounts, creating packages, and dozens of other tasks to help you manage your web hosting business.

If you are new to cPanel then you can check  :  Navigating around in cPanel.

Once you have logged into the cPanel, click on the Disk Usage icon under FILES 

After you have clicked on the Disk Usage icon, you will be able to see how much storage space is being used by each directory and sub-directory in your account.

Scroll down to see the entire list of directories and other details.

You can also sort your directories  by Name or by its Disk Usage.

Disk usage details is useful in determining which directories are using the most storage space. Once you know where all your storage space is being used, you can decide whether you need to delete some files, or upgrade to a larger plan.

 

 

 

If you are new to cPanel then you can check  : How to login to cPanel, Navigating around in cPanel, How to login to cPanel.

After successful logging into cPanel,the first thing you should do is update contact information. To navigate to this tab, click on your user icon:

From the drop-down list select Contact Information  Its important to keep your contact information up to date since the server uses this information to send critical email messages.

Once you have entered the email address, click on save.

 

First login to your cPanel with username, password as given to you in the mail.You can refer to How to login to cPanel. Also, if you would like to get familiar with cPanel then check Navigating around in cPanel .

After you have logged into cPanel, click on your user icon which is at top-right corner of your cPanel home page. 

You will see a drop-down list, here you have to click on the Password & Security to change your password.

 

 

 

 

 

Enter your old password followed by your new password. Enter your new password again. After you have correctly entered the password click on change your password now button, your password will be changed.

 

Check how to login to cPanel to know the steps to login to cpanel.

If you have already logged in click on the user icon

 

From the drop-down list you can change Password & Security, Change Language, Change Style or Reset Page Settings.After successful logging into cPanel,the first thing you should do is update contact info.

To change cPanel theme click on the Change Style from the  drop down list and choose your desired cPanel theme.

On the left-hand side of the cPanel there are icons listed: Home, Statistics, Dashboard, User Manager.

   

By clicking on Statistics you can view detailed information of this hosting account.Eg. it will show you how many email accounts are used and how many are allowed. The same information is shown for Bandwidth, ftp accounts, add-on domains, sub-domains, file usage, disk usage, MYSQL databases,  etc.

In Dashboard, you can change cPanel theme by selecting desired cPanel theme from the SWITCH THEME drop-down list. Also, used disk space, bandwidth details can be viewed here.

In User Manager you can view user accounts. Also, you can add new users here.

Now lets look at the right side of the Home page of cPanel. It includes several icons that are grouped into specific boxes. These icons each allow you to do specific tasks with cPanel like setting up email accounts and databases, checking webmail, setting up mailing lists, etc. You will be able to manage your database, files, emails using these icons. Additional metrics to know more about your site visitors is available. Click-and-install software icons such as php, wordpress etc.

If you scroll through the page till you reach the bottom of the page you will find a documentation link. This link will provide you with comprehensive cPanel Manual, where you can learn all there is to know about cPanel.
You can learn all cPanel features from the documentation which is always available from the home page of cPanel. Learn to organise the cPanel to suit your needs using its documentation.

To begin, open your internet browser.  Click on the browser’s address bar, and enter your http cPanel address. The address to your cPanel would have been given to you in your welcome email. There are two ways to login cPanel:

1. Using an IP address, its the only way to access cPanel if your domain hasn’t propagated yet. In this case you will have to enter your IP address in the address bar following  with “/” cpanel. The details will be given to you in your mail.

 

2. Or Using your domain name, you can only do this once your domain name is working.

Once you have entered the cPanel address, you will be asked for username & password. You can find the login details in your welcome mail.

 

If you have entered the login details correctly then you will be successfully logged in to the cPanel.

 

 

You can now begin to setup email addresses, add-on domains, databases, shopping carts, and other features.