Step-by-step tutorials for managing your hosting environment through cPanel, including websites, email, and databases.
How to change your cPanel password, update the contact address cPanel sends notifications to, and set the interface language. These settings apply to the cPanel control panel itself, not to your Noiz client area account.
How to generate full and partial backups of your cPanel account, download them or send them to a remote FTP server, and restore a partial backup when you need it back.
How to create, edit and delete cron jobs in cPanel, and change where their output is emailed. Use these guides when a script or command on your hosting account needs to run automatically on a schedule.
Creating, renaming and deleting MySQL databases in cPanel, plus adding database users and assigning them to a database.
Guides for adding and removing addon domains, aliases (parked domains), subdomains and redirects in cPanel. Start here when you want to host more than one domain on a cPanel account, or point a domain or subdomain at another address.
Creating and managing email accounts in cPanel, including passwords, webmail access, forwarding to another provider, and vacation autoresponders.
Uploading, creating and editing your website files in the cPanel File Manager, including the .htaccess file. Also covers adding and removing FTP accounts and changing their passwords and quotas.
Directory Privacy in cPanel lets you put a username and password in front of any folder in your...
cPanel's built-in IP Blocker (older builds and some documentation call it the IP Deny Manager)...
Hotlinking (also called inline linking, or bandwidth theft) happens when another website embeds...
AutoSSL is the cPanel feature that issues and renews free domain-validated SSL certificates for...
ModSecurity is the web application firewall that sits in front of your site and inspects every...
If cPanel shows a disk space warning, or you want to know what is eating into your monthly...
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) adds a second check to your cPanel login. Even if somebody...
Two-factor authentication adds a second check to your cPanel login: after your username and...
Some applications need a specific version of PHP: an older shopping cart that has not been...
If a domain on your cPanel account has been pinned to a specific PHP version and you want it to...
If your cPanel account hosts more than one website, you do not have to run them all on the same...
Sometimes a single website needs more than one PHP version. A legacy shop sitting in /shop/ may...
An A record is the DNS entry that points a domain or a subdomain at an IPv4 address. It is what...
An MX record (short for mail exchanger record) is the DNS record that tells the rest of the...
An MX record (mail exchanger record) tells every sending mail server on the internet which host...
A CNAME (Canonical Name) record is a DNS alias. It tells the internet that one hostname is really...
A CNAME record points one hostname at another hostname, so that www.yourdomain.com or...
Every DNS record your domain publishes, the address that points visitors at your website, the...
cPanel's Web Disk feature (also called WebDAV, or Web Folders on Windows) lets you mount your...
Web Disk lets you open the files in your hosting account as if they were a folder on your own...
