When you use shared hosting for your website, there is a fair chance that you will be using cPanel to administer your website. The cPanel it provides for a large amount of hosting companies out there.
Using cPanel, you can handle domains that are connected to your account, email accounts, files and databases, and many other administrative tasks. It depends on what your provider provides. All made it easier using one single app is the predominant administration panel but many people who use it don’t stop checking out the functionality interface.
In this post, we’ll go through six tips to manage your site with cPanel, which you may or may not have seen during your own hosting adventures. Experienced users may already know about these stuff, but new users may not have seen these options, particularly those who have not taken the time to look at their interfaces with cPanel.
Indeed, even seasoned users can often get bogged down in routine and forget about some of the choices open to them, so it’s worth a look!
1.Car-installers
Auto-installers are just as their name suggests. These provide a way to easily and painlessly install the tools you would need to create a new website, such as WordPress , Joomla, Drupal, PrestaShop, forum tools, and a number of other content management systems, frameworks, and scripts
You can have the application that you need built on your new hosting with one or two clicks and ready to go, instead of manually setting up databases, uploading files through FTP and going through setup procedures, troubleshooting problems as you go. It’s a fantastic feature that often gets ignored, and saving time is something only veteran site administrators can get behind!.
2.SSL Attestations
Some feature you can find in your cPanel, like the LetsEncrypt cPanel program, is one that gives you the opportunity to install an SSL certificate for your website. If you are not familiar with SSL certificates, and the increasing need for using HTTPS on any web, you should take the time to learn about it.
Many hosts, including SitePoint’s affiliate, SiteGround, offer such certificates via the cPanel free of charge for all, or at least some, of their customers’ payment rates. With SiteGround the deployment and maintenance of these certificates for all domains is automated. So if you are using a CMS such as WordPress, here are some guidelines for downloading an SSL certificate.
Securing the site with HTTPS will make it easier for all users to see that security is important to you because any modern browser would display that a site is safe and green lock HTTPS. Google’s and others’ pressure to push all sites to become HTTPS just makes it more urgent and you can set one right from your cPanel far more of a feature.
3.Custom error pages
When a website user attempts to navigate to a non-existent domain, they will get a 404-stock error, unless you create a custom error page. It can of course be done within the application, but if you don’t want to take the time, or don’t have the expertise, this is an integral feature of cPanel.You can quickly and easily customize your own error pages, so that your visitors land on a page that has useful information about it instead.
4.Failed logs
Logs from the web server can be hard to get at in certain shared environments. Fortunately, error reports on Apache can be obtained directly from cPanel. This will in some cases allow you to see what the problem is with a broken website.If you are a website administrator but not the developer who works on it, it will also provide useful information to relay if necessary to that developer.
5. Savebacks
Another great aspect of cPanel is their ability to create backups for panels. You can back up all your data in a single large file, or you can pick your home directory (all your files), your MySQL databases (if you use a database on your website), or your email forwarders and filters (if you use the email address of your hosting company).You can download any of those things to the home directory of your web server account, or to a remote FTP server if you wish. If you back it up to your hosting server, of course, you can also use FTP to download those backup files later, if desired.
Restoration is a similar method, selecting only which element of the three you want to restore to backup and following the prompts.A good backup feature is never a bad thing, and if you’re using a CMS like WordPress, there are plenty of backup plugins available, but sometimes it’s important to take backups manually, or it’s even your only option, so it’s nice that a button from your cPanel transfers this functionality here.
