Welcome to WebHostingM cPanel, your gateway to managing your web hosting account effortlessly. This guide will walk you through the essentials of navigating the cPanel interface, empowering you to harness its full potential and efficiently manage your website.
Getting Started with cPanel
Before diving into the features of cPanel, ensure you have your login credentials handy.
If you don't have a cPanel account yet, visit WebHostingM to select a hosting package and create your account seamlessly.
cPanel has a great intuitive interface that allows you as a cPanel user account access to important information and updates.
Our system will guide you at each step of getting your cpanel account.
The cPanel interface consists of the following sections:
- Navigation bar
- Sidebar
- General Information
- Features
- Statistics
Navigation bar
Every interface in cPanel displays the navigation bar.
The navigation bar provides the currently active account information, controls that allow you to change settings, and a link to log out of your account.
- Click the site logo to navigate to the Home interface.
- Use the Search Features text box to quickly find the interfaces that you need.
- Click your username to manage your preferences and configure the cPanel interface.
- Click the Notifications icon () to display any messages, warnings, and errors on your cPanel account. We often use this to broadcast important information to our customers.
Pro Tip: You can use the forward-slash (/) keyboard shortcut to quickly access the Search Features text box.
Sidebar
Every interface in cPanel displays the sidebar. The sidebar provides access to the following features:
Click the Home icon to return to the cPanel Home interface. This section provides access to all of the cPanel's features.
If you are a reseller, you can customize the content to suit your needs.
Click the User Manager icon () to navigate to the User Manager interface (cPanel >> Home >> Preferences >> Manage Team).
General Information
The General Information section displays the following information about your cPanel account:
- Current User — The name of the current cPanel account. If your account can access multiple cPanel accounts and your hosting provider enables the Theme Switching feature in WHM's Feature Manager interface (WHM >> Home >> Packages >> Feature Manager), you can use the menu to search for and switch between accounts.
- Primary Domain — The current account's primary domain name. Click the wrench icon to navigate to cPanel's SSL/TLS Status interface (cPanel >> Home >> Security >> SSL/TLS Status). This icon only appears if a problem exists with the status of the certificate.
This item also displays the type of certificate that secures the primary domain:
- DV Certificate — A domain-validated certificate.
- EV Certificate — An extended validation certificate.
- OV Certificate — An organization-validated certificate.
- Self-signed Certificate — A self-signed certificate.
- No Valid Certificate — A valid certificate that exists, but does not secure the domain.
- Shared IP Address or Dedicated IP Address — The current account's shared or dedicated IP address.
A shared IP address means that multiple websites within one server use a single IP address.
A dedicated IP address means that the website possesses its IP address.
- Home Directory — The absolute path to the account's home directory on the server.
- Last Login IP Address — The IP address of the user who most recently logged in to the account.
This IP address is not the currently-authenticated IP address.
For example, if you log in via the 10.1.1.1 IP address, and then log in multiple times via the 10.2.2.2 IP address, the interface will display 10.1.1.1 as the Last Login IP address value.
It will not display 10.2.2.2 as the Last Login IP address value until you log in through a different IP address.
- Theme — The current cPanel theme. If your account includes more than one theme, you can use the menu to search for and switch between cPanel themes.
- Server Information — Click this link to navigate to cPanel's Server Information interface (cPanel >> Home >> Server Information), which displays additional information about the account and its server.
Features
The cPanel interface lists all of your account's available features in groups for different types of functionality.
To search for a desired feature, use the Find functions quickly by typing in the text box.
Statistics
The Statistics section displays important usage statistics for your cPanel account.
The infinity symbol (∞) indicates an unlimited quota.
If your account meets or exceeds 60% of an item's quota, that usage statistic will display in yellow with one of the following icons:
You can click the plus icon to increase the quota for this statistic in your hosting plan.
If it is a wrench icon that displays, click this icon to access the relevant cPanel interface to reduce your quota usage.
For example, if your Email Accounts statistic is high, you can delete unused email accounts in cPanel's Email Accounts interface (cPanel >> Home >> Email >> Email Accounts).
If your account meets or exceeds 80% of an item's quota, that usage statistic will be displayed in red at the top of the section.
The Statistics section displays the following information about your cPanel account's resource usage:
- Bandwidth: the amount of inbound and outbound data, in Megabytes (MB), that your account transferred for the current month, and your cPanel account's monthly bandwidth limit.
- Disk Usage: the amount of disk space, in MB, that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's disk usage quota.
- File Usage: the number of files (inodes) that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's inode quota.
- MySQL® Disk Usage: the amount of disk space, in bytes, that your MySQL or MariaDB® databases currently use, and your cPanel account's MySQL and MariaDB database quota.
- PostgreSQL Disk Usage: the amount of disk space, in bytes, that your PostgreSQL® databases currently use, and your cPanel account's PostgreSQL database quota.
- Mailing Lists Disk Usage: the amount of disk space, in bytes, that your Mailman mailing lists currently use, and your cPanel account's mailing list quota.
- Addon Domains: the number of addon domains that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's addon domain quota.
- Subdomains: the number of subdomains that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's subdomain quota.
- Aliases: the number of aliases (parked domains) that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's alias quota.
- Email Accounts: the number of email accounts that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's email account quota.
- Mailing Lists: the number of Mailman mailing lists that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's mailing list quota.
- Autoresponders: the number of autoresponders that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's autoresponder quota.
- Forwarders: the number of forwarders that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's forwarder quota.
- Email Filters: the number of email filters that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's email filter quota.
- FTP Accounts: the number of FTP accounts that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's FTP account quota.
- MySQL Databases: the number of MySQL or MariaDB databases that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's MySQL and MariaDB database quota.
- CPU Usage: the amount of CPU that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's CPU quota.
- Memory Usage: t the amount of memory that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's memory usage quota.
- Entry Processes: t the number of entry processes that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's entry process quota.
- PostgreSQL Databases: the number of PostgreSQL databases that your cPanel account currently uses, and your account's PostgreSQL database quota.
By mastering the fundamentals of navigating the WebHostingM cPanel interface, you're equipped to efficiently manage your web hosting account and maximize the capabilities of cPanel. If you need help logging in or are not sure what to do, please contact our technical support team
