Hosting & cPanel
39 articles in this section
Shared hosting with cPanel differs from a VPS in one key way: there is no server to configure. Everything happens inside the panel: domains and subdomains, mailboxes, databases, site files. This section covers exactly that: setting up a first site, connecting mail, and not losing data on the first hiccup.
Several articles cover things that work differently on shared hosting than on your own server: switching the PHP version through MultiPHP Manager or PHP Selector, Resource Usage limits and what to do when a site hits them, file permissions in the File Manager, installing a CMS with Softaculous, and deploying straight from Git inside the panel.
Other guides deal with everyday problems: a 500 error and where to find its cause in the logs, mail that gets lost without DKIM, SPF and DMARC, other sites stealing your images through hotlinking, and brute-force attempts stopped by IP Blocker and SpamAssassin.
- Domains, subdomains and DNS records via Zone Editor
- Mail: mailboxes, forwarding, IMAP and POP3, spam protection
- Backups and restoring a site from a saved copy
- Redirects, .htaccess and moving from HTTP to HTTPS