The cPanel Guide

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The Guide

 

Are you getting the most out of your cPanel? Is your website as brilliant as possible? This guide has every inch of cPanel explained.

 

Getting Started

Lets start off with a few basics. Go to stevie.heliohost.org:2082 or heliohost.org:2082. You will be immediately asked for your username and password. Use the username and password you used when you signed up. If you can't sign up then your site might not have been activated yet - read my Commonly Asked Questions thread.

 

The main screen

When you are logged in, you will be greeted by a message saying if you would like an introduction of cPanel. If you want to jump right in, choose 'No Thanks!'. On the left, you can quickly see the stats of your website, including your disk space, monthly bandwidth transfer and how many databases, emails and more. Click the 'expand stats' button to view all your stats. Feel free to organize your cPanel in any way you like. Drag sections wherever you like.

 

Mail - Email Account

Create as many email accounts you like in this interface. Create a new email account using the quick form available. Your email address will be email@domain.heliohost.org replacing email with whatever you want and domain.heliohost.org with your web address.

 

Below the creation form is a list of all the available email accounts. You can see the quota at a glance, and change the quota. From the More section, you can even access that accounts Web Mail...

 

Mail - Web Mail

You can view the latest emails online using Web Mail. Simply go to stevie.heliohost.org:2095 or heliohost.org:2095 and login. The username is your email address and the password is the one specified when that account was setup.

 

An email account was made when your HelioHost account was activated which was username@domain.heliohost.org replacing username with the username you chose when you setup your HelioHost account and replacing domain.heliohost.org with your web address.

 

You have the option of Horde, Squirrel Mail, or Roundcube. I recommend Roundcube as it is the most rich and dynamic. Horde is dynamic but doesn't look rich. And Squirrel Mail is for simple email reading and sending plain text email.

 

All email systems are pretty obvious.

 

Mail - Configuring Email Clients

Did you know you can read your email using programs such as Microsoft Outlook? You can do it by simply running the downloadable scripts available from cPanel. Or you can do it the manual way...

 

 

Rest of the guide is coming very soon!