Guides tagged “cpanel”
Step-by-step MdmHost guides about cpanel, sorted A-Z.
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Use BoxTrapper in cPanel to stop spam with sender verification
Enable BoxTrapper for a mailbox, build whitelists and blacklists, review the queue, and decide when challenge-response filtering helps or hurts your email.
Use Composer for PHP packages on cPanel hosting
Run Composer on cPanel shared hosting: check it is available, pick the right PHP version, install and update dependencies, handle memory errors and deploy without dev packages.
Use the cPanel Terminal: command line in your browser
Open a shell on your hosting account from cPanel Terminal without an SSH client, and use practical commands for WP-CLI, file searches, permissions and databases.
Use the Plesk Migrator to move sites from cPanel
Connect your cPanel source server to the Plesk Migrator extension and copy domains, mail, databases and SSL certificates onto a Linux VPS, then verify before you switch DNS.
Use Track Delivery in cPanel to find missing or bounced emails
Search cPanel Track Delivery to see whether an email was accepted, delivered, deferred, rejected as spam or bounced, and read the delivery report to fix the cause.
Use WHM Feature Manager to control cPanel features
Use WHM Feature Manager to build feature lists, hide tools such as Terminal or SSH Access from cPanel users, attach lists to packages and disable features for every account.
Website down? A step-by-step troubleshooting checklist
A calm, ordered checklist for when your website stops loading: is it just you, domain and DNS, SSL, error codes, resource limits, disk space and recent changes.
Website error codes explained: 403, 404, 500, 502, 503 and 504
What each common HTTP error code means, the usual cause on cPanel hosting or a VPS, and the first thing to check to get your website back online.
Website hacked? Recovery plan for any site on cPanel hosting
A calm, ordered plan to recover a hacked website on cPanel: contain the damage, find what changed, restore clean files, close the hole, and clean up email and search results.
Website migration checklist: move hosts without losing anything
A complete website migration checklist for moving hosts: inventory, backups, restore, email, DNS cut-over and post-migration checks, in the order you should do them.
Website security checklist for hosting customers (with Imunify360)
A practical security checklist for cPanel hosting customers: what Imunify360 already does for you, and the passwords, updates, backups and settings you still need to handle.
Website speed optimisation checklist for any site on cPanel hosting
A practical website speed optimisation checklist for any CMS or PHP site on cPanel hosting: measure first, then caching, compression, images, PHP version and OPcache, database, scripts and CDN.
Website statistics in cPanel: Awstats, Visitors and Bandwidth
Read your website traffic in cPanel with Awstats, Visitors and Bandwidth: unique visitors, top pages, referrers, bots and how much data each domain uses.
What is a hosting control panel? cPanel vs Plesk vs DirectAdmin
What a hosting control panel does, the difference between end-user and admin panels, and a fair comparison of cPanel/WHM, Plesk and DirectAdmin to help you choose.
What is reseller hosting and how does it work?
How reseller hosting works: WHM and separate cPanel accounts, white-label branding, who does what between you and the host, how resellers earn, and who it suits best.
What is Softaculous? Features, supported apps and how to open it in cPanel
An overview of Softaculous, the one-click app installer in cPanel: what it installs, how to open it, and what it can do for updates, backups, clones and staging.
What is web hosting and how does it work?
What web hosting is, what actually runs on a hosting server, how visitors reach your site, the main types of hosting and what a good hosting plan includes.
What is WP Squared? cPanel's WordPress platform explained
WP Squared is cPanel's WordPress-focused hosting platform. Learn what it does, how it differs from classic cPanel, who it suits and how to start using it.
What to send new hosting customers: a reseller welcome email template
A practical welcome email for new cPanel customers on your reseller plan: login URLs, nameservers, email settings, FTP, SSL and support details, plus what to leave out.
When an employee leaves: forward, archive and delete their cPanel mailbox
A safe offboarding routine for a departing employee's cPanel email: block logins, keep receiving mail via a forwarder, archive old mail and delete the mailbox later.
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