Control Panel

Changing MySQL passwords to something new and secure is easy via the command line.

You may want to use your cPanel email with an email client like Outlook, Mac Mail, or the email app on your phone. Before you can connect your email client to your cPanel email, you’ll need your configuration settings. These include the mail server settings and your webmail username (email address) and password. This walkthrough will show you how to find these settings in cPanel. Luckily, cPanel does most of the work for you if you’re configuring certain mail clients.

If you have multiple cPanel accounts and domains on your server, you may want to look into CloudLinux as a way to help restrict the amount of memory each user can access with their site. CloudLinux partitions, allocates and limits server resources like memory, CPU and connections for each user. This makes sure that users don’t jeopardize the stability of the server and cause sites to slow down or in the worst case, stop loading completely.

While you can use any text editor you like (Sublime, Notepad++, and Vim are a few examples), you have the ability to edit html and code within Plesk using the File Manager. This includes ones already uploaded or files just recently created.

You can use webmail to export (download) emails from a cPanel server. This is useful if you need a backup of all the emails in a specific account. Keep in mind this may not work as intended if you use POP3 with a desktop or mobile email client. If you have a desktop client, you could also export emails directly from that client for archival purposes. This tutorial will focus on exporting directly from a webmail account.

Easily install Magento on your server using cPanel. This guide shows you how to use the Softaculous installer to launch your store in minutes.

cPanel has a number of tools you can use to view your website statistics on a per site basis. Viewing the information in the Metrics section of cPanel, you can view the visitors to your webserver, errors, bandwidth use as well as FTP logins and usage statistics using Webalizer. This article will go through the Metrics section of cPanel to help you understand the information found in each place.

A subdomain shares your domain, but adds a third-level domain and can function like a whole separate website. Subdomains have domain names that look like blog.mysite.com. Plesk manages each subdomain as if it were its own website. You can create a completely different look and feel on a subdomain. Creating subdomains is useful if you want to have an online store, blog, or forum. You can create as many subdomains as you want on a main domain.

Windows servers using Plesk can use firewall rules to manage help manage server traffic. You can also add firewall rules using Windows Firewall, but adding firewall rules in Plesk is a good first line of defense.

Error pages are a part of any website. No matter what, website visitors will sometimes encounter error pages. If you use custom error pages, however, you can turn an error page into a positive user experience. This tutorial will show you how to add custom error pages to your websites.

Server Load refers to the average amount of processes waiting to be processed by your server’s CPU. The higher the average, the more processes that are waiting to be processed.

With root WHM access, you can change any cPanel user’s password without knowing the old one. This also updates their email, FTP, and SSH passwords.