Server Management

In Cloud Sites, you can choose what folders specific FTP users can access. When you create FTP users, you choose this folder access and you can adjust access at any time.

cPanel often releases new features and upgrades for WHM and cPanel. Keeping your control panel updated means you will always have access to the newest features. Keeping your control panel up to date will also help protect your from security vulnerabilities that have been identified in earlier releases of the software.

Learn how to install DotNetNuke in Cloud Sites — DotNetNuke (DNN) is an open-source web content management system based on Microsoft.NET.

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.

While often confused with a domain name, a hostname is a label used to identify a specific computer or server on a network, like the internet or a LAN.

This tutorial is for the purpose of upgrading MySQL on an unmanaged server with an Ubuntu operating system. If you have CentOS or are upgrading via cPanel, please see our articles for instructions on upgrading via CentOS or WHM.

Creating Cron jobs in Cloud Sites or scheduled tasks is easy when using the Crons section in the Cloud Sites control panel.

Minimize spam by adding custom RBLs in WHM or Plesk. Learn how to add, enable, and test new remote block lists on your server.

Test the speed of your network. Pinging a domain is when you send small packets of information to a target server and wait to see how long it takes to get that information back.

There are two potential problems when it comes to using your own mailserver and spam: spam email being sent to your account and spam email being sent from your account. The free program SpamAssassin can reduce how much spam email gets to your inbox. SpamAssassin assigns a score to each email you receive. Then, based on your settings, it rejects email that scores too high. The scoring is from 0 to 10, with 0 having the strictest rules and 10 having the most relaxed rules. It’s like a threshold: if you set the threshold to 5, emails that score 6 or higher will be marked as spam. We generally recommend starting at a threshold of 5, then adjusting as necessary. This article will show you how to enable SpamAssassin on a domain.

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.