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Guides for managing your hosting account through the cPanel control panel.
Use the File Manager
Browse, upload, and edit files on your shared hosting from cPanel File Manager, including hidden files, permissions, and Trash.
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Set Up Email on iPhone/iPad (Apple Mail)
Add a shared-hosting mailbox to the Mail app on iPhone or iPad using IMAP and the hostnames from cPanel.
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Set Up Email on Android
Add a cPanel shared-hosting mailbox to Gmail or another Android mail app using IMAP, with hostnames and ports from your hosting service.
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Set Up Email in Mozilla Thunderbird
Add a shared-hosting mailbox to Mozilla Thunderbird on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
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Set Up Email in Microsoft Outlook
Add a cPanel shared-hosting mailbox to Outlook on Windows or Mac using IMAP, with hostnames and ports from your hosting service.
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Set Up Email Forwarders
Forward every message for a shared-hosting address in cPanel to one or more other inboxes.
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Set up custom error pages
Brand 404 and 500 pages on your shared hosting so visitors stay on your site when a page is missing or something breaks.
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Set Up an Autoresponder
Send an automatic reply from a shared-hosting address in cPanel when you are away, with start and stop times.
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Set Up a Domain Redirect
Send visitors from one domain or URL to another with a 301 or 302 redirect in cPanel on your shared hosting.
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Set up a cron job
Schedule a command or PHP script on your shared hosting from cPanel Cron Jobs, including WordPress wp-cron.
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Read your resource usage and metrics
See disk, CPU, memory, I/O, file counts, and traffic for your shared hosting account in cPanel, and what to do when a graph is high.
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Manage a Database with phpMyAdmin
Browse, edit, export, and import MariaDB tables in phpMyAdmin on your shared hosting, opened from the portal.
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General IMAP/POP/SMTP Mail Settings Explained
IMAP versus POP, SMTP for sending, and the hostnames and ports for email on LochStudios shared hosting.
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Edit DNS with the Zone Editor
Use the cPanel Zone Editor when a domain is in cPanel Hosting DNS mode to add or change A, MX, CNAME, and other records.
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Download and Restore a Backup
Create and download a cPanel backup of your shared hosting, restore files or a database yourself, and ask us to restore from the hourly copies we keep.
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Create a MySQL Database and User
Add a MariaDB database and user on your shared hosting, grant privileges, and copy the full prefixed names your application needs.
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Create Email Filters (Mailbox Rules)
Create server-side rules in cPanel that file, discard, or redirect incoming mail for a shared-hosting address.
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Create an FTP Account and Connect
Create extra FTP logins on your shared hosting, copy the host from cPanel, and upload site files with a client such as FileZilla.
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Create an Email Account
Add a mailbox on your shared hosting plan in cPanel, set a password and quota, then open it in Roundcube or a mail app.
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Create an Alias (Parked Domain)
Point another domain name at the same website on your shared hosting by adding an alias (parked domain) in cPanel.
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Create a Subdomain
Create a subdomain such as blog.yourdomain.com on your shared hosting, give it its own folder, and point DNS so visitors can reach it.
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Choose your PHP version
Pick the PHP version each domain or folder on your shared hosting uses, and turn extensions on from cPanel.
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Check Disk Usage
See how much disk your shared hosting account is using, find the folders that take the most space, and free some up.
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Allow Remote MySQL Access
Let an application or server outside this hosting account connect to your MariaDB database from a specific IP.
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Add an Addon Domain
Host another website on the same shared hosting account by adding an addon domain in cPanel.
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Access Webmail
Open Roundcube Webmail from your hosting service to read and send email in the browser.
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