Web Hosting Tutorial - Basic Knowledge for Managing Web Hosting Accounts
What to do when you receive all your account details to access the new web hosting set up?
Some of the following can be followed if you still lay with the management of web hosting and website.
Preparation Steps
Read the entire contents of an email that contains a complete log data, and if there are parts that are not understood, can directly contact your webhosting support section. At the "Welcome Email" can be found among others: username, password, address (URL) access to the control panel, the address and port number to access email, and FTP access address.
In short, you now have access to 3 types of web hosting accounts are, namely, the Control-Panel, FTP, and Email. Note that the control-panel and FTP can be directly accessed with username + password data, but for new emails will be made after successful access (login) to the control panel.
When all was OK, make sure your connection to the Internet smoothly, for example by running a web browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc.), and tried to call one or a few popular sites.
Step # 1: Access cPanel
First of all, make access to the control panel with the username + password through the website address provided. In this tutorial, control-panel using cPanel is considered very popular today.
Run a web browser, access to the address htttp: / / www.domain-names.com/cpanel.
Enter your username and password into the fields.
And .... some time later depending on the speed of your ISP, the following display will appear.
(note, the URL / address may be changed to 2082 numbers http://www.domain-baru-anda.com:2082/ ......, a port number for access to the cpanel, it's not a problem, we can continue jobs more ...)
Step # 2: Change Password cPanel
After successful login to cPanel, the first thing to do is change your password, and can be done in the menu / link: Preferences> Change Password. On that page, you must type your old password, then 2 (two) times the new password for verification. Note, same-FTP password to your cPanel password, by changing the password also changed automatic cPanel FTP password.
Step # 3: Creating E-Mail Account New in cPanel
Then, try to create a new email account, in the Email Management Tools menu> Add / Remove E-mail account (s). On the next page, you can specify the name / new email ID will be created, and type the password (also 2x for verification), and enter the mailbox quota amount (number in Megabytes / MB).
Now, early steps you've prepared, so you can access the contents of web hosting account and start building the website content as needed.
Before leaving the cPanel (logout), refer to the general information section to examine the data and facilities usage figures. Scroll to the bottom of the page content, and check its contents.
All the initial step in accessing your account has been done, please logout of the cPanel, and proceed to the other access measures.
After you successfully access the cPanel, and then change the password and create a new email account, now is the time to try to access to your mailbox, and also tried FTP access to upload / download files.
Step # 4: Access to Mailbox / E-Mail
Access to your mailbox can be done through e-mail programs, such as Outlook Express, and others.
To find out the ways the new account settings in OE, please read on:
[Tip] Outlook Express - How to make your e-mail.
Note that you need to enter the data correctly from the "Welcome Email" to the columns of the settings in OE.
Step # 5: Access FTP
Try to access the contents of your account via FTP program. Through FTP you can upload / download files, and sometimes necessary to change the "attribute" one of the files when needed, such as making a file becomes "writable", etc..
Please read about FTP access at: [FAQ] Access via FTP - Upload / download files. FTP via FTP-clients and WebBrowser.
Step # 6: Setting Up Your Website
The final step for those of you who just have their own web hosting account is set up and access their own website.
If you are designing their own website content, simply upload and direct access to http://www.website-anda.com.
If you do not own to design its website, the easiest way to build a website is to use the applications / scripts that have been available in the Fantastico package.
Package Fantanstico [full list] is a collection of 50 + applications / scripts that shipped with the popular cPanel, and one or more of these scripts can be installed easily through cPanel menu> Software> Fantastico.
To access Fantastico, login to cpanel, and click the Fantastico in the Software.
On the next screen, select / click on the name you want to install scripts, then click New Installation to proceed.
The following screen, type the name of "directory / folder" where scripts will be installed, such as "blog", "forum", etc..
Attention, just enter the folder name it, do not have to add "/". Also note, this folder to a new folder, never before.
Then, you must enter an administrator name and password for the application / script in the "Admin access data".
For other data, please follow the instructions.
Finally, click "Install .......", and on the next page, confirm by clicking" Finish Installation ".
CAUTION: for details of how to manage each of these applications, you must learn it themselves from various sources, including visiting the website each publisher application / script.
Source : S9HOST.COM
