cPanel

cPanel, often referred to as control panel, is the interface used for making changes to and customizing your hosting account with InMotion Hosting. Some of the great features that cPanel includes are:

• Email: Within cPanel you can create new email accounts, view/modify your existing accounts, modify your MX records, change email passwords, set up mail box quotas and much more.
• Domains: Under the domains section of cPanel, you can configure new domains to your account, set up parked domains, create subdomains, setup redirects, and much more.
• File Management: In the files section of cPanel, you can backup your cPanel account, access/modify files stored in your account, review your disk usage, and create/manage FTP accounts.
• Databases: Here you can create new databases, set up remote access to MySQL, access the databases using phpMyAdmin, and much more.

cPanel is very user friendly and is quite robust. There are numerous tools within cPanel to handle a wide variety of tasks. It contains a full help menu that is easy to use.

Getting Started in cPanel

• How to Log Into cPanel *Highly Recommended
• The cPanel Layout/Interface
• Changing Your cPanel Password
• How to View Your PHP Version in cPanel
• How to Setup Backups in cPanel *Highly Recommended

Using Email

• Creating an Email Account *Highly Recommended
• How to Log Into Webmail
• How to Modify MX Records Using cPanel

Using Softaculous

Softaculous is a tool located within your cPanel you can use to help you easily install other programs. Softaculous does the tedious work involved with software installation. No more uploading installation files or creating and configuring databases, you can now install programs such as WordPress and Joomla by simply clicking a link.

• FAQ – Installing Programs with Softaculous
• List of Programs in Softaculous
• How to Install Programs Using Softaculous
• How to Uninstall Programs in Softaculous

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