The Addon Domain Maintenance menu allows you to add and remove addon domains to your account. An addon domain allows you to reach a subdomain when entering the name of the addon domain into a browser. This means that you can host additional domains from your account. Any current addon domains will be listed under Current Addon Domains.

For example, if domain2.com is an addon domain on sub.domain.com, going to http://www.domain2.com in a browser will bring up sub.domain.com (domain.com/sub).

To access the Addon Domain Maintenance menu, click on the icon above the words Addon Domains on the main screen of your cPanel interface. Go To Tutorial Now

The Backup Menu allows a user backup or restore all or part of their account. Users can generate a backup of their account from the Backup Menu or download any automatic backups that their server administrator has created.

To access the Backup Menu, click on the icon above the words Backup on the main screen of your cPanel interface. Go To Tutorial Now

The Password Maintenance Menu allows you to change the password that you use to access your cPanel interface. Your password should be hard to guess, and changed often.

To access the Password Maintenance Menu, click on the icon above the words Change Password on the main screen of your cPanel interface. Go To Tutorial Now

The default email address will "catch" any mail that is sent to an invalid email address for your domain. All mail that is sent to an address that does not exist will go to the default email address. Go To Tutorial Now

The Error Pages function allows you to modify the different HTML pages that a user will see when an error is registered on your site. For example, you can change the file not found page to include your logo, a link back to your site, an apology, or something else. Changing these pages can give a more personal feel to your site and can also be useful when your site is under construction. Go To Tutorial Now

The cPanel FILE MANAGER allows you to modify the files and contents of files that are part of your website. The FILE MANAGER allows point and click uploading, editing, copying, and more. If you need access to the files that make up your website, you will need to use the FILE MANAGER.

To access the FILE MANAGER, click on the icon above the words File Manager on the main screen of your cPanel interface. Go To Tutorial Now

Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your site directly from the FrontPage application. This means that you will not have to upload files through FTP, or another method.

WARNING: We do not recommend installing FrontPage Extensions unless you need them. When installing or uninstalling FrontPage Extensions you will lose all of your .htaccess files for your site. This means that any changes you have made to your .htaccess files will be lost.

To access Frontpage Extensions, click on the icon above the words Frontpage Extensions on the main screen of your cPanel interface. Go To Tutorial Now

The FTP Manager allows a user to do many different tasks involving FTP accounts. This includes creating ftp accounts, removing accounts, anonymous FTP access, FTP session control, and more. The tutorial will familiarize you with using the FTP Manager to accomplish the many different tasks that are associated with FTP accounts, and FTP account maintenance.

To access the FTP Manager, click on the icon above the words FTP Manager on the main screen of your cPanel interface. Go To Tutorial Now

Hotlink protection prevents other websites from directly linking to files on your website. Other sites will still be able to link to any file type that you don't specify (ie. html files). You can use hotlink protection to keep other sites from linking to your images, videos, and other files. If another site links directly to your images or other files, they will be using your bandwidth to display those files rather than theirs.

To access Hotlink Protection, click on the icon above the words Hotlink Protection on the main screen of your cPanel interface. Go To Tutorial Now

The Index Manager allows you to customize the way a directory will be viewed on the web. You can select between a default style, no indexes, or two types of indexing. If you do not wish for people to be able to see the files in your directory, choose no indexing. Go To Tutorial Now

The MySQL Account Maintenance Menu allows you to create MySQL databases and users and to modify databases and access to them. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is an international standard in querying and retrieving information from databases. MySQL is essentially an SQL server - it responds to requests for information that are written in SQL. You can communicate with MySQL using a wide variety of programming languages (PHP being one of the most common). MySQL is Open Source software and free for use.

Refer to the following link for more information about MySQL :

MySQL - The MySQL homepage.

MySQL and PHP tutorial - A good introduction to using the two Open Source technologies together.

To access the MySQL Account Maintenance Menu, click on the icon above the words MySQL Databases on the main screen of your cPanel interface. Go To Tutorial Now

How to set up your email account using Outlook Express. Go To Tutorial Now

Manage your databases with PhpMyAdmin. Go To Tutorial Now

How to create a POP email account in cPanel. Go To Tutorial Now

You can use this option to place a password on one of your site's directories. Only users that you specify will be able to access this directory. Go To Tutorial Now

You can use email forwarders to send all email messages that are sent to an account to another account. If you have multiple email accounts, you can use forwarders to send all your mail to one place so you do not have to login to multiple email accounts to check your mail. Go To Tutorial Now

Redirects allow you to make a specific web page redirect to another page and display the contents of that page. This way you can make a page with a long URL accessible by a page which has a shorter and easier to remember URL.

For example: Since http://www.domain.com/folder1/foldera/longfilename_with_underscores.html is hard to remember, you can make http://www.domain.com/filename.html redirect to the other URL. This way users do not have to remember the longer URL or search through your web site to get to the page they wish to access.

To access the Redirects Menu, click on the icon above the words Redirects on the main screen of your cPanel interface. Go To Tutorial Now

The Sub Domain Maintenance menu allows you to add and remove subdomains. Subdomains allow you to access different directories by using a domain name which you do not have to register. For example, if you want to access forums on your site, you can create forums.domain.com and link it to the directory that your forums are in. Any current subdomains will be listed under Current Sub-Domains.

To access the Sub Domain Maintenance menu, click on the icon above the words Subdomains on the main screen of your cPanel interface. Go To Tutorial Now

You can use the Mail Menu to access one of the three web mail programs included in cPanel. These programs will allow you to read your email through a browser window without having to make any changes to the computer you are on or leave any email on the computer you are on. Go To Tutorial Now