{"id":6074,"date":"2021-05-21T07:01:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T07:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/21\/cpanel-control-panel-overview-hosting\/"},"modified":"2021-05-21T07:01:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T07:01:07","slug":"cpanel-control-panel-overview-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/21\/cpanel-control-panel-overview-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"cPanel control panel overview &#8211; Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3214842754935876\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<b>cPanel<\/b> control panel\u00a0is designed for managing separate hosting accounts on the server. End users\/clients are able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>upload and manage files for their websites<\/li>\n<li>edit DNS records for their domains<\/li>\n<li>add\/remove addon domains and subdomains<\/li>\n<li>install CMS using Softaculous script installer<\/li>\n<li>create email accounts<\/li>\n<li>manage email settings and SPAM protection<\/li>\n<li>check website statistics<\/li>\n<li>manage databases and backups, etc.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More details about the structure of WHM\/cPanel users depending on their permissions can be found in this article.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>We have cPanel 11.86 installed on our hosting servers. You can find the latest documentation covering all its functions here.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>You can find cPanel structure overview <b>for cPanel Basic Theme<\/b> and <b>for cPanel Retro Theme<\/b> below in this guide.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>For cPanel Basic Theme:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Basically cPanel has two vertical sections with different features:&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Left column<\/b> which provides a number of various features that are conveniently structured to specific groups based on the concrete aspect of the web-hosting service and <b>Right column<\/b> which includes different <b>Stats<\/b> information about the account. Additionally, you can see a <b>header<\/b> above both sections:&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Header and Right Column:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Left Column:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Header and Right Column:<\/b><br \/>Search\u00a0\u00a0User\u00a0\u00a0Stats\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><b>Search:<\/b> a search bar that allows you to find cPanel features in the quickest way. Just start entering the name of the needed tool to allocate the corresponding menu: &#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_65_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>User:<\/b> this menu provides a number of options related to your cPanel user and account itself \u2013 changing your cPanel password, contact information, style and language as well as resetting all the current account configuration to the default state:&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_372_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Stats:<\/b> here you will find the general information related to your cPanel account:&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_16_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Server Information<\/b> menu lists hosting account package and additional server-side details, like the IP address assigned to your cPanel account, software installed on the server and the status of the core services: &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_269_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Statistics<\/b> column collects cPanel services and quotas as well as the current account resource usage:&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_607_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/>\u00a0\u00a0<img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_786_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Left Column:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Exclusive for Namecheap customers<br \/>Files\u00a0\u00a0Databases\u00a0\u00a0Email\u00a0\u00a0Domains\u00a0\u00a0Metrics\u00a0\u00a0Security\u00a0\u00a0Software\u00a0\u00a0Advanced\u00a0\u00a0Preferences<\/p>\n<p><b>Exclusive for Namecheap Customers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_344_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div><b>AutoBackup:<\/b> it is a cPanel plugin that allows customers with Premium and Business Hosting to retrieve a full cPanel backup right away.<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_81_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Google Apps:<\/b> with this tool you will be able to configure Google Apps service for your domain in just a few clicks.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to check this category for more information. <\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_336_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"42\" height=\"42\"\/><b> Namecheap SSL:<\/b> this menu allows you to use Namecheap SSL cPanel plugin, check this guide for more details. <\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_663_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b>CodeGuard Backup:<\/b> this tool was designed to make the backup process as easy as possible. CodeGuard system will constantly monitor the website and keep you informed of any changes, performing full automatic backups of your files to avoid any possible downtime.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nMore information is provided in the following articles: &#13;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_49_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Softaculous Apps Installer:<\/b> this feature allows you to use Softaculous Script Installer, which includes most popular CMS, such as WordPress\/Joomla\/Magento etc. It is much faster than other script installers and it installs CMSes in a few clicks. Softaculous application is provided with any cPanel account on all of our shared hosting plans. You can view available scripts and their demo here.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nYou may find these guides useful when working with Softaculous installer:&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><b><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_860_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b\/>Select PHP Version:<\/b>using this menu it is possible to select the necessary PHP version as well as enable\/disable certain PHP modules and functions.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_705_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"57\" height=\"48\"\/><b> Website Builder<\/b>: this tool allows you to easily create an entire website using a drag-and-drop editor and without knowing any code or installing special software. <\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_996_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\"\/><b> Contact Support<\/b>: opens a Live Chat with our Customer Support team. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_804_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Namecheap Knowledgebase:<\/b> this button will take you to our Knowledgebase site section. <\/div>\n<div><b>PHP Tweaks:<\/b> allows managing PHP settings on our Business servers (Stellar Business and old Business SSD plans).<\/div>\n<p><b>Files<\/b><\/p>\n<div><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_398_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_551_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> File Manager:<\/b> here you can manage the files stored in your account. These guides can be found helpful while working with this menu:&#13;<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_422_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Images:<\/b> this tool allows you to view and modify images in your account. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_934_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Directory Privacy:<\/b> allows you to set a requirement for a username and password when users attempt to access your site from the web. It can be used when you need to limit access to a certain part of your site. You can get more details in this guide. <\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_609_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Disk Usage:<\/b> in this menu you will be able to check a detailed information about the disk space usage of your account. It shows disk usage totals for your account\u2019s directories and all of its databases, not for individual files or databases.&#13;<br \/>\n &#13;<br \/>\nMore details about Disk Space usage optimization are provided in this article.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_548_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Web Disk:<\/b> this feature is a cPanel implementation of the WebDav protocol, which allows you to manage, upload, and download your website\u2019s files as though they were local to your personal computer. More detailed instructions about setting up WebDisk can be found in these articles:&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_140_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> FTP Accounts:<\/b> this option allows you to create and manage your FTP accounts. In order to create an FTP account, feel free to check this article. For FTP connection instructions, refer to this set of guides:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_647_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> FTP Connections:<\/b> using this tool you can monitor the users who are currently logged into your site via FTP. Also, it\u2019s possible to terminate an FTP connection from here.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_140_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b>Backup:<\/b> this feature allows you to download a zipped copy of your entire account or specific parts of it, such as your home directory, databases, email forwarder configuration, or your email filters configuration. More details guidance about how to make backups in cPanel can be found here.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_546_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Backup Wizard:<\/b> a user-friendly interface for creating a backup of your entire site, a partial backup, or allowing a site restoration from the last backup saved. Note, that <b>Restore<\/b> option provided in this menu is disabled by default on all our Shared servers.<\/div>\n<p><b>Git Version Control:<\/b> this feature allows you to easily host Git repositories on your cPanel account.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_662_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"43\" height=\"52\"\/><b> Inodes Usage:<\/b> provides the statistics of your account inodes (files) usage.You will find more details about this tool here. <\/div>\n<div><b>R1Soft Restore Backups:<\/b> the tool is available on Business servers and allows your cPanel account to be backed up 6-8 times a day as an addition to our regular server backups.<\/div>\n<p><b>Databases<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_358_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_136_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> phpMyAdmin:<\/b> it&#8217;s the database management tool, which allows you to make different changes to MySQL databases in your account. You can find more information about how to work with databases via phpMyAdmin this guide.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_620_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> MySQL Databases:<\/b> in this menu you can create and manage MySQL databases in cPanel account. You can refer to this guide for more details.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_703_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> MySQL Databases Wizard:<\/b> provides the same functionality as <b>MySQL Databases<\/b> menu, in a simplified way though.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_262_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> PostgreSQL Databases:<\/b> this option allows you to create and manage PostgreSQL databases in cPanel.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_582_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> PostgreSQL Databases Wizard:<\/b> has the same functionality as <b>PostgreSQL Databases<\/b> menu, but allows to make all the changes in a simpler way.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_250_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> phpPgAdmin:<\/b> it is the database management tool, which allows you to make different changes to PostgreSQL databases in your account.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_804_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b>MySQL F.A.Q.:<\/b> this button will take you to the corresponding Knowledgebase section dedicated to MySQL questions.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Email<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_921_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_161_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Email Accounts:<\/b> in this menu you can create and manage mailboxes associated with the domain names hosted in your account. In order to create an email account, feel free to check this guidance. More details about setting up a newly created email account with email clients can be found in the set of articles cPanel Email: Client Setup. <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_463_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Forwarders:<\/b> setting up Forwarders feature provides you with an opportunity to send a copy of all emails from one email address to another. For example, you have two different email accounts and you don\u2019t want to check both of them every time, so you could forward emails from test@yourdomain.com to test2@yourdomain2.com. Note, that the original address will still receive the forwarded emails.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_834_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b>&#13;<br \/>\nEmail Routing:<\/b> here you can set email routing for the domains hosted in your cPanel account, more details can be found in this guide.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_892_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Autoresponders:<\/b> this feature allows you to automatically send messages in reply to incoming emails received on a specific email account. This is pretty useful when you are on holidays or unavailable, or if you have any generic messages to send. You will find more information in this guide.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_445_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Default Address:<\/b> in this menu you can manage an email address, which is used by cPanel to fetch any message sent to email accounts which do not exist at your domain (also known as &#8216;catch-all address&#8217;). More details can be found here.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580459_364_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Mailing Lists:<\/b> with this option you can create a single address to send emails, newsletters and other updates to multiple email addresses simultaneously. Feel free to refer to this article to get more information.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_251_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Track Delivery:<\/b> this menu allows you to monitor emails delivery for your account.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_245_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Global Email Filters:<\/b> this feature allows you to configure filters of all the emails arriving to your hosted domains.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_480_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Email Filters:<\/b> with this option you can create filters for each email account for your domain. You can find more details about filtering tools in this article.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_78_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Email Deliverability:<\/b> this tool will help you to prevent spam. Setting up DKIM and SPF records for your account equip email messages with verifiable information so that your server can automatically detect the nature of incoming and outgoing messages.&#13;<br \/>\nThe detailed guidance about using this feature can be found here.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_118_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Address Importer:<\/b> this menu allows you to use two types of files (<i>.xls<\/i> and <i>.csv<\/i>) for importing data in order to simultaneously create multiple email address or email forwarders for your account.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_238_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Spam Filters:<\/b> it is a user-friendly email utility which examines incoming mail for different spam characteristics. It uses various network tests and spam filtering to get an overall score in order to decide whether the mail should be considered as spam or not. SpamAssassin tool is provided by default with all our shared and reseller hosting plans. These articles can be found useful for setting up SpamAssasin feature:&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_860_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b>Encryption:<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\nthis option allows you to set up GnuPG, which is a publicly-available encryption scheme that uses the public key approach. This system uses a public key to encrypt messages and you can decrypt them with the private key, which the intended recipient of the message retains. &#13;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_470_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> BoxTrapper:<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\nthis tool can protect your Inbox from spam by requiring all email senders not on your Whitelist reply to a verification email before you can receive their mail. &#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_611_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Calendars and Contacts:<\/b> this menu helps to configure your client to connect to CalDAV for calendars and CardDAV for contacts in order to access them on your personal devices. The detailed instructions can be found in this guidance.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_49_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b>Email Disk Usage:<\/b> this utility allows you to recover disk space by deleting old messages from your mailbox. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_230_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b>Professional Spam Filter:<\/b> this menu allows you to configure SpamExperts, a user-friendly email filtering solution that allows to protect your account from both incoming and outgoing spam. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nMore information about this feature is provided in this article.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_804_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> E-mail F.A.Q.:<\/b> this button will take you to the corresponding Knowledgebase section dedicated to email questions.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_804_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> E-mail Client Setup:<\/b> this button will take you to the corresponding Knowledgebase section dedicated to email account setup with different email clients and devices.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Domains<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_908_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_370_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b>Site Publisher<\/b>: you can use this interface to quickly create a website from a set of available templates. This allows visitors to see some basic information while you continue to develop your website. <\/div>\n<p><b>Domains:<\/b> this interface allows creating and managing multiple domains from a single cPanel interface.<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_594_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Addon Domains:<\/b> with the help of this menu you can add more domains to the hosting account. Addon domains have the same functionality as the main domain assigned to your hosting account. More details about adding domains to cPanel are provided here. <\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_648_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Subdomains:<\/b> in this menu you can create subdomains and point them to different sections of your website or other IPs. Detailed instructions about this menu can be found in this article.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_701_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Aliases:<\/b> this feature allows you to &#8216;park&#8217; additional domain names to your existing hosting account. They display the same website as your primary domain and share web statistics as well. You can refer to this guide when setting up a new parked domain.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_440_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Redirects:<\/b> here you can create a redirect for a specific domain\/page to another domain\/page and display the contents of the latter. More details can be found here.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_556_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Zone Editor:<\/b> allows you to edit the DNS zone of the domain(s) in your cPanel account. The following records can be added: A, AAAA, CNAME, SRV, TXT, MX. Feel free to check this article to get more information about setting up DNS records in cPanel. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_804_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Domains F.A.Q.:<\/b> this button will take you to the corresponding Knowledgebase section dedicated to domains&#8217; management questions.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Metrics<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_438_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_551_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Visitors:<\/b> the access log of your account provided in a table view.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_979_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Errors:<\/b> here you can check the error log for your account, showing the latest 300 lines of content related to the errors generated by any website hosted in your account.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_220_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Bandwidth:<\/b> provides you with the detailed information the bandwidth used by your account.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_757_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Raw Access:<\/b> the RAW access log for your account.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_603_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Awstats:<\/b> this tool provides you with an opportunity to monitor the access indexes on your account \u2013 users, robots, accessed pages and many, many more. You will find a more detailed explanation in this article.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_715_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> CPU and Concurrent Connection Usage:<\/b> shows information on the resources consumed by your account. You can find some additional information on resource usage in this guide.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Security<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_376_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_830_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> SSH Access:<\/b> here you can generate an access key for your account in order to connect using SSH keys. More details about setting up SSH keys can be found in this article. &#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_390_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> IP Blocker:<\/b> with the help of this tool you can  block a range of IP addresses to prevent them from accessing your site. Feel free to refer to this guide on the matter.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_835_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> SSL\/TLS:<\/b> this tool will help you to install and manage your SSL Certificates. You will find a more detailed guide here.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_704_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Hotlink Protection:<\/b> in this menu you can enable hotlink protection for your website (that is to prevent someone from direct linking of your images to another website and, as a result, consuming your hosting account bandwidth). Feel free to check this guidance for additional information.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_809_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Leech Protection:<\/b> allows you to control whether users can give out or publicly post their passwords for restricted areas of your site. It can be used to redirect compromised accounts to the URL of your choice, or suspend them.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_219_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> SSL\/TLS Status: <\/b>use this interface to view the SSL status of your domains.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_218_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Two-Factor Authentication:<\/b> this tool lets you enable 2FA, an improved security measure that requires two forms of identification: your password and a generated security code. When 2FA is enabled, an app on your smartphone supplies a code you must enter with your password to log in. You can learn more about enabling 2FA here.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Software <\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_701_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_628_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> PHP PEAR Packages:<\/b> this options allows you to install and maintain PHP PEAR packages for your hosting account.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_110_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Perl Modules:<\/b> here you can manage Perl modules available for your account. A Perl module is a discrete component of software for the Perl programming language. Perl is supported on all of our shared\/reseller servers. This article will provide you with more details about this feature.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_59_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> RubyGems:<\/b> in this menu you will find the set of functions that allow you to perform tasks in Ruby. It\u2019s needed to install a Gem before you can use it inside a Ruby program.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_968_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Ruby on Rails:<\/b> with this menu you can use Ruby on Rails features. Ruby on Rails is a free web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is often referred to as &#8216;Rails&#8217; or &#8216;RoR&#8217;.  We support RoR with our <b>Stellar Plus, Stellar Business <\/b>and<b> Reseller <\/b>packages (and<b> old Professional<\/b>, <b>Ultimate<\/b>, <b>Business SSD, Reseller<\/b> packages). More information can be found in this guide.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_776_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Optimize Website:<\/b> this feature allows you to enable\/disable and configure the compression of your website by tweaking the way Apache handles requests, which can increase the performance of your website. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_860_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Select PHP Version:<\/b> here you can change PHP version applied to your cPanel account. You can find more information in this article. <\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_804_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> PHP F.A.Q.:<\/b> this button will take you to our Knowledgebase site section dedicated to PHP-related questions.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><b>Advanced<\/b><\/p>\n<div><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_488_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p><b>Terminal:<\/b> this interface allows you to access an in-browser terminal application for direct command-line access within a cPanel session.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580461_179_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\" height=\"50\"\/><b> Cron Jobs:<\/b> here  you can set up scripts running on a scheduled basis. For more details about setting up CronJobs refer to this guidance.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580460_251_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Track DNS:<\/b> using this tool you can check DNS information about any domain, or to trace the route from the server your site is on to the computer you are accessing cPanel from.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_820_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Indexes:<\/b> in this menu you can customize the way in which visitors can view a directory on the web.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_358_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Error Pages:<\/b> this feature allows you to edit the code for the default errors pages your website can display.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_632_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Apache Handlers:<\/b> here you can configure different Apache handlers for dealing with certain file formats.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_925_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> MIME Types:<\/b> provides you with the information about the system predefined MIME types and the option to add a MIME Type on your own.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_559_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Virus Scanner:<\/b> this tool will allow you to scan your account for viruses with ClamAV virus scanner. ClamAV is an open source (GPL) anti-virus engine used in a variety of situations including email scanning, web scanning, and end point security. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and an advanced tool for automatic database updates. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Preferences<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_371_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_449_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Password and Security:<\/b> this menu allows you to change your cPanel main password if know the original one. Otherwise, you can reset the password following the steps in this guide.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_68_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Change Language:<\/b> this feature provides you with an opportunity to change your cPanel interface language.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_125_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\"\/><b> Change style:<\/b> here you can change the overall look and feel of the interface by selecting one of the several preinstalled styles.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_626_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"58\" height=\"56\"\/><b> Contact Information:<\/b> in this menu you can specify an email address that will receive system email notifications. &#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_658_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"53\" height=\"54\"\/><b> User Manager: <\/b>allows you to manage your Subaccounts. Subaccounts use the same login and password information for email, FTP, and Web Disk.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>For cPanel Retro Theme:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Basically cPanel has two vertical sections with different features:&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Left column<\/b> which includes different <b>Stats<\/b> information about the account, the possibility to switch cPanel theme, the search bar and frequently accessed menus and <b>Right column<\/b> which provides a number of various features that are conveniently structured to specific groups based on the concrete aspect of the web hosting service.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_198_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_174_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Below you can find a list of each menu for your convenience:&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Left Column:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Right Column:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Left Column<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In this column you will find following options:&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Find:<\/b> it is a search bar that allows to find cPanel features in the quickest way. Just start entering the name of the needed tool to allocate the corresponding menu:&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_723_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b><b>Stats:<\/b><\/b> here you will find all the information related to the statistics of your hosting account. At the bottom of this section you will find <b>Expand Stats<\/b> button, which allows you to review the full statistics:&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_923_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you see the expanded stats menu, you will find <b>Collapse Stats<\/b> button at the bottom of this section in order to switch to the short menu version:&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580462_918_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Here is an overview of all indexes:&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Main Domain:<\/b> the primary domain name associated with your hosting account.<\/li>\n<li><b>Home Directory:<\/b> the path the home directory of your account on the server where your websites&#8217; folders and files reside.<\/li>\n<li><b>Last Login:<\/b> the last IP address your cPanel has been accessed from.<\/li>\n<li><b>Disk Usage:<\/b> the amount of server disk space provided with your cPanel account. This index displays disk space used by your websites&#8217; content, databases, emails, etc.<\/li>\n<li><b>File Usage:<\/b> the current number of files (inodes) and your cPanel account&#8217;s inode limit.<\/li>\n<li><b>Addon Domains:<\/b> the current number of already added addon domains and the total number allowed for your cPanel account.<\/li>\n<li><b>MySQL Databases:<\/b> the current number of  MySQL or MariaDB databases created your cPanel account.&#13;\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Subdomains:<\/b> the current number of already created subdomains and the total number allowed for your cPanel account.<\/li>\n<li><b>Email Accounts:<\/b> the current number of already created email accounts and the total number of email accounts allowed for your cPanel account.<\/li>\n<li><b>FTP Accounts:<\/b> the current number of already created FTP accounts and the total number allowed for your cPanel account.&#13;\n<\/li>\n<li><b>MySQL Disk Usage:<\/b> the amount of disk space used by your MySQL or MariaDB databases.&#13;\n<\/li>\n<li><b><b>PostgreSQL <\/b>Disk Usage:<\/b> the amount of disk space used by your PostgreSQL  databases.&#13;\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Bandwidth:<\/b> the current amount of data transferred to and from&#13;<br \/>\n your cPanel account for the month and the total amount of your cPanel &#13;<br \/>\naccount&#8217;s monthly bandwidth limit.<\/li>\n<li><b>Aliases:<\/b> the current number of already created alias domains and the total number allowed for your cPanel account.<\/li>\n<li><b>Mailing Lists:<\/b> the current number of already created mailing lists and the total number allowed for your cPanel account.&#13;\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Autoresponders:<\/b> the current number of created email autoresponders and the maximum number allowed.<\/li>\n<li><b>Forwarders:<\/b> the amount of email forwarders created and the maximum number allowed.<\/li>\n<li><b>Email filters:<\/b> the number of email filters created vs. the maximum number allowed.<\/li>\n<li><b>PostgreSQL Databases:<\/b> the current number of PostgreSQL databases created in your cPanel account.&#13;\n<\/li>\n<li><b>CPU Usage:<\/b> this value specifies how much of the allocated CPU resources you are currently using. The amount of CPU resources we provide to each account is the percentage of the server\u2019s resources.<\/li>\n<li><b>Entry Processes:<\/b> this is the number of processes that enter &#13;<br \/>\nyour account. For example, every PHP page that is accessed by a user &#13;<br \/>\nwill usually generate a single entry process.<\/li>\n<li><b>Physical Memory Usage:<\/b> the actual memory allocated for your account. Virtual memory is usually a file on a disk drive that the operating system uses to store information (swap-to-from) when the real memory becomes full, for instance the page (swap) file on a Linux system. Therefore, if you try to publish a big post, it might take all physical memory to do so, but after some time it will be normalized.<\/li>\n<li><b>I\/O Usage:<\/b> this index represents how much I\/O (or disk activity) your account is using. Any task which makes use of the servers disk drive (such as reading or writing to the server) will consume I\/O. More details about resource limits can be found here.<\/li>\n<li><b>Number of Processes:<\/b> this limit is similar to the above but &#13;<br \/>\nincludes all the processes generated by the account rather than the &#13;<br \/>\nspecific PHP, SSH or cron jobs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Right Column<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Preferences<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_489_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This group of features provides you with the general information on cPanel management and allows you to make basic changes to your cPanel account.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_879_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Password &amp; Security:<\/b> this menu allows you to change your cPanel main password if know the original one. Otherwise, you can reset the password following the steps in this guide. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_952_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Change Language:<\/b> this feature provides you with an opportunity to change your cPanel interface language. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_918_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Change style:<\/b> here you can change the overall look and feel of the interface by selecting one of the several preinstalled styles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_601_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Contact Information:<\/b> in this menu you can specify an email address that will receive system email notifications. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_485_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"47\" height=\"40\"\/><b> User Manager: <\/b>allows you to manage your Subaccounts. Subaccounts use the same login and password information for email, FTP, and Web Disk.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Email<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_899_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This group of features allows you to create email accounts for your domain names and manage email settings.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_229_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Email Accounts:<\/b> in this menu you can create and manage mailboxes associated with the domain names hosted in your account.<br \/>\nIn order to create an email account, feel free to check this guidance.<br \/>\nMore details about setting up a newly created email account with email clients can be found in the set of articles cPanel Email: Client Setup. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_875_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Forwarders:<\/b><br \/>\n setting up Forwarders feature provides you with an opportunity to send a<br \/>\n copy of all emails from one email address to another. For example, you<br \/>\nhave two different email accounts and you don\u2019t want to check both of<br \/>\nthem every time, so you could forward emails from test@yourdomain.com to<br \/>\n test2@yourdomain2.com. Note, that the original address will still<br \/>\nreceive the forwarded emails. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_896_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Email Routing:<\/b> here you can set email routing for the domains hosted in your cPanel account, more details can be found in this guide. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_220_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Autoresponders:<\/b><br \/>\n this feature allows you to automatically send messages in reply to<br \/>\nincoming emails received on a specific email account. This is pretty<br \/>\nuseful when you are on holidays or unavailable, or if you have any<br \/>\ngeneric messages to send. You will find more information in this guide.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_18_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Default Address:<\/b> in this menu you can manage an email address, which is used by cPanel to fetch any message sent to email accounts which do not exist at your domain (also known as &#8216;catch-all address&#8217;). More details can be found here. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_371_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Mailing Lists:<\/b> with this option you can create a single address to send emails, newsletters and other updates to multiple email addresses simultaneously. Feel free to refer to this article to get more information. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_709_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Track Delivery:<\/b> this menu allows you to monitor emails delivery for your account.\n<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_971_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Global Email Filters:<\/b> this feature allows you to configure filters of all the emails arriving to your hosted domains. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_155_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Email Filters:<\/b> with this option you can create filters for each email account for your domain. You can find more details about filtering tools in this article. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_479_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b\/><b><b>Email Deliverability<\/b>:<\/b><br \/>\n this tool will help you to prevent spam. Setting up DKIM and SPF<br \/>\nrecords for your account equip email messages with verifiable<br \/>\ninformation so that your server can automatically detect the nature of<br \/>\nincoming and outgoing messages.<br \/>\nThe detailed guidance about using this feature can be found here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_247_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Address Importer:<\/b> this menu allows you to use two types of files (<i>.xls<\/i> and <i>.csv<\/i>) for importing data in order to simultaneously create multiple email address or email forwarders for your account. <\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580463_600_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"46\" height=\"29\"\/><b> Spam Filters:<\/b><br \/>\n it is a user-friendly email utility which examines incoming mail for<br \/>\ndifferent spam characteristics. It uses various network tests and spam<br \/>\nfiltering to get an overall score in order to decide whether the mail<br \/>\nshould be considered as spam or not.<br \/>\nSpamAssassin tool is provided by default with all our shared and<br \/>\nreseller hosting plans.<br \/>\nThese articles can be found useful for setting up SpamAssasin feature:<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_709_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b>Encryption<\/b>: this option allows you to set up GnuPG, which is a publicly-available encryption scheme that uses the public key approach. This system uses a public key to encrypt messages and you can decrypt them with the private key, which the intended recipient of the message retains.<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_3_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b>BoxTrapper<\/b>: this tool can protect your Inbox from spam by requiring all email senders not on your Whitelist reply to a verification email before you can receive their mail.<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_390_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Calendars and Contacts:<\/b> this menu helps to configure your client to connect to CalDAV for calendars and CardDAV for contacts in order to access them on your personal devices. The detailed instructions can be found in this guidance. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_969_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b>Email Disk Usage<\/b>: this utility allows you to recover disk space by deleting old messages from your mailbox.<\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_276_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Professional Spam Filter:<\/b> this menu allows you to configure SpamExperts, a user-friendly email filtering solution that allows to protect your account from both incoming and outgoing spam. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nMore information about this feature is provided in this article.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><b><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_804_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/> E-mail F.A.Q.<\/b>: this button will take you to the corresponding Knowledgebase section dedicated to email questions.<\/div>\n<div><b><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_804_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/> E-mail Client Setup<\/b>: this button will take you to the corresponding Knowledgebase section dedicated to email account setup with different email clients and devices.<\/div>\n<p><b>Domains<\/b><\/p>\n<div><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_847_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_237_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"38\" height=\"38\"\/><b> Site Publisher<\/b>: you can use this interface to quickly create a website from a set of available templates. This allows visitors to see some basic information while you continue to develop your website. <\/div>\n<p><b>Domains:<\/b> this interface allows creating and managing multiple domains from a single cPanel interface.<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_735_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b>Addon Domains:<\/b><br \/>\n with the help of this menu you can add more domains to the hosting<br \/>\naccount. Addon domains have the same functionality as the main domain<br \/>\nassigned to your hosting account. More details about adding domains to<br \/>\ncPanel are provided here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_778_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Subdomains:<\/b> in this menu you can create subdomains and point them to different sections of your website or other IPs. Detailed instructions about this menu can be found in this article.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_735_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Aliases:<\/b> this feature allows you to &#8216;park&#8217; additional domain names to your existing hosting account. They display the same website as your primary domain and share web statistics as well. You can refer to this guide when setting up a new parked domain. <\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_898_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Redirects:<\/b> here you can create a redirect for a specific domain\/page to another domain\/page and display the contents of the latter. More details can be found here.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_294_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Zone Editor:<\/b> allows you to edit the DNS zone of the domain(s) in your cPanel account. The following records can be added: A record, AAAA record, CNAME record, SRV record, TXT record. Feel free to check this article to get more information about setting up DNS records in cPanel. <\/div>\n<div><b><b><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_804_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/b> Domains F.A.Q<\/b>.: this button will take you to the corresponding Knowledgebase section dedicated to domains&#8217; management questions.<\/div>\n<p><b>Files<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_586_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_388_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> File Manager:<\/b> here you can manage the files stored in your account. These guides can be found helpful while working with this menu:<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_203_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b>Images<\/b>: this tool allows you to view and modify images in your account.<\/div>\n<div><b><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_599_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/> Directory Privacy<\/b>: allows you to set a requirement for a username and password when users attempt to access your site from the web. It can be used when you need to limit access to a certain part of your site. You can get more details in this guide.<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_887_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Disk Usage:<\/b><br \/>\n in this menu you will be able to check a detailed information about the<br \/>\n disk space usage of your account. It shows disk usage totals for your<br \/>\naccount\u2019s directories and all of its databases, not for individual files<br \/>\n or databases.<\/p>\n<p>More details about Disk Space usage optimization are provided in this article. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_509_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Web Disk:<\/b><br \/>\n this feature is a cPanel implementation of the WebDav protocol, which<br \/>\nallows you to manage, upload, and download your website\u2019s files as<br \/>\nthough they were local to your personal computer. More detailed<br \/>\ninstructions about setting up WebDisk can be found in these articles:<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_95_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> FTP Accounts:<\/b> this option allows you to create and manage your FTP accounts. In order to create an FTP account, feel free to check this article. For FTP connection instructions, refer to this set of guides:<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_966_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> FTP Connections:<\/b><br \/>\n using this tool you can monitor the users who are currently logged into<br \/>\n your site via FTP. Also, it\u2019s possible to terminate an FTP connection<br \/>\nfrom here.<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_721_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Backup:<\/b> this feature allows you to download a zipped copy of your entire account or specific parts of it, such as your home directory, databases, email forwarder configuration, or your email filters configuration. More details guidance about how to make backups in cPanel can be found here. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_712_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Backup Wizard:<\/b> a user-friendly interface for creating a backup of your entire site, a partial backup, or allowing a site restoration from the last backup saved. Note, that <b>Restore<\/b> option provided in this menu is disabled by default on all our shared servers. <\/div>\n<p><b>Git Version Control:<\/b> this feature allows you to easily host Git repositories on your cPanel account.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580464_543_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Inodes Usage:<\/b> provides the statistics of your account inodes (files) usage.You will find more details about this tool here.<\/div>\n<div><b>R1Soft Restore Backups:<\/b> the tool is available on Business servers and allows your cPanel account to be backed up 6-8 times a day as an addition to our regular server backups.<\/div>\n<p><b>Metrics<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_567_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_714_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Visitors:<\/b> the access log of your account provided in a table view. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_88_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Errors:<\/b><br \/>\n here you can check the error log for your account, showing the latest<br \/>\n300 lines of content related to the errors generated by any website<br \/>\nhosted in your account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_38_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Bandwidth:<\/b> provides you with the detailed information the bandwidth used by your account. <\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_588_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Raw Access:<\/b> the RAW access log for your account&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_584_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Awstats:<\/b> this tool provides you with an opportunity to monitor the access indexes on your account \u2013 users, robots, accessed pages and many, many more. You will find a more detailed explanation in this article. <\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_62_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> CPU and Concurrent Connection Usage:<\/b> shows information on the resources consumed by your account.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n<b>Security<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_727_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_406_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> SSH Access:<\/b><br \/>\n here you can generate an access key for your account in order to<br \/>\nconnect using SSH keys. More details about setting up SSH keys can be<br \/>\nfound in this article. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_480_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b>IP Blocker<\/b>: with the help of this tool you can block a range of IP addresses to prevent them from accessing your site. Feel free to refer to this guide on the matter.<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_915_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> SSL\/TLS:<\/b> this tool will help you to install and manage your SSL Certificates. You will find a more detailed guide here. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_382_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Hotlink Protection:<\/b><br \/>\n in this menu you can enable hotlink protection for your website (that<br \/>\nis to prevent someone from direct linking of your images to another<br \/>\nwebsite and, as a result, consuming your hosting account bandwidth).<br \/>\nFeel free to check this guidance for additional information. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_92_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Leech Protection:<\/b><br \/>\n allows you to control whether users can give out or publicly post their<br \/>\n passwords for restricted areas of your site. It can be used to redirect<br \/>\n compromised accounts to the URL of your choice, or suspend them. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_456_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b>SSL\/TLS Status<\/b>: use this interface to view the SSL status of your domains.<\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_627_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Two-Factor Authentication:<\/b> this tool lets you enable 2FA, an improved security measure that requires two forms of identification: your password and a generated security code. When 2FA is enabled, an app on your smartphone supplies a code you must enter with your password to log in. You can learn more about enabling 2FA here.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><b>Databases<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_0_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_640_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> phpMyAdmin:<\/b><br \/>\n the database management tool, which allows you to make different<br \/>\nchanges to MySQL databases in your account. You can find more<br \/>\ninformation about how to work with databases via phpMyAdmin this guide. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_864_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> MySQL Databases:<\/b> in this menu you can create and manage MySQL databases in cPanel account. <\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_379_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> MySQL Databases Wizard:<\/b> provides the same functionality as <b>MySQL Databases<\/b> menu, in a simplified way though. More details about how to use both menus can be found here.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_179_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> PostgreSQL Databases:<\/b> this option allows you to create and manage PostgreSQL databases in cPanel. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580465_383_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> PostgreSQL Databases Wizard:<\/b> has the same functionality as <b>PostgreSQL Databases<\/b> menu, but allows to make all the changes in a simpler way. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580466_671_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> phpPgAdmin:<\/b> the database management tool, which allows you to make different changes to PostgreSQL databases in your account. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_804_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b>MySQL F.A.Q.:<\/b> this button will take you to the corresponding Knowledgebase section dedicated to MySQL questions. <\/div>\n<p><b>Software and Services<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580466_937_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580466_967_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> PHP PEAR Packages:<\/b> this options allows you to install and maintain PHP PEAR packages for your hosting account. <\/div>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580466_118_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Perl Modules:<\/b> here you can manage Perl modules available for your account. A Perl module is a discrete component of software for the Perl programming language. Perl is supported on all of our shared\/reseller servers.&#13;<br \/>\nThis article will provide you with more details about this feature.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580466_737_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> RubyGems:<\/b> in this menu you will find the set of functions that allow you to perform tasks in Ruby. It\u2019s needed to install a Gem before you can use it inside a Ruby program.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580466_550_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Ruby on Rails:<\/b> with this menu you can use Ruby on Rails features.<br \/>\nRuby on Rails is a free web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is often referred to as &#8216;Rails&#8217; or &#8216;RoR&#8217;.  We support RoR with our <b>Stellar Plus, Stellar Business <\/b>and<b> Reseller <\/b>packages (and<b> old Professional<\/b>, <b>Ultimate<\/b>, <b>Business SSD, Reseller<\/b> packages). The following versions are working on our servers: Ruby \u2013 1.8.7, Rails \u2013 2.3.18. More information can be found in this guide. <\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580466_663_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Optimize Website:<\/b> this feature allows you to enable\/disable and configure the compression of your website by tweaking the way Apache handles requests, which can increase the performance of your website. <\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_860_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"37\" height=\"38\"\/><b> Select PHP Version:<\/b> here you can change PHP version applied to your cPanel account. 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It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and an advanced tool for automatic database updates. &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Exclusive for Namecheap Customers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580466_25_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><b>AutoBackup:<\/b> it is a cPanel plugin that allows customers with Premium and Business Hosting to retrieve a full cPanel backup right away.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_81_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> Google Apps:<\/b> with this tool you will be able to configure Google Apps service for your domain in just a few clicks.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to check this category for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_336_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\" width=\"42\" height=\"42\"\/><b> Namecheap SSL:<\/b> this menu allows you to use Namecheap SSL cPanel plugin, check this guide for more details. &#13;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/oxhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/1621580458_663_cPanel-control-panel-overview-Hosting.png\"\/><b> CodeGuard Backup:<\/b> this tool was designed to make the backup process as easy as possible. 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