Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

We will explore CPanel, your hosting account control panel, today. CPanel gives you total control of your hosting account via a Web interface. The following tasks can be completed with CPanel:

1. Setup mail accounts and read email via the Web
2. Change your account password
3. Park a domain
4. Add FTP accounts
5. Manage your online files and permissions – upload files
6. Check your disk space usage
7. Make backups of your site
8. Password protect directories
9. Create error, 404, pages
10. Setup subdomains
11. Create and manage MySQL databases
12. Setup redirects
13. Add and remove FrontPage Server Extensions
14. Check your Web site statistics/visitors
15. Install Web Applications via CPanel and Fantastico

To log into your CPanel account visit http://yourusername.robinshosting.com/cpanel and enter your username and password.

These are just some of the administrative tasks you can do using CPanel. I have numerous CPanel video tutorials (no sound) on the support pages of robinshosting.com. You should take the time to review these videos and the CPanel documentation. In addition to the CPanel support materials at robinshosting.com, there are video tutorials available when you log into CPanel in the preferences section of the page.

If you skipped chapter 4 of your Head First with HTML, CSS & XHTML you should go back and review it now. You have all of the tools that you need to upload pages to your new sites.