Log in to your control panel and familiarize ourselves with control panel and learn how to navigate its various pages.
1. The first thing you should do in control panel is to update your contact information. You can do that by clicking on the ‘Update Contact Info’ icon under the Preferences section.
2. From this tab on your top left side, you can easily change your control panel theme if you want to. Changing your control panel theme only changes the way your control panel looks, and not the way it works.
3. Over here you can see which account you are currently controlling with control panel. If you have more than one account, you can change to another account from here.
4. On the left, we can see detailed information of this hosting account. For example, it ahows how many email accounts we have used (1) and how many we are allowed (20). The same information is shown for Paked Domains, Addon Domains, MySQL databases, Email accounts, FTP accounts and etc.
5. Additional information is located on the left side, like the PHP version in the server, MySQL version, IP address, and path to send mail.
6. Service status is where you can check to see how well the server is performing. The green lights on the right mean that system is running properly.
7. Scroll down, you can also view the partitioning of the server’s hard drive, and see how much storage space is being used, and how much is left.
8. The main panel of the control panel screen includes several icons that are grouped into specific boxes. These icons each allow you to do specific tasks whithin control panel like setting up email accounts and databases, checking your webmail, setting up mailing lists, etc.
9. At the bottom, there is a link called ‘Documentation’. It is a link to a comprehensive control panel manual, where you can learn all there is to know about control panel.
Click on the ‘Documentation’ and you will be directed to another page which is the control panel manual. Make any selection on the left frame, and the resulting page(s) will show up in the right frame. You can learn about all the features of control panel from this online manual, and its always available from the home page of control panel.
