We offer the cPanel control panel to help you manage your website hosting with ease. cPanel provides a user-friendly graphical interface that allows you to perform many common hosting tasks with just a few clicks. As the world’s leading hosting control panel, cPanel might already be familiar to you if you have previously hosted a website.
After ordering hosting with us you can log into your cPanel control panel in two ways:
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By logging into your client area and navigating to Hosting Accounts > Click the Account > Log in to cPanel. You can find an overview of the hosting details addition to the login button as well, if you need it.
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By logging directly into cPanel using yourdomain.com/cpanel. You will need your cPanel username and password which can be viewed and in the "Hosting Accounts" section. If you need to reset your password for any reason, please contact us for assistance.
If you have a reseller account with Maroon Hosting, this gives you the ability to control multiple cPanel accounts using the WHM interface.
If you have a server with Maroon Hosting, you can create multiple cPanel accounts using the WHM interface, all on your dedicated machine.
Getting started with cPanel
cPanel provides a user-friendly interface so that even those who are not very technically advanced don't have to worry about complexity. However, it also offers advanced options for more experienced users, allowing them to fully utilize the features they require. Here are some articles to help you get started with the basics:
There are two main ways you might like to install software. Either you will use our auto-installers (which is recommended for most common open source software such as WordPress, Joomla & Magento), or you can install your software manually following their install guides. We provide overview guides for both, as well as specific guides for the automatic and manual install of WordPress.
- Using the Softaculous Software Autoinstaller
- Manually installing software
- Manual WordPress Installation
Uploading and Managing Files
Web hosting has a folder structure much like on a computer. By default your website files run out of a folder called public_html. There are various ways you can manage files. You can either use the inbuilt file manager, you can use ftp or sftp through a file management application such as FileZilla, or advanced users can use SSH. Please see the following guides:
- Managing files in cPanel
- Using FTP/SFTP
- SSH Overview
- Managing Disk Usage
Databases store the data for most applications. WordPress, for instance, uses both files and databases. Maroon Hosting lets you create unlimited databases. These are automatically created if you auto-install software, but you can also add them manually. You may at some stage need to view the database content also or to make changes (for instance to force reset a WordPress password).
- Creating databases and users
- Using PHPMyAdmin
- Importing and exporting databases as SQL
- Remote database connections
Every Maroon Hosting account lets you create unlimited email accounts. These can either be full mailboxes, or they can be set up to forward elsewhere. Alternatively, you could set up MX records to point email to an external provider such as Google Gsuite or Office365.
- Creating Email Accounts
- Forwarding Emails
- Accessing Webmail
- Configuring your devices to connect to mail
- Setting up MX records
