A couple of days ago, I’ve posted the first part of this tutorial which showed you how to signup for a web hosting account. If you’ve followed my advice of getting a cPanel Hosting account with Fantastico Deluxe, you’ll see that the next part will be very easy to go through. So now that you’ve [...]

On a cPanel / WHM Server, you can add or change the private nameservers. However, when you setup an account through WHM, it does not show your private nameservers, instead it shows the default nameservers set by your hosting provider. To correct this, you will need to modify the wwwacct.conf file.

When you get your cPanel server, some services, such as HTTP, mail and MySQL, are already enabled by default. But you can customize and enable or disable other services. You can even have them monitored and restarted “automagically” when if they crash.

By default, cPanel will not allow users to add domains to their account unless they change their nameservers to point to your DNS servers. But you can change this by setting a configuration parameter through WHM. Of course, you need to have your own dedicated server or VPS to do that. You can’t change this [...]

One of the most common step in installing a web application is to create a MySQL database. And while the process may seem simple to most experienced users, a lot of people can struggle with it. So for all the cPanel users out there who don’t know how to create a MySQL database properly, here’s [...]