cPanel Crash Course

Learn how to access video tutorials on the cPanel panel, watch all or select lessons, and explore basic features highlighted in this introductory video of the cPanel crash course.

Learn how spam filtering uses Spam Assassin to identify and auto delete spam by default score, and how to manage a spam box with blacklists and whitelists for trusted partners.

Learn to create and apply a user-level email filter in the cpanel crash course, distinguishing it from account-level filters and successfully saving a new filter for a specific user.

Learn to bulk import email accounts and forwarders in cPanel, using CSV or Excel files with headers like email, password, quota, and destination addresses, and verify imports in the panel.

Learn to change and add MX entries in cPanel to route mail through Google Apps, set priorities, and remove the local mail exchanger for reliable email delivery.

Learn to navigate the legacy file manager in cPanel, upload and organize files in home and public_html, adjust permissions, and edit or move files with code and text editors.

Learn to check the space usage on a cPanel account, view details for every folder and subdirectory, and use the file manager to locate large folders and free space.

Learn to manage files and folders on your web hosting with FileZilla: connect to the ftp server, create and rename directories, set read/write/execute permissions (recursively), and move files between directories.

Learn to use the backup wizard in cPanel to back up and restore data, selecting full or partial backups via a step-by-step interface.

Learn to use Webalizer in the cPanel panel to view website statistics, including daily usage, monthly totals, hits by status codes, top pages, entry pages, referrers, and user agents.

Learn to use Awstats in cPanel to view domain statistics—visitors, hits, bandwidth, and page views—and navigate year, month, hour by hour, referrers, and downloads.

Learn how to deny access to your website using the IP deny manager in cpanel, blocking single IPs or cidr ranges with slash notations and testing the blocks.

Generate and manage GnuPG keys, create a public-private key pair, and use the public key to encrypt messages that only the private key can decrypt, with optional expiration date.

Learn how to set redirects in cPanel, including permanent and temporary redirects with HTTP status codes, and how to point full domains, subdomains, or folders to another destination.

Manage DNS with the advanced zone editor, create A, CNAME, and TXT records for domain verification, and configure DKIM and SPF for email authentication, using TTL to smooth migrations.