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Getting Started with Linux Shared Hosting

To make your website visible on the Web, your website’s files and data must be stored or "hosted" on a computer that is connected to the Internet. There are lots of options for hosting your website files.

Step 1: Purchase a hosting service.

Step 2:  Login:  To login in cPanel, write https://domain_name/cpanel or https://domain_name:2083.

Step 3: Fill out the username and password and click Login.

Step 4: File Manager:  After logging into cPanel, navigate to File->File Manager to upload your website and Click Here to follow the steps to upload website.

Step 5: Email Account Setup: - This interface allows you to add and manage email accounts for your domains. To add a new email address, Click Here  and perform the given steps.

Step 6: FTP Accounts:

• To Setup an FTP account in cPanel, Click Here.
• To Setup File Zilla for uploading website content, Click Here.

Step 7: Name Servers:

• A great simple way to think about name servers is using a phone book analogy. If you were trying to call Genx: Web Hosting you might have remembered our phone number, but more than likely you'd want to look it up before just guessing at numbers. A name server is a specialized server on the Internet that handles queries or questions from your local computer, about the location of a domain name's various services.
• You need to point the name servers to your hosting server In order to make your website live.
• To change name servers Click Here and follow the given steps.

Step 8: Add-on Domains: An add-on domain is a fully functional domain that can be created from within your control panel. Add-on domains allow you to control multiple domains from a single account. An add-on domain links a new domain name to a subdirectory of your account's public_html (document root) directory, and then stores its files in that subdirectory.

• To add an add-on domain, Click Here and follow the given steps.

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