If you are starting your first website, chances are you are not familiar with common hosting terms such as disk space and bandwidth. If you are unsure which hosting package to choose, simply contact our sales department with a fairly detailed description of what you're wanting to use your website for and we would be more than happy to assist you in picking the hosting package that's right for you.

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SSH (Secure Shell) is a secure method for logging into a server remotely and giving the server commands or transferring files. SSH makes it extremely easy to manage a server without having to be at the physical server itself. However, access to SSH is closely guarded and is never available on a shared and most reseller servers. SSH is most commonly available with dedicated servers, in the realm of web hosting.

Bandwidth is the amount of data that is allowed to be transferred in and out of an account during any given period (usually 1 month). For instance, if a client has a 1MB picture stored on their server and that picture is accessed 4 times, then 4MB of bandwidth has been used. Bandwidth can be calculated many different ways, but the majority of the time it is simple HTTP requests (accessing your website in the browser) that use up most of your bandwidth.

Shared website hosting is hosting that puts many clients on a single server. Using this method, hosting companies are able to deliver extremely affordable hosting solutions to lower-traffic websites that cannot afford to operate a dedicated server. Even though there are multiple clients on one server, clients are kept completely isolated from one another, so that they cannot access or manipulate data on another account. Server resources are shared, hence the term shared hosting, among all clients on the server. However, many hosts have measures in place to prevent a single client from consuming too many resources, and therefore slowing down other sites on the server. We use the CloudLinux operating system on all our servers, which is based on the Linux CentOS flavor. CloudLinux provides an extremely reliable backbone for shared hosting customers in the sense that it very effectively throttles sites that consume a peak in resources (a bad script, for example), so that the one website does not bring down all the others. Once the CPU usage on the peaking website subsides, throttling is decreased and the website is able to function properly again. The advantages to this are that the account is not suspended like it would be on most hosts - the speed for that one site simply decreases. This way, the website that experienced the peak will not suffer any downtime as a result. Shared hosting is best for individuals or businesses first starting out with their website, or for those who have relatively low bandwidth and disk space needs. Most of the time, a shared hosting account could easily accomodate up to about 10,000 unique monthly visitors. As the resource demands for a website increases, so will the hardware demands. After 'graduating' from shared hosting, webmasters have the choice to either put their server on a VPS or Dedicated server, which allocate far greater resources to that client but are also considerably more expensive.

Login to cPanel. Locate and click on the "Default Address" icon within the "Mail" category.

Here are the steps to get your cPanel info : 1) Login to your client area. 2) Click on 'My Services' link under 'Services' menu. 3) Click on 'View Details' button of your hosting record. 4) You can click on 'Login to cPanel' to directly login to your cPanel. 5) Click on 'Change Password' tab where your cPanel password will be shown. And you can change that too.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a technique used to increase a website’s visibility and traffic by increasing a website’s Alexa Ranking and SERP (Search Engine Results Page) Ranking. An important aspect of Search Engine Optimization is making your website easy for both users and search engine robots to understand. Although search engines have become increasingly sophisticated, in many ways they still can't see and understand a web page the same way a human does. SEO helps the engines figure out what each page is about, and how it may be useful for users.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a method used to transfer files between your computer and the web server. FTP is usually performed via a FTP Client, which connects to the FTP server and allows you to either upload or download files to/from the server.

Disk space is the amount of data allocated the a specific client. For instance, if a client is allocated 2GB (2,000MB) of disk space, then he or she could store up to 2,000 1MB pictures on that server. When calculating disk space usage, it is usually the combination of all the files saved on the server, plus databases and email space. If a client exceeds their disk space limit, the server will not allow them to upload any additional files.

Webmail can be accessed by using the following URL: http://webmail.yourdomain.com Note: yourdomain.com is your actual domain name. Once webmail has loaded, it will prompt the user for a username and password. Username: The full email address account name (user@yourdomain.com) Password: The password for the email address Once logged in, choose a webmail client and you will be redirected to that client.

Login to cPanel. Locate and click on the MySQL Databases icon in the Databases category. Under the Create a New Database heading, enter a name for your database. Click the Create Database button.