Knowledgebase – Gen X Web Hosting

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.