How to upload your website files in cPanel?
Follow these steps on how to upload your website to your HostScripter Web hosting account running cPanel.
Log into the customer (cPanel) portal at https://yourdomain.com/cpanel, Replacing yourdomain.com with your real domain as provided in your welcome email.
You will then be logged into the customer (cPanel) portal for the account you wish to upload the files for.
In the Files section click on the File Manager icon.
Select the Web Root (public_html/www) option and press the Go button.
You will now see the File Manager screen. If there were other files present, delete those files except for the cgi-bin.
Click on the Upload icon.
Press the Browse button to select the file you wish to upload.
Navigate to the file you wish to upload and press the Open button. If uploading multiple files, zip your files.
You will then see a status for the file upload.
When the upload is complete click on the link Back to /home/customer/public_html.
You will now see your uploaded file in your File Manager screen.
Then repeat steps 6 to 10 until you have uploaded all the required files. If you uploaded a zip file, select the zip file and click extract here.
How to create your own custom email account?
You are thinking if you can have an email address something like iam@handsome.com? or anything you want? Well, it is possible! Just follow this steps and consider my advices.
Firstly, before going into the procedures, you should have your own domain name (ex: erickabuzo.com). If you don’t have, you can buy one HERE.
Considering that you have your domain and cpanel account,
1. Log in to your cPanel > Mail section > Email Accounts menu:
2. If you have multiple domains, select the domain you want your email account to be associated with in the drop-down list in the top right corner and enter the desired email and a strong password of your choice:
Click on Create Account once all is set.
3. To log in your own webmail, visit in your browser’s address bar:
www.yourdomain.com/webmail
4. Once done, you will see the icons of the three webmail interfaces:
5. Feel free to choose any access webmail. I suggest Read Mail Using SquirrelMail.
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