Linux - cPanel Server User Manual

Here is everything you need to know about operating the Plesk control panel system and Linux operating system.

This guide helps you get started using your dedicated server or virtual private server under cPanel control panel system environment.

1. How to Secure Server Access

   • Change default root password

   • Configuring SSH key and disable password authentication

   • WHM 2FA

   • Configure Brute Force Protection via cPHulk

2. Basic manual to operates the Linux operating system server.

   • How to access WHM

   • How to access server remotely through Shell SSH

   • System Update

   • Reboot server

3. How to update cPanel Software

4. Basic cPanel functionality guide

   1. How to create cPanel account

   2. How to upload file

      • FTP ( Normal FTP through Filezilla FTP client & SFTP 

      • cPanel File Manager

   3. Modifying existing cPanel accounts
      

   4. Suspending and unsuspending cPanel accounts

   5. Terminating cPanel accounts

   6. Manage cron jobs via cPanel

   7. Backup Management

      •  Enable and configure backups in WHM

      •  How to restore accounts or files from backup

   8. Database Management

      • Create MySQL database

      • Access phpmyadmin

      • How to monitor slow MySQL queries

   9. Email Management

      • Email address management ( Create, delete, modify password and disable email account )

      • How to access email

        • Webmail

        • Configure email at email client ( Microsoft Outlook )

      • Create email filtering rule

      • Cheking email account usage

   10. Enabling cPanel free SSL

   11. Wordpress toolkit

   12. Change PHP version for a Website

5. DNS management ( Pointing a Domain to a Domain Name Server )

   • Using Exabytes Free DNS

   • Setting up private DNS

   • Managing reverse DNS for IP / PTR DNS record

6. Web component management through EasyApache

   • Check Apache version

   • PHP version

     • Install PHP version and PHP component

     • Enable PHP extension

     • Enabling PHP-FPM

7. MySQL system management

   • Check MySQL version

   • Upgrade MySQL/MariaDB version

8. Server Monitoring

   • Service Status ( Include Service status, Disk usage, CPU load and memory load )

   • Apache process

   • MySQL process

9. Website security scanner

   • ImunifyAV ( Free version ). Please engage technical support to perform the installation.
     

10. Email functionality management at WHM root level.

    • How to trace email delivery status

    • View email queue

    • Securing email with Email Protection configuration

      • SPF, DKIM, DMARC and PTR configuration

      • Domain monitoring at Gmail postmaster

11. Service management

    • How to restart several service
      

12. Firewall management

    • IP blockage tracing