Webalizer is a complex statistics based program, which produces a variety of charts and graphs about who has visited your website. This is a sort of analyzer that shows you the data in the form of graphs and pie charts.
Here is a Webalizer interface of the domain listing −
Also the representation is in form of pie charts that is on a monthly basis. This data is beneficial to get an idea about the traffic to the domain. The data values consists of the visits, hits, files, pages that the users have accessed.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) allows you to manage your files with third party applications like FileZilla, CoreFTP, etc. Using a FTP file manager to upload files is a great practice when the number of files or size of the files is large. FTP accounts configures users who can upload, download or modify your files through FTP. Each FTP user has his own username and home directory, only that certain directory the user will have access to.
To create an FTP account, please follow these steps −
Step 1 − Open FTP accounts feature by clicking FTP accounts found under Files Section.
Once FTP accounts feature is opened, you will see the following screen.
Step 2 − Enter Log in name for your new user, it will be the user’s username, also provide a strong password for this user.
Step 3 − Enter Directory for your new user, you may also leave it with pre-filled directory name according to your user.
Step 4 − Provide FTP storage quota, you may provide unlimited quota or use some value in Megabytes.
Step 5 − Click on Create FTP Account and Your FTP account will be created.
Configure FTP Client
To configure your FTP client, you can download any pre-built configuration file by clicking Configure FTP Account.
You can download FTP Configuration files for FileZilla or CoreFTP, which are windows software or Cyberduck for Mac.
Special FTP Accounts
These FTP accounts are pre-built with hosting account and cannot be deleted, these are used for administrative purposes.
One of the Special FTP account is your Administrative FTP account, whose username will be same as your accounts username. This FTP account’s home directory is your cPanel accounts root directory. You can access all the files of your account with this FTP account. Its password will be the same as your cPanel account password.
The cPanel FTP Session interface shows current users, which are logged in to website through FTP. This interface is helpful and it helps you to terminate unwanted connections with one click.
To access this feature, click FTP Sessions link from the Files section of cPanel.
It will open an interface in which it will show the current users who are logged into your site. If no user has logged in, it will display the message that no users have logged in.
Here it will show the following information −
Example
User
Displays username of logged in user
liptanxy
Logged in Form
Displays IP address or hostname of user’s system
106.215.178.204
Login Time
Displays Login Time of User
Thu Jan 21 13:50:03 2016
Status
Displays Sessions status
IDLE
Process ID
System’s FTP Session Process ID
203299
Actions
Terminate the connection
Disconnect
Terminate a FTP Connection
If you think that any user is not doing any activity and is in IDLE mode for a long time, or if you think a user is uploading a very large file, or doing something malicious, you can terminate the connection by clicking the disconnect button from Actions. You will see the following prompt.
Click on Disconnect “User”, and user’s FTP connection will be terminated instantly.
This feature of cPanel is very useful for your website. We can use backup feature for transferring our website to the new host. If we are making a change in the website files or database, we can create a backup of website. So that, if in future anything wrongs happens to the website while editing, we can always restore to as it was before. If any problem occurs with the hosting provider, you will always have a copy of the website.
cPanel Backup creates a zipped copy of your entire website or a part of your website. There are two types of Backup in your cPanel Backups.
Full Backup
Full Backup creates a zipped copy of your entire website and cPanel account. It includes all the files you own or you have access to. It also includes all the databases, email accounts, email lists, subdomain, etc.
Full Backups cannot be restored through cPanel interface. It is only used when you are transferring your current host to the new host. You need to upload this zipped backup into your home directory and ask your hosting provider to restore it.
To download your full website backup, please follow these steps −
Step 1 − Open cPanel Backup by clicking Backup from the Files section in cPanel Home.
At the top, you will find Full Backup as shown below –
Step 2 − Click on the Big Blue button on which “Download a Full Website Backup” is written and you will be taken to this screen.
Step 3 − Select Backup destination, leave it as home directory. This will create a backup in your home directory, from where you can download it later. Enter the email address, where you want to receive a notification, when full backup of your website is ready to be downloaded. As full website backup takes time to generate.
Step 4 − Click Generate Backup and you will see a success message of Backup in Progress.
To download the Full Website Backup, you can always come back to this page after you receive your email notification and you will see a screen similar to the one shown below.
Download your backup by clicking over the backup link.
Partial Backups
Partial backup is created and can be downloaded instantly. Through Partial Backup, you can download your Home Directory, Databases, Email Forwarders and Email Filters separately. You can restore the downloaded backups any time by uploading them to cPanel using the same interface.
To use this feature, open your Backup section using the same method used above in Step 1, scroll down and you will see a similar interface shown here, interface will vary according to your domain and data.
You can click Home Directory button to download your home directory backup. To restore your home directory, you can upload the same file in the right hand side interface on which Restore a Home Directory Backup is written.
You can do the same with Databases, Email Forwarders and Email Filters.
