Once you are logged into cPanel dashboard, you will see that it has so many options. In this chapter, you will find a quick brief of every option shown in the cPanel dashboard.
Sidebar
You can switch to your accounts’ four main areas of cPanel through this interface, which are −
Home − This is where you can access all the features of cPanel.
Statistics − Displays information about your cPanel account and also the resources it used.
Dashboard − Displays quick links to change styles etc. and overview of your cPanel account.
User manager − Here you can manage the users of your cPanel account.
Navigation Bar
On this toolbar, you will find the cPanel’s logo and a search box in which you can type any function of cPanel to access it quickly. Like your User account name and some quick links, once you click on it. The Notification Icon will show you the recent notifications about your cPanel account. Logout button will end your session (log you out) from the cPanel.
Feature List
It displays all the features and functions you have in your cPanel. You can click on any function and it will take you over to the desired functions interface.
In this chapter, we will learn to login into the cPanel Dashboard. For logging into the dashboard, you will need your login credentials. This information is sent to you, when you have signed up for cPanel hosting or you may have created during purchase of hosting.
cPanel Dashboard is accessible by two ports – 2082 for unsecured connections and 2083 for secured connection, many hosting providers support unsecured connections, but it is always recommended that you should use a secured connection only.
There are many ways to find the login screen of a cPanel. Recommended is that you may use the IP address of your cPanel, you may find the cPanel using IP address by typing the following in address bar –
If you have already updated your Nameservers for your domain, then you may use your domain for directly accessing cPanel by your domain. You may find cPanel login screen using your domain by typing the following into the address bar –
In this chapter, we will discuss about the cPanel statistics and the dashboard along with a few examples and screenshots for better understanding.
cPanel Statistics
The statistics interface of cPanel shows quick statistics of your cPanel account. It includes several types of information shown below. You will find this information in cPanel statistics.
General − It will show you the amount of bandwidth allotted to your account and also the amount of bandwidth, which is used by you. It will also show you the FTP accounts available in your cPanel account. It will also show the information of your Home directory and the IP address, from which you logged in last time. You can click on the Server Information to view the detailed information of your server.
Domain Info − In the next box, it will show you the information of main domain and the number of add-on domains, subdomains and aliases you have created.
Mail Info − This section will show the information about your emails. It will tell you how many email accounts, Autoresponder Forwarders and Filters you have created along with the total number of resource allotted.
Disk Space − In this section, the total disk space of your account is shown and also the amount of space used by MySQL database is shown along with total amount of space allotted to your account and MySQL database.
Database − This section shows the info of total number of databases you have created along with the total number of database you can create.
System Information − In this section, the statistics cPanel shows you the information of your system with total CPU usage, virtual and physical memory that is being used. It also displays information of the process you are running, the Input and Output uses and also it displays number of inodes, which means the number of files.
cPanel Dashboard
Through this interface you can see some brief statistics of your cPanel account plus you can change the theme of your cPanel account.
To access your CPU and Concurrent connection usage, click CPU and Concurrent Connection usage under Metrics section of the cPanel home.
This is the interface of resource usage overview −
How virtual memory resources are utilizing is represented in the form of graphs and tabular data. The CPU usage with the utilization of the memories. The number of processes taking place with their usage, limit and fault data values. The input/output usage, processors, physical memory, virtual memory, processes and faults are represented as per their usage limits.
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