Knowledgebase

159 posts

Tutorials, guides, how-tos. Everything hosting and server-related.

Introduction to Web Hosting Bandwidth

Introduction to Web Hosting Bandwidth

One of the first things to do in the entire process of building a website is to purchase both a domain name and a hosting plan. The options for a domain name is pretty vast, as long as it has not been used or bought by someone else. When it comes to a hosting plan, on the other hand, you are somewhat limited by the available offers from hosting companies. Although there are hundreds of companies out there, the plans they offer are quite similarly varied.

You may also notice that each plan (or package) comes with a specific amount of bandwidth. Now to understand what web hosting bandwidth actually refers to, here are the key elements explained.

Continue reading

How to Host a Website on a cPanel VPS

How to Host a Website on a cPanel VPS

When surfing to buy a web host, the first thing that catches your eye on some sites is the cPanel VPS. But what exactly is a cPanel host? cPanel is not a host, but like other control panels, it is only a web application that is installed on Linux servers, especially the CentOS distribution, and gives you WHM and cPanel access. In other words, based on the Linux operating system, a variety of control panels (like DirectAdmin, Webmin, etc) can be installed, which one of them is WHM/cPanel. The cPanel shared hosting services will give you just the cPanel user-end but the cPanel VPS comes with all root privileges and WHM(admin-end) too.

Continue reading