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After you purchase a shared hosting package from LGM Hosting, you’ll receive a welcome e-mail message that provides information about how to access your account on the LGM Hosting Customer Portal. The Customer Portal enables you to view your account’s product information, including:
cPanel is a fully featured web-based control panel that enables you to manage your site through an easy-to-use web interface. Using cPanel, you can manage all aspects of your site, including e-mail, files, backups, FTP, CGI scripts, web site statistics, and much more.
To access cPanel through the Customer Portal, follow these steps:
To create an e-mail account in cPanel, follow these steps:
Select one of the following options for the password:
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) enhances a web site’s security by providing two important features: encryption and authentication.
When users visit an SSL-enabled site, most web browsers display a lock icon (usually in the address bar). To enable SSL for your own web site, you must obtain and install a certificate.
Here are some techniques for creating a strong password:
Here are some guidelines for what not to do when choosing a password. You should avoid these techniques when you create a password:
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a protocol that enables you to transfer files between your A2 Hosting account and another computer. FTP establishes a connection between a server (in this case, your account on an A2 Hosting server) and a client (your local computer). To make your website files accessible to the public, you use an FTP client to upload them to your A2 Hosting account on the server. You can also download files from your A2 Hosting account to your local computer.
The original FTP protocol does not encrypt data sent between the server and the client. Instead, we strongly recommend you use one of the following protocols to transfer files:
There are numerous FTP clients available, and many of them support SFTP (Secure FTP) and FTPS (FTP Secure) as well. A2 Hosting recommends FileZilla, a free program that you can download here. It supports all three protocols (FTP, SFTP, and FTPS), and runs on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux. In the following procedures, we show how to use FileZilla to connect to your account and transfer files.
To connect to your account using FileZilla, follow these steps:
In the Protocol list box, select the protocol you want to use:
In the User text box, type the account username you want to use:
Optionally, you can specify a default directory for FileZilla to open on the remote server after it connects. For example, many people prefer to have an FTP client access the website document root directory by default. To do this, follow these steps:
After FileZilla establishes a connection between your local computer and the LGM Hosting server, you can transfer files. FileZilla has a Local site pane that displays files on your local computer, and a Remote site pane that displays files in your account on the LGM Hosting server:
To transfer files using FileZilla, follow these steps:
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