Addon Domains and Aliases

Note: An alias or addon domain can only be added if the domain name is already registered first. What are aliases and addon...

Cron Jobs / Automated Tasks

Introduction and overview Cron jobs are commands used to schedule tasks that must run periodically, for instance: from Monday to...

Help, I Can't Connect to the cPanel!

Having trouble connecting to cPanel? Here are different possible causes. Situation 1: You are able to access the login screen, but...

How to Change your cPanel Password

Here's how to change your cPanel control panel's password: Log in to the WHC Client Area, using your email address and password...

How to Create a Backup

Here are the steps to create a backup of your website: This procedure applies to dedicated and cloud server plans that do not have...

How to Create and Use Subdomains

Introduction Subdomains allow a logical separation of your website into many distinct sections. Subdomains look like this:...

How to Identify Large MySQL Tables Using phpMyAdmin

Identifying the Largest Tables of a MySQL Database Identifying the Tables with the Highest Row Count of a MySQL Database...

How to Import an Existing WordPress Installation To Softaculous

Softaculous is a powerful web application installer that gives you the ability to execute several post-installation tasks, such...

How to Manage & Restore Backups

Automatic backups, powered by JetBackup, are included with our Canadian Web Hosting and Reseller plans and are available as an...

How to Password Protect sections of your website

Anybody can access the content within the folder public_html (folder containing all public files of your hosting account) with a web...

How to Synchronize cPanel Calendars and Contacts

Are you looking to synchronize your calendars and contacts across all your devices? This article provides instructions for how to...

How to View Statistics on your Website's Visitors

Web Hosting Canada includes two visitors-statistics applications, Webalizer and Awstats. These applications will allow you to view...

How to access cPanel

cPanel is the main control panel helping you manage most of the features offered with Web Hosting Canada’s services.There are...

How to change the language in cPanel

The cPanel interface is available in several languages.  To change your cPanel language, perform the following steps: Log in to...

How to increase the upload size limit

By default, the upload size limit via PHP forms is 2 megabytes. You may have to upload a file of more than 2 MB. If that is the...

How to manage and reduce your Disk Usage in cPanel

Over time, certain hosting accounts can grow in size and cause performance slowdowns. This article will show you how to use the Disk...

How to redirect a domain (or specific page) to another address

To redirect a domain name (example: yourdomain.com) to another address (example: secondsite.com): Log in to cPanel Under Domains,...

How to use the File Manager

The File Manager is available in your cPanel. It provides an easy way to view and manage your files. With File Manager, you can...

Introduction and Access Info to cPanel

Introduction to cPanel The cPanel control panel allows its users to complete many complex tasks in a few seconds through a web...

Manage Security with Imunify360 in cPanel

Canadian Hosting account owners can access the malware detection dashboard within cPanel to see if any suspicious activity has...

Publish a Site From your Computer

If you have your website saved on your computer or a storage device and wish to place it on our servers, here is how. There are two...

Redirect www to non-www (or vice-versa)

You can redirect www accesses of your domain to non-www version using the cPanel Redirections tool.These redirections are often...

Understanding Cron: A Comprehensive Guide for Hosting Clients

What is cron? Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems. It allows users to schedule tasks or commands to...

Using Git Version Control in cPanel

Git is a type of version control system (VCS) that makes it easier to track changes to files. For example, when you edit a file,...

What are inodes and how can I count them?

What is an inode? An inode (or index node) is an object that stores information about a file or directory. Each file or directory...

[ADVANCED] How to Group Two Separate Accounts into One Account with an Addon Domain

The procedure to transfer an independant hosting account into an existing hosting account, as an addon domain, can be fairly complex...

How to Recover Your Database

A database is a system of storing and fetching data in an organized way. For example, WordPress uses PHP (a common programming...

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