Building More Than One Website

Once you have built your first self-hosted website, you can build secondary websites that share the same domain name. With this web hosting account, your first website will likely be found on the main domain that you signed up with, otherwise known as your root domain. For example, let’s say that you signed up for…

Get to Know Your New Web Space

Thinking of web hosting as a plot of land is one of the easiest ways to make sense of all of the components that make up hosting, domains and websites. Access to web hosting is like having a plot of land or a physical space. A website is like a house to be built on…

Choosing Your Domain Name

Choosing your domain name is the first step in getting started with staking your claim on the web. Your domain name is a unique web address (e.g. yourname.school.edu) that can be used to build out your own digital presence. As you make your choice, there are a few considerations to keep in mind: Your Domain Name Must…

Popular Applications to Consider

As you’ll find out later in this documentation, there are plenty of options when it comes to the different applications you can install in your cPanel account. Here are a few applications worth considering if you’re just beginning and need a place to get started: WordPress. WordPress is a simple-to-use blogging application. The tool also…