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My Cpanel Howto Recommendation

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I’ve been doing a series of blog posts across several of my blogs on the basics of internet marketing.  There are two key tools you need to really be in business online. The first is an autoresponder.  I shared my opinions on them on a blog post on my Micro Business specialist blog: http://microbusinessspecialist.com/blog/autoresponder/internet-marketing-the-basics-where-to-start/

In addition I posted my recommendation as to which web hosting service to use on my Minneapolis Internet Marketing Consultant blog on the following post: http://minneapolisinternetmarketingconsultant.com/web-hosting-2/my-favorite-low-cost-web-hosts/

Today, I am going to revisit one of my favorite themes and one of my criteria for web hosting, the use of and presence of a c-panel to manage your web hosting.

I like cpanel for a lot of reasons, the most important one being that it is relatively easy to use and you can find a lot of help using it.  The majority of Web hosting firms use the cpanel, which means that a lot of people use it and it is thus easy to find people who can help you when you have an issue.

While my first sites and web hosting were on a proprietary system, I was locked in to them for life, and needed to learn their specific system and its quirks to manage my web site.  I did. It took a while and was hard at first to figure out and despite their best efforts to have a peer supported help desk and forum, I found it difficult to get answers to my questions just when I needed them.  Maybe an hour or two later, when I had already gone on to something else.  It was frustrating and limiting.

Once I learned the need and discovered Host Gator which I moved to for cost and support reasons, I was still faced with learning their system. In this case the cpanel.  It has a ton of icons on it, and while I tout it as easy to use, it can be daunting at first.

The advantage of Cpanel is that a lot of people have written about cpanel and you can find a lot of resources online to support you when you have an issue.

I like it, because I have help my clients as well much easier when I know how the guts of their system works.  Its probably this second factor that accounts for the success cpanel has had. Because it is popular, it has support and is easier to help others. Because of this, it gets recommended more.  That’s the good type of viral working for them. The good news is the the cpanel comes with the hosting package at no extra cost.  You just need a web host like Host Gator that uses it as their control panel.

But you do need to learn it. So where. Their are lots of free videos on You Tube and elsewhere on the web.  I learned from Bob the Teacher on his Discover Cpanel video series.  It was a major break through for me.

Since then, I have been recommending that set of videos to all my newbie marketers. It’s inexpensive and a critical bit of essential knowledge for those who have a cpanel on their hosting.

If you don’t have cpanel, you don’t need this. If you do, you really do owe it to yourself to learn at least the basics.  Then you can farm it all out to your computer person if you want. The advantage is you will realize how trully simple some tasks can be, and avoid being overcharged for five seconds of work.

Now again, I like Cpanel, because I can do the five seconds of work and not have to wait two or three days to get it done. Which is what I hate about letting someone else manage my sites.

Anyway, my goal here today is to introduce you to my favorite cpanel training course.  It’s called, Discover Cpanel.

This course was a critical help to me, and could be the same for you.  Now that I have this training, I am able to set up new sites and blogs easily, I can add new domains. I can control my own website email and much more easily.

Now I recognize that most home stagers are more interested in doing home staging than they are at learning the mechanics of their web site. Still for those of you who do want to take charge of your online life, I highly recommend that you get this course if you have cpanel on your web site.

How do you tell. Just type your url with a /cpanel on the end.  If your host uses cpanel you will see a log in.  If you don’t know your log in info you should be able to get it from your computer guy or the help desk at your web hosting site. IE www.abc.com/cpanel

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