cPanel Home Screen
The cPanel home screen provides access to all of your cPanel functions.
You can reach the cPanel home screen from anywhere in the interface by clicking on the Home button at the top of the page, or from the Home link at the bottom of the page. From the home screen, you can reach any of cPanel's features.
You can change the order of the feature-related boxes, such as Mail and Files, by doing the following:
- Click and hold the box's heading bar.
- Drag it to its new location.
The information boxes can also be minimized or "hidden" by clicking on the icon on the top right corner of the heading bar.
Stats Menu
The stats menu shows exactly how much of your hosting account's resources have been used. For example, it tells you the number of FTP accounts, email accounts, and databases you have left on your current hosting plan. This is important for monitoring your resource usage and can help you decide when it's time to upgrade your hosting plan.
The stats menu displays the following information:
- Main Domain. The primary domain on your account.
- Home Directory. The folder, located on the server, in which your website's files and folders reside.
- Last Login From. The IP address that last accessed your cPanel account.
- Disk Space Usage. The amount of disk space that your account is using in megabytes. This number appears next to the amount of disk space allocated to your account.
- Monthly Bandwidth Transfer. The amount of data transferred to and from your account for the month to date in megabytes. This number appears next to the total monthly bandwidth allocated to your account.
- Email Accounts. The number of email accounts associated with your website out of the total number allowed.
- Subdomains. The number of subdomains associated with your account out of the total number allowed.
- Parked Domains. The number of parked domains associated with your account out of the total number allowed.
- Addon Domains. The number of addon domains associated with your account out of the total number allowed.
- FTP Accounts. The number of FTP accounts associated with your website out of the total number allowed.
- SQL Databases. The number of SQL databases associated with your website out of the total number allowed.
- Hosting Package. The name of the hosting plan you are subscribed to.
- Server Name. The name of the container your account is on.
- cPanel Version. The version of cPanel currently running on the container your account is on.
- cPanel Build. The build of cPanel currently running on the container your account is on.
- Apache Version. The version of Apache software running on the container your account is on.
- PHP Version. The version of PHP installed on the container.
- MySQL Version. The version of MySQL installed on the container.
- Architecture. The type of microprocessor powering the container.
- Operating System. The software running on the container that allows the container to operate.
- Dedicated IP Address. The IP address assigned to your account.
- Path To Sendmail. The location of the sendmail program on the container.
- Path To Perl. The location of the Perl interpreter on the container.
- Kernel Version. The version of the container's kernel, which is the central operating system component that allows the container's software to communicate with the hardware node.
Server Status Page
The stats menu also provides a link that displays the status of the available services. Clicking on the link opens a page that displays whether a particular services is working or not.
Services listed on this page may include the following:
- cpsrvd. The cPanel service daemon. This service runs the cPanel interface.
- httpd. The Apache daemon. This is responsible for serving web pages to your visitors.
- ftpd. The FTP daemon. FTP is a network protocol used to exchange and manipulate files.
- mysql. The MySQL database daemon.
- sshd. The SSH daemon. SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel.
- imap. An email protocol for mail retrieval.
- exim. A mail transfer agent (MTA) for checking incoming mail.
- named. The DNS server. This service is required for your domains to appear on the Internet.
- pop. An email protocol for mail sending and retrieval.
- Server Load. Your container's current CPU load. If this is red, the container is experiencing performance issues.
- Memory Used. The amount of RAM being used on the container, shown as a percentage.
- Swap Used. The amount of swap memory being used, shown as a percentage. Swap memory is memory used on your hard drive in place of RAM. Swap memory usage occurs during a RAM shortage.
- Disk /dev/vzfs. The amount of hard disk space being used, shown as a percentage. If this appears red, delete old or unused files.
Each service will have a circle on the right that can be green, yellow, or red:
- A green circle means the service is running.
- A yellow circle means it's busy, or in the case of disk space, almost full.
- A red circle indicates a problem with the service, or a full disk.
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