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Hosting Tutorials
Free web hosting tutorials
At Freewind Hosting we believe strongly in enabling you (our customers) to take full advantage of the powerful, feature-rich hosting you have purchased from us.
To help you with this, we have put together an exhuastive amount of video tutorials (179 in total!) to take you through step-by-step the features and options available to you.
Control Panels
The following video tutorials provide step-by-step guidance showing you how to use features of your web hosting's control panel. Below you will find video tutorials for Parallels Plesk 9 (for our Windows hosting customers) and cPanel (for our Linux hosting customers).
Parallels Plesk 9
Parallels Plesk 9 is the control panel for our Windows hosting customers. From Plesk 9 you can manage all aspects of your website including Email, Databases and File Management.
Please explore the videos below to see the functions that you can perform from your Plesk 9 control panel.
- Creating a POP e-mail account
- Creating a catchall e-mail account
- Creating an autoresponder
- Creating a mail forwarder (redirect)
- Creating an email alias
- Creating custom error pages
- Creating a mailing list
- Password protecting a directory
- Creating a database
- Managing a MySQL database with PHPMyAdmin
- Managing your files with File Manager
- Setting up a web user
- Changing your passwords
- Installing an SSL Certificate
- Using Crontab
- Creating a subdomain
- Installing Web Applications
- Creating a custom button
- Using spam filters
- Monitoring site resources & statistics
Parallels Plesk 9 (Reseller)
Parallels Plesk 9 is the control panel for our Windows reseller customers. As a reseller, using Plesk 9 makes it easy to create and modify customer's accounts, create and apply hosting plans, brand customer's Plesk interfaces with custom logos and much more!
Please explore the videos below to see the functions that you can perform from your Plesk 9 control panel for resellers.
- Creating templates (hosting plans)
- Creating a new hosting account
- Modifying a hosting account
- Suspending a hosting account
- Deleting a hosting account
- Creating a domain user
- Creating a web user
- Managing your DNS zones
- Changing a customer's Plesk control panel passwords
- Creating a domain pointer
- Creating a domain alias
- Generating a hosting account report
- Adding your logo to the control panel & changing skins
- Changing the skeleton file
- Editing your company profile & password
- Creating a subdomain
- Creating a custom button
- Installing Web Applications
cPanel
cPanel is the control panel for our Linux hosting customers. From cPanel you can manage all aspects of your website including Email, Databases and File Management.
Please explore the videos below to see the functions that you can perform from your cPanel control panel.
- Creating a POP email account
- Creating a default (catchall) email account
- Creating an autoresponder
- Creating a subdomain
- Creating custom error pages
- Password protecting a directory
- Creating an MySQL database
- Managing a MySQL database in PHPMyAdmin
- Installing FrontPage extensions
- Using File Manager
- Using Index Manager
- Enabling Hotlink Protection
- Redirecting a URL
- Redirecting Mail
- Changing control panel password
- Creating an add-on domain
- Creating an FTP account
- Backing up your site
- Accessing WebMail
- Updating your contact info
- Changing your control panel style
- Using cPanel Shortcuts
- Configuring BoxTrapper
- Configuring SpamAssassin
- Configuring email filters
- Using Web Disk
- Using IP Deny Manager
- Parking a domain
- Using CGI Center
- Creating cron jobs
- Using Image Manager Thumbnailer
- Using Image Manager Scaler
- Using Image Manager Converter
WebHost Manager (Reseller)
WebHost Manager (WHM) is the control panel for our Linux reseller customers. As a reseller, using WHM makes it easy to create and modify customer's accounts, create and apply hosting plans, brand customer's cPanel interfaces with custom logos and much more!
Please explore the videos below to see the functions that you can perform from your WHM control panel for resellers.
- Managing your hosting packages
- Creating a hosting account
- Editing a hosting account
- Deleting a hosting account
- Upgrading a hosting account
- Performing multi-account functions
- Managing disk quota
- Managing bandwidth
- Managing your subdomains
- Managing your skeleton directory
- Managing your suspended accounts
- Managing your parked domains
- Managing your FrontPage Extensions
- Modifying account passwords
- Monitoring your server
- Troubleshooting email
- Setting up a Remote Access Key
- Changing your WHM theme
- Managing SSL Certificates
- Managing your Suspended Page
The following video tutorials are to assist customers with using email with their hosting account. The tutorials go step-by-step through the process involved to view email from a client, using webmail access to the basics of composing an email message.
E-mail Clients
- Creating an email account in Outlook Express
- Creating an email account in Outlook 2003
- Creating an email account in Outlook 2007
- Creating an email account in Netscape Communicator
- Creating an email account in Eudora
- Creating an email account in IncrediMail
- Creating an email account in Pegasus
- Creating an email account in Thunderbird
E-mail Headers
Gmail
Horde Webmail
- Logging in to Horde
- Changing your email password
- Creating a mail forwarder
- Creating an email autoresponder
- Using BoxTrapper
- Creating an email filter
- Composing a new email message
- Reading a new email message
- Managing your address book
- Creating folders
- Editing your profile
- Using filters
- Managing your calendar
- Configuring global options
Roundcube Webmail
SquirrelMail Webmail
- Logging in to SquirrelMail
- Changing your email password
- Creating a mail forwarder
- Creating an email autoresponder
- Using BoxTrapper
- Creating an email filter
- Composing a new email message
- Reading a new email message
- Managing your address book
- Creating folders
- Editing your profile
- Using Message Highlighting
- Modifying Index Order
- Modifying display preferences
- Modifying folder preferences
DNS
The following video tutorials are to assist customers with managing their domain names that were registered with other domain registration companies. Using the step-by-step instructions in the video tutorials below you will learn how to change your Nameservers and how to create private Nameservers (for resellers).
DNS Nameserver Changes
- Making DNS changes at 000Domains.com
- Making DNS changes at Dotster.com
- Making DNS changes at Enom.com
- Making DNS changes at GoDaddy.com
- Making DNS changes at MelbourneIT.com.au
- Making DNS changes at NameCheap.com
- Making DNS changes at NetworkSolutions.com
- Making DNS changes at OpenSRS.net
- Making DNS changes at Register.com
- Making DNS changes at StarGate.com
- Making DNS changes at DRAMS (dramsystem.com)
- Making DNS changes at 123-reg.co.uk
- Making DNS changes at ItsYourDomain.com
- Making DNS changes at WildWestDomains.com
Creating Private Nameservers
- Creating private nameservers at 000Domains.com
- Creating private nameservers at Dotster.com
- Creating private nameservers at Enom.com
- Creating private nameservers at GoDaddy.com
- Creating private nameservers at NameCheap.com
- Creating private nameservers at NetworkSolutions.com
- Creating private nameservers at OpenSRS.net
- Creating private nameservers at StarGate.com
- Creating private nameservers at 123-reg.co.uk
- Creating private nameservers at ItsYourDomain.com
FTP
The following video tutorials are to assist customers with uploading content to their website. Using the step-by-step instructions contained within the video tutorials you will learn how to connect to your FTP using an FTP client, transfer new content and managing FTP sites.
FileZilla
Cute FTP
Smart FTP
WS_FTP
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