{"id":699,"date":"2020-10-15T08:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T05:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/?p=699"},"modified":"2022-09-08T16:36:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:36:40","slug":"getting-started-with-spanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/getting-started-with-spanel\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with SPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>The <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/web-hosting-for-small-business.html\"><b>web hosting<\/b><\/a><b> industry<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an overcrowded place, and with such fierce competition coming from companies of all shapes and sizes, it&#8217;s difficult to come up with something unique. This didn&#8217;t stop us from developing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/spanel.html\"><b>SPanel<\/b><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013<\/span><b> an all-in-one control panel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that lets you manage your entire hosting account without the need to pay for any additional licensing fees.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Table of contents<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>What is SPanel?<\/b><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Using SPanel to manage websites<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Managing your domains with SPanel<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Managing emails with SPanel<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Managing files with SPanel<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Managing databases with SPanel<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Additional tools<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Using SPanel to manage a cloud VPS<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Managing your virtual server with SPanel<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Managing accounts with SPanel<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b><i>What is SPanel?<\/i><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><b>SPanel is our proprietary management system<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through which you will control virtually all aspects of your hosting account. It&#8217;s available completely free of charge for all clients who pick one of our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/managed-cloud-hosting.html\"><b>managed cloud VPS hosting solutions<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and although it&#8217;s not the first control panel of its kind, it <\/span><b>comes with a few unique features that help you manage your Scala Hosting account quickly, easily, and securely.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For website administrators,<\/span><b> SPanel is an easy way of performing a variety of different tasks, including:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating and managing subdomains<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adding addon domains<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Controlling DNS settings<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating and managing FTP accounts<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uploading and managing files<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating and restoring backups<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating and managing email accounts<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing databases<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Installing SSL certificates<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Installing and configuring WordPress<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creating and configuring cron jobs<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Users who pick one of our managed VPS hosting solutions also get to control their entire cloud server through SPanel&#8217;s interface: <\/span><b>They can:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monitor their server&#8217;s health<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get stats on CPU, RAM, and disk space usage<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create, suspend, and terminate accounts<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manage disk quotas, usernames, and main domains for individual accounts<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By default, <\/span><b>the SPanel login URL can be found at<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/[yourdomain]\/spanel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. What you see when you sign in depends on the credentials you&#8217;re using. If you use the username and password for your cloud server, you&#8217;ll see<\/span><b> SPanel&#8217;s server administration tools<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If, on the other hand, you need to manage a website, you need to use the credentials for the account associated with that website.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b><i>Using SPanel to manage websites<\/i><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Years ago, people realized that<\/span><b> website administration needn&#8217;t be difficult<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and since then, we&#8217;ve seen a lot of innovations that have let less tech-savvy users establish their own internet presence. SPanel is proof that maintaining a website could be even easier than you might think.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/330-1024x929.png\" alt=\"Getting Started with SPanel, Using SPanel to manage websites\" class=\"wp-image-3967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/330-1024x929.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/330-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/330-768x697.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/330-1536x1393.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/330.png 1903w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After you log in, you can immediately see general information about<\/span><b> your hosting account and current resource usage.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The different tools are<\/span><b> grouped together in panels<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and you can rearrange them however you like. Virtually all the tasks are point-and-click, and there are plenty of help boxes that give you information on what you&#8217;re looking at.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Managing your domains with SPanel<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A website can&#8217;t function without a domain name. After you activate your hosting account, y<\/span><b>ou will receive a welcome email with instructions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on which nameservers you need to point your domain(s) to. Once you&#8217;ve done that, <\/span><b>you can use SPanel to ensure that your visitors have access to the right content<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. With it, you can also host more than one website on a single account.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1903\" height=\"948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/addon-domains.jpg\" alt=\"Getting Started with SPanel, Managing your domains with SPanel\" class=\"wp-image-701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/addon-domains.jpg 1903w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/addon-domains-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/addon-domains-1024x510.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/addon-domains-768x383.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/addon-domains-1536x765.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your account is associated with a single main domain name, but you can add as many addon domains as you want and host different websites under them. What you need to do is open the <\/span><b>Addon domains <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tool, <\/span><b>enter the domain name, and point it to a directory within the root folder of your account<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Then, you need to make sure that the right content is stored in the said directory and that the addon domain&#8217;s nameservers are correctly set.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPanel also helps you create <\/span><b>Subdomains <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">both for your main domain name and for your addon domains. With them, you can create different sections of your websites (shop.yourdomain.com, blog.yourdomain.com, etc.) and keep the structure well-organized.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the <strong>Redirects<\/strong> tool, you can set up and manage permanent and temporary redirects for your domains and URLs without the need to edit the .htaccess file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the <\/span><b>DNS editor <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tool, you can further control what users see when they enter your domains in their address bar. The <\/span><b>A<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>MX<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>CNAME<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>TXT<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> records you add through it let you point visitors of your domains and subdomains to specific IPs, and it also helps you ensure that your emails arrive wherever you want them to.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Managing emails with SPanel<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the first things people do after they launch their <\/span><b>websites is to configure the email inboxes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> associated with their domains, and this is not really that surprising. After all, regardless of whether you&#8217;re running a<\/span><b> small personal website or an online business<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, you must make sure that users are able to reach you.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1903\" height=\"948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/email-accounts.png\" alt=\"Getting Started with SPanel, Managing emails with SPanel\" class=\"wp-image-702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/email-accounts.png 1903w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/email-accounts-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/email-accounts-1024x510.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/email-accounts-768x383.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/email-accounts-1536x765.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By clicking <\/span><b>Email accounts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, you will be able to manage all email accounts associated with your domain. <\/span><b>Creating new inboxes <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is as easy as choosing a username and picking a password, and you can later manage them from the same place. The <\/span><b>Autoresponders<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Forwarders<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Default address<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> features let you configure the way different emails are handled. People who use a third-party email service provider need to set their mail exchanger to <\/span><b>&#8220;Remote&#8221; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">through the <\/span><b>Mail route<\/b> <b>tool<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Setting up your business email to work with Gmail, for example, takes no more than a few clicks. If you decide to keep your communication on ScalaHosting&#8217;s servers, you could do worse than enable the <\/span><b>SpamAssassin <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">feature minimizes the amount of spam that reaches your inbox. You can also set up your own custom filters that will discard messages you don&#8217;t want to see.<br><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Managing files with SPanel<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPanel&#8217;s <\/span><b>File manager<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is perhaps the simplest, most intuitive way of handling your website&#8217;s files. <\/span><b>Uploading files is a drag-and-drop process, and downloading them <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is not much harder. You can create new folders, change permissions, and even edit files on the spot. If <\/span><b>you need to process a larger amount of information, however, you&#8217;re better off using FTP.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1903\" height=\"1079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ftp-accounts.png\" alt=\"Getting Started with SPanel, Managing files with SPanel\" class=\"wp-image-703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ftp-accounts.png 1903w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ftp-accounts-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ftp-accounts-1024x581.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ftp-accounts-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ftp-accounts-1536x871.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With SPanel, you can create as many <\/span><b>FTP accounts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as you want and manage your website&#8217;s data through your<\/span><b> favorite FTP clien<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t. Meanwhile, the <\/span><b>Backup <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Restore backup <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tools in SPanel&#8217;s Files section help you fix any issues that might arise. Through the <strong>Files<\/strong> section, you can also get detailed stats on how much storage space you&#8217;re using.<br><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Managing databases with SPanel<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An<\/span><b> FTP account and\/or a web-based interface<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would be more than enough to manage the static websites from years gone by. <\/span><b>Modern online projects <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tend to be much more complicated, however, and in addition to simple files, they also need databases in <\/span><b>order to work correctly. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thankfully, SPanel can once again ease the process of handling all this information.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1903\" height=\"2334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mysql-databases.png\" alt=\"Getting Started with SPanel, Managing databases with SPanel\" class=\"wp-image-704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mysql-databases.png 1903w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mysql-databases-245x300.png 245w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mysql-databases-835x1024.png 835w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mysql-databases-768x942.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mysql-databases-1252x1536.png 1252w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mysql-databases-1670x2048.png 1670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the <\/span><b>MySQL databases <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tool in<\/span><b> SPanel&#8217;s Databases section<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, you can <\/span><b>create new MySQL databases, establish accounts for managing them<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and set all the permissions for the individual accounts and databases.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing the actual data happens through <\/span><b>phpMyAdmin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 a free, open-source administration platform for <\/span><b>MySQL and <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/blog\/mariadb-latest-version\/\"><b>MariaDB databases<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Its usability has made phpMyAdmin extremely popular with users and hosting companies, which is why it is integrated into SPanel.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b><i>Additional tools<\/i><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPanel can be as useful to the technically advanced users as it is to the beginners. For example, people looking to <\/span><b>create a WordPress website will find our very own SWordPress manager<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> extremely useful. It lets them install the world&#8217;s most popular<\/span><b> Content Management System (CMS) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and turn on the all-important automatic updates with no more than a couple of clicks. Once everything is up and running, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/wordpress-manager.html\"><b>SWordPress<\/b><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lets users enable a security feature called <\/span><b>Security Lock<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which ensures that <\/span><b>even if hackers manage to break in<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, they won&#8217;t be able to tamper with the website&#8217;s files.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1903\" height=\"1140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/swordpress-manager.png\" alt=\"Getting Started with SPanel, Additional tools\" class=\"wp-image-705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/swordpress-manager.png 1903w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/swordpress-manager-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/swordpress-manager-1024x613.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/swordpress-manager-768x460.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/swordpress-manager-1536x920.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to use WordPress, you can use the <strong>Softaculous auto-installer <\/strong>to set up one of around 400 other website-building applications with no more than a few clicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less experienced website administrators will also be happy to learn that securing the connection between a website and end users isn&#8217;t as difficult or as expensive as it used to be. In fact, through<\/span><b> SPanel&#8217;s<\/b> <b>SSL certificates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tool, you can configure your website to run <\/span><b>through HTTPS in no time.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If you don&#8217;t have an SSL certificate of your own<\/span><b>, SPanel will automatically install and configure one within 24 hours <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of you pointing your domain to the correct nameservers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, the more technically advanced among you can use SPanel to create <\/span><b>Cron jobs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, pick the correct <\/span><b>PHP version<\/b>, or edit the PHP.ini file<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b><i>Using SPanel to manage a cloud VPS<\/i><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The world is moving towards cloud hosting at a rapid rate. <\/span><b>The costs associated with this type of hosting <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are nowhere near as big as they used to be, and the improved scalability along with the rest of the <\/span><b>benefits render the traditional solutions unsuitable for most modern websites<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The only thing stopping some people is the misconception that <\/span><b>controlling an entire server (albeit a virtual one)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> requires a lot of technical expertise. If you pick a <\/span><b>managed cloud VPS hosting plan from Scala Hosting<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, however, you&#8217;ll quickly realize that this is not really the case.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For one, <\/span><b>our managed VPS solutions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> come with an operating system and everything needed to run a website already installed, and if you do need assistance, our technical support team is always on hand to help you out. Last, but by no means least, you<\/span><b> get free access to SPanel&#8217;s Admin Interface and all the tools you need to control your virtual server<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/331-1024x583.png\" alt=\"Getting Started with SPanel, Using SPanel to manage a cloud VPS\" class=\"wp-image-3968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/331-1024x583.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/331-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/331-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/331-1536x874.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/331.png 1903w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><b>The home page of SPanel&#8217;s Admin Interface acts as a dashboard<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Through it, you get a live feed of how much server resources you&#8217;re using at the moment, and you also have a list of all the accounts currently set up on your VPS. The <\/span><b>server administration tools <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are available in the panel on the left-hand side of the screen, and if you&#8217;re struggling to find what you&#8217;re looking for, you can <\/span><b>use the search functionality.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Managing your virtual server with SPanel<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first set of features revolve around the management of your server. In <\/span><b>Server Information<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, you can get a more detailed picture of how your server is used. Once again, you can see <\/span><b>what portion of your server resources are in use at the moment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but you also get more details, including information on the type of operating system it runs on.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1903\" height=\"1022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/branding.png\" alt=\"Getting Started with SPanel, Managing your virtual server with SPanel\" class=\"wp-image-707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/branding.png 1903w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/branding-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/branding-1024x550.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/branding-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/branding-1536x825.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the <strong>Server Settings page<\/strong>, you can control two-factor authentication and CAPTCHA for the different user groups and boost your server&#8217;s security, and the <strong>Branding<\/strong> and <strong>Packages<\/strong><\/span> sections let resellers use their VPS to grow their hosting business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Server Status <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">page gives you information on all the services currently running on your VPS, and if there&#8217;s a problem with any of them, you can restart them from the <\/span><b>Restart Service<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> section. If that doesn&#8217;t work, you can reboot the entire system through the <\/span><b>Restart Server <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tool. The <strong>Resource Usage<\/strong> section gives you detailed day-by-day stats on how much load you&#8217;re putting on your server,&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If more than one person needs to manage the server, you can create additional Admin accounts, and you can use the API tokens to integrate SPanel with other third-party products and applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Managing accounts with SPanel<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Accounts Management <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">section lets you control who can access your virtual server and how. <\/span><b>Creating a new user account<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is as easy as entering the account&#8217;s main domain name, picking a username and a password, and setting the limits on disk space, inodes, databases, addon domains, and email accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All the accounts you&#8217;ve created are available in the <\/span><b>Manage Accounts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> section, and you have plenty of other options for managing them. You can change their <\/span><b>usernames<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>passwords<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>main domains<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, you can let them access their data via <\/span><b>SSH<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and you can also <\/span><b>modify<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> their <\/span><b>allocated server resources.&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Should the need arise, you can<\/span><b> suspend<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>unsuspend<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>terminate <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">accounts with no more than a couple of clicks. SPanel also lets you see a list of all <\/span><b>SQL services<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> currently running on your VPS. You can control your VPS&#8217; <strong>Softaculous<\/strong> license via the SPanel&#8217;s Admin Interface, and you can also change the web server for better performance.<br><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/332-1024x768.png\" alt=\"Getting Started with SPanel, Managing accounts with SPanel\" class=\"wp-image-3971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/332-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/332-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/332-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/332-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.scalahosting.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/332.png 1903w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 660px, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 910px, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b><i>Conclusion<\/i><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><b>The internet has changed a lot over the years<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Websites are now much bigger and a lot more complicated than they used to be, and they are no longer exclusively created by computer specialists. The challenge of ensuring that they can all be reliably hosted and controlled by less experienced users is enormous, but we can proudly say that<\/span><b> SPanel proves that nothing is impossible.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The web hosting industry is an overcrowded place, and with such fierce competition coming from companies of all shapes and sizes, it&#8217;s difficult to come up with something unique. 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