Working With cPanel | XonHost Knowledge Base

How can I check my quota and bandwidth limits/usage?

The statistics for your account’s disk space and bandwidth usage are available in your cPanel, under the Stats section on the left. All the server-side information for the end user is also available there.

How to Export MySQL Database

There are two ways of exporting a MySQL database from your account: You can export it via the cPanel -> phpMyAdmin tool. You can find information how to do that in our tutorial here. You can perform the export by accessing your account via SSH. Our article explains … Continued

What databases can I use with my XonHost account?

XonHost supports MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. With our standard hosting package you can have UNLIMITED MySQL and Postgres databases. You can manage your databases with a few mouse clicks through a web-based control panel (cPanel). For more information check our MySQL … Continued

What are the Softaculous Email Settings?

Softaculous is configured to send you an email message every time an application is installed/removed or edited to the email address that you have for your cPanel account. If you want to change your account settings, please check this tutorial.

How to switch my primary domain name with my addon domain?

Let’s say that you have one hosting account and two domain names used for two different websites – yourdomain1.com and yourdomain2.com. The domain yourdomain1.com is the primary domain for your account and yourdomain2.com is hosted as an addon domain, Here are the steps you should take in … Continued

How to point my domain to a ‘Coming soon’ page?

All you have to do to point your website to a “Coming soon” page is create a simple index.html file in the document root directory of your website. The index.html file should contain the following code: 1 2 3 4 5 <html> <body> Coming Soon! </body></html> … Continued

How can I retrieve the raw Apache access logs for my site?

You can find the access logs for any of the websites you have on your account from your cPanel -> Raw Access Logs tool. The logs contain detailed information about every single hit for your website – the IP from which the hit came … Continued

How to change the password of a MySQL user in cPanel?

The easiest way to change the password for your MySQL user is to: Log in your cPanel -> MySQL Databases. Find the corresponding database and see which is the user attached to it. For example we will consider that your database is called yourusername_database and … Continued

I get an error ‘ACCESS DENIED CREATE DATABASE db_name’ when I try to import a database

In order to solve this issue follow these steps: Open the MySQL backup with a text editor on your local computer. Delete the line saying “CREATE DATABASE yourdbname“. Usually this line is found at the very beginning of the file. … Continued

What are Softaculous software ratings?

Softaculous makes it possible for users to rate Software/an Application. So the ratings of an application you see are the votes given by individual users like you. It enables a new user to select the best software in a particular … Continued