Thank you for purchasing a shared hosting account from ViniHost! This article will help you get started configuring your website.
After you purchase a shared hosting package from ViniHost, you receive a Welcome e-mail message that provides information about how to access your account on the ViniHost Customer Portal. The Customer Portal enables you to view your account's product information, including:
For more information about how to use the Customer Portal, please see these articles.
For your website to work correctly, you must configure your domain name (for example, example.com) to use ViniHost's name servers. For more information about how to set a domain's name servers to point to ViniHost, please see this article.
cPanel is ViniHost's preferred management interface, and you can use it to control all aspects of your website. For more information about how to use cPanel to manage your website, please see these articles.
You can access your account in several ways: SSH (Secure Shell), FTP (File Transfer Protocol), and more. For information about how to access your account, please see these articles.
E-mail is an important part of running a website, and cPanel makes it easy to set up and manage accounts. For more information about how to set up e-mail accounts for your domain, please see this article.
To publish website files and make them publicly viewable, upload them to your account's public_html directory. You can update your website files whenever you want. Please note that any files you upload that are not in the public_html directory (or in a subdirectory beneath public_html) are not publicly viewable.
If you already have a website with another hosting provider and are moving it to ViniHost, you may want to migrate your website data to your new account. For information about how to do this, please see these articles.
Security is an important part of maintaining a website. For information about how to help secure your website, e-mail accounts, and more, please see these articles.
If you get stuck on something or just have a question about how something works, we're here for you. You can always open a support ticket on the ViniHost Customer Portal at Contact Support.
If you have any questions about your account, we are here 24/7 to help! Visit our Support page to search the Knowledgebase, submit a support ticket, or chat live with one of our Guru Crew team members.