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These days, webhosting providers almost always give you a web-based “front
end” or control panel that allows you to create and maintain your website.
That way you don’t have to be a computer guru.
This front end runs the scripts and programs that, in olden days, would
have been done by hand by said guru (a systems administrator).
Log into your control panel. You should find an option called File Manager,
or something like that. It will let you create files and folders. It will let you
upload content, such as photographs.
The control panel also lets you do things like AddOn Domains, or update
your contact information (email address), or change your password, or cre-
ate email addresses. (Yes, you can invent your own email addresses, like
[email protected], or whatever you like.)
cPanel is a widely used and full-featured front end. We will use it for illus-
tration here.
The cPanel login screen looks
something like this. The circle at
the top shows the URL. The circle
in the middle shows the place for
your username and password.