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Registering a domain
Signing up for Hosting
Hosting Terminology
- What is web hosting?
- What is the difference between registering a domain and hosting a domain?
- The Domain life cycle
- Understanding SSL certificates
- Understanding hosting error messages
- What is DNS?
- What is the difference between Shared Hosting and Dedicated / Cloud Hosting?
- Kilobytes (kB), Megabytes (MB) and Gigabytes (GB)
- What is Perl
- MySQL, MS SQL and Access Databases
- ASP.NET or ASP
- PHP
Domains
- How to create a DKIM record for your domain in cPanel
- What is domain forwarding or pointing
- How to cancel a domain renewal via ClientZone
- What is a domain name
- How long before my domain is ready?
- What is a subdomain
- How to renew a domain
- How to point a domain
- What is domain parking
- How to park a domain
- How to upgrade your parked domain to a fully hosted package
- How to give ownership of a domain hosted with Afrihost
- Can I keep my domain name if I want to change my web hosting company
- How to gain ownership of a domain hosted with Afrihost
- How to transfer an existing domain away from Afrihost
- How to transfer an existing domain to Afrihost
- How to update your domain PHP version
- How to add WordPress on a subdomain in cPanel
- How to add WordPress on a subdomain in CWP
- How to connect your domain to your WordPress site
- How to connect your domain to a Wix site
- How to connect your domain to your Shopify site
Hosting
- Dedicated (physical) and Cloud (virtual) hosting explained
- How to cancel a domain renewal via ClientZone
- How to sign up for a new Shared Hosting package
- How to sign up for Dedicated Hosting
- What is web hosting?
- What is the difference between Managed and Unmanaged Hosting?
- Linux Hosting or Windows Hosting
- Rack Hosting FAQ’s
- Should I simply choose the cheapest web hosting company?
- How to reactivate your hosting product
- How to publish or upload your website files to the internet and make your website live
- Can I run my own software on my site
- Hosting Uptime
- How to access Spam Experts
- Web or Disk Space
- Data Transfer or Bandwidth Traffic
- How to update plugins and themes in WordPress
- How to fix error an establishing a database connection in WordPress
- How to upload files using FileZilla
Managing your products in ClientZone
Settings
cPanel
- How to install Joomla CMS in cPanel
- How do I know if I have cPanel or CWP?
- How to forward or redirect your domain in cPanel
- How to create an FTP account in cPanel
- How to log into cPanel
- What to do when you have reached your disk quota
- How to manage email filters in cPanel
- How to create a subdomain in cPanel
- How to import a MySQL database via cPanel
- How to export a MySQL database via cPanel
- How to restore a backup using Afribackup
- How to create an app using Softaculous in cPanel
- How to fix cPanel sync issues between a dedicated server and Afrihost DNS cluster.
- How to create a MySQL database in cPanel
CWP (Centos WebPanel)
- How do I know if I have cPanel or CWP?
- How to access SiteBuilder in CWP
- How to log into CWP
- How to create a mailbox in CWP
- What to do when you have reached your disk quota in CWP
- How to create an FTP account in CWP
- How to install WordPress in CWP
- How to create an app using Softaculous in CWP
- How to install an AutoSSL certificate for your domain in CWP
- How to create a MySQL user and database in CWP
- How to access Webmail in CWP
- How to create a subdomain in CWP
- How to set up usage notifications in CWP
- How to add a spam filter in CWP
SiteBuilder
- How to sign up for website builder
- How to access SiteBuilder via ClientZone
- How to add a menu to your site on SiteBuilder
- How to create a website and add a theme in SiteBuilder
- How to add a new site in SiteBuilder
- How to add a new blog page in SiteBuilder
- How to change the email address on your contact form in SiteBuilder
- How to add a custom logo in SiteBuilder
- How to insert custom HTML in SiteBuilder
- How to add social media buttons on SiteBuilder
- How to add a new page to your website in SiteBuilder
- How to upload media to your gallery in SiteBuilder
- Adding a Favicon to your website
- How to add your address in Google Maps to your contact form in SiteBuilder
- How to set up reCAPTHCA on your contact form in SiteBuilder
- How to password protect pages in SiteBuilder
- How to add cookie consent to your website in SiteBuilder
- How to edit the header and footer of your site in SiteBuilder
- How to delete files in SiteBuilder
Site Design
Site Visitors
Reseller Hosting
- How a reseller can give cPanel access
- Reseller Hosting
- How to add a package plan to a Reseller Hosting Account or WHM
- How to create a cPanel account on a Reseller Hosting Package or in WHM
- How a reseller can edit DNS records to link a WHM cPanel account to a domain hosted with Afrihost
- How to increase your reseller disk space
Self Managed Hosting
- How to access your Self-managed Dedicated or Cloud server
- How to generate a CSR and install an SSL certificate in SolidCP
- How to assign permissions from SolidCP
- How to login to the SolidCP control panel
- How to add a subdomain in SolidCP
- How to add MySQL database and user in SolidCP
- How to install Let's encrypt SSL certificate in SolidCP
Legal
Signing up for Hosting

- How to sign up for a new Shared Hosting package
- 02:05
Domains

- How to gain a domain in ClientZone
- 01:37
Managing your products in ClientZone

- How to change your hosting package
- 01:02
Settings

- How to edit DNS records via ClientZone
- 02:32

- how-to-change-dns-settings-on-windows
- 01:57

- How to change the SSH port on your server
- 06:30
cPanel

- How to import a MySQL database from PHPMyAdmin
- 01:21

- How to export a MySQL database via PHPMyAdmin
- 02:27

- How to restore a backup for a website using Afribackup
- 02:40

- How to create an app using Softaculous
- 03:10

- How to create a MySQL database in cPanel
- 05:45
CWP (Centos WebPanel)

- How to log into CWP
- 01:10

- How to create a mailbox in CWP
- 01:37

- How to create an FTP account in CWP
- 01:37

- How to create an app using Softaculous in CWP
- 01:26

- How to install an auto SSL certificate in CWP
- 01:29

- How to create a MySQL user and database in CWP
- 01:40

- How to create a subdomain in CWP
- 01:20

- How to set usage notifications in CWP
- 01:36