Domains and Hosting

Registering a domain

• How to register a domain name
• How to change an already registered domain name

Signing up for Hosting

• How to sign up for a new Shared Hosting package

Domains

• What is a domain name
• How long before my domain is ready?
• What is a subdomain
• How to renew a domain
• What is domain forwarding or pointing
• How to point a domain
• What is domain parking
• How to park a domain
• 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

Hosting

• What is web hosting
• Linux Hosting or Windows Hosting
• Should I simply choose the cheapest web hosting company?
• How to publish or upload your website
• How to reactivate your hosting product  
• Can I run my own software on my site
• Hosting Uptime

Hosting Terminology

• Understanding SSL certificates
• What is DNS?
• What is the difference between Managed and Unmanaged Hosting?
• Web or Disk Space
• Data Transfer or Bandwidth Traffic
• Kilobytes (kB), Megabytes (MB) and Gigabytes (GB)
• What is Perl
• MySQL, MS SQL and Access Databases
• ASP.NET or ASP
• PHP

Settings

• How to edit DNS records via ClientZone
• How to change DNS settings on Windows
• How to add an SPF record to your domain
• How to change the SSH port on your server

Site Design

• Where can I learn about website design?
• How to install WordPress
• How to add an under construction page

Site Visitors

• How to track the number of visitors your site gets
• Hits, Impressions and Unique Visitors

SiteBuilder

• How to create a website and add a theme using 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

CWP (Centos WebPanel)

cPanel

• What to do when you have reached your disk quota
• How to log into cPanel
• How to create a subdomain in cPanel
• How to create a MySQL database 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

Managing your products in ClientZone

• Domain Contacts
• How to send hosting passwords
• How to change to another Hosting package
• How to cancel your Hosting services

Legal

• Acceptable Use Policy