In order to successfully installing Worpress 2.7 onto CPanel just following this simple to use guide:

Part one Installation:

1. Download the main zip (compressed) file from: http://wordpress.org/download/

2. When you have  downloaded the zipped file, save it to the correct location (in relation to where it will be going on your hosting server).

For this example installation, we will upload it to our main root folder (e.g. public_html).

3. As soon as you have confirmed that the zip file has been uploaded, to the correct location - Log into your CPanel account, and then click: the File Manager option.

4. In CPanel / File Manager - select the zip file (which in this example is in the foot folder, or public_html). Then click the un-pack option from the top horizontal menu.

5. The CPanel File Manager wizard will now unzip the Word Press zip files into the same directory.

Part two installation:

6. Close the File Manager page, and instead open the MySQL Databases page.

7. In the CPanel MySQL Databases page, you will need to create a new database, user and password. Wordpress will install and create the necessary DB tables within your new DB using your new user and password.

8. Once you have done this you will need to give permission to that User to use your new DB; So choose that User and Database you want to authorise access to, and then click Add.

9. Download and Change the name of the file: wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php, updating your correct User, Database, and Password details within the file; Once done then re-upload this file to the sever (with the new name).

10. If you need to move files around, this is the time to do this, including removing any container folders in order to thave your new Word Press website run from the root or main folder (public_html).

Dedicated Server Benefits

February 14, 2009    Category: Software and Hardware

For years we used nothing but shared servers, not through choice but rather cost and lack of technical (inter-networking eg Linux) abilities. On some providers they were issues, such as security; we once wrote a script which managed to display ALL username cpanel logins for the server we were on, not on purpose but by complete accident whilst playing about with new PHP functions.

On other hosting providers, we found other problems such as when we did a lookup on the amount of domains on our shared server - some had over 1,000 cpanel accounts running! This is fine, unless alot of sites require access to some core services such as MySQL etc. For instance, most providers that over-quota (as above) will not allow the same amount of DB accesses - which basically means at some point some of the DB connections will fail for some accounts.

For a client that I worked for this was clearly unacceptable as they had over 25 E-Commerce websites, and one lost connection could lose the customer and potentially hundreds or thousands of pounds.

Another factor for this client was using very modern applications such as Magento, which basically crawled to a halt under a shared server. Both of these problems were solved by a dedicated server, managed and setup by DataFlame, who are clearly the best hosting providers in the UK, in our opinion.

There are of course other reasons why a Dedicated Server is very useful, including SEO - such as setting up similar content websites under different IP addresses - although with google recognising links from the same Class-C, this is become less so.

But the greatest benefit, of course, is the fact that you get complete control over the whole server as well as the software that it is running - from my point of view, think Zend Framework!