I've bought VPS Hosting, how do i set it up?

I've previously used shared hosting elsewhere but my sites have gotten big enough to need VPS Hosting. I've bought VPS Hosting here but its a bit more complex than shared hosting. Where do i even begin? I've managed to log in to the server and create a cpanel account which is what im familiar with but what else do i need to do to make sure everything works fine? I understand cpanel mostly and how to do stuff in that, but is there anything i need to do outside of that in the other admin area?

Also do i need to setup a new cpanel for each website i want to add? On shared hosting i just used addon domains to have multiple domains from one cpanel but i can't seem to do that here.

Here are some tutorials and knowledge base on VPS
Getting Started with Linux VPS
Getting Started with Windows VPS

Video tutorials on VPS
VPS Guide to Hosting | myhosting.com
Adding a domain to onCloud is simple. https://manage.myhosting.com/ > All Domains > Add Existing Domain

You don't have to setup a new cpanel for each of your website.
How to create an add-on domain in cPanel for VPS (RV Skin Blue)

Hope these helps!!

Cheers

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Originally Posted by tigaruk

I've previously used shared hosting elsewhere but my sites have gotten big enough to need VPS Hosting. I've bought VPS Hosting here but its a bit more complex than shared hosting. Where do i even begin? I've managed to log in to the server and create a cpanel account which is what im familiar with but what else do i need to do to make sure everything works fine? I understand cpanel mostly and how to do stuff in that, but is there anything i need to do outside of that in the other admin area?

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With cPanel/WHM there are DNS considerations to be had, but we fully document the recommended method at http://myhosting.com/kb/Getting_Star...your_Linux_VPS. Once you have created nameservers, every domain you setup just needs to point to those new nameservers and created in cPanel and you're good to go!

-Jeremy

Hi tigaruk. I would suggest using Linux (CentOS). It will be a huge headache money wise when using Windows. You have to pay for every feature/service you want to implement. https://imagicon.info/cat/15-33/smile.png

Thanks, im slowly getting everything sorted now. One final question for the moment, do i need to do anything to set up webmail? I keep reading stuff about setting up my own mail server but i only want to use webmail through cpanel like i've done with shared hosting before. Can i just create an email account and away i go or is there other stuff i need to do first?

Here's a complete tutorial on how to add an e-mail, access webmail, configure e-mail client, etc.
http://myhosting.com/vps-guide/cpane...l_accounts.pdf

Thanks, thats exactly what i was hoping for.