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If @fitkoh says that having a database remote from the main Panel may speed things up particularly when latency is good, that is an understatement of the year.  I am a user of @fitkoh's above CyberPanel User Account, and speed of operation of my account is not only brilliant, but exceptionally brilliant.  I've been around a few years with WordPress, and my measure of speed and performance is usually how fast themes and plugins are installed, activated and updated.  This is almost instantly - like a flash.  It is something to experience.

Note also, being a minimalist goes for having EVERYTHING free as well - no subscriptions or payments made.  Fitkoh set up CyberPanel and all tools including a TLD FOR FREE.  Two VPSs were free (not from post4vps and also no posts or services needed). So was the free TLD domain from PorkBun.  For me that makes it even more unique and note worthy. Well done!

For those WordPress enthusiasts who are thinking of setting up user accounts for CyberPanel you must really try out a User Account with Fitkoh if he still has User Accounts available.  

With a Cyber Panel User Account, there is no tutorial necessary.  Usually I go to YouTube for any new script experience, to get some sort of steps for how to use it, but Cyber Panel is almost like cPanel Light, with all of the essential tools, but MUCH much more user-friendly and intuitive than cPanel.  I now look at cPanel as something that has too many tools in it to the extent one can get lost in them, they may create hurdles, or just waste unnecessary time.  And for a newby to cPanel they definitely need to do some introductory courses to figure out what goes for what and how to use the tools.  Not so my Cyber Panel User Account.  I could use it right from the get go.  Intuitively.

Now one also has to add here that @fitkoh is an above average admin tech specialist.  In that he is totally detailed in everything he does.  He is a born minimalist, and so he would set up something that has all of the bare minimum tools in it, and not more than that.  So that general approach already makes for something absent of glut and messiness and greater performance and speed.  The account comes without DNS, E-Mails or FTP.

OK, so I thought I would add my own steps on the User Account as well as experience:

1. PM @fitkoh to request a User Account.  If he still has accounts available he will then get in touch with you to discuss setup.

2. One of the requirements is that you have to have a TLD domain.  So that you can set up your DNS with your Domain Registrar.  As part of being a minimalist Fitkoh created his CyberPanel without DNS, FTP and E-mails.  Just the very basic functions.  Having said that, one can easily open an E-Mail account with Zoho Mail, that can provide you with 5 free accounts, using your domain.  You don't need any FTP as CyberPanel comes with a fantastic File Manager, giving cPanel a good run for its money.  It has all of the bare essentials in it.  You can upload files to the root of your domain.  You can extract zipped folders, and zip them.  You can delete them exactly the way one can do it with cpanel. You can also edit the files, rename them etc. So no FTP needed.  Technically if you're a WordPress enthusiast like I am, you don't even need to fiddle around with the File Manager, as there is a dedicated WordPress installer that is a million times better than Softaculous.  It just asks you to complete 5 pieces of info, and then with the next click you have a WordPress site up and running.  As easy as that.

3. So the interesting issue that came up with me with creating my first WordPress site was a remote database, and up to that moment I've only worked with localhost when I created a WordPress site.  I didn't even think about it any longer.  When the WordPress install page comes up I just put in Databse name User name and password, and that should fix everything.  But in the case of the remote database, took me a little research to figure out (dumb dumb I was) that the database is different to localhost as it was a remote database.  Once Fitkoh provided the database name, everything worked perfect after that.  Note however, if you are installing a WordPress site there is an exceptionally efficient dedicated WordPress Installer in the panel that will automatically create a database for you, so no need to worry about Localhost then.  I just tried to give the File Manager and Database Panel a workout, including checking out phpmyadmin - which pretty much works like cPanel without the need to use a separate password.

4. OK.  So CyberPanel says one can only have one domain, but to be honest, one can create limitless domains (as much as space allows), so in effect it means one may have FREE limitless domains with Free CyberPanel.  It works different to cpanel in that one doesn't add the domains before one creates a Website.  The CyberPanel works with creating Websites as the main panel activity.  And during this stage one gets to add the domain one is going to use with the Website and the File Manager folder is automatically created for the domain.  When one deletes the Website, then the folder is automatically deleted from the File Manager in a very clean way.  Like with cPnael I some times found that even though I've removed the domain from the Add On Domain Panel, that the folder (although empty) was still in File Manager.  I had to go into the File Manager and remove it first, otherwise it may trip me up later.  Not so with CyberPanel.  Removal of the Website and domain is very deep and clean.

5. A learning curve for me right at the beginning was how to create DNS at my Domain Registrar.  Up to the point of having a CyberPanel Account with fitkoh, I had been using Name Servers all of the time.  So I had to figure out that in order to set up DNS with one's Domain Registrar one has to enable DNS with the Registrar (instead of custom DNS).  Prior to that I'd been using custom DNS with the Registrar, with inserting my name servers, and had done it for so long, I hadn't even thought about the fact I was using custom DNS.  At any rate, I then learned first thing one has to do is enable the Registrar's DNS for that particular domain.  I.e. click on the "Manage Domain" tool, then check that the Registrar's DNS is enabled.  One then needs to create an A Record for the Domain.  

So there we have the fastest hosting I've ever had before.  Like truly.  Click on "activate plugin", and it's a fraction of a second.  Website works very fast as well.  I'm very impressed.  So if there are any one else who wants to get a user experience with Fitkoh and has a spare TLD to try out, I recommend doing this.  Fitkoh says he could also provide a sub-domain, but the real all round user experience is with a TLD.

Below I'm showing some screen shots (summary) of my experience from point of signing in to setting up DNS with my Registrar, to installing a WordPress Installation.

1. URL: https://s0.surprising.design:8090
  User Name:  User Name
  Password:  Password

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3. Navigate to Domain Registrar to set up DNS

4. Find Domain Manager Tool

5. If you were using Custom DNS before with Namecheap change it to Namecheap BasicDNS

6. Navigate to Advanced DNS (right hand most column) - navigate to Host Records and create an A Record with the IP Fitkoh will provide to you.

7. Most hosts will tell you to wait a number of hours for DNS to propagate.  With Namecheap it is fast most of the time, but one may have to wait.

8. Return to the CyberPanel User Account and click on Websites in the left hand panel - then on create Website:



9. Complete the fields in the "Create Website" Form.  


10.Then click on List Websites and then "Manage" against the Website that has been newly created.  If you scroll down the new page there will be a wealth of tools you can use.  Including the WordPress Installer.


11. This is the Windows that comes up - the minimum of info needed to create the WP site:


12. You should be up and running almost instantly.