Would You Give Someone Access To Your CPanel?

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I've had an email about a service for setting up a niche website; You give them your keywords related to the niche and they create the content from various sources.

The catch I had in my gut is that they need your cpanel password to set everything up. Would you give someone that access?

I've done it once before and even this time the source is kind of trusthworthy ( I wouldn't name them here!), I still get a check and couldn't/wouldn't feel right about doing it.

The cost isn't humumgous, but but.

What do you think?

Brian
#access #cpanel #give #password
  • Profile picture of the author Hamida Harland
    As a site seller I've had access to many people's cpanels (to transfer their sites), and I've also given cpanel access to people I've outsourced to.

    I've never had a problem, but I guess there's always a risk, particularly if you haven't worked with them before.

    I have only one site per cpanel though (reseller hosting) - I'm not sure I'd be too keen to give out access if they had access to a number of different sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author mediasurgeons
    I give my CPanel Access to people I trust quite regularly. It is such a small amount of people that will screw you over but with that said if it was someone selling me something I'd probably give them access to a HostGator account that was new-ish as obviously if what they did was good I'd give them more business
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    • I would possibly do it, but only if I had found them. I wouldn't respond to a random email I got out of the blue. This could be scammers fishing for prospects.
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  • Profile picture of the author trishworks4u
    you could always set up a dirt cheap hosting account just for this and give them access to that - that way that site, or sites, are the only things on there.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    I don't really see why they'd need to get into your cpanel. Just set them up with an ftp account.
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