You may be asking: what is WHM? You also wonder why this panel is often associated with cPanel which is a popular hosting control panel? So, what exactly is the difference between the two?
Wow, lots of questions that need to be answered, huh. Don’t worry, we will discuss everything in full in this article.
WHM is a VPS control panel that is used to manage cPanel accounts so you can monitor multiple cPanels from just one panel. To make it clearer, let’s just take a look at the full article below!
What is WHM?
Web Host Manager or commonly called WHM is an account management panel for cPanel. In other words, WHM is the cPanel account administrator panel.
So, it’s no wonder that WHM is always associated with cPanel?
You can easily monitor cPanel resource usage, make settings, and modify cPanel accounts directly from WHM. In fact, with one WHM account, you can manage multiple cPanel accounts.
Using this panel is perfect for those of you who need to monitor many cPanel accounts. For example, for those of you who want to run a reseller hosting business.
This panel is usually used on Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting services. The reason is, VPS has full control over servers and resources that are bigger than shared hosting. So, it will be easier to share resources in each cPanel account later.
So, you already know what WHM is. Now, as a cPanel account management, what exactly are the benefits of WHM that could be the reason why you need to start using it?
WHM benefits
The panel used on this VPS has many benefits, including:
1. cPanel account management is more controllable.
You can easily monitor activity on each cPanel. In fact, you can also manage the bandwidth and disk space used for each cPanel account.
2.User-friendly.
Its user-friendly interface will allow you to quickly adapt to WHM. This control panel with a Graphic User Interface (GUI) makes it easy for you to configure the server, even for those of you who don’t have a technical background.
3. Hurry up.
Creating a cPanel account can be done in just a few clicks. Not only that, all processes for managing or monitoring cPanel accounts can be done easily and quickly on the WHM dashboard.
4. Safe.
You will create a different cPanel account for each domain. So, if one domain is hacked, the other domains will not be affected and will remain safe.
5. Has many features.
This panel has many features for managing cPanel accounts, such as providing a CMS for cPanel users, cPanel plugins, backup features, etc.
6. Compatible with various browsers.
WHM cPanel can run on various browsers such as Opera, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.
7. Cheaper price.
With the simple and easy-to-use WHM cPanel, you can minimize the cost of technical operators and system administrators. You can also create multiple cPanel accounts with just one WHM account. With a lower price, you will get multiple profits.
8. Can be used to become reseller hosting.
For those of you who want to get into the reseller hosting business, using WHM is the right choice. At WHM, you can create a new cPanel account and sell it to other users.
9. Can be used for your business branding.
Has a brand customization feature to modify the style and branding of your reseller hosting business. That way, you will have a unique interface that becomes the identity of your business.
WHM Features and Uses
The following are some of the features and uses of WHM:
1. Create, Delete and Suspend cPanel Accounts
As explained earlier, WHM allows you to create multiple cPanel accounts. This can be done by accessing the Create A New Account feature. You can create a default page for each account you create.
Apart from that, you also have the authority to delete or suspend (suspend an account) certain cPanel accounts in the List Accounts feature. This can be done if your client violates the agreement or the account expiration has expired.
2. Accessing DNS Zones on All Domains in WHM
WHM allows you to access DNS Zones on all domains. This can be done because you are the admin of all hosting accounts that you have.
3. Perform Server Monitoring
You can monitor server activity directly through WHM with the following features:
– Process Manager: Serves to track all processes running on the server.
– Service Manager: Serves to manage activities that take place in the background (background activity).
– Show Current Disk Usage: Serves to show the amount of storage space capacity usage.
4. Install and Manage SSL
SSL is an important component for websites. Especially if you are a hosting reseller, of course providing SSL as website security protection for clients is highly recommended.
Clients will certainly choose hosting with complete features and services, right?
Therefore, to support your business, WHM has an SSL/TLS feature that aims to install and manage SSL.
5. Do Brand Customization for Your Business
Even though as a hosting reseller you don’t sell your own products, you can still customize your brand so that your hosting business looks like your own.
The Customization feature in WHM is the solution, this feature supports you in being able to make brand modifications. You can add your own logo, links to documentation, adjust the cPanel appearance as well as add your company/business general profile.
6. Set the Offered Hosting Packages
If you want to start running your business as a reseller hosting, you can provide various hosting packages to offer your clients.
WHM makes it easy to manage resources with different capacities for each hosting package that you offer.
So, you can have a variety of hosting packages with varying prices depending on the size of the resource (storage space or storage) used.
In addition, WHM also makes it easier for you to provide domain upgrade features on hosting services without moving all existing files.
7. Transfer files to WHM
WHM allows you as a hosting reseller to help clients transfer website files from their previous hosting to your hosting.
8. Back Up Files
WHM has an automatic backup feature that you can activate for each cPanel account you have. Later, all data backed up will be uploaded to a cloud storage (Cloud Storage) such as Google Drive, WebDAV, etc.
9. Securing Domains
In WHM, you can protect your domain from outside attacks by activating the cPHulk Brute Force Protection feature. This feature will protect cPanel from brute force logins that may be performed by hackers on your site.
10. Market Provider Manager
Market Provider Manager is a feature that is needed especially for those of you who run a reseller hosting business. This feature functions to display and manage products that clients can purchase through cPanel, such as SSL certificates and hosting package upgrade services.
11. Provide CMS for cPanel
With the Manage cPAddons Site Software feature, you can provide several Content Management System (CMS) options on your client’s cPanel. So, this CMS can be an advantage for your hosting, because it can make it easier for clients to manage their website content.
12. Provide Plugins for cPanel
WHM provides a feature for managing cPanel plugins on the Manage Plugins menu. Some plugins that are compatible with cPanel are Munin (for server monitoring), ClamAV (as virus protection) and Solr (index text).
13. Make Server Modifications
WHM has many features that can be used to add or modify various things on your server. For example, changing the default login page theme, changing notification messages to protection against spam.
Conclusion
In this article, you already know what WHM is, its benefits, features and uses of WHM.
WHM is an admin panel from cPanel which is commonly used by reseller hosting to manage multiple cPanel accounts.
WHM has many features, including server monitoring features, backup features, and managed CMS for cPanel. These features are also presented with a user-friendly interface so that the management process becomes easy.
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