What is WHM?

Category: Programming | Posted date: 2023-04-25 00:40:43 | Posted by: Admin


What is WHM?

What is WHM?

A web application called WebHost Manager (WHM) from cPanel gives you administrative control over your dedicated or virtual private server (VPS). To create individual accounts, add domains, manage hosting services, and carry out simple maintenance, you utilize WHM with cPanel. End users have complete control over everything, including managing MySQL databases and adding or removing email accounts.

WHM gives you a lot more power and flexibility whether managing a large number of sites or a small number of extremely popular and resource-intensive sites. In addition to letting you offer hosting services to other people, WHM gives you the power to set up and manage many cPanels. There are several very good reasons to put your popular or business-oriented websites on separate cPanels if you have them.


WHM provides you with a number of tools to quickly complete the following tasks:

  • You can make, remove, and suspend cPanel accounts.
  • Control and keep an eye on your websites (password resets).
  • access to verify and modify the DNS zones for each of your domains.
  • cPanel's flexibility lets you customize how your own customers' support inquiries are handled.
  • Permission to examine the status and data on the server.
  • When you create a new account, you have the option of setting your own default page.
  • access to fully brand your hosting environment and control panel.
  • Change the domain names and user identities for your clients.
  • You can access or modify anything that doesn't require SQL access by switching between each cPanel on your account.


Common reasons why choose WHM

  • The likelihood that a hacker will be able to access your other sites is drastically decreased if one of your sites is compromised, increasing your security.
  • Your privacy is increased because it is impossible to determine whether accounts on different cPanels are linked to the same WHM account.
  • Using WHM will help you save a ton of time, frustration, and money if you have several sites that need to accept credit cards. An SSL certificate is required in order to process credit cards. One dedicated IP address is allowed per cPanel and is required in order to have an SSL certificate. A reseller account is significantly simpler (and either less expensive or equal in cost - the break-even point is two websites) to use to handle several cPanels than having to manage multiple accounts if you are running many websites that need to be allowed to accept credit cards.
  • You have the power to keep an eye on and manage your disk space and bandwidth, which can be essential to preventing a rapidly expanding or well-liked website from being suspended or shut down due to bandwidth overages. This can significantly save your expenditures because you can change your bandwidth and only upgrade when you truly need to.
  • It can be challenging to manage many domains on a single cPanel, especially if you frequently update the files. Even though we permit an unlimited number of domains on a shared cPanel account, working on so many domains in one cPanel is not always convenient.
  • You must have multiple credit card-accepting websites, and each one needs its own cPanel and dedicated IP address.


Why Use WHM?

  • Higher security for sites - Since each site has its own cPanel, the others won't be compromised if one is, increasing their security.
  • Better management - You have the ability to effortlessly switch between cPanels and keep an eye on any activity on your websites. You can also modify each account's bandwidth and disk space using WHM.
  • Reselling hosting - By generating brand-new cPanel accounts that customers can purchase, you may earn money from your hosting.
  • Unique cPanels for branding - A WHM interface can be customized to reflect your brand for resale purposes.



Final Thought

WHM is an effective tool for simultaneously managing several websites. Additionally, WHM enables hosting resale. There are numerous WHM functions that may be used for this purpose to provide you with total control over managing multiple sites.

Hopefully, after reading this, you have a better grasp of WHM and how to utilize it to administer websites. Additionally, you might wish to consider other control panels.

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