Category:WHM

WHM (WebHost Manager) is the control panel for managing cPanel hosting accounts. You use it if you have:

• a reseller hosting plan, to create and manage cPanel accounts for your own clients, or
• a cloud server or dedicated server with cPanel, to manage the whole server as the root user.

Reseller plans share a server that Acenet manages, so WHM shows resellers only the tools for their own accounts. On your own server you log in to WHM as root and can use every feature. Features that need root are listed separately below.

To log in, see Log in to cPanel and WHM from the Client Area, or cPanel, WHM and Webmail login addresses to log in directly.

• Get started with reseller hosting
• Set up nameservers in WHM
• Assign a dedicated IP address in WHM
• Email sending limits and spam protection in WHM

• Install cPanel on your server
• Secure your cPanel server
• Locked out of your server
• Change your server's hostname in WHM
• Set up nameservers in WHM
• Assign a dedicated IP address in WHM
• Email sending limits and spam protection in WHM

cPanel's own documentation is kept up to date with every cPanel release, so we link to it for step-by-step instructions on standard WHM features.

• Create a New Account
• List Accounts: find an account and log in to its cPanel
• Modify an Account (not included in every reseller plan)
• Upgrade/Downgrade an Account: move an account to a different package
• Password Modification: change an account's cPanel password
• Quota Modification: change an account's disk space
• Limit Bandwidth Usage and View Bandwidth Usage
• Manage Account Suspension: suspend and unsuspend accounts
• List Suspended Accounts
• Terminate Accounts: permanently delete an account

• Add a Package, Edit a Package and Delete a Package
• Feature Manager: choose which cPanel features a package includes

• Add a DNS Zone
• DNS Zone Manager: edit DNS records, including MX records
• Delete a DNS Zone

• Mail Delivery Reports: check whether an email was delivered
• Manage API Tokens: connect billing software such as WHMCS to WHM. API tokens replace the old "remote access key".
• Two-factor authentication: we recommend turning it on. As a reseller, turn it on in your own cPanel (Security > Two-Factor Authentication); it then protects your WHM login too. On your own server, see Two-Factor Authentication for WHM.

• Basic WebHost Manager Setup: contact email and default nameservers
• Tweak Settings: server-wide cPanel settings
• Update Preferences: cPanel updates
• Change Hostname
• Add a New IP Address and Change Site's IP Address
• EasyApache 4, MultiPHP Manager and MultiPHP INI Editor: Apache modules, PHP versions and PHP settings
• Backup Configuration
• Manage AutoSSL: free SSL certificates
• Transfer Tool: copy accounts from another cPanel server
• Security Advisor, cPHulk Brute Force Protection and SMTP Restrictions
• Manage root's SSH Keys and SSH Password Authorization Tweak
• Exim Configuration Manager and Mail Queue Manager
• Service Status
• Terminal: a root command line in your browser

If you can't find what you need, please open a support ticket.