VPS Hosting blog » WHM http://xpulax.com Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:55:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 WHM/cPanel Hosting http://xpulax.com/cheap-reseller-hosting/whmcpanel-hosting/ http://xpulax.com/cheap-reseller-hosting/whmcpanel-hosting/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:02:59 +0000 admin http://xpulax.com/?p=94
Reseller website hosting business is getting more and more popularity, usually webmaster opt for unlimited reseller hosting packages to start with their own hosting business. With Linux reseller hosting you would be getting WHM/cPanel as hosting control panel and with windows you would get Plesk. If you are more inclined towards Linux hosting and have operated cPanel then you can easily use WHM and can manage your hosting package and can create hosting accounts, allow permissions, set features for all hosting accounts you create on your hosting account.

Managing WHM website hosting control panel is very easy. Using WHM you can administer your VPS/Reseller account and all of its accounts, if you want to create a new account under your VPS/reseller hosting accounts then you can follow the steps mentioned below :

Login to WHM >> Account Functions >> Create Account.

(Make sure before you create an account on the server, you need to create a “package”.)

A “package” will specify how much web space, bandwidth, mailboxes etc are to be allowed for that particular package so that you can assign it to your customer.  You can create as many packages are you want using WHM. Usually you create a set of different hosting packages which you can sell to your customers. define them in better way, have difference in features. To create a package you will need to login to WHM, then from the menu on the left click on ” Add Packages ” under “packages” section.

Once you define all your packages you can create new account and can select suitable package for it. Once an account is created you can login to cPanel for that particular using serverIP:2082 or by domainname:2082.

All accounts created under your WHM will have cPanel for managing it. cPanel is widely used website hosting control panel which is very popular and have many good features for website management like creating FTP accounts, email accounts, setting up password protected directories, adding new domains etc.

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WHM allows you to install SSL cert for domains under your account. Once you received/generated SSL certificate from provider you can install it using WebHost Manager.
Most basically you will have to get certificate and key files to install that certificate. The SSL certificate is noting but a text file; it is encrypted data which can be understand by your web server when installed as a digital certificate.
It is always recommended that you make a back-up of your certificate and  keep it at safe place, this will help you to get it back in case of server crashes.  once you signup/paid for SSL certificate you will get your certificate at your registered email. You need to copy the certificate from your email and paste it onto some text editing application such as notepad, editpad etc…and save it as yourdomain.txt at more secure location.

How to install an SSL certificate :
*) Start with clicking Install SSL certificate and setup Domain link in SSL/TLS menu.
*) Enter all required information in respective filed such as Domain name, User name and IP address for that certificate.
*) Click on “FETCH” button to paste the key and existing .crt files if they are currently on your server else just copy-paste .key and .crt files at specified fields.
*) If you generate this certificate usign WHM then you certificate files will be available for you.
*) You need to replace your existing .crt file with your certificate file ie the file you saved as yourdomain.txt which you got in your email from Certificate provider.
*) click on “Done”
That’s all your SSL is installed for your required domain.

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