WHM Hosting

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WHM Hosting - The A2 Way

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What Is WHM?

Short for Web Host Manager, WHM is an easy-to-use control panel used to manage a web hosting company. Use WHM to generate individual cPanel accounts for each of your customers. Everything you need to manage your reseller company can be accomplished with the click of a mouse from within your WHM control panel. WHM even allows you to create and configure your own lineup of hosting packages complete with your choice of setting specific disk space quotas, SQL databases, setup custom domains and more for each specific package. is the ability to set up custom cPanel branding for your hosting company.

WHM Features

WHM is loaded with features to help manage your customers and web hosting accounts. Here is a breakdown of the features included with your WHM account. Please note that each of your customers also will have access to all of the features included with cPanel to manage their accounts.

Server Configuration 

• Basic WebHost Manager Setup - Choose A2 Hosting's white-labeled nameservers, or you can define your own for branding purposes.

Security

Keep your customer's accounts secure with the following features.

• Manage External Authentications - Set your authenticated users and providers here.
• Two-Factor Authentication - Keep your account secure by requiring an additional piece of information to get generated to be able to log into your account. In addition to requiring a password to log into your site, a unique passcode will be generated to your smart device. Log into your account using both your password and the unique passcode. This makes it much more difficult for a password and an account to become compromised.

Clusters

• Remote Access Key - Allows you to log into your account with a password. Remote access keys can be used to authenticate with WHM's DNS clustering and remote API features.

Account Information

• List Accounts - Search and view all of the accounts on your server. You can view each account by IP address, username or contact email address.
• List Parked Domains - View each of the parked domain on your account.
• List Subdomains - View all of the subdomains hosted on your account
• Suspended Accounts - View each of the customer accounts you have suspended, the date of the suspension and the reason.
• View Bandwidth Usage - See how much bandwidth each of your account's is using as a percentage of allotted amount.

Account Functions

Easily manage and create accounts for your customers with the following features.

• Create A New Account - Generate a web hosting account for your customers. You can also view the available number of accounts, disk space and bandwidth usage in your account.
  • Domain Information
  • Username
  • Password
  • Email
  • Package Selection
  • Mail Routing Settings
  • DNS Settings
• Force Password Change - Your users will not be able to access their accounts until they update their password.
• Manage Account Suspension - Suspend (or unsuspend) accounts by domain or username and specify why the account has been suspended.
• Modify An Account - Update an account's information including primary domain, username, contact email and more.
• Password Modification - Reset account passwords on behalf of your customers.
• Skeleton Directory - View the location of the skeleton directory. This gives you the ability to copy identical files within each of the new public_html and public_ftp directories accounts
• Terminate Accounts - Delete a customer's account.
• Upgrade/Downgrade an Account - Change an account's package.
• Web Template Editor - Create placeholder pages for accounts that have not yet been configured, have moved, have been suspended or have a firewall issue.

Multi Account Functions

• Modify/Upgrade Multiple Accounts - Bulk update account's package and language.

Themes

• Change WebHost Manager Theme - Update your WHM theme.

Packages

Create, delete and modify the packages that you offer on your website and to your customers.

• Add A Package - Create hosting accounts complete with cPanel management. Some of the features that you can set include:
  • Package Name
  • Disk Space
  • Monthly Bandwidth
  • Number of Email Accounts
  • Number of Databases
  • Number of Domains
• Delete A Package - Select or delete packages you no longer need.
• Edit a Package - Update the resources included within your created hosting packages.
• Features Manager - Enable and disable the features and cPanel addons found in each of your user's cPanel accounts.

DNS Functions

• Add a DNS Zone - Add an IP address and domain for each zone you would like to add.
• Delete a DNS Zone - Remove generated DNS Zones.
• Edit DNS Zone - Update your created DNS Zones.
• Edit MX Entry - Update email routing and MX entries.
• Edit Zone Templates - Update the default zone when generating your DNS entries.
• Park a Domain - Create a secondary domain that points to a primary domain. If you visit the parked domain site, the primary website will appear.
• Reset a DNS Zone - Update a zone file to its default settings.
• Set Zone Time To Live (TTL) - A TTL designates the length of time a DNS server caches a record before an update is requested.

Email

• Mail Delivery Reports - Search for and reviews email messages that have been sent for your account. See whether or not the email was sent successfully.
• View Relayers - View users on your account who have forwarded an email to a remote account.
• View Sent Summary - View the total number of email delivery attempts for the domains on your account.

cPanel

Each of your users receives their very own cPanel control panel. Here are some features to customize their cPanel Hosting experience.

• Change Log - View patches, new features and fix history for cPanel and WHM.
• Customization - Your A2 Hosting WHM account is completely white-labeled allowing you to use your own branding. Customize your user's cPanel account with features like your company name, support link, link to documentation, your company logo, webmail logo and favicon. You can also update your user's cPanel template from a number of options, or upload a custom style of your own.

Development

Get free, expert WHM and cPanel assistance with these resources.

• cPanel Development Forum - Get help customizing cPanel with APIs, plugins, remote integration and hooks.
• Developer Documentation
• Manage API Tokens - Allows you to log into a server with a password.

SSl/TLS

• Generate an SSL Certificate & Signing Request - Create a self-signed certificate as well as a certificate signing requests for domains.
• Install an SSL Certificate on a Domain - Install an SSL Certificate to a domain of your choice.
• Manage SSL Hosts - View the SSL Certificates that have been installed on your account.
• Purchase and Install an SSL Certificate - Offers you the ability to log into a cPanel account and buy an SSL certificate with cPanel's SSL/TLS wizard.
• SSL Storage Manager - View all of the SSL keys, certificates and CSRs under your control.

Plugins

Enhance your customer's account with the following features

• LiteSpeed Web Server - Your customers will get faster page loads with LIteSpeed's drop-in, performance-enhancing alternative to Apache.
• Softaculous - Offer your customers the ability to auto-install the most popular software to their accounts including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, PrestaShop, OpenCart and more!

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