Becoming familiar with and navigating around in WHMEvery hosting account created in WHM has its own cPanel, an end user control panel.Let's take a look around. In this center frame there are several icons we can click on.These icons correspond to headings in this left frame.Clicking on an icon will bring up sub-icons that correspond to all the tools available on the left.Click the account information icon.Here are the 5 tools available to use under Account Information.To access any of the these tools, you can click on the corresponding icon in this frame.You can also click on the link here in this menu frame. You could have also done this from the WHM home page.Scroll down here to see all the tools available in WHM.As you can see, there are dozens of tools available to you.Click the News link.This is where you would get updates and the latest news from cPanel.Click the Change Log link.This page shows detailed information of your version of WHM, historical information about when it was updated, and what changes were made.To logout of WHM, simply close your browser , or click the Log Out link.This is the end of the tutorial. You should now be more familiar with WHM and how to navigate its pages. For more information on how to perform specific tasks, please refer to our other videos.
How to create hosting packages in WHMThis demo assumes you've already logged in to WebHost Manager.Now let's learn how to create hosting packages.Hosting packages help speed up the process of creating new cPanel hosting accounts by pre-defining several properties of the accounts you want to create (i.e. storage space, bandwidth, emails, parked domains etc..)You can create as many hosting packages as you wish.Click the Packages link.Then click Add a Package.This is where you setup a new pre-defined hosting account package.Let's go ahead a create a package called Silver.Click here and make sure you enter a single word name. Don't use any underscores or dashes.Note that space and bandwidth must be entered in megabytes and not gigabytes. In this case we'll enter 10,000 megabytes in disk quota which is equal to 10 gigabytes.Let's enter 100,000 megabytes for bandwidth which is equal to 100 gigabytes.Now continue down the list, setting limits for each of the resources.Generally you should sepcify an amount for space and bandwidth, but it's also advisable to set an amount for parked and add-on domains.You will also see maximum hourly email and other email options. It's highly recommended that you set an amount; don't use unlimited which can take your server down if a user starts spamming.Here you can set some extra options. Generally you don't need to change any of this. You can select dedicated IP if you want to give one with the package.When finished, click the Add button.That's it! The new account package has been created, and can now be used to speed up the hosting account creation process.Click the Packages link.Then click Edit Packages.Here you can see the new package that we just created.This is the end of the tutorial. Remember that you can create as many hosting packages as you wish, and that they greatly speed up the process of creating new hosting accounts.
Learning about the skeleton directory in WHMThis demo assumes you've already logged in to WebHost Manager.Now let's learn about the skeleton directory.Click the Account Functions link.Then click Skeleton Directory.The skeleton directory is where you put a temporary home page for all accounts you create in WHM.The temporary home page is what visitors will see in their browsers, until they create a new home page.In this tutorial , the WHM's account's main username is demoreseller, so that's where the skeleton directory is located as shown here.To change the temporary (or default) home page, simply upload a new page to the cpanel3-skel directory in the location show above, using either an FTP program or the file manager tool in your main account's cPanel.This is the end of the tutorial. You now know about the skeleton directory in WHM, and what it's used for.
How to limit bandwidth usage in WHM This demo assumes you've already logged in to WebHost Manager. Now let's learn about setting bandwidth limits for specific hosting accounts in your WHM. Click the Account Functions link. Then click Limit Bandwidth Usage. A hosting account's bandwidth limit cannot be exceeded. When it's reached, the account will stop working until either: 1) The end of the month (When bandwidth usages are reset) or 2) The bandwidth limit is increased. Every account in WHM already has a bandwidth limit, as it would have been set when the account was created. Let's go ahead and check the bandwidth limit on one of the listed hosted accounts. Click the Limit button. Here we can see that the anotherdomain.com account has used 0 megabytes of bandwidth. It has a bandwidth limit of 100,000 megabytes. Let's go ahead and increase this account's bandwidth limit by typing in a new value here. Then click Change. That's it! The bandwidth limit for this account has been changed. Now click View Bandwidth Usage. From here you can see the bandwidth used by each individual account in WHM. You can see the modified bandwidth we just set here. The amount of bandwidth used is shown in this column. We can click here to see how much bandwidth each account used last month. Click Show Units in Megabytes, to show the bandwidth usages and limits in megabytes instead of gigabytes. Bandwidth limits and usages are now shown in megabytes. This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage bandwidth limits for your hosting accounts and how to check current and past bandwidth usages.
Managing DNS zones in WHM Now let's learn how to manage our DNS zones. Keep in mind that you rarely (if ever) have to modify your DNS zones, since WHM does that for you automatically. You should only attempt to modify DNS zones if you know exactly what you are doing. Click the DNS functions link. Then click Add a DNS Zone. This is the screen where you can add new DNS zones, but we're not going to do that in this tutorial. Click Delete a DNS zone link. This is the screen where you can delete DNS zones. To delete the DNS zone for mynewtestdomain.com, select that account here. Then we would click this delete button, but we're not going to do this, as it would render the account useless. Now click the edit DNS zone link. We are now in the edit DNS zone screen. Select mynewtestdomain.com, then click Edit. This demo assumes you've already logged in to WebHost Manager. This is where you can edit the DNS zone properties of the mynewtestdomain.com account. All of these zones properties (or records) can be modified from here. But again, do not change anything unless you know exactly what you are doing. Click the Edit MX Entry link. Select mynewtestdomain.com, then click Edit. This is where you can specify a custom MX entry. You may want to do this for customers who want their email hosted elsewhere on another server. In those cases, you would enter the other server's IP address here and click Save. This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage DNS zones in WHM. Remember that WHM automatically manages DNS zones for you, so you should rarely have to do it manually.
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