Understanding Control Panels
cPanel® and WHM™ (WebHost Manager) is the next generation web hosting control panel system. Both cPanel & WHM are extremely feature rich as well as include an easy to use web based GUI (Graphical User Interface).
WHM allows you to but is not limited to administering individual accounts, reseller accounts & performing basic system and control panel maintenance via a secure interface.
cPanel is designed for the end users of your system and allows them to control everything from adding / removing email accounts to administering MySQL databases.
Getting Started with WHM
1. Login at http://the-ip-listedin-your-welcome-email/whm
2. You must setup a hosting package by selecting "Add Packages." We recommend you pick the skin "x" for your packages.
3. After a package has been setup click "create a new account" and fill in the information you wish the account to have. When creating a site select the auto assign IP and fill in the site name as domain.com without the http or www.
Your main domain comes pre-setup with 10 MB space and bandwidth. After you create your hosting packages you MUST upgrade your site to one of your newly created packages if you want to use that.
Never delete your main site with us. If you delete your main site your reseller account will no longer work.
1 gig of space or bandwidth is equal to 1024 mb's. If you set a domain to under 1024mb's of bandwidth their site will not stay activated long before running out of bandwidth. Be generous with both space and bandwidth when creating an account. At the very least we recommend giving each site 1000mb bandwidth, and 50mb disk space.
*NOTE: By default your main account and any accounts you create will have no email address setup. The main username may look like it's a setup email, but if you wish to use it you will need to add it as an email account.
Control Panel And Important Links
Note: "yourdomain.com" should be your sites IP address until your dns has prorogated.
* Your reseller control panel is located at http://yourdomain.com/whm
* Your control panel is located at http://yourdomain.com/cpanel
* Your webmail is located at http://yourdomain.com/webmail
* You can view your site before the dns has prorogated at http://iphere/~usernamehere/
Note: Don't forget the trailing / and the ~
* Everywhere it says youriphere put YOUR IP FROM WELCOME EMAIL. Example http://99.99.999.9/cpanel This is an example do not actually put 99.99.999.9 since this is not the ip in your email.
* RESELLERS: Never give access to a demo account! Almost Every demo account we find on our servers are filled with hacking files that result in server down time. If you wish to use a demo you are more then welcome to use our secured demo which can be found at http://67.18.39.34/cpanel username: demo password: demo
For More information
* Refer Articles and How-to tutorials on http://support.trafficpullz.com
* WHM Documenation http://www.cpanel.net/docs/whm/
* cPanel Documentation http://www.cpanel.net/docs/cpanel/
