Introduction In cPanel, you may need to convert an existing standalone cPanel account into an addon domain under another hosting account. This is commonly done to consolidate hosting accounts and simplify management. Prerequisites Before starting, ensure: Implementation 1) Backup the entire account you wish to convert (using cPanel’s Full Backup feature) and save the backup ..
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Introduction Optimising a cPanel server is essential for maintaining security, performance, and stability. Proper tuning helps protect against attacks while improving server responsiveness and resource usage. Prerequisites Before proceeding, ensure: Implementation 1. Server Security OptimisationcPanel/WHM Server Security is the most important aspect to keep your websites and other data secure, as new methods of attacks ..
Please follow the below steps to increase disk space for a user in WHM. Introduction Managing disk space is an essential part of server administration. In Web Host Manager, administrators can easily adjust the disk quota allocated to individual user accounts. Increasing disk space ensures that users can store more website files, emails, and databases ..
Introduction In Web Host Manager, when terminating a hosting account, you may still want to retain DNS records for the domain. This is useful when the domain is still in use for services like email, external hosting, or future migration. WHM provides an option to remove the account while keeping DNS zones active. Prerequisites Before ..
How to Add a new DNS Zone in WHM Introduction Adding a DNS zone in WHM (Web Host Manager) allows you to manage DNS records for a domain hosted on your server. This is essential for directing traffic, configuring email services, and ensuring proper domain resolution. Prerequisites Before adding a DNS zone, ensure the following: ..
Introduction Rebooting your server from WHM is a simple process. WHM provides both graceful and forceful reboot options to safely restart your dedicated server. Prerequisites Implementation Step 1:Log into your WHM account. Step 2: Note: Conclusion Using WHM, you can safely reboot your dedicated server. Always prefer a graceful reboot to avoid data loss and ..
Introduction Optimizing a cPanel/WHM server is essential to ensure better performance, reduced resource consumption, and faster website loading times. Many default services in WHM consume CPU, RAM, and disk I/O unnecessarily—especially if they are not actively used. Prerequisites Before proceeding, ensure the following: Implementation: 2. Disable Catch AllCatch all can use up many resources and ..
Introduction: SSL errors in WHM/cPanel can sometimes be confusing, but most of them are straightforward to resolve once you understand the root cause. The AutoSSL feature in WHM helps automatically provision SSL certificates, and reviewing its logs is key to troubleshooting issues effectively. Prerequisites: Before troubleshooting AutoSSL errors, ensure: Implementation: 2. Under “Manage Users” search ..
Introduction Email delivery issues can occur due to misconfigured DNS, mail server settings, or client-side errors. Web Host Manager provides a built-in Mail Troubleshooter tool that helps trace the path of an email and identify where the issue occurs. Prerequisites Before proceeding, ensure: Implementation 4. Enter the Email address you wish to trace here. 5. ..
Introduction While creating a subdomain in cPanel, you may encounter the error: This typically occurs when the subdomain you are trying to create matches or falls under the server’s hostname domain, which is restricted by default in Web Host Manager. Cause By default, WHM prevents users from creating subdomains that overlap with the server’s hostname ..
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