Control Panel

You can use Host Access Control in WHM to add an extra layer of security to have control over which IP addresses are able to connect to critical administrative services on your server.

Cleaning up your server and getting rid of old cPanel accounts? What happens if you accidentally delete an account? You can restore cPanel accounts from WHM. Restoring cPanel accounts in WHM only works if you have backups enabled in WHM.

cPanel often releases new features and upgrades for WHM and cPanel. Keeping your control panel updated means you will always have access to the newest features. Keeping your control panel up to date will also help protect your from security vulnerabilities that have been identified in earlier releases of the software.

cPanel has a number of tools you can use to view your website statistics on a per site basis. Viewing the information in the Metrics section of cPanel, you can view the visitors to your webserver, errors, bandwidth use as well as FTP logins and usage statistics using Webalizer. This article will go through the Metrics section of cPanel to help you understand the information found in each place.

A subdomain shares your domain, but adds a third-level domain and can function like a whole separate website. Subdomains have domain names that look like blog.mysite.com. Plesk manages each subdomain as if it were its own website. You can create a completely different look and feel on a subdomain. Creating subdomains is useful if you want to have an online store, blog, or forum. You can create as many subdomains as you want on a main domain.

Windows servers using Plesk can use firewall rules to manage help manage server traffic. You can also add firewall rules using Windows Firewall, but adding firewall rules in Plesk is a good first line of defense.

While you can use any text editor you like (Sublime, Notepad++, and Vim are a few examples), you have the ability to edit html and code within Plesk using the File Manager. This includes ones already uploaded or files just recently created.

You can use webmail to export (download) emails from a cPanel server. This is useful if you need a backup of all the emails in a specific account. Keep in mind this may not work as intended if you use POP3 with a desktop or mobile email client. If you have a desktop client, you could also export emails directly from that client for archival purposes. This tutorial will focus on exporting directly from a webmail account.

Easily install Magento on your server using cPanel. This guide shows you how to use the Softaculous installer to launch your store in minutes.

Error pages are a part of any website. No matter what, website visitors will sometimes encounter error pages. If you use custom error pages, however, you can turn an error page into a positive user experience. This tutorial will show you how to add custom error pages to your websites.

Server Load refers to the average amount of processes waiting to be processed by your server’s CPU. The higher the average, the more processes that are waiting to be processed.

With root WHM access, you can change any cPanel user’s password without knowing the old one. This also updates their email, FTP, and SSH passwords.