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Viewing The cPanel Daily Process Log in WHM

the particular user. User – This is the user on the server that was tracked through cPanel. Domain – If the user is a cPanel account, the primary domain for the cPanel user will be displayed here. If it is a system account, this column will be blank. % CPU – This will list the Daily Average CPU Percentage that has been used by the user. These values will be divided by the amount of CPU Cores that your server has, to give a more accurate representation of what has been used. % MEM – This is the daily average…

WHM vs cPanel

What’s the difference between WHM and cPanel?   cPanel is used to manage your sites and domains, while Web Host Manager (WHM) is used to manage multiple hosting accounts/multiple cPanels. For example, setting limits on the amount of memory allocated to each account or limiting the number of domains each account can have. WHM is often used by web designers and developers to offer their clients hosting packages.   Note : Shared hosting plans do not come with WHM. All cloud and dedicated servers have the ability to access WHM with a cPanel license.   Can’t I Just Add Client…

How to Get Started with your New cPanel / WHM Server

This is the area where you can create cPanel accounts for any domain you currently own. Enter your domain, the username and password you’d like to use, and enable whatever settings you’d like on this page, the defaults are fine in most all instances. None are required other than the domain name you are adding, so if you’re not sure, it’s best to leave the rest of the settings alone. Once you’ve set everything to your specifications, scroll to the bottom and click Create. Congratulations! You’ve created the cPanel account for your domain. To log into the cPanel account you…

How to Setup Email Client Access In cPanel

The email client setup lets you easily setup email client access in cPanel. You can automatically configure and connect email accounts from cPanel directly to your desired email application, for example, Outlook or Mail for Mac. To do this, head to Email > Email Accounts within your cPanel.     How Do I Setup Email Client Access In cPanel? To setup the email client access you’ll need to first have an existing email account created. If you have not done this yet you can review our doc for setting up new email accounts in cPanel.   Step One: Make sure…

Domain MX Records (cPanel)

…email delivered to you Gmail account by first connecting your domain with Google Apps then use the steps referenced above to add the following MX records in cPanel.   ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 1 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 5 ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 10 ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 10   Adding all five ensures that if one goes down or there’s maintenance, your email will still continue to be delivered.   It can take up to 48 hours for these changes to take effect. What Is DNS Propagation?   Helpful Related Articles cPanel Zone Editor A General Overview Of DNS How To Access cPanel A Beginners Guide To cPanel  …

How to Configure cPanel Cron Jobs From WHM

This guide will go over how to set up cron jobs for cpanel from WHM. By the end of this guide, you will be able to automate jobs on your server like updates and backups which can save you lots of time with your Server Administration tasks.   Configure cPanel Cron Jobs Step 1. Log into WHM as an admin Step 2. After logging into WHM you will want to select the Configure cPanel Cron Jobs option in the Server Configuration section from the list of the left side.     Step 3. On the following page, select the command…

cPanel Bandwidth Metrics

cPanel provides a number of ways to measure your websites. The Bandwidth metric is a tool for viewing your website’s overall bandwidth usage for your traffic. This is very useful, particularly if you are needing to look into upgrading or reviewing the resources of your websites to determine if you will need additional bandwidth on your services.   How Can I Track My Site Bandwidth? The Bandwidth tracker is located under the Metrics section on your cPanel home page.   When you click on the Bandwidth icon, you will be redirected to the Bandwidth page. This page will show multiple…

Changing cPanel Main Domain

on domain, you can move all of the files to the public_html folder for your primary domain. You can also change the document root of the primary domain by adding the following to a .htaccess file in your public_html folder: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com$ [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !directory/ RewriteRule (.*) /directory/$1 [L]   Replace yourdomain.com and directory aboce with your primary domain name and the folder or directory that your files exist in   Helpful Related Articles A Beginners Guide to cPanel How to Change a cPanel Password How To Access cPanel Hostwinds Client Area Overview…