I recently bought one knownhost VPS account and realize there are not much guide available on the internet for basic process here. And I’m sure I’m going to learn here a lot, so I have planned what ever I will learn here I will share with you. This way if in future you also need to migrate to VPS or any reseller webhosting account, this guide will help you. Usually WHM interface will be same in all the hosting. In this guide I will be taking example of knownhost VPS hosting.
Step by step guide to create a Cpanel account via WHM
Login to your WHM account and click on account functions > Create New account
After Clicking on Create new account under account function option of Cpanel, Enter the details of new domain in Domain information. Same username and password will be used to access your cpanel here.
Next option is Package. Here you can limit the quota for that account. You can create a new list or if you have created a list earlier, you can easily manage from here. In this case I will create a new package. Follow the screenshot which will explain everything.
I’m creating a new package name chromoz here and after this I will be assigning the quota here for the newly created package chromoz.
You can specify no. of addon domains here. By no. of addon domains means, how many domain this cpanel account can host. So if you are configuring cpanel for a client, you can keep it as per your discussion. You can make changes as per your need. Next step is relatively easy. You can assign skin, language, IP and Reseller setting, name server setting.
To be honest , while moving to VPS I was worried, for an instance it seems as a rocket science to me, but thanks to Knownhost customer support which made everything easier for me. I’m sure this guide will help those users in future who plan to move to VPS.
Till now I’m enjoying working on WHM and it give you top-level control, specially when you have root access to your server.
Update : After RP Pointed the mistake with Title I changed it from How to Install Cpanel in WHM to How to create a cpanel account in WHM.
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Ok, so i have a tutorial now if migrate to VPS.
Great tutorial.
Can you let me know how to add website on the images that we put up on the post. Like you have on the bottom right on each post.
May be you can come up with a post and also referring me
It’s so simple, it called Watermark
You can use free software like GoodFrame to add your site to images.
Use Google to find Goodframe
Or search keywork: “free watermark software”
Good luck!
Would love to hear how you would compare a VPS to regular hosting. A VPS typically doesn’t result in speeding up your website.
Good post.
I think the title should be: “How to creat Cpanel hosting package in WHM Knownhost VPS”.
Because i think “install Cpanel” is upload, setup, configure,… Cpanel script
I have searching such a detailed tutorial on VPS WHM as I am planning to buy one but not sure how to install and manage it. Thanks very much
Well composed article, Harsh. But I would like to make a few points, if I may.
You should consider changing the title of this post, like one of your readers suggested. The process you illustrated is the process of “creating a cPanel account in WHM”. The process of “installing cPanel” is an entirely seperate task. That task has already been performed by your VPS provider and without installing cPanel/WHM first on the server and without activating cPanel/WHM license, you won’t have access to WHM. For majority of users, you dont necessarily need to know how to install cPanel/WHM on a VPS or dedicated server, because Server owners/Web hosting provider does that before they sell.
Web Host Manager (WHM) and cPanel are very powerful tool. If you have never used it before, then it could be very daunting and confusing at the begining. There are so many things to learn as a new user. Once you’re familiar with the process and start to understand the concept then you can do some pretty amazing stuff with it with very minimal effort.
Let me know if you need any help regarding this matter. I will be happy to provide you some pointers. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the pointer RP. I guess you are right about the title here . And it’s true many managed VPS provider provide you with pre installed cpanel like in my case. Ahh.. Realize its a blunder with the title I have done here. Will rectify it now
I just bought one at Ultrahosting.com – I am however having an error when creating the account saying that the account cannot be created.
I’m waiting for customer support to reply and yea for a first time on vps I do feel quite like on an alien planet. My current site is no more able to handle on a share, so I’ll be moving as soon as the vps problem is solved.
Thanks for this post dude. At least I feel less alien in this WHM right now. lol.
Thanks Thanks and thanks again! I too got a VPS and was just left sitting with a lovely page full of icons and no clue how to make an account to get to the cPanel I normally see… the documentation thats around was pretty poor, and it was taking me ages going through support for each question.
You have saved me a lot of time, I could not even find the ‘Create new account’ function before!!!
Is it a VPS account or a reseller??