A reseller or system administrator may occasionally be required to view, modify, or assist a user; the List Accounts area in WHM (Web Host Manager) is an invaluable tool to assist a reseller.

Here’s how to solve a little problem with a SpamAssasin update gone wrong on a cPanel server.

This tutorial shows you how to schedule a backup task using cPanel and our Simple FTP Backup Script.

Many times, users need to compress files, such as for faster copying or for archiving. Using cPanel, the user can directly compress the files on the web server without any intermediate steps such as first downloading the file, using FTP programs, and/or using local compression utilities.

vDeck’s Spam Filter is a nice utility that can help you reduce significantly the amount of spam you get in your inbox. Learn how to use it properly.

A parked domain is a domain name that redirects to an existing domain, but keeps the parked address in the browser bar. The parked domain looks and acts as though it were the domain it is parked on top of. Both domains will have the SAME content. For example, if you own www.my-website.com, you can [...]

Sometimes your client need more resources and may want to upgrade to a better hosting plan (or package). WHM has a nice feature that will allow you to do just that: upgrade or downgrade user accounts.

Account suspension and unsuspension are important aspects of a reseller account – accounts suspension is a tool that helps you to deal with unpaid accounts, violations of use, excessive bandwidth usage, etc. without deleting the user account or domain.

Redirects allow you to make a one web page redirect to another page. One reason to create a redirect is to make a page with a long URL accessible by creating a page which has a shorter and easier URL. Another reason would be to redirect visitors from a web page that doesn’t exist anymore to another URL. This tutorial shows you how to create redirects using cPanel.

Sometimes you don’t want everybody to access certain files or areas of your website. While there are several ways to do this, the easiest one is to use a file named “.htaccess”. This tutorial will show you how to protect a directory using vDeck.

Autoresponders are used to automatically reply to a sender when a message is received. Autoresponders have a variety of uses, including “out of office” messages, vacation messages, or even “I’m in training all day and will have sporadic access to email.” For this tutorial, I’ll be using my FatCow account. They’ve provide a very reliable [...]

Fantastico Deluxe is a commercial script library which is used in combination with a control panel system such as cPanel. The script library contains many different scripts of popular web applications which can then be automatically installed to websites using the control panel.

A control panel is something that is required to use or control a particular product. For instance, you need a control panel (remote control) to operate your television set. Similarly, pilots need a control panel to fly their aircrafts or a driver uses the control panel to drive his car. In much the same manner, control panels are also needed to maintain and monitor websites. Web hosting companies typically provide an interface to webmasters so that they can manage their websites. Such an interface is known as Web Hosting Control Panels.

A “hot link” is a file on your site loaded directly from another site. Sometimes this is okay, but it is generally acceptable only if you request permission. Hotlinking without permission steals your bandwidth (sometimes known as “leeching”). Images are commonly hotlinked. Plesk allows you to configure hotlink protecting by file type, per directory, on [...]

Instead of managing one account at a time, WebHost Manager (WHM) allows you to simplify the process by managing multiple accounts at once.