Web Hosting FAQ

This tutorial will show you how to manage PHP extensions in WHM PHP, Ruby, and Perl are all widely-used web software languages. All of them have at least one system…

In WHM, there is a tool that can check a Perl script for modules that are missing from the server and attempt to install them, as needed. It’s called the…

How to regenerate and use your Remote Access Key in WHM Remote Access Keys are used by external servers and software to communicate with your cPanel & WHM server. In…

Now that you should have the backup system enabled and configured, you should know how to restore backups in case you ever need to do so. There are three tools…

This tutorial will show you how to configure automatic backups in WHM Taking regular backups is an important part of running any sort of website. You can configure WHM to…

Depending on your update settings, you may or may not need to run cPanel’s update script manually in order for it to check for and install updates. If you’d like…

Server and system software updates should be performed automatically everytime cPanel’s update script runs; you should not need to run these updates manually. If for some reason you do need…

There are two tools you can use to reboot your server from within WHM.   How to Reboot Your Server Using WHM   Introduction Rebooting a server is sometimes necessary…

With the Background Process Killer, you can tell WHM to search every day for processes your users should have no reason to run in a standard web hosting environment. If…

WHM allows you to run two security-related scans that may be of use to you. 1) Go to Security. 2) Start with Quick Security Scan. This tool will check for…

This tutorial will show you how to check your system health with WHM Like Server Status, the System Health category also contains a number of potentially useful tools relating to…

How to modify the suspended account page in WHM You’ll probably need to suspend an account for some reason at some point in the future. Accounts can also be suspended…