How to Transfer a Website from Non-cPanel Server Updated on November 19, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor If you are a customer of a host that does not use the cPanel as it’s interface for managing your website, then there are few basic things that you should do when you want to move your site to a new InMotion Hosting dedicated server for your hosting solution. If you are not familiar with Read More >
How to Remove a cPanel in Your Reseller WHM Updated on October 27, 2021 by Scott Mitchell When working with clients as a reseller, you will need to know how to remove client cPanel accounts on your reseller account. This quick guide shows you how to remove a cPanel account from within your reseller WHM. Removing a cPanel via WHM Log into your WHM. Click on the Account Functions category from Read More >
How to Access cPanels via your Reseller WHM Updated on October 19, 2023 by Scott Mitchell When using the WHM, you have the ability to create, access, modify, and terminate your client’s cPanel accounts. In this guide, we demonstrate how to access cPanel accounts from within the WHM interface. NOTE: This guide requires WHM access. WHM access is included (at no extra charge) with our Dedicated Server, VPS, and Reseller Hosting Read More >
How to Login to your Reseller WHM Updated on December 9, 2025 by Scott Mitchell What is WHM? Web Host Manager (WHM), is a program that allows you administrative access to your Reseller Hosting account. As a reseller, you will want to assign a separate cPanel to each of your client accounts. This allows each client the ability to log into their own cPanel to manage their hosting account. Creating, Read More >
How to Reset cPanel Passwords in Reseller WHM Updated on June 7, 2023 by Christopher Maiorana Part of being a reseller hosting provider is helping your customers when they have issues and need help. In this article, we will show you how to reset a cPanel password using WHM. These steps will work for the VPS reseller program as well as the shared option. How to Reset a cPanel Password in Read More >
How to Configure Other Settings in WHMCS Updated on June 8, 2023 by Christopher Maiorana At last, the Other tab will provide support for the remainder of the WHMCS configurations not available under specific categories. Here you can adjust contact preferences for clients and enable debugging for troubleshooting technical errors. Login to your WHMCS Admin Hover over Setup and choose General Settings Choose the Other tab Fill in the settings: Read More >
How to Create a Package in your Reseller WHM Updated on October 19, 2023 by Scott Mitchell In this tutorial: Creating a Package Pre-Configured Packages Creating a hosting package in your WHM allows you to specify several different settings for a cPanel account. For example, you could create a package that includes 5 addon domains while you have an upgraded package that allows up to 15 addon domains. This way you can Read More >
How to Create a New cPanel in your Reseller WHM Updated on October 19, 2023 by Scott Mitchell One of the first things you will need to do for a new client is to give them their own hosting space. This is done by creating a cPanel account. As a reseller, you will have the ability to do this from within your Web Host Manager (WHM). Follow along below as we Read More >
How to Configure Social Settings in WHMCS Updated on June 8, 2023 by Christopher Maiorana WHMCS allows you to configure social media options right from the admin area. This can be valuable if you want to manage your social media identity from the same interface you use to manage your hosting and client services. Login to your WHMCS Admin Hover over Setup and choose General Settings Choose the Social tab Read More >
How to Disable cPanel on your Dedicated Server Updated on August 21, 2023 by InMotion Hosting Contributor Before we tackle the question of disabling the cPanel in a Dedicated Hosting Server, we need to explain the basic model of the web service solution. The acronym, LAMP, is given to the model and it stands for Linux operating system, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL relational database management system, and the PHP programming language. It Read More >
How to Configure Security Settings in WHMCS Updated on June 8, 2023 by Christopher Maiorana WHMCS provides a variety of security options that range from beginner to advanced. Here is an overview of the primary security features you can access through the general settings. Login to your WHMCS Admin Hover over Setup and choose General Settings Choose the Security tab Fill in the settings: Captcha Form Protection: Choose how captcha Read More >
How to Enable SMTP Restrictions Updated on July 21, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor One of the steps you can take to stop spam scripts is to enable SMTP Restrictions in WHM. This particular feature will prevent users from bypassing the mail server to send mail. When enabled it only allows delivery through MTA, mailman, and root connect to remote SMTP servers. NOTE: This setting does require that you Read More >
How to Disable Security Advisor Alerts in WHM Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha One of the new features in cPanel release 56 is the additon of Security Advisor Alerts. The alerts are sent to the default email within WHM. While these alerts are useful, some of them can be misleading. You can disable the security advisor alerts so you will no longer receive them. Note: Root access is Read More >
Viewing your Load Averages in WHM Updated on April 17, 2024 by InMotion Hosting Contributor How to Quickly view Load Averages One of the quickest ways to see how your VPS and Dedicated Server is doing is to look at the Load Averages interface in the top right hand corner of the WHM. Here you will see a section called Load Averages followed by a set of numbers. By default, Read More >
Using WHM to See Disk Usage Updated on December 9, 2025 by InMotion Hosting Contributor One important statistic that you need to be aware of when managing a dedicated hosted server is your disk usage. Servers do not come with unlimited disk space, so you should always be aware of how much space is being used on your dedicated hosting server. If you’re in WHM and you want to see Read More >
How to Change the Time Zone in WHM Updated on July 20, 2021 by InMotion Hosting Contributor The time zone can be changed in WHM through the Server Time settings. You can also view the current time zone assigned to your server by clicking on Server Time in the menu. If necessary, you can use the Sync time with Time server option to correct the server time when it is incorrect. How Read More >
Setting up your First Notifybot Notification Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha In the previous article about Notifybot, we covered setting up the basic configuration settings. At this point, you’re ready to set up your first notification within your WordPress website. There’s a bunch of different options for notifications so we’ll try to cover them below. Login to your WordPress Dashboard, where you have installed Notifybot Scroll Read More >
How to Create a New Product Group in WHMCS Updated on August 16, 2021 by Scott Mitchell Before you create individual products in WHMCS, you must have a group to assign them to. For example, if you are going to create hosting plans, then you may want to create a group named ‘Web Hosting’. After that, you can create products and assign them to that group. Below we demonstrate how to create Read More >
How to Add the Social Media Widgets Plugin to WordPress Updated on June 8, 2023 by InMotion Hosting Contributor In this tutorial we will show you how to add Social Media buttons to your WordPress site using the Social Media Widget plugin. Linking to your social media accounts with buttons (such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram) allows visitors to easily find and follow you. This can add another level of interaction with people who Read More >
How to Add a New Server in WHMCS Updated on October 9, 2020 by Scott Mitchell You will need to add servers via the admin panel so that new accounts can be added and tracked in WHMCS. Follow along as we go over the basics of adding a server in the WHMC back end. Did you know? Not all hosting companies provide a free license for WHMCS. InMotion does with all Read More >
