WHM vs cPanel: What's the Difference?

If you want to know the difference between cPanel and WHM, you’ve come to the right place. Below, we give you some details about each of them.

What is WHM?

Web Host Manager, better known by its acronym WHM, is a panel through which you can manage or create the various hosting accounts. It is the type of panel that our reseller customers get in cPanel.

Some of the most outstanding features of WHM are:

• Carrying out server administration.
• Creating, deleting, or suspending accounts.
• Facilitating server configuration.
• Managing account and hosting features.
• Adding domains to the server.
• Performing maintenance on the control panel and the system in general.
• Resetting cPanel accounts.
• Facilitating file transfers.
• Customizing the reseller brand.

Every time you create a hosting account from your WHM panel, you are actually creating a cPanel account. Keep reading.

What is cPanel?

cPanel or Control Panel, as the name suggests, is a panel through which all the features of a hosting account can be managed. It is the control panel that our cPanel hosting customers get.

Among the tasks that web hosting administrators can perform from cPanel, the following stand out:

• Managing the account’s files.
• Editing the domain’s DNS records.
• Installing web applications.
• Managing both domains and subdomains.
• Reviewing website traffic.
• Restoring account data and making a backup of it.
• Creating and managing the database.
• Managing email services and accounts.

So what is the difference between WHM and cPanel?

WHM is aimed at resellers, or hosting owners who need several webmasters to have access to different domains. This way, they can give a cPanel account to each of the webmasters.

cPanel, on the other hand, is intended to serve one or several websites, where there is a single webmaster who manages them all.

In any case, if you still have any questions, you can find answers at ayuda@mihosting.com. We’ll be happy to help.