Does cpanel allow you to have resellers? In other words, can you have a login that has control of a number of domains where site, email, and ftp can be maintained for a number of domains?

I am used to the RAQ setup where each domain created has a seperate username/password for each siteadmin. I would like to be able to have someone maintain several accounts with one login. Is this possible with CPanel?

Yes, there are two different way to set up resellers in cpanel. One way is you can set up predefined planned set of accounts to offer and another way is you can set limits by giving them 1 bulk account. Cpanel will also let you set up private name servers for each reseller.

Hope that helps!

Thanks Curt!

Since there is not much documentation or demo sites (that I can find), do you have any suggestions on how I can find out more about it. I want to be able to play with a live demo to see if it meets my needs.

Also, what is the difference between WHM and Cpanel. Is WHM for the NOC and CPanel is for the individual dedicated box owners? I am a little confused....

It looks like the current version is 3.0 (looking at cpanel.net), but I hear a lot of reference to 4.0. What is the shipping version?...

sorry to blast you with 20 questions, but I really appreciate your responses.

Thanks!

Actually, WHM is the server management program, from which you can create reseller accounts etc.

Cpanel is the client end program, for virtual accounts...

Matt

Great! So I can create multiple sites and put them under one account for my customer (web designer) to manage email accounts and such? I would also assume that through the WHM I setup what options the reseller/user has the ability to control?

Thanks for your help!

Lets see if I can answer some of your questions.

- What is the difference between WHM and Cpanel

WHM has a root admin view where you can manage the box, name servers, account, plans, set up new accounts and restart services. It is basically the sysadmin gui for the box. You can also set up more restrictive WHM's for your resellers so that they can create and manager their own accounts on the same server.

There is a demo at http://www.venturesonline.com/whm/
NOTE: THIS WHM DEMO IS OUT OF DATE. 4.0 IS OUT AND MANY NEW FEATURES HAVE BEEN ADDED.

Cpanel is more for the (account specific) end user to manage their email, password, stats, mysql database, cron jobs and a bunch of other stuff.

There is a demo at http://demo.vosn.net:2082/frontend/iconic/index.html

- What is the current version

The current cpanel version is 4

When I started using WHM/Cpenel I started with a reseller account then I ended up going to http://pwebtech.com for my dedicated server and they also provide WHM/Cpanel for the server as part of my package.

Over the past month there have been a bunch of new features added to WHM and Cpanel. They have been on fire related to adding new features so I am very happy with the product.

I hope this helps get you pointed in the right direction.

Thanks for the info...ok one more question:

Is Cpanel integrated with the OS? What I mean is, if there are updates to the software packages on the server i.e. PHP or MySQL...do you update the software manual/individually. Or do you get the updates/patches from Cpanel and install them?

I guess I am asking if the user needs to maintain the server at the OS level i.e. RedHat with updates or if it is updated as a product like the Cobalt RAQ and it's packages...

You still pretty much have to manage the OS and such manually outside of Cpanel such as Kernel upgrades and php modules. It is not as easy as the package adds the raq's use.

I am not sure what is included in the base Cpanel install, maybe someone else has more detail in the actual install and what is included.

Cpanel and WHM is just an interface to manage your server - its not like Ensim or Plesk that actually take over the OS in many ways.

With this, as the system admin you'd be responsible for all security etc. Its deffinatly a large step from RAQ.

However, you could probably install webmin (www.webmin.com) which has a very simple RPM installer also for RPMS.

Great! Thanks for the info. I am a pretty decent Linux admin (not just RAQ's)...just never used CPanel and haven't found much "good" documentation on it. Sorry for any dumb questions :)

http://www.venturesonline.com/docs/whm/

Not current, but it has all the main things need in it :D