With your Linux Reseller Hosting package you would be getting WHM as admin control panel for your reseller webhosting account which will help you to create, setup and manage all your hosting accounts. You would be having WHM with Linux reseller. VPS or with a dedicated servers as your hosting account control panel through which you can easily administer your server, reseller hosting account.
For creating hosting account login to your WHM control panel >> Account Functions >> Create Account, make sure before you create an account on the server, you should create a “package”. A “package” determines how much web space, bandwidth, mailboxes etc, your customer can use.

Usually you would be offering your customers a range of choice for webhosting packages which are differing in allotted server resources.
To create a package, login to WHM, then using the menu on the left, and click on “Add Packages” under the “Packages” heading.

Once you have defined all your packages you can setup multiple hosting accounts under same reseller hosting package / VPS dedicated server using your WHM control panel Using above steps. Hence you can setup and can host any number of hosting accounts and can start with your webhosting reseller hosting business !!! You need to take that you don’t exceed allotted server resources for your hosting account.

Once you have created an hosting account you can login into cPanel for that particular account using http://IP Address:2082 (IP Address = Actual IP address of the server) or http://www. domainname.com:2082. cPanel is a end user control panel using which all users can easily manage their hosting account and websites easily. It’s most pospular and widely used website hosting control panel.

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Once your Reseller Hosting account is setup and you have all required login details like WHM/cpanel control panel details,  FTP details ,  nameservers details etc… then you would be creating hosting accounts for your customers using your control panel WHM and thus you can provide cpanel for all your clients.
The difference between your main Reseller Hosting account and all the other accounts, is that your main hosting account will be having Reseller Privileges and you would be having your own reseller interface called Web Host Manager (WHM) which you would be going to use for managing  your web hosting business, creating hosting accounts, set storage space and bandwidth limits, suspend/unsuspend accounts, and much more.

Hence WHM is a wonderful control panel for linux reseller hosting service provider. While creating packages, you’ll have to decide exactly what you want to provide in the web hosting plans you want to sell to your clients.

You’ll have to work on and will have to decide on following things :-

# Storage space and bandwidth to allocate to each account.
# Email accounts to allocate to each account.
# FTP accounts, Parked domains, Subdomains, Addon domains, and MySQL DBs to allocate to each account.
# Most important Cost for your web hosting packages.

Once you’ve decided all these factors, you may login to your WebHost Manager and setup packages. Packages options make creating new web hosting accounts much easier and convenient, as you already had pre-defining all the above variables, so that you only have to choose a package name when creating an account. That’s all you have started with your reseller hosting business.

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As a Reseller webhosting service provider you would be offering cPanel for your clients using which your clients can manage their hosting plan, can setup emails, FTP, addon domains account etc . cpanel seems to be the best control panel which is having huge number of tools and features which are very useful for webmasters. One of them is Mailing list which comes with cPanel.

Mailing option is incredibly useful for online businesses who wants to stay in touch with their customers by keeping them informed with regular updates regarding their products or services.  There are many different mailing list scripts are available for free as well as few are paid .
Hence if you are using  cpanel then you don’t have to worry about such mailing list as it’s already bundled into cpanel control panel for free.
The mailing script is know as Mailman in cPanel. Using this program you can create mailing lists with varying options such as contacts on the list, where the mail will be sent and much more.

Following steps will help you to add a Mailing list in Mailman from your cPanel control panel  :-

#) Login to your cPanel and click the “Mailing Lists” icon under the “Mail” category.

#) On the “Mailing lists” page, click the “Add Mailing List” link.
Next, enter a name for your mailing list and a password in the appropriate fields.  Make sure you confirm the password on the next line.

#) Choose the domain the mailing list will be used on from the list of options provided in the drop-down menu.

#) Lastly, click the “Create” button.

That’s all, you have your mailing list ready for use

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Control panel plays very important role when it comes for managing your website. It help us to manage our hosting account easily and more efficiently. You have range of options available for webhosting control panel like most popular cPanel, Plesk, DotNetPanel, DirectAdmin etc… it all depends on your hosting need to choose any control panel. Usually webmaster go with WHM/cPanel with linux reseller hosting plans and Plesk for Windows reseller hosting.
If you are planning to offer linux based hosting plans to your clients then it’s always advised to have a WHM/cPanel control panel which will help you to create hosting accounts and mange then using graphical interface control panel where as if you want to provide Windows Hosting plans to your clients then you have option of either Plesk or DotNetPanel. Recently webmasters prefer DotNetPanel with their Windows reseller hosting plans as its having more advance features as compare to Plesk.

It’s your decision to go with required control panel for your reseller hosting package depending on the hosting platform you select. Usually all reseller hosting service provider will offer you control panel for Free which is included as a default feature with reseller hosting package.
Hence webhosting control panel is important factor which you should consider before you place order for any reseller hosting package .

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When it comes for Linux Reseller Hosting, usually you would be having WHM/cPanel ( WebHost Manager )as your website hosting control panel. It’s the best control panel which is having very easy to use graphical user interface and have many helpful features for managing your hosting accounts.

WHM  is the most feature packed administration interface which is usually offer for FREE with reseller hosting accounts.
Using WHM you can administer all individual hosting accounts you have created under your reseller hosting account, you can also perform basic system & control panel maintenance via a secure interface. You have all required features from Apache Administrator to Zend Optimizer Installation, WHM contains all the features which are required to keep your hosting servers running and your customer base expanding.
As a reseller hosting account owner you would be using WHM and all your clients would be having cPanel as their hosting control panel using which they can manage their website hosting account. cPanel is designed for your end users and will allows them to control everything from adding and removing email accounts, adding domains, FTP accounts, uploading webdata, administering MySQL databases etc…

Following is the list of some of the features your Reseller Hosting WHM Control Panel :

* Setup Remote Access Key
* Server/ Service Status
* Server Information
* List Accounts
* Create a New Account
* Skeleton Directory
* Terminate an Account
* Terminate Multiple Accounts
* Upgrade/Downgrade an Account
* View Bandwidth Usage
* Limit Bandwidth Usage
* Suspend/Unsuspend an Account
* List Suspended Accounts
* Modify Suspended Account Page
* Password Modification
* Disable or Enable Subdomains
* List Subdomains
* Change WHM Theme
* Feature Manager (BETA)
* Add Packages
* Delete Packages
* Edit Packages
* Park or Point a Domain
* List Parked Domains
* Add a DNS Zone
* Edit an MX Entry
* Edit a DNS Zone
* Delete a DNS Zone
* Install FrontPage Extensions
* Uninstall FrontPage Extensions
* Install FrontPage Mail Extensions
* Mail Troubleshooter
* Branding
* Modify cPanel/WHM News
* SSL/TLS
* Generate an SSL Certificate and Signing Request
* Install an SSL Certificate and Setup the Domain
and many more helpful features are available with your WHM reseller hosting control panel which will help you to smoothly handle all your hosting accounts created under your reseller hosting plan.

WHM cpanel Demo link :- http://www.cpanel.net/products/cpanelwhm/try-demo.html

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