Your dedicated hosting account can be very mysterious if you don’t know where to start. If you are using WHM (Web Host Manager) and cPanel though, there is no doubt that the most important thing you need to learn to do is how to create a new hosting package and add an account to your dedicated hosting setup.
The first thing you will want to do is login to WHM and click on “Account Functions”. Then on the Account Functions screen, you need to click on the link for “Create a New Account”. Now enter the domain name of the new account (without the www part in there). WHM will automatically create a username for you based on up to the first 8 characters of the domain name. You may use this or create your own. Also please remember that a username can not start with a number.
Next you will need to create a password. Make it 6-8 alpha-numeric characters and it should not contain the username. You may set all the limits manually or select a pre-configured hosting plan you have already created before. If you select a pre-configured plan all the account limits will automatically set based on the package selection. This will save you time.
If you have a contact address you would like to associate with the account, you can enter it in the text box marked for the contact e-mail. You can always add it later if you do not wish to do this step right now.
With the IP address setting, unless you need to setup an account with a dedicated IP, you should leave this on “Auto Assign”. Doing so will assign the hosting account the shared IP address for the dedicated hosting plan.
Once that step has been taken care of then you can hit “Create” (at the top of the page) to create the account. Once you get this done, you are done. Your new account will be created, and your ready to do some web hosting on your dedicated server.
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