What Is The Difference Between cPanel and WHM?

cPanel and WHM are two different tools that help users manage different types of web hosting. Many hosting new users ask about the difference between these two tools. In this article, we’ll learn about each tool, its benefits, and the difference between them. So, let’s get started.

What is cPanel?

cPanel is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) tool for managing your own hosting account. With cPanel you can do the necessary tasks to manage your hosting environment, like creating and managing a website, creating and managing professional email accounts, managing your domain names, managing your website files on the server, etc. All of these tasks help you manage your hosting without having to be a technical expert, so it’s a great tool.

The Key Benefits of cPanel

cPanel simply makes your life easier when it comes to hosting management. It helps you manage your hosting environment without having to be a technical expert. Let’s explore some of the cPanel benefits:

Manage Your Domain Names:

cPanel enables you to manage your domain names on your hosting. For example, you can add a domain name, manage your existing domain names, manage your redirects, manage your subdomains, manage your DNS, and so on.

Manage Your Email Accounts:

With cPanel, you can manage and create email accounts associated with your domain name such as ‘yourName@yourDomain.com’ instead of using traditional email addresses like Gmail or Outlook. So, you can create, delete, manage all of your email accounts from cPanel. You can set forwarders, autoresponders, control your email accounts’ authentication, and much more from cPanel.

Manage Your Server Files:

From cPanel File Manager, you can manage all of your website files and data, so you’ll be able to view all of your website files, make changes to them, and delete any file. You can also monitor your disk usage, manage your FTP accounts, and so on for the file-related tasks.

Manage Your Website Databases:

Most modern websites and CMS, like WordPress, use databases to manage their content and user data. cPanel helps you manage your website databases, create a new database for a website, manage existing databases, and so on from all database related tasks.

Install One-Click Software:

cPanel offers you a software called ‘Softaculous Apps Installer’, which enables you to install any software you need, such as popular CMS, e-commerce scripts, built-in chats, forums software and many more, all of that with a couple of clicks, easily and quickly.

What is WHM?

WHM is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) tool for managing multiple cPanel Accounts. WHM stands for Web Host Manager. WHM simply helps you manage many hosting accounts from one place.

The Key Benefits of WHM

WHM is a great tool for managing multiple hosting accounts and those who have a reseller hosting business. So, let’s explore some of the WHM key benefits:

The Ability to Manage and Create Multiple cPanel Account:

As the title suggests, WHM enables you to manage and create cPanel accounts on your server and control all of them from one WHM account. It also enables you to move between all of your cPanel accounts easily and quickly.

Gives Your Sites More Security:

When you are managing multiple sites, you need to be careful about their security. WHM gives you the ability to create a different cPanel for each site, which increases the security because if any site gets hacked, the other will not be affected.

Monitoring Your Sites from One Place:

WHM gives you the ability to monitor all of your sites’ activities and resources from one place, plus managing all of your sites’ resources such as disk space and bandwidth.

Branding Your Business:

If you’re running a reseller hosting business, WHM enables you to customize the cPanel interface to show your brand. For example, you can put your business logo, change the cPanel style, make a company profile for your business, and much more.