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Reseller website hosting business is getting more and more popularity, usually webmaster opt for reseller hosting packages to start with their own hosting business. With Linux reseller hosting you would be getting WHM/cpanel as hosting control panel and with windows you would get Plesk. if you are more incline towards Linux hosting and have operated cPanel then you can easily use WHM and can manage your hosting package and can create hosting accounts, allow permissions, set features for all hosting accounts you create on your hosting account.
Managing WHM website hosting control panel is very easy. Using WHM you can administer your VPS/Reseller account and all of its accounts, if you want to create a new account under your VPS/reseller hosting accounts then you can follow the steps give :-

Login to WHM >> Account Functions >> Create Account.
* Make sure before you create an account on the server, you need to create a “package”.
A “package” will specify how much web space, bandwidth, mailboxes etc are to be allowed for that particular package so that you can assign it to your customer.  You can create as many packages are you want using WHM. Usually you create a set of different hosting packages which you can sell to your customers. define them in better way, have difference in features…To create a package you will need to login to WHM, then from the menu on the left click on ” Add Packages ” under “packages” section….

Once you define all your packages you can create new account and can select suitable package for it. once an account is created you can login to cPanel for that particular using serverIP:2082 or by domainname:2082 .All accounts created under your WHM will have cPanel for managing it. cPanel is widely used website hosting control panel which is very popular and have many good features for website management like creating FTP accounts, email accounts, setting up password protected directories, adding new domains etc…

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Dedicated Server with SSH access can create problems for your server can it can be hacked easily thus as owner of your server you need to protect it from intruders accessing your server. You can follow following steps for securing your server having SSH access.
Its always better and recommended to bind sshd to a single IP which should be different from your serve main IP address and should be on different port then 22.
Just follow below steps for securing your SSH server.

SSH into your server using root as your login. You need to use following command at command prompt :  pico -w /etc/ssh/sshd_config
You need to find following section
#Port 22
#Protocol 2, 1
#ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
#ListenAddress ::
Uncomment and change  #Port 22 to look like Port 3999 (You can choose any 4 to 5 digit port number  as per your choice (49151 is the highest port number)
Uncomment and change  #Protocol 2, 1 to  Protocol 2
Uncomment and change  #ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 to  ListenAddress 198.32.78.112 (You need to use any one of your own IP that has been assigned to your server)

For some reason if you want to disable direct ROOT login you need to follow following instructions :
Find following code :
#PermitRootLogin yes  and uncomment it and make it look like PermitRootLogin no
You need to save this using Ctrl O and then exit using Ctrl X.
Now its time to restart SSH. You can restart SSH using following command at command prompt type: /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd restart
You need to exit SSH and need to relogin to SSH with new IP and using new port.

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