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What is WHM?
Last updated: March 28, 2011
WebHost Manager (WHM) is a browser based tool used by system administrators and resellers to manage services and aspects of the server that would usually require command line interaction. It is also used to create and manage hosting accounts on a web server. WHM listens on ports 2086 and 2087 (secure) by default.
Usually WHM is access using the root account but WHM is also accessible to users with reseller privileges. Reseller users of WHM have a smaller set of features than the root user, generally defined by the server administrator. These features usually only affect the resellers customers accounts rather than the server as a whole. From WHM, the server administrator can perform maintenance operations such as compile Apache and upgrade RPMs installed on the system as well as add, suspend or terminated reseller or individual accounts.
What is cPanel?
Last updated: March 28, 2011
There are two answers to this simple question!
1) cPanel is the company that creates WHM/cPanel software
2) cPanel is a browser based interface to allow the user to control the aspects of their domain such as email and FTP accounts, view their stats and even edit code through the built in file manager. Every account made through WHM will have a cPanel interface.
What is transfer?
Last updated: March 28, 2011
Transfer is a term used in web hosting and networking to reference how much data has been moved onto or off of a network in a given time frame.
In web hosting this is usually a set amount of data a customer is allowed to move on or off or their account and depending on the provider could be a combination of web, ftp, email or other types of traffic.
Transfer is often confused with bandwidth.
