Creating hosting packages using WHM reseller hosting account

Posted by admin on January 12, 2009 85 comments

Once you got login details for your Linux Reseller Hosting Account, you may want to start with creating hosting packages which you can assign to your client if you want to resell hosting plans or can assign then for all your websites. Just follow the process describe below for creating hosting package whcih you can assisgn to all hosting accounts hosted under your WHM reseller hosting account.

First of all you need to Log into WHM , then click on the Add Packages icon under packages menu of your WHM. Now you need to enter the name of the package and will have to enter maximum disk space you want to allocate for hosting package name and quota fields.
You need to enter maximum number which you want to allow for Ftp Accounts, Max Email Accounts, Max Email Lists, Max SQL Databases, Max Sub Domains, Max Park Domains, and Max Addon Domains fields etc… you can enter unlimited as value for required filed if you do not want to place a limit on any particular item.
You need to indicate whether CGI access and FrontPage Extensions are allowed in the CGI Access and FrontPage Extensions tick boxes.
you will also have to enter the maximum bandwidth in megabytes which you would like to allocate for hosting package under Bandwidth Limit field.
You can choose the default CPanel theme for the account in the Cpanel Theme field.
Now you will have to click on Create button so that new hosting package would be added into your WHM same way you can add more hosting packages under your reseller hosting account.

For some reason the packages you have added are not shown when created under your hosting account, its very simple and you can solve this just by following few steps describe below :
If you have already created hosting packages , but they are not showing when you are trying to create an account Login to WHM, Edit each package that does not show and click save. (You do not need to change anything on the edit page, just hit save.) this would solve your hosting package issues.