WHM-cPanel Dedicated Server

cPanel is popular webhosting control panel which is widely used among webmasters, if you are thinking of a linux based dedicated server then you would probably get WHM/cpanel as your control panel with server, WHM would be used by for creating hosting account and managing your server whereas cPanel would be offered to your clients so that you can play with their hosting packages. If you are trying to get linux server then you would get WHM/cpanel as your hosting control panel.
WHM-cPanel Hosting Using WHM Webhostmanger you can easily administer all your hosting account created under your reseller account. Main advantage of using WHM is that you don’t have to manually create/setup hosting accounts as you can use its automated process or can use its user friendly graphical user interface. Once you create an hosting account using your WHM, your client would be get its own cpanel for managing it. cpanel would be the control panel for all end users for whom you have create hosting account. Using cPanel they could setup email, FTP accounts, can add new domain in their hosting package, can easily administer their hosting account. Make sure as a server administrator you set certain limit for your clients.

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This post was written by on February 11, 2009

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Important FTP commands.

FTP is a widely used among webmasters who are trying to copy move files from one location to other. Its a general protocol which can be worked on UNIX as well as other (non-UNIX) systems. You can easily access any remote machine which is thousands of miles apart..  Initially you will have to know the name of machine or its IP address so that you can connect to it. Usually you would be suing FTP for accessing your web server where your account is hosted so that you can upload all your webfiles.
There are many FTP commands which you should be aware of so that you can manage your data transfer process easily.
Firstly you will have to use following command so that your local machine can get connected to remote machine.
To connect use : ftp machinename  or machinenumber.
Once you get login to your FTP session you can use following commands which could be helpful for you.

Binary :  if you want to copy files in binary mode.

Cd :  Change directory on the FTP server

Dir :  List the names of the files in the current remote directory :

Exit : If you want to exit from FTP then use this command

Get :  Get a file from the FTP server

Lcd :  Change the directory on the local machine

Ls :  Same as dir

Mget ;  Same as get, but you can use wildcards like “*”

Mput :  Same as put, but you can use wildcards like “*”

Passive :  Make the file transfer passive mode

Put :  Put a file from the local machine onto the FTP server

Pwd :  Give the directory name on the local machine.
Following commands would be helpful for better file management.

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This post was written by on February 9, 2009

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