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The administrator's guide
Install, secure and run the server: accounts, plans, resellers, websites, mail, DNS, backups and selling hosting.
- 1 Installing BHPanel Requirements, Light or Full, and the one command that installs everything.
- 2 Your first hour First sign-in, the dashboard and alerts, the Essential setup checklist, Basic setup, and securing your own login.
- 3 Your license key Getting the free key, adding it, and moving it to another server.
- 4 Upgrading Updating the panel from Server > Update, or with the one-line command.
- 5 Accounts and packages Creating and managing hosting accounts: the account page, suspend, Log in as, bandwidth and leftovers.
- 6 Plans and performance What each limit does, sizing plans that perform, caching, and the web stack.
- 7 Resellers Making resellers, their pool and overselling, what their plans can pass on, and acting as a reseller.
- 8 Websites and SSL Every website on the server, certificates and renewals, and the panel's own hostname and certificate.
- 9 DNS and the DNS cluster Nameservers, zones and DNSSEC — and one DNS-only server for all your servers.
- 10 Cloudflare The API token to make, adding or linking a domain, and real visitor addresses.
- 11 Running mail Mail domains and their health, the mail server - queue, relay, blacklists - email routing and webmail.
- 12 Email that arrives Port 25, reverse DNS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, sending limits and relays.
- 13 Databases Every MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB database and login on the server, and the tools to manage them.
- 14 Files, FTP and permissions The file manager across the server, the trash, every FTP login, and fixing permissions for one account or all.
- 15 Backups Server backups, destinations, restoring all or part of an account, and customers’ own backups.
- 16 Software: PHP, apps and add-ons PHP versions and limits, WordPress Manager, Node.js, Python, containers and add-ons like Softaculous.
- 17 Running the server Network and IPs, services, load, the web server, passkeys, cron, the terminal, jobs, leftovers and the audit log.
- 18 Securing your server The first hour, the web firewall, logins, Malware Watch — and what not to do.
- 19 The Security Center Every security tool, tab by tab: what to switch on, what to leave off.
- 20 Locked out? Get back in from SSH Reset any login's password, two-factor or passkeys from the server's shell.
- 21 Selling hosting The Blesta, WHMCS and FOSSBilling modules.
- 22 Moving accounts in Importing from cPanel, CyberPanel, CentOS Web Panel, Webuzo or another BHPanel server.
- 23 AI for your hosting Connect your own AI app over MCP, the key and the API, the in-panel AI assistant, and Undo.