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