Hello webmasters i want to know tha what is whm licence and if i purchased a vps then i must purchased a whm licence? Can i run vps' whm wihtout licence? I have no any idea about whm licence so please someone describe it.
Hello there, WHM is part of cPanel, and you would need a license if you wanted to use cPanel. Yes, you can run a server without WHM(cPanel). Regards, Chris
whm is part of cpanel, which is just a commercial control panel. There are several alternatives to cpanel. Cpanel is one of the best for linux servers. You *can* manage a server completely without a control panel, but this is quite difficult for most people, the control panel simply becomes a friendly interface in order for you to manage and actually use your server. when you get a vps, you can control what software is on the VPS. If you wish, you can have a different control panels installed. Kloxo (for example) is a free control panel that is good to use, and has some features similar to cpanel. Depending where you get your VPS from, you might not have a choice in operating systems, or the choices may be limited. While you can install a control panel yourself some people are unable to do this themselves. SSHVM.com (for an example) offers you the choice of operating systems, and one of them comes with Kloxo preinstalled, and other option is cpanel preinstalled. Kloxo is one of the lowest resource using control panels that I know of. Cpanel, you really need 700+ mb of ram for it to be really useful. Only reason I am mentioning sshvm, is that they are the only ones I know of that allows kloxo to be installed "out of the box" per sae. However, nearly every other vps and server provider allows for cpanel to be installed "out of the box"
Web Host Manager (WHM) as the name says is widely used to manage the hosting accounts on your server. Very user friendly & easy to manage. WHM is a interface you get instead of managing via command prompt. Without it's license you won't be able to use the web interface. Use it from the command prompt instead. Only useful if you are an expert in linux. Also, without the license, new updates can't be downloaded. Always recommended to use a license for it.