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How AdminBolt Works ​

AdminBolt provides hosting management through three panels, each for a different role. Understanding which panel does what makes the rest of this guide easier to navigate.

The three panels ​

Admin panel ​

Used by the server administrator (your hosting provider) to run the server itself: install and configure services, create hosting plans and feature lists, manage hosting accounts and resellers, configure security, and monitor health. A panel can also run as a hub that orchestrates multiple servers, with DNS clustering and account migration between AdminBolt nodes (see Hub).

Reseller panel ​

Used by resellers to manage their own customers within the limits the administrator sets: create hosting plans and feature lists, provision customer accounts, and assign IPs.

Client panel ​

Where hosting customers spend most of their time: manage domains and websites, email, databases, files, SSL, WordPress, and resource usage.

What you can do ​

Domains and websites ​

Add domains, subdomains, and parked domains; manage web files; install SSL certificates; set up redirects; and install WordPress.

Email ​

Create email accounts, forwarders, autoresponders, and mailing lists, with spam filtering and automatic mail-client autodiscovery.

Databases ​

Create databases and users with the database wizard, and administer them through phpMyAdmin or Adminer.

Security ​

Firewall and Fail2Ban, ModSecurity with the OWASP CRS, directory protection, IP blocking, and automated SSL.

Monitoring and maintenance ​

Track disk and bandwidth usage, monitor visitors, schedule cron jobs, and create on-demand filesystem and database backups per account.

Web server, PHP, and isolation ​

Serve sites on Apache, or switch the node to LiteSpeed as a drop-in replacement. Multiple PHP engines run side by side - REMI for Apache, LSPHP for LiteSpeed, and Alt-PHP after a CloudLinux conversion - and each domain is assigned its own version from the PHP Manager. CloudLinux additionally provides per-account resource isolation (LVE) and language selectors.

Where to start ​