HostPortal is an advanced hosting management platform designed for cPanel resellers. It allows your customers to manage their own hosting services without needing to log in to your cPanel account.
Through a simple HostPortal dashboard, customers can manage their email accounts, WordPress websites, databases, FTP accounts, subdomains and DNS records, plus run a built-in Health Check for website, DNS and email configuration.
HostPortal connects your reseller service to the cPanel hosting functions your customers need. Instead of handing over your cPanel username and password, you create a HostPortal user, assign their domain and choose what they are allowed to manage.
When the customer signs in, they see a clean hosting dashboard for their assigned services — not your cPanel account.
HostPortal is designed to make onboarding existing hosting customers easier, without requiring you to manually create every customer account.
The customer enters their hosted email address and password. HostPortal can verify the mailbox and match the email domain to the domain available on the connected server.
Verified → Domain matched → HostPortal account createdIf the customer's email is hosted with another provider, HostPortal can check for the customer's domain on the connected cPanel server instead.
When the domain is found, HostPortal sends the customer an email with their login details so they can access their HostPortal account.
Domain found → Login details emailed → Customer signs inThe installation Owner controls HostPortal settings, cPanel connection, licences, updates, users and resource limits. Customer accounts use the User role and only access the hosting services assigned to them.
If you sell hosting or manage customer domains through your cPanel account, customers may still need to create mailboxes, change passwords, install WordPress, manage databases or make other hosting changes.
Giving them your cPanel login is not the answer. HostPortal gives them a separate customer login and provides access to the supported functions you choose.
HostPortal is not another cPanel skin.
It is a reseller-controlled customer management layer that works with cPanel.
Configure the cPanel server connection once. HostPortal uses it to provide the supported management tools while your cPanel login remains private.
Create a User and assign their domain, or allow an existing customer to self-enrol using mailbox/domain verification.
Set defaults and per-domain limits for email accounts, mailbox quota, forwarders, databases, subdomains and FTP accounts.
Users sign in to HostPortal and perform the hosting tasks you make available without entering the main cPanel interface.
HostPortal lets you provide self-service without giving every customer unlimited control. Assign their domain and configure the limits that suit the hosting package you sell.
Limits can be configured to suit the service you provide, including disabled, limited or unlimited options where supported.
You choose the services you make available.
Existing customers can self-enrol. HostPortal can verify a hosted mailbox or locate their domain on the connected cPanel account when email is hosted elsewhere.
Create and delete mailboxes, change passwords and quotas, and show mail-client connection settings.
Create and remove email forwarders and configure, enable or disable autoresponders from the customer dashboard.
Detect and install WordPress, open and manage sites, manage plugins, clone sites, and create, upload, download and restore site backups.
Create databases and database users, grant or revoke database access, change database-user passwords and open the integrated phpMyAdmin workflow.
Create and manage FTP accounts and passwords while enforcing the FTP limit configured for the customer domain.
Create and remove subdomains for the assigned domain within the limit set by the Owner.
Manage supported DNS records and use DNS backup, download, import and restore tools.
Manage supported incoming and outgoing email restrictions where the server and feature configuration allow it.
Give customers access to website traffic statistics through HostPortal without exposing the main cPanel interface.
Use default limits for new domains and individual overrides for email accounts, quota, forwarders, databases, subdomains and FTP accounts.
Check website and SSL health, inspect DNS records, diagnose email routing, SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and review configured subdomains from one place.
The customer contacts you. You log into cPanel, create the mailbox, set the quota and send the details back.
The customer logs into their own HostPortal dashboard, creates the mailbox within the limit you set, and can view the setup information themselves.
The same idea applies across the other HostPortal management tools: give customers useful self-service while you retain control of the main hosting account.
Simple one-time licensing for hosting resellers.
Reseller-controlled customer hosting management for cPanel.
HostPortal gives your customers their own management dashboard while you remain in control of the cPanel account, assigned domains, available features and resource limits.
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