{"id":11237,"date":"2025-01-23T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T09:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/blog\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:20:19","slug":"how-create-non-cpanel-directadmin-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/how-create-non-cpanel-directadmin-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create your First non-cPanel, Plesk, or DirectAdmin Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11491 size-full\" title=\"How to Create your First non-cPanel, Plesk, or DirectAdmin Server\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-05_48_49-PM.png\" alt=\"How to Create your First non-cPanel, Plesk, or DirectAdmin Server\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-05_48_49-PM.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-05_48_49-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-05_48_49-PM-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-05_48_49-PM-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>How to Create your First non-cPanel, Plesk, or DirectAdmin Server<\/h1>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"text-content_1F3F8B80-5F0D-0137-2CDE-02A3558A9424\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<p>Before you can sell and provision hosting accounts, you must add at least one server to your WHMCS installation. WHMCS supports many server types and the process for adding each type is similar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock screensteps-wrapper--info screensteps-wrapper\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"status\" aria-label=\"info\">\n<div id=\"text-content_3b98db86-587f-47ee-a924-e554bf12a11d\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<blockquote><p>Use the steps below to configure a server using any of our\u00a0supported server modules.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"step step-depth-1\" data-step-uuid=\"108f15a0-511f-4d1e-9fcb-30ecb4d46cd6\">\n<h2 id=\"creating-a-server\" tabindex=\"0\">Creating a Server<\/h2>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"text-content_1F3FE7E0-5F0D-0137-2CE2-02A3558A9424\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<p>To add your server to WHMCS:<\/p>\n<p>1. Go to\u00a0<strong>Configuration &gt; System Settings &gt; Servers<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>Setup &gt; Products\/Services &gt; Servers<\/strong>\u00a0in WHMCS 7.10 and earlier).<\/p>\n<p>2. Click\u00a0<strong>Add New Server.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3. Select your server&#8217;s control panel for\u00a0<strong>Module<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>4. Enter the server information that your module requires. For example, most modules require the server IP address or hostname and your access credentials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock screensteps-wrapper--tip screensteps-wrapper\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"status\" aria-label=\"tip\">\n<div id=\"text-content_1F3FFBE0-5F0D-0137-2CE3-02A3558A9424\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<blockquote><p>For help with these details, contact your hosting provider or system administrator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"text-content_1F405290-5F0D-0137-2CE7-02A3558A9424\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<p>5. Click\u00a0<strong>Test Connection\u00a0<\/strong>to ensure that WHMCS is able to communicate. A success message will appear.<\/p>\n<p>6. Click\u00a0<strong>Save Changes.\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0<strong>Servers<\/strong>\u00a0interface will appear and display the newly created server in the list<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ea07cf45-2a2e-4afa-80e0-a7a7f28c9d81.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ea07cf45-2a2e-4afa-80e0-a7a7f28c9d81.png 618w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ea07cf45-2a2e-4afa-80e0-a7a7f28c9d81-300x79.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Create your First non-cPanel, Plesk, or DirectAdmin Server Before you can sell and provision hosting accounts, you must&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whmcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11492,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions\/11492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}