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title: Admin overview
description: What WHP super admin unlocks — server-wide controls for services, mail, DNS, security, monitoring, and users.
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import Support from '~/content/partials/support-link.mdx';

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## What super admin unlocks

WHP's super admin role exposes server-wide pages alongside the customer-facing nav. The customer pages (Sites, Domains, Email, etc.) work identically for everyone; the admin pages sit alongside them and are gated to the super admin only.

**Today, the only super admin is the `root` user on the server.** There's no UI to add another super admin — if you need additional people to have super admin, share the root credentials via your usual secret-sharing flow (or [open a ticket](https://secure.anhonesthost.com/submitticket.php) if you need a different model).

This typically applies to customers running a [Virtual Dedicated Server](https://anhonesthost.com/vds) — they get full server control as part of the plan and sign in to WHP as `root`.

### Signing in as super admin

import AdminSignIn from '~/content/partials/admin-signin.mdx';

<AdminSignIn />

## Admin-only sidebar sections

When you sign in as a super admin, these sections appear in addition to the customer-facing nav:

- **AI Monitor** — the admin dashboard, plus **Issues**, **Site Reports**, and **Ignore Rules**.
- **Security Management** — security policy across the server.
- **Coraza Rules** — Web-application firewall (WAF) rule tuning, audit, and global mode.
- **User Management** — create WHP users, set account types, manage existing users.
- **User Resources** — per-user CPU/RAM/disk allowances and current usage.
- **Delegated Users** — list of contractor / sub-account access grants.
- **Active Sessions** — every signed-in browser across the server.
- **Server Settings** — System, Services, Mail, DNS, Network & SSL, Security tabs.
- **Disk Usage** — server-wide disk consumption breakdown.
- **Announcements Management** — edit the announcements that appear on every customer's dashboard.
- **Update Management** — apply WHP platform updates.
- **Docker Management** — see and manage every container on the host.
- **Valkey Admin** — server-wide Valkey configuration.
- **Container Boot & Health** — boot-order and per-container health.
- **Site Disable Audit** — record of sites disabled / re-enabled.
- **Account Suspensions** — suspended customer accounts.

## What's in this section

- **[Server settings & services](/whp/admin/server-settings/)** — the six tabs under Server Settings: system info, restart services, mail-server config, DNS / nameservers, HAProxy + SSL, and integration API keys.
- **[Coraza WAF rules](/whp/admin/coraza-waf/)** — set the global WAF mode, tune individual rules, and audit blocked requests.
- **[AI Monitor, Issues & Ignore Rules](/whp/admin/site-monitoring/)** — the three pages that drive the Site Monitoring add-on.
- **[Users & delegated access](/whp/admin/user-management/)** — create accounts, set account types, delegate access, and handle suspensions.
- **[Backups](/whp/admin/backups/)** — configure the default backup target so customer auto-backups start running. Full-server backups are a separate, plan-dependent concern.
- **[Data-drive encryption (LUKS)](/whp/admin/data-drive-encryption/)** — optional at-rest encryption of the `/docker` data volume. Available only on new server installs; adds a manual unlock step after every reboot.

## Things to know before you change server-wide settings

- **One change can affect every site on the server.** Where customer-side pages scope changes to one site, admin pages typically scope to the whole server.
- **Service restarts are visible to live traffic.** Restart Apache or PHP-FPM during a quiet window when possible.
- **Customer backups don't cover server config.** The [customer backups](/whp/how-to/backups/) you've configured snapshot site files and databases, not server-level changes you make by hand. Server config lives in several places — not just `/etc` — so the right safety net is a **full-server backup**. On AnHonestHost-managed plans and VDS we handle that for you; running WHP elsewhere, the operator is responsible. See [Backups](/whp/admin/backups/) for the full picture.

## Related

- [What is containerized hosting?](/whp/getting-started/what-is-containerized-hosting/) — differences between container plans and full server access.

## Still stuck?

<Support />