User's Guide - 1 - Control Panel Basics

1 Control Panel Basics
1.1 Your Temporary Index Page
1.2 Uploading Your Site
1.3 Contents of Your Home Directory
1.4 Changing Your Hosting Plan
1.5 Changing Your Billing Period
1.6 Changing Your Control Panel Password
1.7 Changing Your FTP Password
1.8 Changing Your Traffic Limit
1.9 Changing Your Disk Quota
1.10 Selecting a Different Skin
1.11 Changing Control Panel Language
1.12 Registering domains
1.12.1 Creating Standard Domains
1.12.2 Transferring Existing Domains or Registering Nonstandard Domains
1.12.3 Creating Domains Based on Your Provider's Domain Names
1.12.4 Parking External Domains
1.12.5 Creating Accounts Without Domains

1.1 Your Temporary Index Page

Right after the registration, an email is created that contains all information that you need to access your cpanel to run your website. It allows you to

administer your user account. Enter your control panel "Login to your Control Panel" with your id and password. This login and password are e-mailed to you at the address you specified at signup.
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This online demo allows you to try out SiteStudio by creating your own web site. After your site has been created, you can see it in the published view by clicking the Publish button on the SiteStudio toolbar. You will not be able to publish your site to any other location, nor use the Counter, Guestbook, or Poll plugins. Neither can you save the results of your work to login and make changes to your work after you logout.

If you need Frontpage activated, please tell us when you sign up. Once you activate Frontpage, any other website built pages will not work on that website.

1.2 Uploading Your Site

Whenever possible, upload your site using the utilities that come with your web-site development software. For instance, if you made your site with SiteStudio, FrontPage or Dreamweaver, use their integrated web publishing tools.
If you made your site with simple text editors, or if your site-building software does not have a publishing utility, use freestanding FTP clients, such as CuteFTP, WS_FTP, or SmartFTP, or the built in File Manager.

Please note that site publishing tools do not remove your old web content from the server. They need to be deleted with an FTP program which is a stand alone program as cited above. For instance, if you used SiteStudio to upload a site with 15 pages and later you published an updated 7 page version of this site, your directory on the server will have all the new pages and the old pages that haven't been overwritten.
If you publish many versions of the website, the site may become cluttered with old files. Warning: If you have a complete website, be careful not to overwrite it with a publish command.

Check your email for uploading: regarding the appropriate directory to load into at the website.

1.3 Contents of Your Home Directory

Your home directory contains several default subdirectories. Their number and names will differ depending on your plan, yet some of them are common for all plans. Here are some of the directories that are automatically created and may not be deleted:

Directories that contain your sites
Each of your sites is put in a separate directory. The name of the directory is the same as your site's domain name. If you have more than one site, you will have several such directories. These are the directories where you will upload your .html files or any other files that you want to make accessible from the Internet.

The stand alone FTP is set up for your website and connects directly to it. Click on /public_html to make sure you load into the correct directory.
Each of these directories contain their own
/mail
/public_ftp
/public_html
directories
and a /www .
The /public_html and /www have the same content "your website." No need to do anything with with /www directory. It is automaticly filled. You will find in these indexes They also have the following:

/public_html/cgi and
/public_html/images
As you will see you can create or change other directories by using the button to the right of this menu. "MkDir" / "ChgDir"

Do not delete either of these directories! Your site is too valuable to lose at a touch of a button.

The Logs directory
It contains directories for every site with transfer log enabled. Each such directory contains its own set of log files that are required to write and read the data about all visits to your sites. Deleting the Logs directory will cause the loss of the web statistics accumulated in the course of your site operation.

The /public_FTP directory.
Its name is the dedicated IP address. This directory is created when you enable Virtual FTP Server and can be accessed by FTP users to list and download its content. There are as many such directories as dedicated IP addresses.
Deleting FTP directories will cause incorrect operation of FTP. However, you may harmlessly delete individual files in these directories.

The subdomain directories
When you make a subdomain, a new directory is created with the subdomain name as the directory name. If you delete a subdomain directory, internet visitors will get the 404 "File not found" error when attempting to access the subdomain.

The /ssl.conf directory (this you would add if you decide to use encryption)
This directory stores SSL pairs for all encrypted sites. Deleting the ssl.conf directory will result in incorrect SSL operation.
Warning: Don't delete ANY default directories in your root directory, as this will cause malfunctions of your acount. As a rule of thumb, you may delete only directories and files you have uploaded yourselves or that have been uploaded by any of your FTP Program and Anonymous FTP users.

1.4 Changing Your Hosting Plan

Your hosting plan determines the services you get with the account and the prices for these services. Big sites with high hit rates and special services require more expensive plans; cheaper plans are suitable for simpler sites.To change to a different plan:

Send us an email to make the adjustment you wish to make. email r421@earthlink.net

Should there be a change in the pricing This is what happens when you switch to a new plan if there is an extra charge:

your current billing period is closed;
your unused recurrent fee is credited to your account;
you are charged any payable amount, including your usage (overlimit) fees;
a new billing period under the new plan starts;
you are charged the recurrent fee for this billing period.

1.5 Changing Your Billing Period

Your billing period determines how far in advance you pay.

Send an email if you wish to change your billing period.

1.6 Changing Your Control Panel Password

You need your control panel password to log into the control panel. Initially, this password is the same as your FTP password, but you can make these two passwords different.

To change the control panel password:

Go to your control panel home.
Click the Change Password icon in the main control area.

1.7 Changing Your FTP Password

You need your FTP password to upload your site to the server. Initially, this password is the same as your Control Panel password, but you can make these two passwords different.

To change the FTP password:

Go to your control panel home.
Click the FTP Manager icon in the main control area.
Click the Change icon next to Password.

1.8 Changing Your Traffic Limit

Traffic limit is the gigabytes of transferred data you pre-pay for at the beginning of the billing period. Every month the system checks if you stay within the limit, and if you don't, you will get an extra charge for the excess. Then your traffic is reset.

Example: Your billing period can only be monthly or annual and begins the day you sign up. It takes 2 - 3 days to make the domain effective to your website address. .However, if you change your total traffic limit on the 15th of November, your traffic will be reset and a new billing month will start fi ther needs to be an extra charge.

1.9 Changing Your Disk Quota

Disk quota is the total server disk space allocated to all your web sites. There should always be several megabytes of unused space in your account to ensure correct performance of statistics reporting utilities. If you wish to know the amount of traffic you have, simply download your log files by following instructions in your cpanel. .

1.10 Selecting a Different Skin

Different control panel skins have different navigation principles.

To change to a different skin:

Click Select a New Skin in the left hand info/control area.
On the page that appears, select the name of the skin in the Choose Design box and click the Choose button.
Select the icon set and click the Set icon.
Set Tooltips state. This option determines whether or not to show assisting hints at the top of each page.

1.11 Changing Control Panel Language

To change the language of the control panel:

Click Change Language in the left hand info/control area.
On the page that appears, select the preferred language from the drop-down box and click Submit.

1.12 Registering domains

To add a new domain name to your account:

Click the Add on Domains icon on your control panel or Park Domains.
Follow instructions given.

1.12.1 Creating Standard Domains

To create a new domain (.com, .net, .org, etc.), enter your desired domain name into the field in the first to see if your desired domain name is available. http://www.domainit.com/domains/

To its right, select the top level domain: .com, org, .net, etc., then enter your contact and billing information. Based on these data, the system generates a domain registration request and submits it to the domain registration company.

1.12.2 Transferring Existing Domains or Registering Nonstandard Domains

To transfer an existing domain or register a nonstandard domain with your account, use the second form:
Go to original registrar and follow instructions.

If you are creating a regional domain (e.g. your_domain.uk) or would like to use a different domain registration company, no automation is provided. Thus, first you need to make sure that you have a valid domain name. Enter it into the lower box, omitting the www. part.

Following the registration you will get an e-mail notification with the information to send to your domain name registration company. They will make appropriate changes on the root DNS servers, and within a couple of days your domain will be accessible at the new IP address. In the meantime, your site will be available by the instant domain alias.

Domain registration is a standard procedure. First, you purchase a domain name from a domain registration company. Second, you register this domain name with your web-hosting provider and get your new IP address. Third, you send this IP address to your domain registration company, where it is set as the IP address for your domain name. It is only then that your site becomes available to all Internet community. This is true both of standard and nonstandard domains. In case of standard domain names, however, the registration process is automated.

1.12.3 Creating Domains Based on Your Provider's Domain Names (Third Level Domains)

Third level domains are registered on your provider's DNS server. You don't need to register a third level domain with a domain registration company. If you choose to create a third level domain, it will contain your provider's domain name. E.g. if your provider's domain name is providersdomain.com, and the third level domain you are registering is mythirdlevel, the fully qualified domain name would be mythirdlevel.providersdomain.com.

Third level domain registration is available only if it is allowed under the selected plan. Functionally, third level domains have same features as second level domains. We provide subdomains only.
To register a third level domain name, enter the desired domain name in the Domain name field. From the box on the right, select provider's domain name where you would like to create the third level domain:

1.12.4 Parking External Domains

This feature allows you to park your domain free. Click on the link that takes you to the area where you can register the domain you wish to park.

1.12.5 Creating Accounts Without Domains

At signup, you can create an account without any domain. If you choose this option, your account won't have the following:

Disk space and account on the web server
FTP
DNS zone
Virtual and Anonymous FTP
Mail service
ODBC support
You can create a domain to this account in the future.
You will be sending pages to us so we can upload them into subdirectory for you which will then be posted in your behalf