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Help |
Provides
a help page and a links to the
Getting Started page that, provides summary
information about all the Control Panel
features.
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Account
Management |
Provides
detailed information about your
account. (More in-depth than the
Account Glance feature of the
Control Panel.)
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File
manager |
Similar
to Microsoft Windows Explorer in
function, the File Manager Option in
the Control Panel allows you to
perform file management tasks such
as creating files and directories, uploading and downloading,
setting the read, write or execute
permissions on the files and
directories in your site, renaming
or deleting files or directories,
and changing the password for
directories that are
password-protected.
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Change
Password |
Using
the Change Password option, you can
change the password for your
account. This affects Control Panel,
FTP and SSH access, but does not
affect the passwords for any e-mail
accounts you set up.
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Miva |
Installs
Miva Empresa, a
program that is necessary if you
want to operate a Miva
Merchant Shopping Cart on your
site.
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Billing
History |
Shows
the entire billing history and
payment balance for your account.
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Resource
Meter |
The
Resource Meter option provides a
detailed view of disk space and
transfer data statistics that are
more detailed than those that show
up in the Resources Available
section of the Control Panel.
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Email
Support |
You
can correspond via e-mail with us by
using the E-mail Support option.
This option allows you to submit a
form-based e-mail directly to our
support staff.
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Phone
Support |
The
Phone Support option not only shows
you the phone number and other
information for technical support, it also shows
you the information that our
hosting company has about you. This
information may be needed during the
support call you place.
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Upgrade |
The Upgrade Control Panel option
allows you to add additional
features to your account and upgrade
your acount to another hosting plan with a simple click.
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Mail
Manager |
The
Mail Manager option provides several
ways of managing the mail accounts
you can set up instantly on your account.
Additionally, Mailing Lists can
be set up for your account, you
can create and manage them using this tool.
Mailboxes for individuals or groups
can be set up using the Mail Manager
option. The number of mailboxes
allowable on your account depends on
the package your purchased from our
hosting company.
E-mail accounts can be set up to
forward to other mail accounts or to
have automatic responses generated
when mail is received by the
original account. Additionally, Mail
Manager allows you to delete e-mail
accounts as well as change passwords
for e-mail accounts.
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Site
Statistics |
Many
statistics about the usage of your
web site are available through the
Site Statistics option in the
Control Panel. The statistics are
amazing. Allowing you to research every visitor to your site and track the referring url, pages, places and times your visitors use to find you and navigate through your site as well as much more information in an easy to understand interface.
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Mailing
List |
The
Mailing List option, once installed,
allows you to create and manage your
own mailing lists, which is an
efficient way of communicating with
many people at one time.
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MS
Frontpage |
If
you are planning on using
Microsoft's FrontPage as the
web-development tool for your site,
you will first need to enable
FrontPage Extensions.
Installing FrontPage extensions for
your site does not install Microsoft
FrontPage on your computer.
FrontPage is a separate software
application which you will need to
purchase and install on your
computer. (Note: Some computers come
equipped with Microsoft FrontPage
pre-installed.)
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Site
Creation
Tool |
The
Site Creation Tool allows you to
create your Web site quickly and
easily. It is an alternative to
using other applications, such as
Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia
Dreamweaver or Netscape Composer.
The tool is self-guided and
self-explanatory, but some detailed
instructions are provided in this
section to help aid you in setting
up your personalized site.
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Counter |
The
Counter option allows you to set up
a hit counter on your site, which
lets you determine how many times
the page on which the counter
resides has been visited. This
counter is displayed on the page and
can be viewed in various counter
styles. Additionally, you can start
the counter at any number you set,
and it will count hits and add them
to that number.
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Protect
Directories |
Using
the Protect Directories option, you
can limit the amount of access users
have to your site. You can specify a
username and password for the
directory you are protecting. Each
protected directory can have
multiple users (each with different
passwords if you prefer) who have
access to it. Additionally, the
Protect Directories option can be
used to remove a user's access from
a protected directory.
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Redirect
URL |
The
Redirect URL option allows you to
change the file that appears when a
user enters a specific file's web
address.
Example:
There are a number of old URLs for
your site's home page that are no
longer current, yet people still use
them cause they are listed in the engines or for other reasons. You don't really want people
going to those to get an outdated page or are worried or they'll get an error.
Set up redirection for those
URLs, so that when users enter them
into their web browsers, the page that you want your visitors to see displays instead.
If set up to forward from your domain to
another existing website on the web,
visitors will be transported
instantly to the url of your choice.
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Search
Engine |
The
Search Engine Options allows you to
install the WebGlimpse Search Engine
on your site. This tool allows users
to perform searches for content on
your site. Click here to see it in action.
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Form
Creation
Tool |
Formmail
allows you to create and use a web page form to receive a categorized and focused
e-mail from your users using a perl script pre-installed on your server, with the form code described in easy to understand detail on this tool. There are a large variety of different functions a web based form can perform. The Form Creation Tool
option provides step-by-step
instructions on how to set this up
on your website.
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PGP |
PGP,
which stands for Pretty Good
Privacy, is a method of encryption
you can apply to scripts that run on
your web site along with the e-mail
you send through it.
PGP is software that you buy over
the counter or on the web. Using
this software, you generate your own
PGP encryption "key". You
must do this before you can make use
of the PGP option in the Control
Panel. This is perfect for e-commerce applications.
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Mime
Types |
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) - The standard for attaching non-text files to standard Internet mail messages. Non-text files include graphics, spreadsheets, formatted word-processor documents, sound files, etc.
Generally speaking the MIME standard is a way of specifying both the type of file being sent (e.g. a Quicktime video file), and the method that should be used to turn it back into its original form.
Besides email software, the MIME standard is also universally used by Web Servers to identify the files they are sending to Web Clients, in this way new file formats can be accommodated simply by updating the Browsers' list of pairs of MIME-Types and appropriate software for handling each type.
Mirror Mime Types represent file types as
presented to your web browser. The
Mime Type option in the Control
Panel allows you to specify which
types of files you can use with
any web browser interface.
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Anonymous
FTP |
Anonymous
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a
method by which your guests can
download or upload content (files) to an ftp://
directory on your server or download or upload files on their computer to and from your site.
To make use of Anonymous FTP, your
users would only need the FTP
utility included in their operating
system, or one of several
available FTP programs, such as
WS-FTP or Cute FTP.
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Archive
Manager |
The
Archive Manager option provides a
method of backing up files on your
site by compressing them. It is
always good practice to back up
files in case damage should occur to
original files. Compressing files
allows you to reduce the amount of
storage space your files take up,
thus freeing more space for you to
work with on your site.
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PGP
Mail |
The
PGP Mail option provides you with
instructions for using PGP Mail in
forms on your site. This option
should be used in conjunction with
the PGP and Formmail options.
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SSH |
Utilizing SSH (Secure Shell) software
on your PC, you can use this option
to telnet securely into your site's
server (uses RSA authentication created by your server).
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Secure
Server |
Allows
you to install a (Thawte/Verisign) secure certificate
on your site. This option helps you
generate a encrypted site certificate request for your secure server.
This certificate can then be purchased
from either Thawte/Verisign
and installed via this option on your control panel.
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MySQL
Database |
The
MySQL option in the Control Panel
allows the setup of a MySQL database
on your site. Once the database has
been installed, there is
documentation available within the
MySQL Option for managing the
database. This procedure shows you
how to install MySQL and provides a
basic overview of the screens you
can expect to see within this
option. Multiple databases are available.
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Shopping
Cart |
The
AlaCart Shopping Cart option is an
easy-to-use e-commerce utility pre-installed on your site. It allows
you to sell merchandise via the shopping cart on your site
and gives your customers a very
user-friendly way to quickly find
and purchase merchandise.
Additionally, new features for the
AlaCart Shopping Cart are being
developed which will further enhance
the capabilities of this resourceful
tool.
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Network
Trouble
Shooter |
Allows you to use the Traceroute
utility which shows the path on the
web that information travels in
order to get from one location to
another.
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News
Letter |
Displays
different issues of the our
newsletter to you.
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Submit
Sites to
Search
Engines |
The
Submit Site to Search Engines option
is a powerful tool that allows you
to quickly list your web site on
some of the most popular search engine
indexes.
This is an effective way of ensuring
that the site you create gets an
optimal audience and web traffic.
While you can submit your site to
search engines without the aid of
this option, it can be a very time
consuming process. The Submit Site
to Search Engines option makes the
process a quick and easy one. It is
up to the search engines alone
whether or not to list your site in
their index but if you don't submit your site then for sure you will not be indexed. |
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