| Control
Panel in English - Spanish - German - French |
| Our
web hosting control panel gives you tools, utilities and
24 hour control over your web hosting account and
website pages. This extraordinary interface offers you a
quick and easy way to view your account-related
information and provides access to the options that come
with your account. With a click of your mouse, you can
administer your web space, e-mail accounts, directories,
cgi-bin and all the special features offered, including
site statistics and shopping carts. |
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Option |
Description |
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Web
Site Builder |
The
Web Site Builderl 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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Shopping
Cart |
Our
State of the Art MyWebSiteTool.com Shopping Cart is an
easy-to-use e-commerce utility automated with step by step
instructions on this 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. FREE FOR 30 DAYS! View our Automated Secure
Shopping cart Demo for more info... available with or without
a web hosting package! |
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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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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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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. |
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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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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. |
