This H-Sphere user guide explains how to administer the extensive features of your control panel - to set up your email accounts and databases, increase your disk space and traffic quotas, configure web statistics, and perform many other important operations... all from your web browser.
If you find that a desired option is not available to you, or if you have any questions, send an email to support@dmgdesigns.com with your request.
Starting With Your Account: your temporary index page, uploading your site, contents of your home directory.
Info/Control Area: account settings, total traffic, disk quota, resource meter, change interface language.
Control Panel Basics: control panel overview, changing your hosting plan, changing your billing period, changing your control panel password, changing your FTP password, changing your traffic limit, changing your disk quota, changing your control panel language.
Registering Domains: creating standard domains, transferring existing domains or registering nonstandard domains, creating domains based on your provider's domain names (third level domains), hosting sites without domain names (stopgap domains), parking external domains, creating accounts without domains.
Configuring Domains: removing domains, instant domain aliases, creating subdomains, shared and dedicated IP hosting, domain aliases, server aliases, renewing domain registration, changing contact/billing info for domains registered through the control panel.
Editing DNS Settings: DNS overview, creating custom DNS records.
Creating, Promoting and Managing Your Site: SiteStudio website builder, search engine submit, WebShell file manager and htProtect, web statistics: log files, Webalizer, ModLogAn and Urchin, reverse traceroute, site toolbox.
Managing FTP: FTP sub-accounts, virtual FTP, anonymous FTP, anonymous FTP upload facilities.
Manipulating Pages: redirect URL, directory indexes, error pages, server side imagemap, MIME types.
Dynamic Web Content: CGI scripts, PHP scripts, ASP (active server pages), ASP.NET, ColdFusion, SSI (server side includes).
Preinstalled CGI Scripts: Counter, guestbook, FormMail, chat, Forum, phpBB forum, mnoGoSearch utility to search your site, FrontPage Extensions, fixing broken scripts.
Traffic: summary traffic, traffic cycle, traffic limit, throttle policy.
Managing Disk Space: summary disk usage, FTP or disk quota, mailbox quota, database quota.
Mailboxes: creating mailboxes, configuring mailboxes, creating mail autoresponders, editing autoresponders, configuring Outlook Express Mail, configuring Netscape Mail, configuring Eudora Mail.
Forwards: creating forwards, configuring forwards, forwarding to multiple addresses.
Mailing Lists: creating mailing lists, configuring mailing lists, adding subscribers to mailing lists, adding moderators to mailing lists, adding message trailers to mailing lists.
Aliases: creating mailbox name aliases, removing mailbox name alias, creating mail domain aliases, removing mail domain aliases.
Mail Autoresponders: creating mail autoresponders, editing mail autoresponders.
MySQL Databases: creating MySQL databases and users, editing MySQL databases (phpMyAdmin), changing MySQL disk quota, changing user passwords, granting user privileges.
PostgreSQL Databases: creating PostgreSQL users, deleting users and changing passwords, creating PostgreSQL databases, editing PostgreSQL databases (phpPgAdmin) and user privileges, changing PostgreSQL disk quota.
Microsoft SQL Databases (Windows accounts only): creating Microsoft SQL logins, creating Microsoft SQL databases, adding Microsoft SQL database users, changing Microsoft SQL quota, managing Microsoft SQL databases through web interface (MS SQL Manager), creating ODBC DSN Records.
Securing Data Through SSL: using an existing key and certificate, creating a temporary key and certificate, acquiring a permanent certificate, renewing permanent certificates, using your provider's certificate (shared SSL).
E-Commerce: Miva Merchant vs. osCommerce, setting up Miva Merchant, setting up osCommerce, updating osCommerce to version 2.2-MS1.
Billing: paying for hosting, creating a billing profile, becoming a pay user, paying with web-based payment systems, enabling automatic email invoicing, billing periods, resource prices, viewing billing history, viewing overall charges, getting your money back.
Getting Technical Support: sending trouble tickets, following up trouble tickets, closing trouble tickets.
Obtaining Direct Access to Server: accessing your SSH account (Shell Access), running your shell scripts with Crontab.
Virtual Private Servers: checking Virtual Private Server status, adding custom DNS Records, changing root password, adding Virtual Private Server IP, changing server limits.
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