This document introduces you to the main parts of the info/control area:
Account settings are listed at the top of the info/control area.
This is the total amount of information transferred to and from your account by Internet visitors and yourself from the beginning of the current billing month.
Example: If your billing period is 2 months long and started on the 5th of October, the first billing month will end on the 5th of November, and your total traffic will be reset. However, if you change your total traffic limit, your traffic will be reset and a new billing month will start.
If you expect to run up more traffic than comes with your plan, it's a good idea to raise your traffic limit. To do so, click the second icon:
Total traffic limit is the amount of traffic you pay for in advance. It is charged at the recurrent fee. However:
You can always buy additional amount of the resource in order not to be charged the extra payment.
The system e-mails you a notification when you have used 80% of the traffic limit.
Control Panel navigation is not included into the total traffic.
This is the disk space you are actively using out of the disk space allocated to your account. There should always be several megabytes of slack (unused space) to ensure correct performance of statistics reporting utilities, such as Webalizer or Modlogan. Click the Change icon to buy extra disk storage if you presume it is insufficient:
Resource meter shows how much of your resources you have used, how much you have free, and how much you can have at most in this account:
This option will change all texts in the control panel, including labels, system notes, context online help, etc.
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