Using the Christian Web Host Administrative 
Suite Control Panel

Getting Started 

The Administration Suite makes managing your web space fun and easy. This extraordinary interface offers you a way to quickly view account-related information and provides easy access to the wide variety of tools and utilities that come with your account. With the click of a mouse, you can administer your web space, e-mail accounts, directories, and site statistics. You have control and flexibility to make changes within your own time frame and according to your own particular business needs.

The above graphic is just a sample. Any of the above options that are grayed out or missing from your actual Administrative Suite panel are not available with your specific package. 

Contact We Design Web Sites with all of your support questions. 

Account Glance Account Management Administrative Link Anonymous FTP Archive Manager
Billing History Change Password Control Panel Language Counter Email Support
File Manager Formmail Mail Manager Mailing List Mime Types
MySQL Database MS Front Page Network Trouble Shooter Newsletter  PGP
PGP Mail Protect Directories Redirect URL Resource Meter Resources Available
Secure Server Search Engine Shopping Cart Site Creation Tool Site Statistics
SSH Submit Site to Search Engines Upgrade CP

Account Glance

  • The Account Glance section of the Control Panel allows you to view the following basic information about your account.
  • Domain Name: Shows the domain name of the account that is being used.

  • Domain User: Shows the username for the account that is being used.

  • Domain IP: Shows the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the account that is being used.  This domain IP address is equivalent to the alphabetical domain name.

  • Package: Shows the package title under which this account is currently set up.

  • E-mail: The e-mail address of the account owner.

  • Contract Length: The duration of time in the contract for which you signed up.

  • Status: Shows the current status of the account. The various statuses are Normal, Suspended and Grace Period.  Occasionally, the status of Deleted is also used though not necessarily on this screen.

  • Signup Date: Shows the date the contract and account were started.

Account Management

The Account Management Option will give you a detailed description of your Account Information. It includes your username, your package option, your activation date, contract length, etc. If you need to change any billing information, this is the place to do it. 

Administrative Link at the Top

This link takes you back to the main page (screen shot above) from any area that you are in when you are within the administrative suite.

Anonymous FTP

Not available for all packages. Anonymous FTP is the ability to upload and/or download files from a server without having a login username and password.  

Archive Manager

The Archive Manager will allow you to backup and compress your files. For example, if you have a number of files for which you wish to keep a backup, you can select all the files, then create a backup file that contains all of them in compressed format. Note that the compressed file will count against your disk quota.

Billing History

This option will show this account's entire billing history. It will also display your current payment balance.

Change Password

This will allow you to change your password. Note that this will change the ftp and Control Panel password, but *not* the email passwords for your different email accounts. To change the email password, use the Mail Manager. Also, changing your password here will not change your Front Page password and if you change your password in the Control Panel, you will also need to change your password in your Front Page program. 

Control Panel Language

The Control Panel Language setting allows you to switch among English and Spanish. Once you have changed this setting, all of the files in the Control Panel (all the tools, help pages, etc.) will be displayed in the new language.  Simply reselect the other language to switch back.

Currently, the language options available are English, Spanish and German. (The addition of French is planned for the near future.)

1. From the Language drop-down list, select the language for your Control Panel.
2. Select the Change Language button. The Control Panel reappears in the selected language.

Counter

From this option, you can verify that the counter program is installed for your account. Also, you can find directions for setting up a counter on one of your pages. Finally, after the counter has been installed on your pages, you can set the value of the counter from here.

Email Support

Contact We Design Web Sites with all of your support questions. 

File Manager

The File Manager is a very powerful feature. It allows you to manipulate all the files in your web site. You are able to create, delete, and rename your files. You can also upload files from your local PC to the server in File Manager. Plus, you can edit the HTML in any of your files from this option. Everything you need to manage your site can be found in this feature.

Never delete any file in your domain that you did not put there. There must be certain files and folders there in order for everything to work.

NEVER DELETE THE FOLLOWING FOLDERS IN YOUR ROOT DIRECTORY: 

  • yourdomain-www
  • yourdomain-secure-www
  • www
  • yourdomain-mail
  • yourdomain-logs
  • cgi-bin
  • stats

Formmail

Formmail allows you to use a form to receive email from your users.  Formmail.pl is already set up in our global cgi-bin and you call it in your forms like this:  /cgi-sys/formmail.pl  Click on your Formmail icon to learn more about what options you have to use with it. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed.

Mail Manager

The Mail Manager is where you can manage all aspects of your email accounts. You can add, edit, and delete email accounts. You can also change the password on any of your email accounts. Plus, if you have Mailing Lists installed, you would go here to set them up. Finally, this is where you go if you wish to set up email aliases.  Click here for some detailed instructions on how to set up your email accounts.

Mailing List

This Options allows you to install the Mailing List program. After it has been installed, you need to create and maintain your mailing lists with the Mail Manager. You can also remove the mailing list program after it has been installed if you do not wish to use it.  

Mime Types

MIME Types allows you to set certain programs to be used for specific extensions. For example, all files that end in .ram would be set to use Real Player on the user's PC. Most users do not need this feature. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed.

MS Front Page

The MS Front Page option allows you to install Front Page extensions - which are necessary in order to use Front Page with your site. You can also verify that they are installed, or remove them if you do not wish to use them anymore. Front Page was enabled when we set up your account.

MySQL Database

MySQL is a database engine that you can use with your web site. This feature of the CP will allow you to create a new MySQL database, and manage it. You will be able to add/edit/delete tables, fields, and values. You can also run queries on the database.

Network Trouble Shooter

The Network Trouble Shooter allows you to perform a traceroute from our server to your local PC. You may also trace from your web site on our server to any other location on the Internet. A traceroute shows the path that information travels over the Internet to go from one location to another. If you are experiencing slowness or problems when connecting to your web site, you can use this to see a snapshot of where the problem is occurring. If you can't get to your site, there are instructions on how to do a trace route from your computer here.

Newsletter

This option will display the different issues of our newsletter

PGP

This option will allow you to set up your PGP key on the server. This allows you to use PGP in your scripts or with our PGPMail script. You must first have PGP installed on your local PC, and create a PGP key pair before uploading the key to the server.  PGP is necessary if you use our shopping cart because any information sent through email is not safe even if you take the information on a secure server. (see the PGPMail icon for instructions on how to use it) 

PGP Mail

PGPMail is simply the Formmail script, except that it encrypts the email via PGP before it is sent to the client. This option includes directions for using PGPMail. Note that you must upload your PGP key before you can use this script. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed.

Protect Directories

Using this option, you can password-protect any directory you own (make sure you don't password protect that main directory, though!). This will prevent users from viewing the contents of a directory unless they have permission (ie. you give them the username and password). You can set any number of users using this feature. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed. If you have a directory that you do not want to be password protected, please contact us. 

Redirect URL

Redirect URL allows you to set up a redirection so that user that type in one URL will automatically be sent to another URL. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed. If you have a page that you wish to redirect, please contact us. 

Resource Meter

This shows how much server space and bandwidth (transfer) you have taken up. To say a little about transfer:  If you have a page that is 25k in size and 3 images that are 25k each and a midi file that is 75k, then when someone looks at that one page, it will take up 175k worth of transfer.

Resources Available

The Resources Available section of the Control Panel displays how many of your account's resources have been used and how many remain free.  The following resource statistics are displayed here:

  • Disk Quota: Displays the figure, in megabytes, of how much disk space your account has used and how much remains available to you.

  • E-Mail: Displays the number of e-mail accounts you already have and the number that are still free for your use and set up.

  • Mailing List: Displays the number of mailing lists you are currently maintaining and the number you can still set up.

  • Transfer: Displays the amount of data that has been transferred via the current account.

Search Engine

This feature will allow you to install and manage the Web Glimpse Search Engine on your site. This Search Engine will allow your users to perform searches from your web site. 

Secure Server

This option is for if you want to install a secure certificate that you purchase out at http://www.thawte.com/   If you do not want to have your own certificate, you can use ours to call your domain pages securely. 

Shopping Cart

Not available for all packages. The Shopping Cart feature installs or removes the AlaCart Shopping Cart program on your site. After it is installed, you are given directions for managing the Cart.

Site Creation Tool

This is a graphical web-based program that gives you the ability to set up your web site from scratch, without any knowledge of HTML, or the use of a program like MS FrontPage. After the site is created, you can make it your main domain's page, or you can have it as a subdirectory under your main domain.  

Site Statistics

The Site Statistics feature gives you access to your site's web statistics, such as hits, transfers, etc.  If you are having trouble understanding how to interpret those results, go to this site: http://www.netstore.de/Supply/http-analyze/results.html

SSH

If you need telnet access to our servers, it can only be done using SSH. We have it set up to use RSA authentication. You will need to create a key using your PC's SSH software, then use this feature to upload the key to our servers. Once it is uploaded, you will be able to connect to our servers using SSH after contacting us to enable SSH on your server.  You will need to fax us a copy of your driver's license and your signature before we can enable it.  Please email us for instructions.

Submit Site to Search Engines

Most of the links here are outdated. See our Marketing Guide or e for recent and comprehensive search engine links.

Upgrade CP

This is the area where you can upgrade your account automatically at any time of day.  If you find out that you need more space, just click this button and you can upgrade in a matter of minutes.

 
Using the Christian Web Host Administrative 
Suite Control Panel

Getting Started 

The Administration Suite makes managing your web space fun and easy. This extraordinary interface offers you a way to quickly view account-related information and provides easy access to the wide variety of tools and utilities that come with your account. With the click of a mouse, you can administer your web space, e-mail accounts, directories, and site statistics. You have control and flexibility to make changes within your own time frame and according to your own particular business needs.

The above graphic is just a sample. Any of the above options that are grayed out or missing from your actual Administrative Suite panel are not available with your specific package. 

Contact We Design Web Sites with all of your support questions. 

Account Glance Account Management Administrative Link Anonymous FTP Archive Manager
Billing History Change Password Control Panel Language Counter Email Support
File Manager Formmail Mail Manager Mailing List Mime Types
MySQL Database MS Front Page Network Trouble Shooter Newsletter  PGP
PGP Mail Protect Directories Redirect URL Resource Meter Resources Available
Secure Server Search Engine Shopping Cart Site Creation Tool Site Statistics
SSH Submit Site to Search Engines Upgrade CP

Account Glance

  • The Account Glance section of the Control Panel allows you to view the following basic information about your account.
  • Domain Name: Shows the domain name of the account that is being used.

  • Domain User: Shows the username for the account that is being used.

  • Domain IP: Shows the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the account that is being used.  This domain IP address is equivalent to the alphabetical domain name.

  • Package: Shows the package title under which this account is currently set up.

  • E-mail: The e-mail address of the account owner.

  • Contract Length: The duration of time in the contract for which you signed up.

  • Status: Shows the current status of the account. The various statuses are Normal, Suspended and Grace Period.  Occasionally, the status of Deleted is also used though not necessarily on this screen.

  • Signup Date: Shows the date the contract and account were started.

Account Management

The Account Management Option will give you a detailed description of your Account Information. It includes your username, your package option, your activation date, contract length, etc. If you need to change any billing information, this is the place to do it. 

Administrative Link at the Top

This link takes you back to the main page (screen shot above) from any area that you are in when you are within the administrative suite.

Anonymous FTP

Not available for all packages. Anonymous FTP is the ability to upload and/or download files from a server without having a login username and password.  

Archive Manager

The Archive Manager will allow you to backup and compress your files. For example, if you have a number of files for which you wish to keep a backup, you can select all the files, then create a backup file that contains all of them in compressed format. Note that the compressed file will count against your disk quota.

Billing History

This option will show this account's entire billing history. It will also display your current payment balance.

Change Password

This will allow you to change your password. Note that this will change the ftp and Control Panel password, but *not* the email passwords for your different email accounts. To change the email password, use the Mail Manager. Also, changing your password here will not change your Front Page password and if you change your password in the Control Panel, you will also need to change your password in your Front Page program. 

Control Panel Language

The Control Panel Language setting allows you to switch among English and Spanish. Once you have changed this setting, all of the files in the Control Panel (all the tools, help pages, etc.) will be displayed in the new language.  Simply reselect the other language to switch back.

Currently, the language options available are English, Spanish and German. (The addition of French is planned for the near future.)

1. From the Language drop-down list, select the language for your Control Panel.
2. Select the Change Language button. The Control Panel reappears in the selected language.

Counter

From this option, you can verify that the counter program is installed for your account. Also, you can find directions for setting up a counter on one of your pages. Finally, after the counter has been installed on your pages, you can set the value of the counter from here.

Email Support

Contact We Design Web Sites with all of your support questions. 

File Manager

The File Manager is a very powerful feature. It allows you to manipulate all the files in your web site. You are able to create, delete, and rename your files. You can also upload files from your local PC to the server in File Manager. Plus, you can edit the HTML in any of your files from this option. Everything you need to manage your site can be found in this feature.

Never delete any file in your domain that you did not put there. There must be certain files and folders there in order for everything to work.

NEVER DELETE THE FOLLOWING FOLDERS IN YOUR ROOT DIRECTORY: 

  • yourdomain-www
  • yourdomain-secure-www
  • www
  • yourdomain-mail
  • yourdomain-logs
  • cgi-bin
  • stats

Formmail

Formmail allows you to use a form to receive email from your users.  Formmail.pl is already set up in our global cgi-bin and you call it in your forms like this:  /cgi-sys/formmail.pl  Click on your Formmail icon to learn more about what options you have to use with it. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed.

Mail Manager

The Mail Manager is where you can manage all aspects of your email accounts. You can add, edit, and delete email accounts. You can also change the password on any of your email accounts. Plus, if you have Mailing Lists installed, you would go here to set them up. Finally, this is where you go if you wish to set up email aliases.  Click here for some detailed instructions on how to set up your email accounts.

Mailing List

This Options allows you to install the Mailing List program. After it has been installed, you need to create and maintain your mailing lists with the Mail Manager. You can also remove the mailing list program after it has been installed if you do not wish to use it.  

Mime Types

MIME Types allows you to set certain programs to be used for specific extensions. For example, all files that end in .ram would be set to use Real Player on the user's PC. Most users do not need this feature. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed.

MS Front Page

The MS Front Page option allows you to install Front Page extensions - which are necessary in order to use Front Page with your site. You can also verify that they are installed, or remove them if you do not wish to use them anymore. Front Page was enabled when we set up your account.

MySQL Database

MySQL is a database engine that you can use with your web site. This feature of the CP will allow you to create a new MySQL database, and manage it. You will be able to add/edit/delete tables, fields, and values. You can also run queries on the database.

Network Trouble Shooter

The Network Trouble Shooter allows you to perform a traceroute from our server to your local PC. You may also trace from your web site on our server to any other location on the Internet. A traceroute shows the path that information travels over the Internet to go from one location to another. If you are experiencing slowness or problems when connecting to your web site, you can use this to see a snapshot of where the problem is occurring. If you can't get to your site, there are instructions on how to do a trace route from your computer here.

Newsletter

This option will display the different issues of our newsletter

PGP

This option will allow you to set up your PGP key on the server. This allows you to use PGP in your scripts or with our PGPMail script. You must first have PGP installed on your local PC, and create a PGP key pair before uploading the key to the server.  PGP is necessary if you use our shopping cart because any information sent through email is not safe even if you take the information on a secure server. (see the PGPMail icon for instructions on how to use it) 

PGP Mail

PGPMail is simply the Formmail script, except that it encrypts the email via PGP before it is sent to the client. This option includes directions for using PGPMail. Note that you must upload your PGP key before you can use this script. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed.

Protect Directories

Using this option, you can password-protect any directory you own (make sure you don't password protect that main directory, though!). This will prevent users from viewing the contents of a directory unless they have permission (ie. you give them the username and password). You can set any number of users using this feature. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed. If you have a directory that you do not want to be password protected, please contact us. 

Redirect URL

Redirect URL allows you to set up a redirection so that user that type in one URL will automatically be sent to another URL. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed. If you have a page that you wish to redirect, please contact us. 

Resource Meter

This shows how much server space and bandwidth (transfer) you have taken up. To say a little about transfer:  If you have a page that is 25k in size and 3 images that are 25k each and a midi file that is 75k, then when someone looks at that one page, it will take up 175k worth of transfer.

Resources Available

The Resources Available section of the Control Panel displays how many of your account's resources have been used and how many remain free.  The following resource statistics are displayed here:

  • Disk Quota: Displays the figure, in megabytes, of how much disk space your account has used and how much remains available to you.

  • E-Mail: Displays the number of e-mail accounts you already have and the number that are still free for your use and set up.

  • Mailing List: Displays the number of mailing lists you are currently maintaining and the number you can still set up.

  • Transfer: Displays the amount of data that has been transferred via the current account.

Search Engine

This feature will allow you to install and manage the Web Glimpse Search Engine on your site. This Search Engine will allow your users to perform searches from your web site. 

Secure Server

This option is for if you want to install a secure certificate that you purchase out at http://www.thawte.com/   If you do not want to have your own certificate, you can use ours to call your domain pages securely. 

Shopping Cart

Not available for all packages. The Shopping Cart feature installs or removes the AlaCart Shopping Cart program on your site. After it is installed, you are given directions for managing the Cart.

Site Creation Tool

This is a graphical web-based program that gives you the ability to set up your web site from scratch, without any knowledge of HTML, or the use of a program like MS FrontPage. After the site is created, you can make it your main domain's page, or you can have it as a subdirectory under your main domain.  

Site Statistics

The Site Statistics feature gives you access to your site's web statistics, such as hits, transfers, etc.  If you are having trouble understanding how to interpret those results, go to this site: http://www.netstore.de/Supply/http-analyze/results.html

SSH

If you need telnet access to our servers, it can only be done using SSH. We have it set up to use RSA authentication. You will need to create a key using your PC's SSH software, then use this feature to upload the key to our servers. Once it is uploaded, you will be able to connect to our servers using SSH after contacting us to enable SSH on your server.  You will need to fax us a copy of your driver's license and your signature before we can enable it.  Please email us for instructions.

Submit Site to Search Engines

Most of the links here are outdated. See our Marketing Guide or e for recent and comprehensive search engine links.

Upgrade CP

This is the area where you can upgrade your account automatically at any time of day.  If you find out that you need more space, just click this button and you can upgrade in a matter of minutes.

 
Using the Christian Web Host Administrative 
Suite Control Panel

Getting Started 

The Administration Suite makes managing your web space fun and easy. This extraordinary interface offers you a way to quickly view account-related information and provides easy access to the wide variety of tools and utilities that come with your account. With the click of a mouse, you can administer your web space, e-mail accounts, directories, and site statistics. You have control and flexibility to make changes within your own time frame and according to your own particular business needs.

The above graphic is just a sample. Any of the above options that are grayed out or missing from your actual Administrative Suite panel are not available with your specific package. 

Contact We Design Web Sites with all of your support questions. 

Account Glance Account Management Administrative Link Anonymous FTP Archive Manager
Billing History Change Password Control Panel Language Counter Email Support
File Manager Formmail Mail Manager Mailing List Mime Types
MySQL Database MS Front Page Network Trouble Shooter Newsletter  PGP
PGP Mail Protect Directories Redirect URL Resource Meter Resources Available
Secure Server Search Engine Shopping Cart Site Creation Tool Site Statistics
SSH Submit Site to Search Engines Upgrade CP

Account Glance

  • The Account Glance section of the Control Panel allows you to view the following basic information about your account.
  • Domain Name: Shows the domain name of the account that is being used.

  • Domain User: Shows the username for the account that is being used.

  • Domain IP: Shows the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the account that is being used.  This domain IP address is equivalent to the alphabetical domain name.

  • Package: Shows the package title under which this account is currently set up.

  • E-mail: The e-mail address of the account owner.

  • Contract Length: The duration of time in the contract for which you signed up.

  • Status: Shows the current status of the account. The various statuses are Normal, Suspended and Grace Period.  Occasionally, the status of Deleted is also used though not necessarily on this screen.

  • Signup Date: Shows the date the contract and account were started.

Account Management

The Account Management Option will give you a detailed description of your Account Information. It includes your username, your package option, your activation date, contract length, etc. If you need to change any billing information, this is the place to do it. 

Administrative Link at the Top

This link takes you back to the main page (screen shot above) from any area that you are in when you are within the administrative suite.

Anonymous FTP

Not available for all packages. Anonymous FTP is the ability to upload and/or download files from a server without having a login username and password.  

Archive Manager

The Archive Manager will allow you to backup and compress your files. For example, if you have a number of files for which you wish to keep a backup, you can select all the files, then create a backup file that contains all of them in compressed format. Note that the compressed file will count against your disk quota.

Billing History

This option will show this account's entire billing history. It will also display your current payment balance.

Change Password

This will allow you to change your password. Note that this will change the ftp and Control Panel password, but *not* the email passwords for your different email accounts. To change the email password, use the Mail Manager. Also, changing your password here will not change your Front Page password and if you change your password in the Control Panel, you will also need to change your password in your Front Page program. 

Control Panel Language

The Control Panel Language setting allows you to switch among English and Spanish. Once you have changed this setting, all of the files in the Control Panel (all the tools, help pages, etc.) will be displayed in the new language.  Simply reselect the other language to switch back.

Currently, the language options available are English, Spanish and German. (The addition of French is planned for the near future.)

1. From the Language drop-down list, select the language for your Control Panel.
2. Select the Change Language button. The Control Panel reappears in the selected language.

Counter

From this option, you can verify that the counter program is installed for your account. Also, you can find directions for setting up a counter on one of your pages. Finally, after the counter has been installed on your pages, you can set the value of the counter from here.

Email Support

Contact We Design Web Sites with all of your support questions. 

File Manager

The File Manager is a very powerful feature. It allows you to manipulate all the files in your web site. You are able to create, delete, and rename your files. You can also upload files from your local PC to the server in File Manager. Plus, you can edit the HTML in any of your files from this option. Everything you need to manage your site can be found in this feature.

Never delete any file in your domain that you did not put there. There must be certain files and folders there in order for everything to work.

NEVER DELETE THE FOLLOWING FOLDERS IN YOUR ROOT DIRECTORY: 

  • yourdomain-www
  • yourdomain-secure-www
  • www
  • yourdomain-mail
  • yourdomain-logs
  • cgi-bin
  • stats

Formmail

Formmail allows you to use a form to receive email from your users.  Formmail.pl is already set up in our global cgi-bin and you call it in your forms like this:  /cgi-sys/formmail.pl  Click on your Formmail icon to learn more about what options you have to use with it. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed.

Mail Manager

The Mail Manager is where you can manage all aspects of your email accounts. You can add, edit, and delete email accounts. You can also change the password on any of your email accounts. Plus, if you have Mailing Lists installed, you would go here to set them up. Finally, this is where you go if you wish to set up email aliases.  Click here for some detailed instructions on how to set up your email accounts.

Mailing List

This Options allows you to install the Mailing List program. After it has been installed, you need to create and maintain your mailing lists with the Mail Manager. You can also remove the mailing list program after it has been installed if you do not wish to use it.  

Mime Types

MIME Types allows you to set certain programs to be used for specific extensions. For example, all files that end in .ram would be set to use Real Player on the user's PC. Most users do not need this feature. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed.

MS Front Page

The MS Front Page option allows you to install Front Page extensions - which are necessary in order to use Front Page with your site. You can also verify that they are installed, or remove them if you do not wish to use them anymore. Front Page was enabled when we set up your account.

MySQL Database

MySQL is a database engine that you can use with your web site. This feature of the CP will allow you to create a new MySQL database, and manage it. You will be able to add/edit/delete tables, fields, and values. You can also run queries on the database.

Network Trouble Shooter

The Network Trouble Shooter allows you to perform a traceroute from our server to your local PC. You may also trace from your web site on our server to any other location on the Internet. A traceroute shows the path that information travels over the Internet to go from one location to another. If you are experiencing slowness or problems when connecting to your web site, you can use this to see a snapshot of where the problem is occurring. If you can't get to your site, there are instructions on how to do a trace route from your computer here.

Newsletter

This option will display the different issues of our newsletter

PGP

This option will allow you to set up your PGP key on the server. This allows you to use PGP in your scripts or with our PGPMail script. You must first have PGP installed on your local PC, and create a PGP key pair before uploading the key to the server.  PGP is necessary if you use our shopping cart because any information sent through email is not safe even if you take the information on a secure server. (see the PGPMail icon for instructions on how to use it) 

PGP Mail

PGPMail is simply the Formmail script, except that it encrypts the email via PGP before it is sent to the client. This option includes directions for using PGPMail. Note that you must upload your PGP key before you can use this script. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed.

Protect Directories

Using this option, you can password-protect any directory you own (make sure you don't password protect that main directory, though!). This will prevent users from viewing the contents of a directory unless they have permission (ie. you give them the username and password). You can set any number of users using this feature. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed. If you have a directory that you do not want to be password protected, please contact us. 

Redirect URL

Redirect URL allows you to set up a redirection so that user that type in one URL will automatically be sent to another URL. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have Front Page Extensions installed. If you have a page that you wish to redirect, please contact us. 

Resource Meter

This shows how much server space and bandwidth (transfer) you have taken up. To say a little about transfer:  If you have a page that is 25k in size and 3 images that are 25k each and a midi file that is 75k, then when someone looks at that one page, it will take up 175k worth of transfer.

Resources Available

The Resources Available section of the Control Panel displays how many of your account's resources have been used and how many remain free.  The following resource statistics are displayed here:

  • Disk Quota: Displays the figure, in megabytes, of how much disk space your account has used and how much remains available to you.

  • E-Mail: Displays the number of e-mail accounts you already have and the number that are still free for your use and set up.

  • Mailing List: Displays the number of mailing lists you are currently maintaining and the number you can still set up.

  • Transfer: Displays the amount of data that has been transferred via the current account.

Search Engine

This feature will allow you to install and manage the Web Glimpse Search Engine on your site. This Search Engine will allow your users to perform searches from your web site. 

Secure Server

This option is for if you want to install a secure certificate that you purchase out at http://www.thawte.com/   If you do not want to have your own certificate, you can use ours to call your domain pages securely. 

Shopping Cart

Not available for all packages. The Shopping Cart feature installs or removes the AlaCart Shopping Cart program on your site. After it is installed, you are given directions for managing the Cart.

Site Creation Tool

This is a graphical web-based program that gives you the ability to set up your web site from scratch, without any knowledge of HTML, or the use of a program like MS FrontPage. After the site is created, you can make it your main domain's page, or you can have it as a subdirectory under your main domain.  

Site Statistics

The Site Statistics feature gives you access to your site's web statistics, such as hits, transfers, etc.  If you are having trouble understanding how to interpret those results, go to this site: http://www.netstore.de/Supply/http-analyze/results.html

SSH

If you need telnet access to our servers, it can only be done using SSH. We have it set up to use RSA authentication. You will need to create a key using your PC's SSH software, then use this feature to upload the key to our servers. Once it is uploaded, you will be able to connect to our servers using SSH after contacting us to enable SSH on your server.  You will need to fax us a copy of your driver's license and your signature before we can enable it.  Please email us for instructions.

Submit Site to Search Engines

Most of the links here are outdated. See our Marketing Guide or e for recent and comprehensive search engine links.

Upgrade CP

This is the area where you can upgrade your account automatically at any time of day.  If you find out that you need more space, just click this button and you can upgrade in a matter of minutes.