Overview of Control Panel This
gives a brief description of the different options
available in your Control Panel. Note that not all
of the features may be available to you. Feature
availability is dependent upon which account type
you have.
Please refer to Website Source Hosting Compare Plans Page where you
can see which options are available for your specific
hosting plan.
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Account Management
The Account Management Option will give you a detailed
description of you Account Information. It includes
your username, your package option, your activation
date, contract length, server number your domain
is on, etc. Set alarms to warn you when you are
reaching your transfer and disk space limits. |
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AlaCart Shopping Cart
AlaCart Silver Shopping Cart is included with every
hosting account for FREE! Alacart Silver is a full
featured shopping cart program with powerful features
and supports up to 20 products. |
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AnonFTP
This Option sets up anonymous FTP to allow users
to upload and download files to and from your site
without having to have a password. They will only
have access to one directory that is setup automatically
when you choose this option in your Control Panel. |
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Archive Manager
The Archive Manager will allow the user to backup
and compress their 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. |
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Billing History
Check on your account balance and see all charges
made to your account. Also supplies access to formatted
printable invoices that can be printed right in
your browser. |
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Chat Software
Use this tool to install a live chat on your website!
Just click the "Live Chat" icon in your control panel. In a few minutes, your visitors can
register and they can begin chatting on your website.
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Change Password
This will allow the user to change their password.
Note that this will change the ftp and Control Panel
password, but *not* the email password and not your password in Microsoft. FrontPage.. To change the
email password, use the Mail Manager. To change
your Microsoft. FrontPage. password go to Tools/Security/Change
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Check your Email
Use this option to check, read, and send e-mail
through your web browser. You can manage your e-mail
from any computer with Internet access, and you
do not need any extra programs like Outlook or Eudora.
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Counters
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. |
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Cron Job Manager allows clients to
set up specific tasks for the server to complete
through an easy-to-use interface. Notifying the
client when the task is completed can be done by
having the output and completion status sent to
an email account specified.
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Edit Billing Information
Change your credit card information. |
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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 move 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. |
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Formmail
Formmail allows you to use a form to receive email
from your users. Directions for using Formmail can
be found under this option. |
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Hosting Plans
Go here to see a list of Website Source Hosting Hosting Plans and their
features/prices. |
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The ht://Dig system is a complete World
Wide Web indexing and searching system for a particular
domain or intranet. It handles search needs within
a particular website. Hundreds of websites use ht://Dig
to handle their search needs, including:
Linux.com
NASA - Kennedy Space Center
Oxford University
PHP.net
Mozilla.org
Caldera Linux
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Java Servlets
The Servlet Manager is used to install or remove
support for Java Servlets. The customer can use
this Servlet Manager to install the their servlet
zone in order to start using servlets immediately
on their account. |
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Mail Administrator
With the "Mail Administrator", you the webmaster
can grant additional privileges to your email users.
You can give them access to change their passwords,
change their email forwarders, change their auto-responders,
or enable users to be able to block SPAM e-mail
- All without giving them access to the control
panel. This saves you, the webmaster, time and money
as you will no longer have to administer their email
accounts for them. |
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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. |
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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. |
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our Marketing Tools has over
25 integrated marketing tools in one location. For
more information, please click here. |
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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
to use this feature. Also, note that you cannot
use this feature if you have Frontpage Extensions
installed. You would need to use Frontpage itself
to perform this function. |
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Miva Merchant
Miva Merchant included for free with all standard
hosting plans! The Miva icon in your control panel
installs the Miva Empressa engine on your account.
Please contact Website Source Hosting tech support team to install
the Miva Merchant software by putting in a request
at Website Source Hosting Help
Desk. |
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MS Frontpage
The MS Frontpage option allows you to install Microsoft.
FrontPage. extensions - which are necessary in order
to use Microsoft. FrontPage. with your site. You
can also verify that they are installed, or remove
them if you do not wish to use them anymore. |
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MySQL Database
MySQL is a database engine that you can use with
your web site. This feature of the Control Panel
will allow you to create a new MySQL database, and
manage it. The Username and password for mySQL will
be the same as your control panel login. If you
change your password for the control panel, it does
not change the password for a mySQL database. In
your control panel, you will be able to add/edit/delete
tables, fields, and values. You can also run queries
on the database if you need to. We do not provide web hosting technical support in using MySQL outside of what
is provided on your control panel. Please refer
to MySQL's Web Site for complete tutorials and troubleshooting
solutions and documentation. This is an excellent
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NetBuilder enables small and medium-sized
businesses and their webmasters to point and click
their way to database-driven business applications
for a fraction of the cost of hiring developers.
Help your customers get more out of their website!
With NetBuilder, they can:
Manage multiple databases
Import external data
Create Tables
Build Queries
Build Reports
And more!
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Network Trouble Shooter
The Network Trouble Shooter allows you to perform
a traceroute from Website Source Hosting server to your local PC. You
may also trace from your web site on Website Source Hosting 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 occuring. |
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Newsletter
Go here to see the latest Web Site Source news and
updates. |
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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 Website Source Hosting PGPMail script.You must first
have PGP installed on your local PC, and create
a PGP key pair before uploading the key to Website Source Hosting servers.
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. |
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PGP Mail
This option shows all the features you have with
PGP Mail and how to setup PGP Mail. |
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Phone Support
Web Site Source provides toll-free phone support
to all its web hosting customers. This option provides
you with Website Source Hosting toll-free phone support number. |
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Protect Directories
Using this option, you can password-protect any
directory you own. This will prevent users from
viewing the contents of a directory unless they
have permission. You can set any number of users
using this feature. Note that you cannot use this
feature if you have Microsoft. FrontPage. Extensions
installed. You would need to use Microsoft. FrontPage.
itself to perform this function. |
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Quaranteen Manager
The Email Quaranteen will help you to prevent
emails with potentially harmful attachments from
reaching your computer(s). It can be configured
to filter out emails that include attachments
with any file extension. This is not a personal
computer product which can erase a virus, nor
is it intended to be a replacement for one. Quaranteen
resides on the server and can be a huge help in
preventing unsuspecting email users from downloading
viruses.
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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 Microsoft. FrontPage. Extensions
installed. You would need to use Microsoft. FrontPage.
itself to perform this function. |
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Resource Meter
This feature tells you the daily, & monthly
transfer usage as well as disk space, email, and
mailing lists used versus available. |
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Search Engine
This feature will allow you to install and manage
the WebGlimpse Search Engine on your site. This
Search Engine will allow your users to perform searches
on your web site. |
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Secure Server
We provide you the use of Website Source Hosting Secure Certificate
free of charge. But if you decide you would like
to setup your own Secure Server you can go here
and follow the steps. |
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Site Statistics
The Site Statistics feature gives you access to
your site's web statistics, such as hits, transfers,
etc. It even tracks which keywords and search engines
people used to find your web site! |
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SpamGuard
Spam wastes you time and money. With SpamGuard
you can configure filters for incoming emails
based on email address or words likely to be used
in a spam message.
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Spam / Virus Blocker
The Spam / Virus blocker allows you to block e-mail
from spammers. The Spam Blocker completely eliminates
the spam at the server so you will avoid using the
extra bandwidth when you check your e-mail. The
less e-mail traffic there is, the faster your website
is served up when people visit it. |
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Streaming Media - Companies looking
to deliver streaming media content in multiple formats
can now deliver Streaming Media on all Website Source Hosting hosting
plans. Supports:
RealVideo 9
Flash 4
RealPix, RealText, and SMIL
MPEG-1
MP3
MPEG-4
QuickTime
Windows Media |
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Submit Site to Search Engines
Using this tool you can submit your site to the
top Search Engines. Studies show that 90% of all
searches go through the top 12 Search Engines. All
you have to do to use this tool is to fill in some
information and click the buttons associated with
the Search Engines and you site will be submitted. |
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Support
Use this button to access Website Source Hosting Support Center. The
Support Center can be used to answer many of your questions about Website Source Hosting services. If your question is
not answered at the Support Center click on the
"Support Request" link in the Support Center to
contact a technician who will answer your question. |
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SSH
If you need telnet access to Website Source Hosting 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 Website Source Hosting servers. Once it is uploaded,
you will be able to connect to Website Source Hosting servers using
SSH. |
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Upgrade CP
You can upgrade your hosting plan at any time by
accessing your Control Panel. Just click on 'upgrade
cp'. |
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Urchin is a web analytics system that is designed
to enable businesses to easily analyze their website’s
traffic, in order to create detailed, insightful,
and intuitive reports. Urchin is basically a log-analysis
program, with sophisticated and unique visitor
reporting, which make it a much more advanced
program than what has been available up until
now.
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Virtual Nameserver
Using this feature, you can set up your own Virtual
Name Servers. You can have ns.yourdomain.com and
ns2.yourdomain.com. Available on reseller's Control
Panel only. |
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Web Site Builder
Included for free with every Web Site Source hosting
account. The Web Site Builder allows you to create
your own web site right in your browser. No need
to purchase expensive software. Creating a web site
has never been easier! |
