Some of the handy features of your Control Panel include:

• Web Site Builder, a powerful, user friendly website creation tool so you can quickly build and maintain your own website without any technical skills or knowledge! Using the design templates, you can build and publish your own professional-looking websites in minutes. Browser-based design tools let you customize all aspects of your website, without requiring a knowledge of HTML programming. This tool allows you to build a basic website in about an hour and without any additional software. You can select from hundreds of options and logos, backgrounds, fonts, colors, etc.

• A File Manager that allows you to manipulate all the files in your web site. You are able to create, delete, and move your files at will, right from your web browser without having to use FTP or Telnet. You can upload files from your computer to the webserver with File Manager, and if you know how to, you can edit the html in any of your files from this option.

• Web-based Email Access so you can check your email from any computer with just a webbrowser and an Internet connection. All the email users under your domain name will be able to send, receive, delete, and compose email with this user-friendly, web-based program. It is just like a Hotmail or Yahoo mail account, but better because the email address contains your domain name.

• A Mail Manager that enables you to add/modify/remove email addresses as you wish. You can set up mail forwarding and aliases that will automatically route mail to external email accounts. You can also create Autoresponders that will automatically inform mail senders that you received their email. Mailing lists are also configured here so you can send email to a large number of contacts in a very efficient manner. 

• A tool to change your administrative password.

• A Resource Meter that displays how much disk space and how many email addresses you have available at a glance.

• Utilities for Password Protected Pages and Directories. Not to be confused with your administrative password, this tool allows you to specify which users are allowed to access certain pages on your site. When visitors click on a certain URL, they would be requested to enter a username and password which you manage here through the Control Panel.

• A Search Engine Submission tool that helps you submit your website to many of the top Search Engines including Infoseek, Webcrawler, AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Yahoo, and more. This is an effective way of ensuring that the site you create gets 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. This Submit Site to Search Engines option makes the process a quick and easy one.

• Tools to install or add:
  • Anti-spam filters.
  • Mailing Lists for newsletters or subscription email.
  • MS FrontPage Extensions so you can use one of the most powerful and popular website creation and management programs.
  • Page-hit Counters to as many of your pages as you choose.
  • A Redirect URL to create "jump" pages.
  • A Search Engine for your website.
  • Anonymous FTP which allows visitors to upload and download files to your site without a password (available for all packages except the Budget).
  • Formmail, which will help you create a script to take contents of an online form and email the results to the address you specify.
  • PGPMail, which is similar to Formmail except it uses your PGP key to encrypt the message before sending it to you. Your PGP key is installed with the control panel.
  • PGP, which is a means of transmitting encrypted information in email.
  • MIME Types so you can control which software programs will work with your site.
  • Telnet(SSH), which many users are not familiar with an do not need to use, but we make it available anyway. Several of the tasks commonly done thru Telnet can also be more easily done in the File Manager but Telnet allows users to get a shell on our servers.  

• A Site Statistics viewer to view many statistics about the usage of your web site. You can view how many hits your pages receive, the number of pageviews, what website referred your visitors, and which of your pages is visited most often. You will know how many visitors your site has had and where they are coming from, data that can be used to analyze your marketing strategy or plan your next advertising campaign. This information is always available and updated daily. Access to raw logs is also available if you prefer to use your own statistic analysis program. 

• MySQL database tools for database equipped websites. MySQL is our GNU database of choice. We develop all of our own products with MySQL or Oracle. Users of mSQL and postgresQL can migrate to MySQL.

• An Archive Manager that allows you to backup and compress files within your website. 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 a compressed format.

• The Java Servlet Manager, which is used to install or remove support for Java Servlets. Servlets are protocol and platform-independent server-side components, written in Java, that dynamically extend Java-enabled servers, without the performance limitations of CGI programs.

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