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H-Sphere User Menu Based Guide


H-Sphere user guide explains how to administer the extensive features of your control panel to setup 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.

Starting with your account:  setting your temporary index page, uploading your site, contents of your home directory.

Control Panel Basics:  changing hosting plan, changing billing period, control panel password, FTP password, changing traffic limit, changing disk quota, selecting skins (before v.2.4), control panel language.

Registering domains:  creating standard domains, transferring domains, third level domains, stopgap domains, parking external domains, creating accounts without domains.

Configuring domains:  removing domains, instant domain aliases, creating sub domains, changing IPs from shared to dedicated, domain aliases, server aliases

Editing DNS settings:  DNS overview, creating custom DNS records.

Creating, promoting and managing your site:  Site Studio website builder, Search Engine Submit, Web Shell and htProtect, Reverse Traceroute, Site Toolbox, Kanoodle.

Web Statistics:  Urchin, AWStats, Webalizer.

Managing FTP:  FTP sub-accounts, virtual FTP, anonymous FTP, anonymous FTP Upload Facilities.

Manipulating pages:  redirect URL, directory indexes, error pages, Server Side image map, MIME types.

Dynamic web content:  CGI scripts, PHP scripts, ASP (Active Server Pages), ASP.NET, Cold Fusion, SSI (Server Side Includes).

Preinstalled CGI scripts  Counter, Guestbook, Form Mail, Forum, phpBB forum, mnoGoSearch, FrontPage Extensions.

Traffic:  summary traffic, traffic cycle, traffic limit, Throttle policy.

Disk space:  individual resource quotas, summary disk usage, disk space billing

Mail: (before v. 2.4) mailboxes, mail forwards, mailbox aliases, auto responders, mailing lists, mail domain aliases, anti spam, ant virus, Outlook Express configuration, Netscape Mail configuration, Eudora Mail configuration.

My SQL databases:  creating My SQL database and its users, editing My SQL databases (php My Admin), My SQL disk quota, changing user passwords, user privileges.

Postgre SQL databases:  creating Postgre SQL users, deleting users and changing passwords, creating Postgre SQL databases, editing Pg SQL databases (phpPg Admin) and user privileges, PgSQL quota.

Microsoft SQL databases:  creating Microsoft SQL logins, creating Microsoft SQL databases, adding MS SQL database users, MS SQL quota, managing MS SQL databases (MS SQL Manager) ODBC DSN Records.

Securing data through SSL:  using existing key and certificate, temporary key and certificate, permanent certificates, renewing permanent certificates, shared SSL Comodo SSL certificates.

Online commerce:  compare Miva Merchant and osCommerce, Miva Merchant, osCommerce, updating osCommerce.

Paying for hosting:  billing profile, automatic email invoicing, billing period and billing month, when and what fees, refunds, billing history, viewing overall charges, becoming a pay user, getting your money back.

Getting technical support:  sending trouble tickets, following up trouble tickets, closing trouble tickets.

Securing your .asp pages with ASPSecured

Obtaining direct access to server:  accessing your SSH account (Shell Access), running your Shell scripts with Crontab.

Virtual Private Servers:  checking VPS status, adding custom DNS Records changing root password, adding VPS IP, changing server limits.

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