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This document introduces you to the main parts of the info/control
area:
Account Settings
Account settings are listed at the top of the info/control
area.
- User: the name by which you are known to the hosting
system. It's the same as your control panel login.
- FTP Login: the login name you use when you upload
your site to your home directory on the server.
- Plan: the arrangement of resources and services
you are subscribed to. To change your plan, click the icon
next to the plan name. You cannot change between incompatible
plans, like Unix and Windows.
- Billing period: the period of time you pay for.
Your payments include recurrent fees charged at the beginning
of the billing period and usage fees charged at the end
of the billing period. For more information see the
Paying for Hosting chapter of this manual.
Click the icon to switch to a different billing period.
- Domains: the sites you host in this account. Within
one account, you can host as many sites as your plan allows.
Total traffic
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:
- if you fail to run up all your quota resource, you are
not returned the payment for the unused megabytes;
- if you exceed the quota, you are charged usage fee per
each gigabyte of the excess traffic.
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.
Disk Quota
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
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:
- Domains - number of domains in this account
- Subdomains - total number of subdomains in all domains
of this account
- Mailboxes - total number of mailboxes in all domains and
subdomains of this account
- Auto responders - total number of autoresponders in all
mailboxes of this account
- MySQL database - total number of MySQL databases in this
account
- PgSQL database - total number of PGSQL databases in this
account
Select a new skin
Different control panel skins have different navigation principles.
To change to a different skin, do the following:
- Click Select a New Skin in the info/control area on the
left.
- On the page that appears, select the name of the skin
in the Choose Design box and click the Choose
button.
- Select the icon set and click the Set icon.
- Set Tooltips state. This option determines whether
or not to show assisting hints at the top of each page.
- Click Home in the info/control area to return to
your control panel home page.
Change Language
This option will change all texts in the control panel, including
labels, system notes, context online help, etc.
Check your bill to see additional fees or refunds.
If you don't see the plan of your choice in the list that
appears, it means it is not compatible with your current
plan. You cannot change to an incompatible plan, but you
can create a new account under the desired plan and then, if
you want, you can delete your old account.
Plan Upgrade: If you are switching to a 'higher'
plan, the resource limits do not increase, but free units
do. As a result, resource quota may turn out to be lower
than free units, and you will not be charged if you increase
it to this value of free units.
Plan Downgrade: If you are switching to a 'lower'
plan, the system reduces your quotas for free units. If
you are using more than free units, the system reduces
the quota to the amount you are using.
- Account Manager Login: user login you use to enter
the system.
- FTP Login: ftp login access and manage files in
your directory on the hosting server.
- FTP Password: change your ftp admin password for
the selected account.
- Quota: disk space you are currently using out of
the limited amount (in hypertext) your plan provides. Click
the Change icon to buy extra disk storage if you
presume it is insufficient. The traffic that exceeds the
limit is usually charged at a higher price. The system shall
inform you by e-mail when you have used 80% of the set quota
amount.
- Transfer summary traffic:
click the Change icon to purchase additional traffic.
* See above for more about Traffic and
Traffic Limit.
- Group: group of UNIX users on your server. For
the convenience of administration, your provider of hosting
services can place you in a certain group.
- Home Directory: path to the directory on the server
where your site is located
- Host Name: identifying name of the Internet server
where the site is hosted
- Domain Name: address at which your site is accessible
from the Internet
- Tooltips State: indicates whether tooltips will
show as you visit pages. Tooltips are context information
boxes in the bottom left-hand corner of your page. If you
are new to H-Sphere, it is recommended to keep them on.
Updating/Changing Your
Contact Info
Contact info is your details and address other than that
specified in the Billing Info section and is
used to contact you if necessary. It can be different for
each of your accounts.
Changing Your Password
Here you can change the password you use to enter your account.
To change it, do the following:
- In the first box enter your new password, as you would
like it to be.
- Confirm your new password in the second box.
- Click the Change button.
Now that you have changed the password, the old one becomes
invalid. Remember your new password to log in for future sessions
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