Hosting Features
Check your individual account for details of which
features are enabled on your account.
You can see a disabled version of the control panel - cpanel
We have split the features into 5 categories click the links below
to go to the category:
:: email
:: scripts
& databases ::
net tools ::
::
site management ::
statistics ::
e-mail
All accounts come with at least 1 pop3
email account and your own SMTP (out
going) server.
 Web
Based e-mail
Allows you to check and send mail from any computer. There are two
web mail programs we use:
Neomail -
http://neomail.sourceforge.net/
Horde - http://www.horde.org/
both include address books and other useful features.
Autoresponders
Which will send an instant automated response to any e-mails you receive.
Forwarding
Allows e-mails to be automatically forwarded from one address to another
Spam assassin
An email filter that will rid your accounts of spam - http://spamassassin.org/
Scripts & Databases
CGI-bin
PHP 4
My SQL
Databases
Server side includes (SSI)
Pre-installed
scripts
Scripts that will allow you to add great functionality to your site
without the need for programming skills. Most of the scripts listed
below can be installed with one mouse click and are automatically
configured.
Message boards / forums
An established board can generate a huge amount of return traffic
for your site and is a great way for your users to interact and share
ideas.
http://www.xmbforum.com/home/
http://invisionboard.com/
Shopping Carts
Setup shop on your site
Interchange shopping cart -
http://www.icdevgroup.org/
Agora shopping cart - http://www.agoracart.com/
Chat rooms
Let your users chat in real time
phpmychat - http://www.phpheaven.net/rubrique4.html
also entropy chat or java chat
FormMail
Send input from a form directly to an e-mail address.
Other scripts include counters, clocks, guestbooks, banner rotation
etc etc
The cpanel also has the fantastico
plugin which includes many other useful scripts available with a
one click install. These include image galleries, portal scripts,
community based websites etc etc.
Site
Management
Site
backup
Back-up and restore your site including all settings, webmail etc
Custom
error pages
Define your site's own error pages.
Password
protected folders
Allows you to have private ares of you site - ideal for setting
up a web based intranet site.
url
redirects
Redirect one url to another with a simple interface on the control
panel
File manager
Allows you to upload, move, copy and delete files from a
web interface
Sub domains
Allows you to create subdomains ie subdomain.yourdomain.com
MS FrontPage extensions
These will allow you to make full use of the site management
built into FrontPage. Installing and using these will conflict with
the use of password protected directories and increase the amount
of webspace used.
Cron jobs
Allows you to automatically run programs at a set time of
the day.
Define mime types
Some servers need to "learn" the program you are using.
Use this online system to easily produce mime/handlers
Apache handlers
A user friendly way of producing apache handlers
Statistics
Download raw access logs
A detailed text file detailing all access to your site. You
can then view this with special software which will present the stats
in a user friendly way using graphs and charts.
AWStats
Advanced web stats
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
Analog Stats
http://www.analog.cx/
Webalizer
http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
Error logs
Help you track problems with your site
Net Tools
Gnu PGP Keys
Encrypt data and to create digital signatures
http://www.gnupg.org/
Search
engine submit
Auto submit your sites to 6 major search engines.
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