H-Sphere User Guide

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Welcome to H-Sphere User Guide. It explains how to administrate your web hosting account using H-Sphere control panel. This is the place to increase your web disk space, create a forward from your webmaster account to your primary account, configure web statistics, and do many other important things.

• Starting with your account
  • Your temporary index page
  • Uploading your site
  • Contents of your home directory
    

• Viewing and editing your account settings
  • Your quick access page
  • Changing your interface language
  • Changing disk space, traffic quota, FTP password, plan.
  • Updating/changing your contact info
  • Changing your password

• Billing Info
• How do I pay?
• How do I create a billing profile?
• When do I pay?
• What do I pay for?
• How do I view my billing history?
• How do I view my overall charges?
• How do I become a pay user?
• How can I get my money back?

• Registering domain names
• Creating new *.com, *.net, or *.org domains
• Transferring existing domains or registering nonstandard domains
• Creating domains based on your provider's domain names (third level domains)
• Hosting sites without domain names
• Parking external domains

• Domain management
  • General information on your domain
  • Creating Sub Domains
  • Switching between Shared and Dedicated IP's
  • Changing HTTP Traffic
  • Setting Domain Alias/Domain Stacking
  • "Pinging" Internet hosts from your hosting server
  • Submitting Sites to Search Engines

• Changing Your FTP Settings
  • Changing Your FTP Password
  • Changing Your Disk Quota
  • Viewing Your FTP Traffic
  • Managing Your Files With WebShell
  • Protecting Your Files And Directories With HTAccess

• Allowing Others To Access Your Home Directory
  • FTP Sub-accounts
  • Virtual FTP Server
  • Anonymous FTP Access

• Using multiple accounts
  • Choosing between existing accounts
  • Adding new accounts
    
  
  
• MySQL Support
  • What's MySQL? What do I need it for?
  • Creating MySQL database and its users
  • Managing MySQL databases
  • Editing MySQL database settings
  • Setting MySQL user privileges
    
    
• Microsoft SQL Support
  
  
• PostgreSQL Support
  • What's PGSQL? What do I need it for?
  • Managing PostgreSQL database and its users
  • Creating PostgreSQL users
  • Creating PostgreSQL database
    
  
  
• Editing DNS settings (for advanced users)
• Understanding DNS
• Adding custom A records
• Adding custom MX records
• Adding custom CNAME records


• Web Service: features to enhance your web site functionality
  • Accessing the Web Service page
  • Working with basic web settings
  • Configuring your apache web server
  • Adding more features:
    • SSL Support
    • Shared SSL Support
    • FrontPage Extensions
    • CGI
    • CGI dir
    • Server Side Imagemap
    • MIME Type
  • PHP
  • SSI
  • MIVA
  • Error Document
  • Error Log, Transfer Log, Referrer Log, Agent Log
  • Webalizer
  • ModLogAn
  • ColdFusion
  • Server Alias
  • Redirect
  • Directory Indexes
  • Throttle Policy
    
    
• Securing your connections through SSL
• Using existing key and certificate pair
• Creating a temporary certificate
• Acquiring a permanent certificate


• Creating ODBC DSN records (Win2000 only)
  


• Creating an Online Store.



• Managing your E-mail Resources
• Your current e-mail settings (Mailbox, Forwards, Aliases, Mailing List, Autoresponders)
• Adding new e-mail resources
• Configuring e-mail resources


• Viewing web statistics: errors, visits, agents
• Writing logs
• Analyzing logs
• Enabling statistics


• Support Center
  • Sending Trouble Tickets
  • Browsing throughTrouble Ticket List

• Direct Access To Server
  • Accessing Your SSH Account (Shell Access)
  • Running Your Shell Scripts With Crontab