Viewing Resource Allotments and Hosting Features Included in Your Hosting Package
To view the IP addresses included in your hosting package, on your Home page, click
IP Pool. Your IP addresses are listed and the following supplementary information is given:
- An icon in the S (Status) column shows
if your IP address is properly configured on the network interface. If your IP address was removed from the network interface by your provider, an icon will show
. - An icon in the T (Type) column shows
if you were allotted a dedicated IP address, and
if the address is shared among other customers of your service provider. A dedicated IP address is not used by other users, so you can use it to host either: - The Certificate column shows which SSL certificate (for what domain name) is tied to an IP address. See the section "Securing e-commerce transactions with Secure Sockets Layer encryption" for details.
- The Hosting column shows a number of web sites hosted on an IP address. To view the domain names of these web sites, click the number in the Hosting column.
To view the resource allotments for your account, on your Home page, click
Limits. The resource allotments are shown as follows:
- Maximum number of domains. The total number of domain names/web sites you can host on the server. This includes web sites that you host on this server, and domain forwarders that point to web sites hosted on other servers. Domain aliases (additional domain names for sites hosted on this server) are not limited by this resource type.
- Maximum number of domain aliases. Displays the maximum number of domain aliases that can be created for your domains.
- Maximum number of subdomains. Displays the maximum number of subdomains that can be hosted under your domains.
- Disk space. Shows you the total amount of disk space allocated to your account. This amount is measured in megabytes. It includes disk space occupied by all files related to your domains/web sites: web site contents, databases, applications, mailboxes, log files and backup files. This is the so-called soft quota: when it is exceeded, domain names and web sites are not suspended automatically, only the appropriate notices are sent to your provider's e-mail addresses and the resource overage is indicated by a corresponding icon
shown in the control panel to the left of your domain name. - MySQL databases quota and Microsoft SQL databases quota. Displays the maximum disk space amount that MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases respectively can occupy on your domains.
- Maximum amount of traffic. Displays the maximum amount of data in megabytes that can be transferred from your websites during a month. Once the limit is reached, the appropriate notices are sent to your provider's e-mail addresses and the resource overage is indicated by a corresponding icon
shown in the control panel to the left of the domain name. - Maximum number of web users. Shows the maximum number of personal web pages that you can host for other users under your domains. This service is mostly used in educational institutions that host non-commercial personal pages of their students and staff. These pages usually have web addresses like http://your-domain.com/~username.
- Maximum number of Microsoft FrontPage subaccounts. Displays the maximum number of Microsoft FrontPage subaccounts you can create on your domains.
- Maximum number of FTP subaccounts. Speficy the maximum number of additional FTP accounts that the customer can create on his or her domains.
- Maximum number of MySQL databases and Maximum number of Microsoft SQL Server databases.Displays the maximum number of MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases respectively that can be hosted in your domains.
- Maximum number of mailboxes. Shows the maximum number of mailboxes that can be hosted in your domains.
- Mailbox quota. Displays the amount of disk space in kilobytes that is allocated to each mailbox in your domains.
- Total mailboxes quota. Displays the total amount of disk space available for all mailboxes on all your domains.
- Maximum number of mail redirects. Shows the maximum number of mail redirects that can be used in your domains.
- Maximum number of mail groups. Shows the maximum number of mail groups that can be used in your domains.
- Maximum number of mail autoresponders. Displays the maximum number of autoresponders that can be set up in your domains.
- Maximum number of mailing lists. Shows maximum the number of mailing lists that you can run in your domains.
- Maximum number of Tomcat applications. Displays the maximum number of Java applications or applets that you can install on your domains.
- Maximum number of IIS application pools. Specify the total number of dedicated IIS application pools that the customer can allocate between his or her domains.
- Maximum number of shared SSL links. Shows the total number of subdomains (including their parent domain) that can link to the Master SSL domain defined by the server administrator.
- Validity period. Shows the term for a hosting account. At the end of the term, your domain/web site will be suspended, its Web, FTP and mail services will no longer be accessible to the Internet users, and you will not be able to log in to the control panel.
To view the list of operations you can perform within your control panel, on your Home page, click
Permissions. The permissions for operations are listed as follows:
- Access to control panel. Shows whether you can access the control panel for managing domains and sites.
- Domain creation. Shows whether you can host new domain names/web sites on the server.
- Physical hosting management. Shows whether you can fully control hosting accounts for your web sites. If it says No, then you can only change FTP password for accessing your web spaces.
- System access management. Shows whether you can enable and disable access to the system through Remote Desktop.
- Hard disk quota assignment. Shows whether you can set up the hard quotas on disk space allocated to your sites.
- Subdomains management. Shows whether you can set up, modify and remove subdomains.
- Domain aliases management. Shows whether you are able to set up additional alternative domain names for web sites and allow users to do so.
- Log rotation management. Shows whether you can adjust the cleanup and recycling of processed log files for your site.
- Anonymous FTP management. Shows whether you can have an FTP directory where all users could download and upload files without the need to enter login and password. A web site should reside on a dedicated IP address in order to use anonymous FTP service.
- FTP subaccount management. Shows whether you can create and manage additional FTP accounts.
- Scheduler management. Shows whether you can schedule tasks with the task scheduler. Scheduled tasks can be used for running scripts or utilities on schedule.
- Domain limits adjustment. Shows whether you can distribute the resources given to you by your service provider between your domains.
- DNS zone management. Shows whether you can manage the DNS zones of your domains.
- Tomcat applications management. Shows whether you can install Tomcat Java applications and applets on the web site through the control panel.
- Mailing lists management. Shows whether you can use mailing lists provided by the GNU Mailman software.
- Antivirus management. Shows whether you can use server-side antivirus protection for filtering incoming and outgoing mail.
- Backup/restore functions. Shows whether you can use the control panel's facilities to backup and restore your sites. Scheduled and on-demand backups are supported.
- Ability to use remote XML interface. Shows whether can remotely manage web sites through custom applications. The XML interface can be used for developing custom applications integrated with web sites, which could be used, for instance, for automating setup of hosting accounts and provisioning of services for customers purchasing hosting services from your reseller's site. The remote XML interface operations are limited to setting up and removing domain names/web spaces on the server, modifying domain and web site related preferences and hosting services, retrieving information on domains.
- SiteBuilder. Shows whether you can use SiteBuilder for creating and editing your web sites.
- Hosting Perfomance Management. Shows whether you can change the hosting performance preferences for your domains.
- IIS Application Pool Management. Shows whether you can manage your IIS application pool.