Control Panel Basics
This document explains how to
Also see Adding and Removing Domains, Subdomains, and Aliases
Your hosting plan determines the services you get with the account and the prices for these services. Big sites with high hit rates and special services require more expensive plans; cheaper plans are suitable for simpler sites.
To change to a different plan:
If you don't see the plan of your choice in the list that appears, it
means it is incompatible with your current plan. You can't change to an
incompatible plan, but you can create a new account under this plan and
then, if you want, you can delete your old account.
Plan Upgrade: If you are switching to a 'higher' plan, your disk quota
doesn't increase, but free units do. As a result, your disk quota may
turn out to be lower than free units, so you can increase your disk quota
without being charged. The same is true of other resources.
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.
Your billing period determines how far in advance you pay. The bigger your billing period, the bigger the discount.
To change the billing period:
Changing Your Control Panel Password
You need your control panel password to log into the control panel. Initially, this password is the same as your FTP password, but you can make these two passwords different.
To change the control panel password:
You need your FTP password to upload your site to the server. Initially, this password is the same as your Control Panel password, but you can make these two passwords different.
To change the FTP password:
Traffic limit is the gigabytes of transferred data you pre-pay for at
the beginning of the billing period. Every month the system checks if
you stay within the limit, and if you don't, it charges you for the excess.
Then your traffic is reset.
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 on the 15th of November, your traffic will be reset and a new billing
month will start.
Note: if you fail to run up all your quota resource, you are not returned the payment for the unused megabytes.
If you expect to run up more traffic than comes with your plan, it's a good idea to raise your traffic limit. To change the traffic limit:
Click here to read more on traffic.
Disk quota is the total server disk space allocated to all your web sites. There should always be several megabytes of unused space in your account to ensure correct performance of statistics reporting utilities, such as Webalizer or Modlogan. Disk quota doesn't include mail and database quotas.
To get more web disk space:
Click here to read more on disk space.
Changing Control Panel Language
To change the language of the control panel: