Control
Panel Basics
This document explains how to
Changing Your Hosting Plan
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:
- Go to your control panel home.
- Click the Change icon next to your plan name in the left
hand info/control area.
- Select your new plan and click Submit
Warning: Switching plans will disable the resources that are
unavailable under the plan you are switching to.
This is what happens when you switch to a new plan:
- your current billing period is closed;
- your unused recurrent fee is credited to your account;
- you are charged any payable amount, including your usage (overlimit)
fees;
- a new billing period under the new plan starts;
- you are charged the recurrent fee for this billing period.
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.
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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:
- Go to your control panel home.
- Click the Change Password icon in the main control area.
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Changing
Your FTP 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:
- Go to your control panel home.
- Click the FTP Manager icon in the main control area.
- Click the Change icon next to Password.
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Changing
Your Traffic Limit
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.
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 the Change icon next to Total Traffic in
the left hand info/control area.
- Enter how much traffic you expect to run up throughout your
billing period.
Click here to read more on traffic.
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Changing
Your Disk Quota
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 the Change icon next to Disk Quota in the
left hand info/control area.
- Enter how much disk space you would like to have.
Click here to read more on disk space.
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Selecting
a Different Skin
Different skins offer different control panel navigation. To change
the skin:
- Click Select a New Skin in the left hand info/control
area.
- 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.
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Changing
Control Panel Language
To change the language of the control panel:
- Click Change Language in the left hand info/control area.
- On the page that appears, select the preferred language from
the drop-down box and click Submit.
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