Domain and website Management Mail Manager The Mail area allows you to manage all aspects of your e-mail, from adding new accounts, managing mailing lists, and setting spam filters Create, edit, change passwords and manage POP3 e-mail accounts. Parked Domains Park/Point Domains to your main site. Change Password Your domain password is the password you use to log on to your CPanel. You should change this occasionally to maximize your site security. FTP Manager The FTP area deals with all the tools relating to setting up and managing FTP accounts, as well as managing FTP sessions. Addon Domains An addon domain is a domain name that that points to a subdirectory within your account. For example, you may want innovation.org.nz to point to business.org.nz/innovation/ This feature allows you to park/point subdomains Password Protect Directories Password protect certain directories and manage .htaccess files. Useful for sites with Members only areas. Backup The Backup area allows you to download the daily, weekly, or monthly backup file of your entire web site, or a particular MySQL, alias, or filter backup file. If your computer crashes, or your personal backups are destroyed, these files allow you to recover your site (in .zip format) Disk Usage The Disk Usage Viewer enables you to see exactly how much disk space is being taken up by various parts of your web site. WebMail Check and send e-mail messages through the web. Error Pages Allows users to customize error pages rather than use the default ones supplied Site Management Sub Domains Subdomains are a way of creating separate accounts within your master account, which are accessed as separate URLs. (useful for a business that wishes to channel focus and branding on separate product lines as it creates a new URL and web presence) MySQL Database Manage your mysql database with this web-based tool. (PHPMyAdmin) File Manager Allows you to manage your site through HTML, rather than an FTP tool or other third-party application. You can upload, create or delete files, organize files in folders, and change file permissions. ReDirects Enables administrators to redirect Internet traffics from one web page to another. This is usually used when a web page has been moved to another location. FrontPage Extensions Enables administrators to publish web sites using Microsoft Frontpage. Raw Access Logs Administrators can download the raw access logs that contain all the recorded hit information that your site has received. Useful if you have a preferred reporting tool. Web / FTP Stats Presents administrators with a wide variety of information about your web site, from the latest visitors to a detailed monthly summary of hits, as well as providing an error log. Use the Statistics tools to keep track of what pages are being visited most often, and where they are being referred from. Sub Domain Stats View statistics specifically for each subdomain using the Analog and Webalizer tools. Error Logs Advanced: Show site errors, images not loading, missing files. Useful for debugging CGI scripts. Search Engine Submit CPanel allows you to submit your web site details to several search engines at one time Raw Log Manager Contains all the recorded hit information that your site has received. You can set the Raw Log Manager to archive this information every month and/or delete the previous month's log at the end of every month. Postgres Database CPanel allows you to submit your web site details to several search engines at one time POSTGRESQL is the most advanced Open Source Database. It is feature rich and often compared with Oracle. ChatRoom Install an easy-to-use multi-room chat scripts based on PHP and mySQL. PhpMyChat PhpMyChat is a PHP chat room script that uses a MySQL database to store information. Bulletin Board CPanel allows you to install a pre-made forum called phpBB. The phpBB is a PHP web-based bulletin board. Unlike an e-mail list or newsgroup, the phpBB creates a forum on your web site that allows users to post questions and receive replies, all from their web browser. Scripts Library The Scripts Library area provides an easy to use method of installing and uninstalling complex scripts. The following scripts are available: osCommerce - InvisionBoard 'PHP-Nuke - CGI Center Install perl scripts such as guest book and counter. Agora Shopping Cart User friendly, feature-packed shopping cart system. Designed for small-medium size businesses. Advanced tools Cron Jobs Cron jobs allow you to automate repetitive tasks on the server that hosts your web site. This is a powerful tool that allows you to take a hands-free approach to repetitive tasks. For example, you could add a cron job that automatically copies a MySQL database to a separate location on your site as a backup. Network Tools Advanced: Tools such as domain lookup and traceroute. Mime Types You can alter or add new MIME types specifically for your site). MIME types are often used to handle new technologies as they appear. When WAP technology first appeared no one had these extensions set up on their server. With MIME types, however, you could have set it up yourself and begun serving WAP pages immediately. Apache Handlers Apache handlers tell the server how to deal with web files that need to be processed on the server. For example, Apache is set up to process files with .pl extensions using Perl. However, if for some reason you also wanted to process files with .script extension using Perl, then you would have to set up a custom Apache handler for your site. Manage OpenPGP Keys OpenPGP is a tool for secure online communication. CPanel uses GnuPG for its public-key cryptography so that users may communicate securely. IP Deny Manager Block access to your web site from specific IP addresses. This is useful to remove nuisance surfers who use a large amount of bandwidth or to prevent hotlinking to your site Index Manager Control how directories on your web site are displayed. If there is no index.html in a particular directory, the contents of the directory will be displayed to the browser. This is usually undesirable and can cause security issues SSH/Telnet Access SSH / Telnet :Shell access through SSH from your browser. HotLink Protection Hotlinking is when another web site owner links directly to one or more of your images or multimedia files and includes it on their web page. Not only is this theft of your intellectual property, you are paying for the bandwidth used by that site. Auto Updates: The cPanel software platform will not only make your server administration tasks easier by allowing you to perform daily cores with the touch of a button, it also includes a feature that allows it to automatically install security patches and software upgrades on your server on a daily basis. It also monitors the status of all services, such as the web server, FTP server, email server, etc and will automatically restart programs if they fail or crash. 100% Customizable: The cPanel platform uses templates or "skins" that allows you to completely change, modify or even customize the look of your customers' control panels. Even a single server can have an unlimited number of "skins" or templates mapped to one or more web hosting accounts. The default cPanel templates (X SKINS) were originally designed and developed by ProNIC™ Solutions. The X SKINS provide appealing, fast loading and easy to use interfaces to the cPanel software platform. Reseller Capable: The cPanel software is the only platform that supports true, fully configurable reseller accounts. You can assign specific permissions to certain users on the system allowing them access to a limited version of WebHost Manager. this allows them to create/remove hosting accounts, reset system passwords, manage DNS zones, etc.