H-Sphere User Guide for the Left Menu Skin

Welcome to the H-Sphere User Guide. These pages explain how to administer the extensive features of your control panel. These features allow you to setup your email accounts and databases, increase your disk space and traffic quotas, configure web statistics, and perform many other important operations. All from your web browser.

Control Panel Basics

• Starting with your account
• Control Panel Basics

Managing domains

• Registering domains
• Configuring domains
• Editing DNS settings

Creating, promoting and managing your site

FTP: Sharing access to your home directory with others

Adding features to your website

• Manipulating pages
• Adding support for dynamic web content (CGI, PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, SSI)
• Adding generic CGI scripts (Unix-based accounts)
• FrontPage Extensions

Managing traffic

Managing disk space

Managing e-mail

• Mailboxes
• Configuring Outlook Express
• Configuring Netscape Mail
• Configuring Eudora Mail
• Forwards
• Mailing Lists
• Aliases
• Mail Autoresponders

Hosting databases

• Hosting MySQL databases
• Hosting PostgreSQL databases
• Hosting Microsoft SQL databases
• Gaining access to databases of different formats through ODBC drivers (Win2000 plans only)

SSL

• Securing transferred data through SSL
• Installing Comodo SSL certificates

Creating an online store

Paying for hosting

Getting technical support

Securing your .asp pages with ASPSecured

Obtaining direct access to server

Virtual Private Servers (experimental)