Experience the New Breed of Control Panel

 What is Cpanel?
Cpanel is our new best-of-breed utility that allows you to manage all your websites.  Just like Windows versus DOS (if you still recall), Cpanel uses a friendly graphical interface that allows users, small businesses or family members to easily managed their virtual server in a few mouse clicks.  Where you once have to pay a Webmaster to manage your domain, you can now easily achieve the same results without any complicated commands or configuration.  We have included some of the functions you can perform and the list keeps expanding.:

• CpanelX & Member Center - Low cost Linux servers, manage email,  instantly install over 40 popular applications (ecard, albums, forum, ecommerce) on your website, park and add domains, ssl, database management, file manager, web log, helpdesk for CpanelX support.
• CpanelG & My Account - Windows servers, manage email, add/transfer domains, park, lock domains, manage DNS Name servers, ssl,  database management, web log, helpdesk for domain support and CpanelG.

You can use a mix and match both Control Panels, each carrying it own benefits.  CpanelG allows you to manage your DNS, where as CpanelX allows you to install various cool applications in a few mouse clicks.  You can therefore manage your domains using CpanelG and purchase a Cpanelx hosting package.

 What is included in the CpanelX bundle?

• Email - The Mail area allows you to manage all aspects of your e-mail, from adding new accounts, managing mailing lists, and setting spam filters. There are quite a number of options available, so take your time.
• E-mail Filtering - You can block an e-mail using spam filters. Spam is the electronic version of junk mail, and has been around since the Internet was created. E-mail filters are a way of filtering your e-mail to remove unwanted mail based on a variety of criteria. You can block any sort of e-mail, not just mail of a commercial nature. You can also use this great feature to forward emails that matches keywords to your mobile sms messages or other email accounts.
• Autoresponders - Autoresponders are e-mail messages that are sent automatically when an e-mail arrives for a specific e-mail account. Autoresponders are most commonly used for an "Out of Office" style message to inform your correspondents that you are not available, without you having to reply manually. You can have more than one autoresponder on one account. You can use plain text or include HTML code in the autoresponder, and choose from a wide variety of character sets.
• Forwarders - Forwards simply allow you to automatically forward e-mail sent to one account to another account. This is useful when you work at two separate locations or want a duplicate email sent to your personal email such as Yahoo email, This powerful feature does not require you to create a mail account, but only aliases.
• Web Mail - You can read your online e-mail using any of the top 3 web mail: NeoMail, Horde, or SquirrelMail. All of these popular web mail applications allow you to read your e-mail, save them, keep an address book, import address book and perform all of the other basic e-mail functions that you are used to. The main difference between web mail and an offline POP/IMAP e-mail applications, such as Eudora or Microsoft Outlook Express, is that all of these functions are performed online, rather than on your own computer, and offline applications generally provide more features. Web mail is optional. You can still use your favorite offline e-mail applications, if you prefer or forward your emails.
• Mailing Lists - Mailing lists are an ideal tool for communication between far-flung participants and can be about anything you want. Mailman allows you to set up a mailing list with a large number of configurable options, such as who is on the list, where mailing lists messages are sent, and whether you include welcoming messages to new subscribers.
• Spam Assassin - Spam Assassin is a mail filter installed on a mail server used to identify spam. It checks for spam using a large number of pre-set rules that check the header, body, and sender of all e-mail messages sent to your domain mailbox.
• Mail Exchanger (MX Entry) - By altering your MX (Mail Exchange Record) Entry you can point your e-mail to another mail server, if this is required. We will not be able to manage your e-mail if you change your MX Entry setting. Do not change your MX Entry unless you know what you are doing.
• FTP Manager - The FTP area deals with all the tools relating to setting up and managing FTP accounts, as well as managing FTP sessions. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a method by which you can transfer files between computers, usually using the Internet. We allows you to set up FTP accounts so that certain external users can access a restricted part of your system.
• File Manager - The 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. While not as sophisticated as most FTP tools, File Manager is free and gives you all the basic functionality necessary to manage your site when you need to.  We would still recommend WS-FTP or Cute FTP for regular use.
• Backup - The Backup button 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 a convenient manner (you could also use FTP to download each file, but it would take much longer as the files are not compressed).
• Password protect directories - You can easily protect directories within your site from browsers by using a password to protect them. This allows you to restrict material to only authorized users or store sensitive material online.  No more complicated commands.
• Subdomains - Subdomains are a way of creating separate accounts within your master account, which are accessed as separate URLs. For example, you could set up a "info" subdomain on your master account "club.com", which would be accessed as "info.club.comt".
• MySQL - SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is an international standard in querying and retrieving information from databases. MySQL is essentially an SQL server - it responds to requests for information that are written in SQL. You can communicate with MySQL using a wide variety of programming languages (PHP being one of the most common). MySQL is Open Source software and free for use.
• CGI Center - CGI Center area allows you to use some pre-installed CGI scripts through CPanel. This section contains information about using these scripts, as well as using CGI scripts in general. Following scripts are available through CGI Center: Simple CGI Wrappper, Random HTML, Guestbook, Advanced Guestbook, Counter Maker, Clock, Java CountDown/CountUp Maker, CGI EMail, FormMail Clone, Entropy Search, Entropy Banner.
• Raw Log Manager - Raw access logs contain 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.
• Web/FTP Stats - The Web / FTP Statistics area presents you 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.
• Frontpage Extensions - Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your web site using Microsoft Frontpage. These extensions can occasionally become corrupted, so you can uninstall and then reinstall Frontpage Extensions whenever required.
• Redirects - The Redirects area allows you to redirect Internet traffics from one web page to another. This is usually used when a web page has been moved to another location.
• 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.
• MIME Types - MIME types tell browsers how to handle specific extensions. Most MIME types are set globally on the server. For example, the text/html MIME type equates to htm, html, and shtml extensions on most servers, and this tells your browser to interpret all files with those extensions as HTML files. You can alter or add new MIME types specifically for your site (note that you can not alter the global MIME type values, only add to them). 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 is an open-source HTTP server, and is used to serve your site. 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.  Warning: Please check with us before adding an Apache handler, as we can easily alter the correct functioning of your web site.
• OpenPGP keys - OpenPGP is a tool for secure online communication. CPanel uses GnuPG for its public-key cryptography so that users may communicate securely. Each person gets a pair of keys, called the public key and the private key. Each person's public key is published while the private key is kept secret. Messages are encrypted using the intended recipient's public key and can only be decrypted using their private key.
• HotLink Prevention - 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. CPanel can prevent hotlinking by only allowing named sites (such as your own web site) to access files on your site.
• Index Manager - The Index Manager enables you to 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. You can set the four different options for any directory through the Index Manager.
• IP Deny Manager -The IP Deny Manager enables you to 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.
• Shell/Telnet access - Shell/SSH and Telnet are not allowed on shared servers, due to the risk they place on other shared users.
• Fantastico - This is one of the best features included. Fantastico allows you to install popular applications in a few mouse clicks. Popular applications such as PostNuke, PHP-Nuke, Xoops, OSCommerce, Mambo, Project Manager, Coppermine Photo Gallery, PHP Calendar, PHP Auction and many more.

Please note that our Security Administrator will reserve the right  to disable any script if it demonstrates to be a security risk to a shared server.