User Menu Based Guide

WARNING: This documentation covers Parallels H-Sphere versions up to 3.1. For the latest up-to-date Parallels H-Sphere documentation, please proceed to the official Parallels site.

Welcome to Parallels H-Sphere User Menu Based Guide. It explains how to administer the extensive features of your control panel to setup your email accounts and databases, increase your disk space and traffic quotas, configure web statistics, and perform many other important operations - from your web browser.

Legend: (15 Apr) - document added;   (15 Apr) - document revised;

Starting With Your Account

• Starting With Your Account
• Set Your Temporary Index Page
• Upload Your Site
• Contents of Your Home Directory

Control Panel Basics

• Control Panel Basics
• Changing Hosting Plan
• Changing Billing Period
• Control Panel Password
• FTP Password
• Changing Traffic Limit
• Changing Disk Quota
• Control Panel Skins
• Control Panel Language

Registering Domains

• Registering Domains
• Creating Standard Domains
• Transfering Domains
• Third Level Domains
• Stopgap Domains
• Parking External Domains
• Creating Accounts Without Domains
• Domain Renewal

Configuring Domains

• Configuring Domains
• Removing Domains
• Instant Domain Aliases
• Creating Subdomains
• Changing IPs From Shared to Dedicated
• Domain Aliases
• Server Aliases
• Web Access Control (HS 3.1+)

DNS Settings

• DNS Overview
• Removing Built-in DNS Records
• Creating Custom DNS Records

Traffic

• Managing Traffic
• Summary Traffic
• Traffic Cycle
• Traffic Limit

Disk Space

• Disk Space Concepts
• Individual Resource Quotas
• Summary Disk Usage
• Disk Space Billing

Mail Resources

• Mail Overview
• Mailboxes
• Mail Forwards
• Mailbox Aliases
• Autoresponders (HS 3.1+)
• Mailing Lists
• Maildomain Aliases
• Mail SMS (HS 3.1+)
• Antispam
• Antivirus
• Fighting E-mail Forgery
• Outlook Express configuration
• Netscape Mail Configuration
• Eudora Mail Configuration

User Billing

• Paying For Hosting
• Billing Profile
• Automatic Email Invoicing
• Billing Period And Billing Month
• When And What Fees
• Refunds
• Billing History
• Viewing Overall Charges
• Becoming a Pay User
• Getting Your Money Back
• Extra Packages (HS 3.1+)

Managing Databases

• MySQL Databases And Its Users
• PgSQL Databases And Its Users
• Microsoft SQL Databases And Its Users
• ODBC DSN Records

Securing Data

• Securing Transferred Data Through SSL
• Using The Key and Certificate You Already Have
• Temporary Key And Certificate
• Permanent Certificates
• Renewing Permanent Certificates
• Shared SSL
• Comodo SSL

Online Commerce

• Creating an Online Store
• Compare Miva Merchant and osCommerce
• Miva Merchant
• osCommerce
• Updating osCommerce

Manipulating Pages

• Manipulating Pages
• Redirect URL
• Directory Indexes
• Error Pages
• Server Side Imagemap
• MIME Types
• WAP Support

Creating and Managing Websites

• Creating, Promoting and Managing Your Site
• SiteStudio Website Builder
• WebShell and htProtect
• Reverse Traceroute
• Platform Change (HS 3.0+)
• Web Statistics
• Kanoodle

FTP Management

• Managing FTP Access
• Main FTP User
• FTP Sub-accounts
• Virtual FTP
• Anonymous FTP
• Anonymous FTP Upload Facilities

SSH Access to Server

• Access Your SSH account (Shell Access)
• Running Your Shell Scripts With Crontab

Dynamic Web Content

• Adding Support for Dynamic Web Content
• CGI Scripts
• PHP Scripts
• ASP (Active Server Pages)
• ASP.NET
• ColdFusion
• SSI (Server Side Includes)
• PHP/MySQL Applications
• Preinstalled CGI Scripts

Technical Support

• Getting Technical Support
• Sending Trouble Tickets
• Following Up Trouble Tickets
• Closing Trouble Tickets

Virtual Private Servers

• Virtual Private Servers
• Checking VPS status
• Adding Custom DNS Records
• Changing Root Password
• Adding VPS IP
• Changing Server Limits
• Looking Up System Information

Dedicated Servers

• Dedicated Servers
• Adding Dedicated Servers
• Managing Dedicated Servers

MS Exchange Hosting

• MS Exchange
• Managing Mailboxes
• Managing SMTP Domains
• Adding DNS MX Records
• Managing Distribution Lists

SharePoint (HS 3.0+)

• Enabling Microsoft SharePoint Services
• Enable SharePoint Services on Domain
• Edit SharePoint Settings
• Manage SharePoint Users

Application Pools (HS 3.0+)

• Application Pools
• Configure Dedicated Application Pool
• Web Directory
• Web Application