Creating,
promoting, and managing your site
Your account comes with a comprehensive suite of web tools that
will help you create, promote and manage your sites:
SiteStudio Site Builder
Before you pay a fortune to a web design studio or waste hours
making a nice-looking web site in FrontPage, consider our online
site builder that will create you a professional website in a matter
of minutes and post it to your directory on the server.
To start SiteStudio, click the SiteStudio icon.
Then follow the on-screen instructions.
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Submit
So your site is up and running? Help others find it among infinite
pages of the Internet! Register it with major search engines!
To start the Search Engine Submit utility, click the Submit
URL icon. On the page that appears, check the engines to register
the site with and fill in the following fields:
Domain to submit: select the site you would like to be indexed.
Contact Email: most search engines require a contact e-mail
address.
Key Words: some search engines provide the possibility for
entering additional keywords your site can be searched by.
Description: this text will show to Internet users as a
description of your site in the list of search results.
Time-out: this is the time you allow for registering one
site with all search engines. If this period is too short, the site
will get registered with only a few search engines.
- Next, click Submit. Be patient while the server processes
your request.
Warning: Avoid submitting a large number of web sites at
a time, or the browser will time out before the program has finished.
You may have to wait a week or more before some search engines
start showing the sites in search results.
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WebShell allows you to copy, move, delete, and rename files and
directories in your home directory on the server. Also, you can
use it to upload, download, compress and decompress files as well
as preview them in the browser.
To launch WebShell, click the File Manager icon on your
control panel home page.
WebShell documentation is available from the WebShell interface,
Help button.
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Webalizer,
ModLogAn and Urchin Web Analyzers
Information about the operation of your site is critical for decision-making.
To obtain this information, you need to analyze statistics data
that is written to log files in your home directory on the server:
- Error log - stores data about errors generated by the server
(e.g. Page Not Found error) or by your CGI scripts;
- Transfer log - stores combined data about every visit to your
site, including:
- Remote host IP (i.e. visitor's IP);
- Time of request (i.e. when visitor requested the page);
- First line of request;
- Error generated by request, if any;
- Size of message sent in response to the request;
- Referrer (i.e. from which page visitor was directed);
- Agent ID (i.e. type of browser or another agent and related
information, such as user's OS, etc.) ;
- Referrer log - stores the list of URLs from which visitors are
referred to your site; and
- Agent log - stores data about agents used to enter the site
-- such as browsers or any other Internet-based software -- and
all related data.
To enable or disable writing log files, do the following:
- Click the Web Options icon on your control panel home
page
- Select the Domain name you need
- On the page that shows, scroll down to the Settings
section and click the ON/OFF icon next to the log files.
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view the log files records, do the following:
- Click the Web Options icon on your control panel home
page.
- Choose the necessary domain
- Scroll down to Log files and click the View icon next
to it.
- List of log files shows.
- Click the necessary file and all its records will show.
Note: Entering end
in the Line Number field will show a list of records
from the tail of a logfile.
The statistics data in the log files is difficult to read. Web
analyzers will read log files to produce visual reports in HTML
format for viewing through a browser.
To enable these analyzers and view statistics reports for your
sites, do the following:
- Click the Stats icon to go to the Statistics page.
- Enable ModLogAn or Analyzer for this domain.
- Click the Apply link on the right of this domain.
- Click the View icon to see your statistics report.
Note: To use Urchin, you need to buy a license.
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Reverse Traceroute
This net troubleshooting tool allows you to ping any Internet host
from your hosting server. In other words, you can use this tool
to determine if a host is reachable and how long it takes for the
signal to go all the way through.
To launch the Reverse Traceroute tool, do the following:
- On your control panel home page, click the Reverse Traceroute
icon.
- In the form that appears, enter the host name or the IP address
of the server you would like to ping:
- Select the timout period. If you see the connection is slow,
select a bigger period.
- Click Trace and wait for the result. The next page will
show all the hosts that were passed to reach the target server.
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Site Toolbox.
You can promote your site with Site Toolbox utility by referring
to the link in your user control panel. To have your website promoted,
do the following:
- On your user control panel home page, click the Web Options
icon.
- Click Edit next to the necessary domain.
- On the page that appears, click the lens icon against Site
Toolbox.
It will take you directly to the Site Toolbox website and all further
actions will be taken outside H-Sphere interface.
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