Control Panel Main Screen

Account Management:

News & Announcements:
View news and important announcements posted by the ProNIC Solutions staff.

(CMI) Account & Billing:
Use this option to log into our "Customer Management Interface" (CMI). The CMI will allow you to update your contact and payment information as well as view your most recent invoices.

Change Password:
Click this option to change the password for your Control Panel and FTP service.

File Manager:
By clicking this option you can view, create and edit files and directories in your account as well as change permissions and upload files from your hard drive.

Account Backup / Restore:
Allows you compress and backup as well as restore your files, directories, email settings and MySQL databases.

Network Status:
Allows you to view the status of our servers and network in real time. Status changes are updated every 5 minutes.

Help & Support Area:
A link to this support section.

Affiliate Program Information:
Information on how to become a ProNIC Solutions affiliate. Existing affiliates can login to view their earnings and track their referrals.

Submit Trouble Ticket:
Use this link to contact our various departments.

Server:

FrontPage Extensions:
This option allows you to install, reinstall and uninstall FrontPage extensions on your account.

MySQL Mgmt/Maintenance:
MySQL is a database engine that you can use with your web site. This feature allows you to create your databases and assign users as well as edit the databases. (Not available with some accounts)

Domain Pointers:
Domain pointers allow you to "point" or "park" additional domain names to your existing hosting account. This will allow users to also reach your web site when entering the "parked" or "pointed" domain into their browsers.

Addon Domains:
Addon Domains are domain names that point to subdirectories within your account. Please note that Addon Domains share the resources of your primary domain name.

Subdomain Management:
This option will assist you setting up sub domains inside your account plan. Sub domains are subdomain.yourdomain.com. The sub domains that are setup through your control panel draw their resources from the parent plan and do not come with a unique IP address. (Not available with some accounts)

Password Protect Directories:
This option does not work with FrontPage. This option will have to be configured with FrontPage itself. Password protecting directories has never been easier. This option allows you to select the directory you wish to password protect and then enter usernames and passwords of those you want to allow access to that part of your site.

Custom Error Pages:
This option will assist you in customizing how your error pages look. It includes 400, 401, 403, 404 and 500 error pages.

Cron Job Management:
This option allows you to setup automated processes on your account. (Advanced Users Only)

HotLink Protection:
Prevents other users from pulling your html/image files from your server.

URL Redirect Management:
Allows you to create temporary or permanent redirection.

Directory Index Management:
This feature allows you to turn indexes on or off for a directory. If indexes are off, people will not be able to see what files are in a directory that lacks an index file.

IP Deny Management:
This feature allows you to block access to your web site from certain IP addresses.

MIME Type Management:
MIME = Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. This option allows you to add Mime types to your account. (Advanced Users Only)

Apache Handler Management:
Allows you to add user defined handlers for the Apache Web Server. (Advanced Users Only)

CGI Center:
This option allows you to enable the pre-installed CGI scripts for your site.

Shopping Carts:
This feature allows you to setup a fully functional shopping cart on your site. (Not available with some accounts)

Chat Rooms:
This option will allow you to setup web based chat rooms on your site.

Addon Scripts:
This option allows you to install a few scripts on your site. This option has been outdated and replaced by "Fantastico" (see below).

Fantastico:

Fantastico is a powerful script library that allows you to choose from multiple pre-installed scripts. You can use Fantastico to install scripts on your site quickly and efficiently.

Mail:

Read Webmail:
Allows you to read your email messages online.

Add/Remove Email Accounts:
Click this option to add and/or remove email accounts.

Set Default Email Address:
The default email address is the email address where all unrouted email messages will be sent. This is also called a "Catch All Email Address." For Example, if your control panel username is "john" your default address will be john@yourdomain.com. Now, lets assume that someone sends an email to mary@yourdomain.com and you have not created an email account for mary, that particular message will arrive at your default address of john@yourdomain.com.

Setup / Modify Autoresponders:
Autoresponders are messages that are automatically sent to each person who sends you an email. This feature is useful when you know you will not be reading or responding to incoming email massages for a period of time.

Add/Remove Email Filters:
You can use this option to "filter" or block unwanted emails. Addresses entered here will not be able to send email to your domain.

Add/Remove Forwarders:
You can use this option to forward your email messages to other email accounts.

Manage Mailing Lists:
Allows you to add, remove and edit Mailing Lists.

Enable/Disable Spam Assassin:
SpamAssassin is an automated mail filter that uses a wide range of heuristic algorithms on mail headers and message body text to identify "SPAM" (unsolicited email). Once identified, the mail is tagged as SPAM for later filtering using the user's desktop mail client.

Trace an Email Address:
With this feature, you can trace the path a message would take to reach any email address. This is very useful to troubleshoot email problems.

Add/Remove FTP Accounts:
This feature allows you to add additional FTP users to your web hosting account.

FTP Session Control:
This feature allows you to view as well as disconnect active FTP sessions.

AWStats:
AWStats is a nice looking stats program that produces a variety of charts and graphs about who has visited your site.

Webalizer:
Webalizer is a more complex stats program that also produces a nice variety of charts and graphs about who has visited your site. This is probably the most popular stats engine available today.

Subdomain Stats:
This will show you the usage statistics for each one of your subdomains.

Latest Visitors:
This will show you the last 300 visitors who came to your site and some interesting information about them.

Bandwidth Usage:
This will show how many bytes your account has transferred.

Download Raw Access Log:
This option will let you download a raw access log.

Error Log - Last 300 Entries:
This will show errors in your site, images not loading, missing files, etc. This is very useful for debugging CGI scripts.

Raw Log Manager:
This feature allows you to select preferences for raw log storage.

Services:

Disk Usage Viewer:
The disk usage viewer provides you with a comprehensive view of the amount of space being utilized on each directory under your web hosting account.

Search Engine Submit:
This option will assist you in submitting your URL to some of the most popular search engines in one click.

Web Based SSH Client:
This feature will allow you to log into your account via SSH. This feature is not enabled by default.

Network Tools:
This option provides you with DNS lookup capabilities and traceroute.

Open PGP Management (PGP):
With this tool you can generate Pretty Good Privacy encryption keys. (Advanced Users Only)

Mail Exchanger: (MX Entry)
Allows you to change the MX record on your DNS file. (Advanced Users Only)