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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. SiteStudio FAQ is
available here.
Search
Engine 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 Searh 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.
WebShell
File Manager (only for Unix-based plans)
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.
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
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On the page that shows, scroll down to the Settings
section and click the ON/OFF icon next to the log
files.
To
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.
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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