FAQ - CONTROL PANEL
A control panel is a graphical web-based management tool, designed to make administration of web sites as easy as possible. To access your Control Panel, please go to our home page, and enter your details under the menu 'Control Panel Login'
Do I get a Control Panel with a xman online Web Hosting Package ?
Yes. All web hosting packages come wth a control panel.
What can I do with my Control Panel ?
Absolutely everything and anything do with your website and emails. It would be impossible to list all of it's features here, however listed below is a brief summarisation:
- Email Management Tools (ie. Add/Remove E-mail accounts, create Auto Responders and Email Forwarders, modify email filtering etc).
- Site Management Tools (ie. Manage FTP, create Custom error pages, create sub-domains, create and manage databases etc).
- Analysis and Log files (Web/FTP Stats, Raw Log Manager etc).
- Advanced Tools (cron jobs, Mime Types etc).
- Preinstalled Scripts (Fantastico, CGI Center, Agora Shopping Cart etc).
This all sound confusing, where can I go to learn more ?
Please view our control panel tutorials here.
Fantastico
Fantastico is a program which comes free with your control panel with any of our web hosting packages. It is probably one of the most advanced script installer on the market today. Currently it can install a large amount and array of scripts, ranging from bulletin boards to content management systems. And all of these scripts are all free !
One of the key features to Fantastico is how easy it makes installing programs and scripts. Simply by selecting a program or script to install and offering a small amount of information for each, a user can have a program or script installed within a matter of seconds and since the system is designed to update these programs with the newest version on a regular basis, users can be assured they are getting the latest stable version of the software and that it's installed correctly and properly.
What free programs / scripts can I install onto my website with Fantastico ?
Currently you can install the following programs / scripts with Fantastico:
- Blogs (b2evolution, Nucleus, pMachine Free, WordPress)
- Content Management (Drupal, Geeklog, Joomla, Mambo Open Source, PHP-Nuke, phpWCMS, phpWebSite, Post-Nuke, Siteframe, TYPO3, Xoops)
- Customer Relationship (Crafty Syntax Live Help, Help Center Live, osTicket, PerlDesk, PHP Support Tickets, Support Logic Helpdesk, Support Services Manager)
- Discussion Boards (phpBB2, SMF)
- E-Commerce (CubeCart, OS Commerce, Zen Cart)
- F.A.Q. (FAQMasterFlex)
- Guestbooks (ViPER Guestbook)
- Hosting Billing (AccountLab Plus, phpCOIN)
- Image Galleries (4Images Gallery, Coppermine Photo Gallery, Gallery)
- Mailing Lists (PHPlist)
- Polls and Surveys (Advanced Poll, phpESP, PHPSurveyor)
- Project Management (dotProject, PHProjekt)
- Site Builders (Templates Express)
- Wiki (TikiWiki, PhpWiki)
- Other Scripts (Dew-NewPHPLinks, Moodle, Noahs Classifieds, Open-Realty, phpAdsNew, PHPauction, phpFormGenerator, WebCalendar)
Web Stats
Web stats refer to statistics produced by an online statistical program. It allows the webmaster to see accurate information about the people that view and use their site. You can see such information like unique visitors, page views, referrers, etc. instead of just information like hits.
Does xman online web hosting packages come with web statistics facilities ?
Yes. Each package comes with THREE different web statistics programs, so you have the option of using the one that best suits your needs.
What are the three web stats programs that come with the hosting packages ?
Analog, Awstats and Webalizer.
Analog is a program to measure the usage on your web server. It tells you which pages are most popular, which countries people are visiting from, which sites they tried to follow broken links from, and all sorts of other useful information. Click here for an example of a report produced by Analog.
AWStats is a powerful and feature full tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, illustrated in a graphical manner. Click here for an example of a report produced by Awstats.
The Webalizer is a fast web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser. Click here for an example of a report produced by Webalizer.
Am I able to use these programs to check my sub-domain stats ?
Absolutely.
A series of one or more page requests or page downloads made by one user at one web site. When a visitor does not request any new information for a specific time, known as the "time-out" , then the next request by the visitor is considered a new visit.
A unique visitor is a visitor that has made at least 1 hit on 1 page of your web site during the current period shown by the report. If this host make several visits during this period, it is counted only once.
The period shown by AWStats reports is by default the current month.
All Web sites are a collection of electronic "pages." Each Web page is a document formatted in HTML that contains text, images or media objects. The "home page" is typically a visitor's first point of entry.
A hit is a single file request in the access log of a web server. A request for an HTML page with three images will result in four hits in the log: one for the HTML file and one for each of the graphic image files. Whilst hits can give a meaningful measure of how much traffic a web server is processing, a better way of understanding accesses to a website is to look at the number of pages accessed (eg. just html files).
Bandwidth is a term used to describe the amount of data that can be uploaded and download from your website per month. It is measured in megabytes or gigabytes and you can choose which hosting plan to suit your needs based on this at xman online.
This is the first page viewed by a visitor during its visit.
This is the last page viewed by a visitor during its visit.
The time a visitor spent on your site for each visit.