Managing your website
WebsiteOS is a browser-based application that allows
you to manage many aspects of your website.
Using WebsiteOS, you can:
- Administer your email accounts
- Generate usage statistics
- Promote your website
- Manage your files on the server
- Change passwords
- Setup your own ad server
- Add and remove FrontPage extensions
- Enable ASP, ColdFusion and Virus Scanning
- Send announcements about your site
- Analyze your website's structure and integrity
- Create and manage an effective single page website
- Check your disk usage
- Manage server logs
- Secure sections of your website
- Configure and install common CGI scripts
- Check the status of the web server
- Send feedback about WebsiteOS
- Build your e-commerce using ecBuilder
- Build your e-commerce using Miva Merchant
- Monitor your disk usage and bandwidth
- Manage your MySQL database
- Set up a private or generic SSL certificate on your
domain
- Create a website using EasySiteWizard
- Point your domain
- Manage multiple domains using VM Server
Accessing your account
To access WebsiteOS, connect to the URL http://hosting.netins.net/OS4/ This
URL will access the WebsiteOS login page.
Enter your domain as your username and your Admin password
in the login box. Click the Login button to enter
WebsiteOS.
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Changing
Website OS preferences
The WebsiteOS Preferences menu allows you to select
a language and a background. Click on the WebsiteOS
Preferences logo. A dialog box will appear.
Language: To change the language setting, select
your preferred language in the Language field
and click Apply.
Background: To change your background color,
click the color wheel. Select a colored square from
the pop-up chooser and click Apply. Be sure that
your background image is set to none. To change your
background image, select the name of the image from
the Image drop-down menu and click Apply.
If a background image is selected, your background color
will not be visible.
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How
to use the Website OS interface
Using the History bar
The History bar contains links to the applications
you accessed most recently. Click on a link for immediate
access to the application.
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Using the Run box
If you know the name of the application you are looking
for, type in the first few letters in the text box and
press the Tab key on your keyboard. The Run box
will complete the name of the application for you. Finally,
click the Run button, or press Enter to
open the application.
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Finding an application
To open an application, click on the appropriate category
in the main menu. An application menu will open. To
open an application, click on its name.
Please note that you may not have access to applications
that are not included in your package. The applications
are categorized as shown below:
Email
E-commerce
- Ad Manager
- ecBuilder Download
- Easy Store Maker
- Easy Store Maker PRO
Site Builders
- Advanced Template Manager
- Appointment Scheduler
- Easy Blog Builder
- Easy Live Chat
- FrontPage Manager
- Plug-in Scripts
- EasySiteWizard
- Windows [TM] Services
- ASP
- ASP.net
- ColdFusion 5
- ColdFusion MX
Security
- Change Password
- FTP Manager
- Website Security
- Secure Shell
- SSL Manager
Statistics
- Disk Usage
- Log Manager
- Web Stats
Website Management
- DB Manager
- File Manager
- File Restore
- Site Checker
- Site Promoter
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Logging off the system
When you are ready to leave your administration session,
click the Logout option. This will log you out
of your session.
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Changing
your password
To change your password, select Security from
the main menu, and select Change Password from
the Security menu.
The Change Password function allows you to change your
administrative/FTP access password. The change password
page has three fields for entering the current password
(for security purposes), the new password and confirmation
of the new password. Confirming the new password ensures
that the text is entered correctly.
A new password must be different from the present password
and has to be a minimum of four characters. Click the
Next button to submit the new password to the
server.
If the server rejects the new password, you will receive
an error message. Follow the suggestions of the error
message and resubmit the form with the corrected information.
After a successful submission, the password is immediately
changed. You will be asked to logout and log back in
to WebsiteOS with the new password.
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