Once you log in to your hosting account you will be presented with our web hosting control panel home page. From here you can access all the various tools and features to manage your website.
You can also quickly access details about your account (e.g. hosting package name, server type, and your FTP details) and how much of your account's allowance you have used (web space, bandwidth, Email accounts etc).
Our control panel is one of the world's most advanced web hosting control panels, here is a quick summary of the other great features available...
£300 free software, 100s of web templates, 1000s of free images, Tracewatch, Website redirection, FrontPage extensions, Banner templates, Photo gallery, Form to Email, JavaScript maker, and much more!
100% free for all our web hosting customers, our smartphone control panel provides exactly the same level of functionality as the normal control panel, but optimised for internet enabled mobile phones.
We provide you with full access to upload and download your website's files with our easy to use file manager.
To ensure you never lose any of your work, backing up and restoring your website is all done in just a few clicks with the files stored on your local machine.
We offer one of the most powerful and flexible WebMail systems.
You can also set up new email boxes and delete any that you no longer need all in just a few clicks. In keeping with our ethos of giving you control you can decide how aggressive you want your junk filter to be and which email addresses it applies to on a box by box case or choose all emails attached to a domain name. You can also add specific addresses to your white list and to your black list.
Check the performance and data usage of your website with our extensive analysis tools.
We have also automated the creation of a Google Site Map for your website to increase the likelihood of being found by their spiders. So you don't have to manually submit your site multiple times you can submit to the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft etc) from here with just a couple of clicks.
The ‘Web Tools' area provides you with access to a raft of great features for those with a bit more technical knowledge than the average user.
MySQL Databases: From this area you can also manage your database by using phpMyAdmin, an easy to use web based interface for managing MySQL databases.
Password Protection: Website Password Protection allows you to password protect a directory on your website. Only people who have the password will be able to access the area.
Scheduled Tasks: Scheduled tasks allows you to enable programs to run automatically on the server at specific intervals.
Sub domains: Have a new web address for separate areas of your website e.g. news.bbc.co.uk
IP Address blocking: IP blocking allows you to block certain IP addresses or ranges from accessing your website. For example, you may wish to prevent a competitor from viewing your site or a known threat.
Switch PHP Version: Switch to PHP5 with just one click
Make sure your website is performing at optimal levels with our free diagnostic tools.
Your web hosting is fully e-commerce enabled and comes packed with advanced e-commerce features and scripts.
You can provide your customer with a secure online shopping experience by using our free secure server (SSL) which allows you to accept data securely via your website. Choose from a collection of the most advanced e-commerce solutions available including Zen Shopping Cart, osCommerce Shopping Cart and Agora Shopping Cart.
View your domain name, account type and server type.
Keep track of the resources your website is using.
To help prevent unauthorised access the control panel includes ability to limit FTP access by time or by IP.
Quickly look up your FTP log in username and password as well as how many FTP users you can grant access to.
Our customers can choose to install as many scripts they want from one of the UK's most comprehensive list of one click install scripts.
Including...
WordPress
BuddyPress
Joomla
phpBB
Drupal
Concrete5
Revive Adserver
and much more...
All available in a just a matter of clicks.