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, do the following:
- Select Quick Access in the Account
menu.
- Click SiteStudio icon on the page that appears.
Then follow the on-screen instructions.
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 Search Engine Submit utility,
select the Submit URL link in the Domain Settings
menu. 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 on the Quick Access
page in the Account menu.
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:
- Select domain Info in the Domain Settings
menu.
- Click the Edit icon next to the Web Service
field.
- 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:
- Select Quick access in the
Account menu and click the Web
Options icon.
- 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:
- Select Domain Info in the Domain Settings
menu.
- Click the Edit icon next to the Webalizer
field.
- On the page that shows, click OFF to switch it to ON
next to the Webalizer field.
- 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:
- Select Trace Route link in the
Domain Settings menu.
- 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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