Ever wanted to make a certain part of your site ‘members only’?

The Password Protect feature is an extremely useful way to password protect certain parts of your site. Simply click on the directory you wish to protect you you will be asked for the following

• Password Protect Checkbox - you MUST tick this box to switch on Password Protection
• Protected Resource Name - this will appear in the password box the user will see, for example you could have ‘mysite.com member’s only area’
• Username
• Password

Please note this is only a very basic (and not totally secure) way of password protecting areas of your site

HotLink protection prevents other websites from directly linking to files on your website. Other sites will still be able to link to any file type that you don’t specify (ie. html files). An example of hotlinking would be using a tag to display an image from your site from somewhere else on the net. The end result is that the other site is stealing your bandwidth. You should ensure that all sites that you wish to allow direct links from are in the list below. This system attempts to add all sites it knows you own to the list, however you may need to add others.

The cPanel Change Password utility is pretty self explanatory really! However, it does contain some good tips on safe passwords.

The FTP manager controls all aspects of FTP access to your site.

Using FTP Account Maintenance you can add/remove FTP users and set their permissions, for example a user may only have access to certain directories within your site or you can give them access to the site root if required.

You can also download FTP logs to analyse your FTP user’s activity. Please note: these logs are in .tar.gz format (the linux equivalent to .zip files) so in order to view them you will need to expand them - we recommend using 7zip (www.7-zip.org) - a free software utility.

For security reasons we do not recommend you offer anonymous FTP access to your site.

You can also use the FTP Session Control feature to terminate current FTP sessions.

The CGI Center is similar to Fantastico in that it lets you install a number of scripts to your site, including:

Simple CGI Wrapper
This is a CGI Wrapper that will allow you to run CGI Scripts with your User ID.

Random HTML
This is a Random HTML generator. It picks a string of HTML code from a list and inserts it in an SSI (Server Side Includes) enabled web page.

Simple GuestBook
This is a just a simple guestbook for your visitors to view and sign.

Advanced GuestBook
This is a more advanced guestbook written in PHP and MySQL.

Counter
You can create a counter to count and show how many visitors have been to your site.

Clock
This utility will create a real time java clock for your site.

Countdown
You can create a countdown box to countdown to a specified date.

CGI EMail
CGI Email takes the input of an HTML form and converts it to an email format defined by the author of the form.

FormMail Clone
FormMail-clone is a clone of Matt Wright’s FormMail.

Entropy Search
Setup Search Engine
Rebuild Search Index

Entropy Banner
This feature allows you to create rotating banner ads for your site.