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At Scorpion Web Hosting, our goal is to make hosting simple for everyone. One of our most remarkable features is our Control Panel. It allows you to manage all aspects of your hosting account, and is handy for both the novice and experienced webmaster and is available in English, Spanish, German, French and Romanian.

Confused? We now include Flash-based movies to help you set up the more common features (preview a tutorial here)

Look below for a description of each feature in the control panel.

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Control Panel Feature List


Mail Manager
E-mail control panel allows instant creation of e-mail POP3, forwards, and aliases.

Add/Remove Accounts - This is where you create POP3 or IMAP mailboxes for your domain. You can have a mailbox for anyone@yourdomain.com

Default Email Address - This feature is automatically configured when your account is set up. A default email address is a catch-all address which will direct any mail to your domain without a valid address to another mailbox. For example, if someone sends an email to bob@yourdomain.com and you do not have a mailbox for bob, then the message will go to the set default mailbox.

AutoResponders - An autoresponder is an automatic email generated to a sender when a certain email address receives mail.

Filters - You can have the server deny mail from anyone, or with any subject.

E-Mail Forwarders - A forward account sends mail sent to user@domain.com to an address completely out of your domain. For example if john had an AOl account and wanted to check all his mail there you could setup john to forward to john3435xs@aol.com. You may also set up a forwarder within your domain. For example, if you want mail for bobsmith@yourdomain.com to go to bob@yourdomain.com.

Mail Lists - Set up a list to send emails to a large group of subscribers. This tool has many configurations, from a newsletter or more. You can set who can subscribe, and how... who can post to your list and more.
Note: we do not allow unsolicited email (SPAM) on our server, please make sure your list subscribers know they are going to get emails from your list so they do not complain to us.

Spam Blocker included with all accounts.

WebMail Login
Another way to log in and read your email anytime with the web based email tool.
 

FTP Manager
Accounts Used for managing access accounts to your web space. The creation of an FTP account will allow users to log into a sub directory from your main account without gaining access to your main accounts. Sessions show any users that are currently logged into your domain. Settings allow you to modify access to your anonymous FTP site.

Password Changes
This changes the passwords for your account.

File Manager
Allows you to modify the files in your website in real-time via a web based interface. You can perform many commands such as chmod as well as actually edit the file and save it directly to the web server.

Custom Error Pages
This section lets you customize the errors that your users will see instead of the generic server errors. You could setup a 404 page to redirect users to your main web site instead of the default error document.

SSH
The control panel has a built in SSH (Telnet) client that allows you to log into your account and test perl scripts and perform other functions.

Web Page Protection (Protect Directory)
Web page protection is used to limit access to any directory to users who enter a username/password.

MySQL Database
This is where you set up and manage your MySQL databases.

Raw Access Logs
A log file is a record of all transfers that were requested by visitors to your site.

 

Web/FTP Access Stats
Provides access to many different programs that will analyze your access logs and show you more information about your web sites traffic. This also gives you a grapical look method (bar and pie graphs) detailing where your visitors came from, what search engines visited your site, what part of the world they live in, the days, hours your site is visited most and more! Some of the included programs are: Webalizer, Analog, AWStats.

Error Logs
This will show any errors, such as files, images, pages not loading, missing files. You may find any errors in your html or cgi scripts as well.

Search Engine Submit
A handy tool that will help you submit your site to some of the most popular search engines.

IP Deny Manager
Block any range of IPs from accessing your site.

CGI

We have numerous customizable cgi scripts that have been pre-installed on the server for you to use with your own account. The only thing you'll need to do is select the script you are interested in using, select the colors, style etc., and click the "Make HTML" button. You can then paste the HTML output into any of your HTML files to use that system cgi program.
Here are just a few pre-installed scripts:

Simple CGI Wrapper - This is a cgi wrapper that will allow you to run cgi scripts with your userid.

Random HTML - This is a random html generator. It picks a html string out of a list and inserts it in an SSI enabled web page. This is useful for "Quote of the Moment", and other similar things

Guestbook - This is a just a simple guestbook for your visitors to view and sign

Advanced Guestbook - This is a more advanced guestbook which uses mySQL databases to store your entries.

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

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

Java CountDown/CountUp Maker - You can create a countdown box to countdown to a specified date.

CGI EMail - cgiemail can make nicely formatted forms output in email that has been submitted over the web.

FormMail - FormMail-clone is a clone of Matt Wright's FormMail.

Entropy Search - Create a search engine for your own web site so your visitors can search for keywords and find content on your site easily.

Entropy Banner - This feature allows you to create rotating banner ads.

 


Fantastico Script Installer
NEW!

Gives you the ability to automagically install following Open Source Applications:

Portals
PHP-Nuke - A content management script that is fully customizable. Create an instant community website with this great PHP based script!

Post-Nuke - PostNuke is a weblog/Content Management System (CMS). It is far more secure and stable than competing products, and able to work in high-volume environments with ease.

phpWebSite - phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. Web-based administration allows for easy maintenance of interactive, community-driven web sites.

xoops - a dynamic OO (Object Oriented) based open source portal script written in PHP. XOOPS is the ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.

Blogs (Online Column/WebLog)
b2 Weblog - A classy news/weblog tool (aka logware).
pMachine - pMachine is online publishing's most flexible and creative software. With pMachine, you can publish virtually any kind of web content - from a basic weblog, to an advanced interactive magazine. pMachine gives you complete control over the presentation and the interactivity of your site.

Customer Service
CS Live Help - A live Help support chat system that allows the operators of the websites to monitor their visitors as they are browsing the site and proactively open a chat session with the visitor. Other features include eiter text based database or mySQL database, chat notification, user is typing message, multiple chat sessions and multiple operators.

PHP Support Tickets - PHP Support Ticket is an application which allows you to offer your web site users a way to request Support Tickets.

Support Service Manager - SSM is your complete support desk, knowledge base management, and customer relations management solution!

Discussion Boards
Invision Board - Advanced forum software based on PHP.

phpBB - phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites.

E-Commerce
OS Commerce Shopping Cart - Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs involved.

The control panel also includes two other pre-installed shopping carts listed further below. Akopia Interchange and AgoraCGI cart.

Image Gallery
4images Gallery - 4images is a powerful web-based image gallery management system. Features include comment system, user registration and management, password protected administration area with browser-based upload, HTML templates for page layout and design, search engine and a lot more.

Ad Management
PHPauction - PHPauction provides a complete suite of applications and services for building auction web sites. PHPauction auction programs offer flexibility, power, and ease of use for small businesses and individuals.
Noah's Classified - Noah's Classified is an ad management system, that is an extremely powerful system with endless possibility to allow you to advertise whatever you want.

Search Engines - Link Farm
phpLinks - phpLinks allows you to run a very powerful link farm or search engine simulation.

Project Management
PHProject - PHProject is a modular application for the coordination of group activities and to share information and document via intranet and internet. Components include: Group calendar, project management, time card system, file management, contact manager, mail client and 9 other modules

Courseware / E-Learning
Moodle - Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses.

Productivity
WebCalendar - WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendar for a single user or an intranet group of users.

PHPLists - PHPlist is a web application that implements a personalized mailing list manager or customer relationship management (CRM) system. It is written in PHP and uses an SQL database for storing the information.


Other included Control Panel tools:
 
Cron Jobs
Some programs require you to install a cron job on the server. The control panel automates this installation so you do not need to ask support to install it for you.

Network Tools
A few helpful tools like dns lookup and traceroute.

 

Mime Types
A MIME type is basically what tells the web server that a .html document is a web page, and that a .gif doc is a gif image etc. If you would like to configure a custom MIME type such as making .pictures a gif image file you would enter it here.

Apache Handlers
A "handler" is an internal Apache representation of the action to be performed when a file is called. Generally, files have implicit handlers, based on the file type. Normally, all files are simply served by the server, but certain file types are "handled" separately.

Todays Backup
A very handy tool will allow you to download a backup of your site. Although we have backups on site here, it is ALWAYS a good idea to keep a recent backup of your site locally on your computer as well in case there is a problem, or you delete a file accidentally. You can also easily restore backups of your site as well.

PGP Key Manager
Here is where you upload and manage PGP Keys used for PGP Mail.

FrontPage Extensions
Install, Uninstall and Re-install FrontPage Extensions for your site.
(used for customer's who use Microsoft FrontPage Software)

Agora Shopping Cart
Build an online store using Agora, a simple easy to use Shopping Cart software which can be installed on your server with the click of a button. You may use the simple web-based interface to manage the cart. More information and a demo at agoracart.com

Akopia
Shopping Cart
Build an online store using The Akopia shopping cart by RedHat. This more complex cart allows you to sell goods and services on-line. It is installed on your account with the click of a button.
More information and demo at http://demo.akopia.com
Note: shopping carts will not work correctly until your domain points to the server


 

Chat Room
We offer use of both a Java and PHP Based chat room. Both are easy to use and you simply install and then copy/paste the code into your html.

Message Board
Run your own forum or board with this pre-installed software.

Redirect URL
This will allow you to point a URL of your site to another URL.
For example, if someone goes to a certain page like:
http://yourdomain.com/salesquote.html you can have it redirect to http://yourdomain.com/newquote.html automatically.

Parked Domains (if supported by your plan)
Point more than one domain to your site. For example, you can point yourdomain.com and yourdomain.net to the same site and use both domains for web and email.
Note: please make sure to point all domains to the same nameservers as your main domain.

 
Additional Domains (if supported by your plan)
This is where you add additional hosting accounts to host under your existing account.

Subdomain Manager (if supported by your plan)
Allows you to set up subdomains (anything.yourdomain.com) that point to directories (/anything) of the same name

NOTE: Some features may not be included in all control panels depending on the Hosting Plan chosen.

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