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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.
- Select domain to launch Site builder
Then follow the on-screen instructions.
Search Engine Submit
This utility registers your website with major search
engines on the web. Since the time it was created, most search
engines have switched to commercial registration services, and
will not accept requests submitted by this automatic
registration tool. For better effects, consider SiteToolbox,
a commercial solution for website promotion. 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 and htProtect
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.
Starting from Ivy Host Control Panel version 2.3, htProtect
utility is integrated into WebShell. Protect utility allows
you to password-protect any directory on your site so only
authorized visitors can open its content with their
browsers.
To launch WebShell, click the File Manager icon on
the Quick Access page in the Account
menu. WebShell and Protect manuals are available from the
WebShell interface, Help button.
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.
Site Toolbox
(Deprecated in 2.4.3 Patch 1 and later)
This feature is no longer supported for newly
created Ivy Host Control Panel users. It is available only for
existing resellers and their users.
You can promote your site with Site Toolbox utility by
referring to the link in your user control panel. To have your
website promoted:
- On your user control panel home page, select the
Domain Info link in the Domain Settings menu.
- In the list of domains that shows, click Edit
next to the necessary domain.
- On the Edit Domain page that shows, click Web
Service.
- On the page that appears, click the lens icon against
Site Toolbox.
It will take you directly to the Site Toolbox website and
all further actions will be taken outside Ivy Host Control Panel
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