Creating, promoting and managing your site

Your account comes with a comprehensive suite of web tools that will help you create, promote and manage your sites:

• SiteStudio to create a professional website without knowing HTML
• WebShell to manage files in your home directory and htProtect to protect any directory on your site
• Reverse Traceroute to troubleshoot your domain

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, click the SiteStudio icon on the control panel home page.
Alternatively, on the Edit domain page click Web Service and on the page that appears click Login in the SiteStudio field.

Then follow the on-screen instructions.

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 H-Sphere 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.

You can launch WebShell in two different ways:

• From the Quick Access page, click File Manager under the Tools section.
• Choose FTP Manager under the FTP section on the Quick Access page and click the File Manager (HtProtect) link on the page that appears.

WebShell and htProtect 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:

• On your control panel home page, click the Reverse Traceroute icon.
• 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.