Changing
Your Hosting Plan
Your hosting plan determines the
services you get with the account and the prices
for these services. Big sites with high hit rates
and special services require more expensive plans;
cheaper plans are suitable for simpler sites.
To change to a different plan:
- Go to your control panel home.
- Click the Change icon next to your
plan name in the left hand info/control area.
- Select your new plan and click Submit
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Warning:
Switching plans will disable the resources
that are unavailable under the plan you
are switching to. Contact the Help
Desk if you require further assitance. |
This is what happens when you switch to a new
plan:
- your current billing period is closed;
- your unused recurrent fee is credited to
your account;
- you are charged any payable amount, including
your usage (overlimit) fees;
- a new billing period under the new plan
starts;
- you are charged the recurrent fee for this
billing period.
If you don't see the plan of your
choice in the list that appears, it means it is
incompatible with your current plan. You can't
change to an incompatible plan, but you can create
a new account under this plan and then, if you
want, you can delete your old account.
Plan Upgrade: If you are switching to a
'higher' plan, your disk quota doesn't increase,
but free units do. As a result, your disk quota
may turn out to be lower than free units, so you
can increase your disk quota without being charged.
The same is true of other resources.
Plan Downgrade: If you are switching to
a 'lower' plan, the system reduces your quotas
for free units. If you are using more than free
units, the system reduces the quota to the amount
you are using.
Changing
Your Billing Period
Your billing period determines how
far in advance you pay. The bigger your billing
period, the bigger the discount.
To change the billing period:
- Click the Change icon next to your
billing period in the left hand info/control
area.
- Select a different billing period and click
Submit.
Changing
Your Control Panel Password
You need your control panel password
to log into the control panel. Initially, this
password is the same as your FTP password, but
you can make these two passwords different.
To change the control panel password:
- Go to your control panel home.
- Click the Change Password icon in
the main control area.
Changing
Your FTP Password
You need your FTP password to upload
your site to the server. Initially, this password
is the same as your Control Panel password, but
you can make these two passwords different.
To change the FTP password:
- Go to your control panel home.
- Click the FTP Manager icon in the
main control area.
- Click the Change icon next to Password.
Changing
Your Traffic Limit
Traffic limit is the gigabytes of
transferred data you pre-pay for at the beginning
of the billing period. Every month the system
checks if you stay within the limit, and if you
don't, it charges you for the excess. Then your
traffic is reset.
Example: If your billing period is 2 months
long and started on the 5th of October, the first
billing month will end on the 5th of November,
and your total traffic will be reset. However,
if you change your total traffic limit on the
15th of November, your traffic will be reset and
a new billing month will start.
Note: if you fail to run up all your quota
resource, you are not returned the payment for
the unused megabytes.
If you expect to run up more traffic
than comes with your plan, it's a good idea to
raise your traffic limit. To change the traffic
limit:
- Click the Change icon next to Total
Traffic in the left hand info/control
area.
- Enter how much traffic you expect to run
up throughout your billing period.
Click here
to read more on traffic.
Changing Your Disk Quota
Disk quota is the total server disk
space allocated to all your web sites. There should
always be several megabytes of unused space in
your account to ensure correct performance of
statistics reporting utilities, such as Webalizer
or Modlogan. Disk quota doesn't include mail and
database quotas.
To get more web disk space:
- Click the Change icon next to Disk
Quota in the left hand info/control area.
- Enter how much disk space you would like
to have.
Click here
to read more on disk space.
Selecting
a Different Skin
Different control panel skins have
different navigation principles. To change to
a different skin:
- Click Select a New Skin in the left
hand info/control area.
- On the page that appears, select the name
of the skin in the Choose Design box
and click the Choose button.
- Select the icon set and click the Set
icon.
- Set Tooltips state. This option determines
whether or not to show assisting hints at
the top of each page.
Changing
Control Panel Language
To change the language of the control
panel:
- Click Change Language in the left
hand info/control area.
- On the page that appears, select the preferred
language from the drop-down box and click
Submit.
Note: We only provide support
in English
