If you have not received a logon to the control panel for your account you will very soon, but in the mean time if you need something taken care of right away please contact our support department at support@dynamicbydesign.com. Those of you have already gotten a login but have questions you also should contact our support department.
Some of the biggest differences are the introduction to what's called a Hosting Space. Those with multiple domains in their account will find it easier to maintain those domains by only needing one FTP account for the management of them.
Other differences are ftp user logons. Previously users FTP logons were user@domain.com but now they will be user@DotNetPanel. There are both some advantages and disadvantages to this but we feel the advantages far outway the disadvantages right now but depending on feedback we could go back to the old user style or drop the @DotNetPanel all together. Another thing that is different is Email Aliases are called Groups in DNP, and Email Forwards are not what you think of as an Email Alias.
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Multiple Packages
User is not limited with a single package. He can be assigned with as many hosting packages as he needs. User can switch between his packages with a single click and can check hosting quotas for each package.
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Peer User Accounts
User can allow his friends or co-workers managing hosting resources by creating peer user accounts.
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Web Applications Installer
Using Web Applications Installer such applications as DotNetNuke, CommunityServer, Starter Kits and others can be installed with a single click. Web Applications Installer has an extensible architecture that allows administrator to add additional installation packages.
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Audit Log
User has a read-only access to his audit log where all operations with web sites, FTP accounts, databases, etc. are tracked.
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Bandwidth Report
User can control his packages bandwidth consumption by using integrated Bandwidth Report. The report data is broken down by resource groups (Web, FTP, Mail, etc.).
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Diskspace Report
User can control his packages disk space by using integrated Disk space Report. The report data is broken down by resource groups (Web, FTP, Mail, SQL, etc.)
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View IP Addresses
User can view IP addresses assigned to him by his reseller or administrator. Those IP addresses can be used for creating web sites with static IP.
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Manage Domains/Subdomains
DotNetPanel doesn't make difference between domains or sub-domains. User can also add a free sub-domain provided by his reseller. Web sites then can be created under both domains and sub-domains.
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Manage Domain Aliases
User can add an alias for the existing domain/sub-domain. User can also add a free sub-domain alias provided by his reseller.
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Temporary Domain
Each created domain has a temporary domain (alias) in format specified by the reseller which allows user to access web sites, FTP, mail prior to DNS provisioning.
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Manage Web Sites
User can add/edit/delete web sites with shared or static IP. User can edit site's default documents, error pages, security settings, HTTP redirections. The site can be started/stopped/paused.
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Manage Virtual Directories
User can add/edit/delete virtual directories under the specified web site. Each virtual directory has the same properties set as the web site!
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Manage MIME Types
MIME types can be specified for each web site or virtual directory.
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Manage Default Documents
Default documents can be specified for each web site or virtual directory.
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Manage Custom Error Pages
Custom error pages can be specified for each web site or virtual directory.
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FrontPage Extensions
User can install/uninstall FrontPage extensions under any web site.
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Change Web Site or Virtual Directory location
User can dynamically change the root folder of any existing web site or virtual directory or make HTTP redirect.
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Manage FTP Accounts
Administrators, resellers and users can add/edit/delete FTP accounts. You can specify read/write permissions for your FTP account. Since all package's web sites are stored in a single folder you can use only a single FTP account to manage your web sites!
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Manage Mailboxes
Administrators, resellers and users can add/edit/delete mail boxes. DotNetPanel exposes the maximum set of properties of the underlying mail server!
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Manage Mail Forwardings
Administrators, resellers and users can add/edit/delete mail forwardings allowing you just to redirect the correspondence to some external mailbox.
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Manage Mail Groups
Administrators, resellers and users can add/edit/delete mail groups which allows you to organize small one-way mailing lists.
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Manage Mailing Lists
Administrators, resellers and users can add/edit/delete fully-functional mailing lists! Almost all list properties are reflected in DotNetPanel interface!
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Manage Databases and User Logins
Administrators, resellers and users can add/edit/delete databases. DotNetPanel supports MS Access, SQL Server and MySQL database engines! SQL Server and MySQL user logins can be managed separately from databases. That means you can assign a single user account to a multiple databases!
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Databases Backup/Restore
User can backup/restore his database without any help! Backup/restore tools support BAK, zipped BAK (uploaded via HTTP and stored locally) and SQL scripts.
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Manage Advanced Statistics
Administrators, resellers and users can install/uninstall advanced statistics support for any web site! Advanced statistics analyzes web logs and provides detailed reports about web site visitors.
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Manage Operating System Users and Groups
Administrators, resellers and users can add/edit/remove operating system user accounts and groups. Those users and groups can be used in different applications like SharePoint Services, SQL Server Reporting Services, etc. as well as used for securing web site folders/files.
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Manage Folders and Files
Very powerful File Browser will allow you to completely forget about FTP. It includes zip/unzip operations in addition to other standard ones such as copying/moving files, creating files/folders, deleting files/folders. It introduces “zip – deploy – unzip” paradigm that allows you to deploy applications quickly and easily without using of FTP. It is a geed news for users who staying behind the firewall and can't use FTP protocol! File Browser doesn't require any special network settings to work with it.