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Hoffman Estates, IL 60169
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Support > VDS Manager > Getting Started with your VDS Manager
Getting Started with your VDS Manager
The Webtivations.com VDS Manager is your main management interface for working with your website. From the VDS Manager, you can maintain email accounts, add additional websites, install additional software on your account, and control a variety of technical settings for your account.
To login to the VDS Manager:
Enter this URL into your web browser and replace yoursitedomain.com with your actual website domain name:
http://yoursitedomain.com/manager/
You will be prompted for your VDS username and password; This is the main username and password given to you at the time your hosting account was created. This is NOT your email username and password.
Once you are logged in to the VDS Manager, you will see the following links on the left:
- Home - This section includes statistics and technical details regarding your hosting account
- Accounts Usage - Here, you can see how much disk space your email and FTP users are using inside of your VDS
- Bandwidth Usage - Use this area to keep track of your historical bandwidth usage.
- Accounts - This area allows you to create new email and FTP users
- Aliases - From here, you can create email aliases to forward email to other addresses
- Mail Settings - These advanced settings are only for use by users with a complex offsite mailserver setup
- Anonymous FTP - This section allows you to enable connections to your account that do not require a password
- Web Server - Use this section to restart your VDS, which is used if you ever edit configuration files or are having trouble with your site
- System - Use this section to make advanced changes to the account, such as disabling SSH access
- IP Filtering - Here, you can modify firewall settings to block access from particular IP addresses
- Backup Site - From this tool, you can download a backup of your website to your computer
- Restore Site - Use this to restore downloaded backups of your site
- File Manager - This conveniant tool allows you to edit your website contents from your browser
- Install & Manage - Use this area to install ValueApps, which are software programs that are included with your account for use on your site
- Domains - Here, you can create and manage virtual hosts and parked domains hosted in your VDS
- Web Aliases - This advanced section is for users who need to customize URLs for custom applications
- DNS Records - Use this area to modify the DNS records associated with your domains hosted with Jumpline.com
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