The Octopus Hosting Site Control Panel

Working with mails is easy. However, administering mailbox accounts can be tricky. This is where our Mail Manager comes to help. It allows you not only to quickly create new and modify existing e–mail box accounts, but to also swiftly redirect email messages, to create e–mail filters, to request unsolicited bulk email protection, etc., via an intuitive user interface.

And in case you use an email client, you can utilize our auto–configuration scripts for the most widely used email clients for Linux and Windows. All you need to do is download an autoconfig file and your email client will instantly configure your new e–mail box.

When you have a number of domains, managing them with conventional Control Panel tools can be tricky. The Site Control Panel–integrated Domain Names Manager enables you to manage all your domain names simultaneously.

If you own multiple domains, you can also designate different labels to them. In this way, you can swiftly filter out your domains and find only the ones that you need.

With the File Manager included in the Octopus Hosting Site Control Panel, you will have one of the most efficient web file managers at your disposal. With it, you can upload files simply by dragging them to your browser window. You can move files and folders in your account by dragging and dropping them. You can decompress uploaded archives.

You can also right–click on a particular file or folder to obtain access to these functions.

In case you have to build a new site quickly, but you do not wish to waste lots of time seeking the right website theme for it, we have the best solution for you – the Website Installer integrated into the Octopus Hosting Site Control Panel. With it, you can take your new website online in just four easy steps, which will take less than five minutes!

For your next web site, you can choose from among more than 100 free website themes built by us for different kinds of sites – web shops, personal weblogs, portfolio sites, business portals, etc.

In the Site Control Panel we have incorporated a tool, which will permit you to install over forty popular web applications with zero configuration needed – our Application Installer. You can quickly install Joomla^™, Mambo, Moodle, WordPress and many other software apps without needing to go through elaborate installation processes and to manually create a database. We’ll handle everything instead of you, so your software application will be online in under 5 minutes.

And we keep a log file of what you have installed, plus the user name and the password that were initially inserted. This way, you don’t have to worry about forgetting your login password.

If you would like to shield your web application against hack attacks, then ModSecurity is here to give you a hand. It is a firewall program designed to block hacker attacks, cross–site scripting assaults and URL forgery attacks. It operates automatically according to a set of predefined rules and demands no attention from you.

With our Site Control Panel, ModSecurity will be enabled by default for all domains. You can deactivate it anytime you wish.

In case you’re hunting for a way to get around a firewall, or if you wish to surf the web incognito, or if you just wish to test a GeoIP redirection, you can utilize our VPN Access tool incorporated into our Site Control Panel.

You can take advantage of our VPN access service on any web–connected device – your desktop PC, your cell phone, your netbook, etc. There’s absolutely no restriction on the number of connected devices.

Opting for the right Site Control Panel is very important. This is the interface you’ll see each time you log in to modify something pertaining to your domains and sites. If you can’t figure out how to work with it, or if the interface is slow or is short of crucial features, this could really frustrate the web site management process.

Examine how our in–house built Site Control Panel fares against cPanel – one of the most widely used Site Control Panel. Find out what the two hosting Control Panels can offer you and what their respective strong and weak points are.