About Your Control Panel
Your Lab 99 control panel allows you to:
- change certain aspects of your website,
- find out about your website’s visitors,
- and purchase further services — please contact us to arrange this.
This is a brief introduction to your control panel. More detailed information about the various features can be obtained by selecting ‘Help’ on each page.
We have given you a log–in and temporary password. The first thing you should do is select ‘Change Pass’ and change the password to something memorable. Please don’t forget the password — once you have changed it, we won’t be able to retrieve it for you!
There are four main sections in your control panel:
- Account Info;
- Web Control;
- Email Control;
- Logs.
1 : Account Info
This is the first page you come to, which contains dull technical information.
2 : Web Control
This section allows you to change various settings and to purchase additional features.
Lab 99 will have fixed the settings appropriate to your website. We strongly advise against altering any of the following settings:
- Security;
- Front Page;
- SSL;
- Error Page;
- CGI Scripts;
- mySQL;
- DNS.
Lab 99 can accept no responsibility for the effects of any alterations you make to the above settings.
You may care to obtain these extra features:
- Dialup Accounts;
- SubmitXtra, a search engine submission and optimisation service, which comes in four varieties:
- Basic — £45 per year;
- High — £80 per year;
- Super — £150 per year;
- Extreme — £220 per year.
3 : Email Control
This section allows you to:
- create automatic replies to emails;
- create an unlimited number of webmail–based email accounts for your domain name;
- and have email fowarded to other email addresses.
Spam Bouncer, which filters unwanted email messages, is available for one month’s free trial, and then for £35 per year.
Email Account
This is how to create a webmail–based email account:
- go to ‘Mailboxes’;
- go to ‘Create Mailbox’;
- invent a name and password for the email account;
- log in to the webmail area to send and receive emails using the account.
Email Forwarding
This is how to have emails forwarded to other addresses:
- go to ‘Forwarding’;
- go to ‘Create Alias’;
- under ‘Alias’, add something like ‘info’ or ‘enquiries’ or your name;
- under ‘Destination’, specify an email address;
- any emails sent to that alias will go to the address you’ve specified.
4 : Logs
This section contains information about your website’s traffic. The most useful section is Usage Statistics, which allows you to check how many visitors your site has had, which pages are the most popular, and many other features.
If you require more detailed information, log files are available at £30 per year.
Log In to your Control Panel
Security Advice
If you are using a password on a computer that is not your own, you should take extra security precautions: at the end of your session, you should log out by selecting the ‘Log Out’ link before closing the page. This will erase both your password and the password–protected page from the computer’s memory.
Simply closing the page will not prevent someone reopening it and getting access to your webmail or control panel.
Webmail
Here you can log in to your webmail account. You can check your webmail from any computer anywhere in the world, using this link: http://webmail.lab99.com.