How Do I Get Started with my re-seller account?
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How Do I Get Started with my re-seller account?
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Before you can create an account with your reseller plan you must first tell the software about the limits you are going to give the account. You define the amount of disk space, the amount of emails, the amount of bandwidth a site can have by defining/creating a package which holds all this information. So before you can create a domain/account you must first define a package.
You do that by the following:
1. Log into your reseller control panel
2. One the left side look for "Packages"
3. Click on "Add Packages"
4. Enter in the following information:
a. the name of the package
b. the amount of disk space the package can use (labeled "Quota")
5. Now fill in the following boxes with the amount you want this package to have: ftp accounts, email accounts, email lists, maximum amount of databases, etc. Put in the maximum number a site can have or you can leave it as unlimited or 0.
6. If you want a site to have CGI capability make sure the box next to "CGI access" is checked.
7. If you want a site to be able to use Frontpage Extenstions (Microsoft's Frontpage) make sure the box next to "Frontpage Extenstions" is checked. You can always add this later if needed.
8. Now next to the box marked "Bandwidth Limit" put in the amount of bandwidth (in MB) this domain/account can use per month.
9. You can now select a default cPanel theme in the next drop down box or leave it as default.
10. You can now use a "Feature list" if you have defined one. (NOTE: if you don't know what this is you can just leave it as default).
11. Now press the "Create" button and your package will be created.
Now to create the actual domain account on the server:
1. If you are not logged into your reseller control panel do so.
2. Look for "Account Functions" on the left side of the screen.
3. Click on "Create an Account".
4. Enter in the domain name of the account without the http://www. Just enter, for example, mydomain.com or e3servers.com or microsoft.com, etc. Enter this in the first box next to "Domain".
5. Now click on the box next to "Username". The control panel will now generate a login name for this account. You can use this auto-generated name or create your own. If you create your own it cannot be the same as one already used (it will tell you if it already used when you go to create the account) or it cannot be longer than 8 characters.
6. Now enter in a password for this account in the box next to "Password".
7. If you have purchased a static IP from Sales and this site is going to be using a static IP select the IP from the drop down box. If you don't want this site to use a static IP (or if you haven't purchased one) just leave the box as "--Auto Assign--".
8. Now, in the last box marked "Package" select the package you just created.
9. Press "Create".
You have just created an account. Now the next time you want to create an account YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CREATE A PACKAGE AGAIN. Once you have created a package you can go straight to the "Create and Account" function and just fill in that information. Your package will be saved until you delete it.
This is the beauty of packages: you can create as many packages as you want all with different information. And when you want to create an account with a certain amount of limits you merely select the package you want from the drop list. You can edit, delete and upgrade and downgrade accounts by using these packages.
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