Control Panel Basics
Changing Hosting Plan
Your hosting plan determines the services you get with the account and the prices for these services. Big sites with high hit rates and special services require more expensive plans; cheaper plans are suitable for simpler sites.
To change to a different plan:
- Go to Account -> Account Settings
- Click the Change icon next to your plan name.
- Select your new plan and click Submit
Warning: Switching plans will disable the resources that are unavailable under the plan you are switching to.
If you don’t see the plan of your choice in the list that appears, it means it is incompatible with your current plan. You can’t change to an incompatible plan, but you can create a new account under this plan and then, if you want, you can delete your old account.
- Plan Upgrade: If you are switching to a ‘higher’ plan, your disk quota doesn’t increase, but free units do. As a result, your disk quota may turn out to be lower than free units, so you can increase your disk quota without being charged. The same is true of other resources.
- Plan Downgrade: If you are switching to a ‘lower’ plan, the system reduces your quotas for free units. If you are using more than free units, the system reduces the quota to the amount you are using.
Changing Billing Period
Your billing period determines how far in advance you pay. Your hosting plan may be configured to allow you to switch between billing periods of different length, price and discount policies. To change the billing period:
To change the billing period:
- Go to Billing -> Billing Profile.
- Click Change next to your billing period.
- Select a different billing period and click Submit.
More about billing on changing billing periods.
Changing CP Password
You need your control panel password to log into the control panel. Initially, this password is the same as your FTP password, but you can make these two passwords different.
To change the Control Panel password:
- Go to User -> User Password menu.
- Enter new password and apply.