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Validity period. Specify the term for a hosting account. At the end of the term, all
customer's domains/web sites will be suspended, its Web, FTP and mail
services will no longer be accessible to the Internet users, and the reseller and
his or her customers (domain owners) will not be able to log in to the control
panel. Accounts cannot be automatically renewed, therefore, in order to bring
the hosted domain names/web sites back to operation, you will need to
manually renew the user account: Click the Clients shortcut in the navigation
pane, click the client name you need, click the Limits icon, specify another term
in the Validity period box, click OK, then click the Switch On icon in the Tools group
(Clients > client name).
10 Click OK.
11 To specify the operations that the customer will be able to perform
through his or her control panel, if you created this user account
without using a predefined user account template, click the Permissions
icon in the Tools group.
12 Grant the required permissions to the customer:
Access to control panel. Specify whether the customer will be able to access the
control panel for managing his or her account and sites.
Domain creation. Specify whether the customer will be able to set up hosting
accounts for new sites.
Physical hosting management. Specify whether the customer will be able to set up
hosting accounts, modify hosting account features and switch on or off support
for programming and scripting languages.
Hosting performance management. Specify whether the customer will be able to
limit bandwidth usage and number of connections to his or her Web sites.
PHP safe mode management. Specify whether the customer will be able to switch
the PHP safe mode off for his or her sites. By default, PHP is configured to
operate in safe mode with functional restrictions. To learn more about PHP safe
mode, refer to http://php.net/features.safe-mode. Some web applications may
not work properly with safe mode enabled: If an application on a site fails due to
safe mode, switch the safe mode off by clearing the PHP 'safe_mode' on check
box in the hosting account properties (Domains > domain name > Setup icon in the
Hosting group).
Management of shell access to server. Specify whether the customer will be able to
access the server shell through Secure Shell protocol and allow his or her own
customers to do so.
Hard disk quota assignment. Specify whether the customer will be able to assign
hard quotas on disk space for his or her own web sites and for web sites of his
or her customers.
Subdomains management. Specify whether the customer will be able to set up
additional sites under his or her domains and allow his or her customers to do
so.
Domain aliases management. Specify whether the customer will be able to set up
additional alternative domain names for his or her web sites and allow his or her
users to do so.
Log rotation management. Specify whether the customer will be able to adjust the
cleanup and recycling of processed log files for his or her sites.
