You can log in to your Linux based VPS server through SSH with the program PuTTy (Download Here) and enter in the IP address and port received in your welcome e-mail. Once logged in, there are a couple of initial commands that you can run to update and upgrade the Operating System that your virtual machine is provisioned with.

To update and upgrade a Debian based system (Debian & Ubuntu)
apt-get upgrade

To update and upgrade a Red Hat based system (CentOS, Fedora, RHEL)
yum upgrade

This will upgrade and update all of the packages on your VPS to make sure that there are no security issues caused by out of date software.

To access your Parallels Power Panel visit this address

https://YOUR-VPS-IP-ADDRESS:4643/

Parallels Power Panel (PPP) is the VPS control panel that is used for administration of your Virtuozzo based server, it can perform tasks such as stopping and starting your VPS, reinstalling it, taking backups, showing you system information and much more. You can find a full guide to this here: https://YOUR-VPS-IP-ADDRESS:4643/vz/download/docs/en/Parallels-Power-Panel.pdf

SolusVM

To access your SolusVM Control Panel visit this address

https://vps2.nethosted.co.uk:5656/

The SolusVM VPS control panel is used for administration of your server, it can perform tasks such as stopping and starting your VPS, reinstalling it, taking backups, showing you system information and much more.

http://cpanel.yourdomain.com

http://whm.yourdomain.com

http://webmail.yourdomain.com

These will allow you to bypass the proxy as the traffic will go over the standard web port 80 as opposed to a custom port.

This can be downloaded here: download formmail

Once downloaded you should extract the files and make the following edits:

Edit formmail.php changing $TARGET_EMAIL to a domain that you want the form to be able to email, this is your receiving domain, e.g. for nethosted.co.uk this is what we set it to:

$TARGET_EMAIL = array(EMAIL_NAME."@nethosted\.co\.uk$");

A few lines below this edit the DEF_ALERT value to a default email you want alerts to go to, for test@test.com it is set to:

define("DEF_ALERT","test@test.com");

That is the entire formmail configuration necessary, you then just need to edit the default form to put in some info, this is very well commented so going through this sampleform.htm file you can’t really go wrong, the only things you actually need to setup are the post address (STEP 1 in the comments) to the full path to the formmail script on your site, and the recipient address (STEP 2 in the comments) which is where the form submission gets sent to.

Of course you can then customise the sample form and build it into your site to make it look attractive, but this is all that is needed for the basic setup.

If you wish to transfer part of an account such as a specific hosting plan and/or domain to a new owner please submit a ticket detailing which items you wish to transfer and the following details of the new owner:

First Name:
Last Name:
Company Name (Optional):
Email Address:
Address 1:
Address 2 (Optional):
City:
Region:
Postcode:
Country:
Phone Number:

We can then create a new account and move the required products to this account.

10.20.30.40 nethosted.co.uk www.nethosted.co.uk

This format remains the same across operating systems, however the location of the hosts file does vary. Here is where you can find it on different operating systems:
» Windows 95/98/Me: c:\windows\hosts
» Windows NT/2000/XP Pro: c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
» Windows XP Home: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
» Windows 7: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
» Mac OS X: /private/etc/hosts
» Linux: /etc/hosts

On Windows Vista they have unfortunately decided to make things more complicated and less accessible, but it’s still possible to make changes to this. You need to edit the file with administrator rights, to do this in Vista:
Start Menu -> All Programs -> Accessories
Right click “Notepad” and choose “Run as administrator”
Click “Continue” on the security prompt
Select File -> Open
Browse to “C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc”
Change the file filter selection from “Text Documents (*.txt)” to “All Files (*.*)”
Select the “hosts” file and “Open”
Make the changes that you require and save the file.

For OS X or Linux you should edit this file with your favourite text editor from the root account.

Using this method can save you a lot of headaches in the site development process, and offers you the flexibility to develop your site from anywhere without having to mess about with changing the DNS servers on your web hosting. It also removes the need to consider DNS caching and propagation. This method works for any kind of hosting you have, be it linux hosting, reseller hosting or VPS hosting.

https://servername.solardns.com:2083 for cPanel
https://servername.solardns.com:2087 for WHM
https://servername.solardns.com:2096 for Webmail

e.g. https://mars.solardns.com:2083

You can find your servername in the Welcome Email or by contacting support.

You can also just access via https://yourdomain.com:2083 for example for cPanel but you will receive an SSL warning because the certificate won’t match your domain name, in some browsers you can permanently accept the certificate so the warning won’t come up in future.

1. Login to cPanel and select the Web Disk icon

2. Create a webdav account as shown

3. In Dreamweaver select the Site menu then choose New Site and fill in the details for your site and click next

4. You can choose whether to edit locally or on the server, choose which you prefer and click next

5. You then need to enter the details for your webdav account that you just set up, for the server address this is https://www.yourdomain.com:2078 replacing yourdomain.com with your site address, and using the username and password you just created in cPanel.

6. Once you’ve entered these details click test connection and you should see this working as shown above

Our R1Soft Backup system allows you to restore backups of files and folders to your account from up to 1 month ago in a few clicks, this is the best backup solution available for shared hosting we believe. Here is a quick guide on how to restore your files, please click the images for fullsize versions.

Firstly login to your cPanel and select the R1Soft icon shown below:

You will see a screen with a tree view, expand this fully and you will see a list of times and dates for all the backups of your files that are available to be restored. You can restore your whole account by selecting the home directory, and then choosing the restore button in the top right as shown below:

Once you have selected the files you wish to restore and pressed the restore button you will see the following screen:

The two options available are:

• Overwrite existing files

It will replace your current files with files from the backup even if they already exist. This would be useful if you’ve recently edited a file and this has caused a problem with your site.

• Encrypt file data over network

This should always be selected so your backup data is restored securely.

Once you have done this you should choose the New button highlighted below, then click Next.

You should then check the Manually configure server settings or additional server types box and choose Next.

The Internet E-mail radio button should be selected, choose Next.

You then need to enter your email account details, these should look similar to those shown below (entering your own mail server settings as found in your welcome email, and your email address/username/password as you have setup in cPanel). You can substitute the incoming and outgoing mailserver to servername.solardns.com to avoid certificate warnings, e.g. venus.solardns.com. If you wish to use IMAP instead of POP3 be sure to change this in the Account Type dropdown. Once you have filled this in choose More Settings as highlighted.

From here select the Outgoing Server tab and check the box My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. The radio button Use same settings as my incoming mail server should be highlighted.

Select the Advanced tab next and set it to the settings shown below:

Once this is done click OK, you have entered all the necessary settings now so click next and your account is set up in Outlook.