Resale Account Administration – If you are a reseller you have option of having your control panel set up with administrative control over your resale accounts. You can create and delete resale accounts; view and reply to your clients support requests and login and customize your resale accounts control panel. Plus all your clients will be given their own control panel.

Statistics – You can view real time statistics for each of your web sites. You can see who is on your site right now, what pages they viewed, how long they viewed them for and a whole lot more. At same time, our stats databases will maintain a history of your statistics so you can compare activity of your web site over time.

Install Custom Components – Have you built your own components in Visual Basic, C++ or Delphi? You can upload and install your own custom components (*.dll files) to server your web site is on, directly via control panel.

Domain Administration – You can easily create and remove domains from your account. When you create a domain you have option of setting up any of following for that domain: DNS record, Mail Server, Web Site, FrontPage extensions and an FTP login.

FTP Administration – You can add and remove FTP logins to your account. You can specify exactly what part of your directory login will have access to and what part of directory login will not have access to.

User Administration – If you need to create a new user to administer as part of your account such as a domain or directory you can easily add them using control panel. You also have option of removing any user you don’t need from your account.

When developing control panel, M6.net used latest Microsoft technology and employed a dedicated development team, result being a user friendly, fully featured, control panel on an advanced stable backend. By using control panel not only can you easily manage every aspect of your account with just a click of a mouse, you have freedom to administer your account to your own individual requirements.

Contact M6.net at info@m6.net for more information about Control Panel and release date. We will be very happy to brief you on this great new revolutionary product, answering all questions you may have.

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Applications and databases – Ensure that all applications your web site uses (FrontPage, ASP pages, databases, cgi, PHP, etc.), are supported within chosen account type. Find out if there are any extra fees for particular applications or associated database support. For example allot of hosts charge extra set-up fees to install FrontPage, which may be avoided by choosing another host offering same features with no extra costs.

Mail Server – Emails are lifeblood of your online business. Ensure that you get a sufficient number of email addresses with your own domain name (preferably unlimited); these are necessary for other email features like forwarders, and auto responders, etc. There is no need to pay an extra fee for use of a mail server as many hosts offer this service now for free, within hosting plan.

Avoid long-term contracts – Many web hosts offer huge discounts on yearly or half yearly payments in advance, this may appear a good way to go, but note how long you are locked in. If possible avoid long-term contracts until you are sure about services and reliability offered by that particular host. Paying on a monthly basis obviously has its benefits. If there are concerns with your service encouraging you to seek a new host elsewhere, you may lose out on many months of hosting fees when breaking a yearly or half-yearly contract; but, if necessity arises, a loss of only a few days to close a troublesome account, is preferable.

Thinking ahead with reference to an established plan of action will help you avoid most surprises, and definitely help towards cutting costs, short term or long-term. Work out your growth rate and project future expansions. Keep a good record of past and present bandwidth and web space usage, this will help to project future needs.

Savings are mostly a matter of common sense, but in this industry of high technology most people forget this rule and try to look for best, most efficient and most expensive technical programs and software to save them a buck or two. As in most businesses good cost effective groundwork is best start to cutting costs.

By Candice Humbley http://m6.net