UPDATE: You’re gonna LOVE this control panel update! iPage has replaced InstallCentral with SimpleScripts which has one-click management for over 70 of the web’s top applications, including WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, Roundcube, Gallery, and more.
Click here to watch the SimpleScripts video to see how easy it is to install software on your iPage account.
A lot of you have been asking about the iPage control panel and what functions are available in it, so here it is.
I’ll be honest with you. I’m a cPanel person. I don’t like to manage the under belly of my web hosting account with some of the custom control panels used by some web hosts. iPage doesn’t use cPanel, but they do use the next popular one called vDeck. Some users like it better.
All I can say is WOW! It’s very user-friendly without being “Dick and Jane”. When I say user-friendly, it’s not just the Help information displayed in the right sidebar as you access each feature. It’s also the manner in which they make the execution of a feature fool-proof. No offense to you cave men out there, but it’s so easy…well, you know the rest.
Q: Does iPage have an easy-to-use website builder? I don’t want to spend my time learning how to use software to build a website.
A: Yes. They’ve got an easy drag and drop online website builder. Just pick the template you’d like to use as a starting point. You can easily change existing text, or drag items into a page and edit them, all without any coding at all. Here’s a short video of the drag ‘n drop web page builder.
Q: Which control panel does iPage web hosting use?
A:iPage uses the vDeck 4 Control Panel. It’s similar to the popular cPanel control panel, but there are a few differences.
Q: Can you show me what vDeck looks like?
A: Sure. The vDeck control panel contains a comprehensive set of tools for managing your hosting account. The tools are arranged in categories accessible both from the menu bar across the top of the page as shown in item #1 and also in iconic sections down the home page as shown in item #2.
Q: What items are in each category?
A: Here’s a list of each vDeck category and the functions available. Some options may vary, depending upon any upgrades you may have purchased.
Category: Website
Disk Usage
Google Services for Websites
Webmaster Tools
Google Custom Search
Google AdWords
Google AdSense
Server Information
Path to FTP
Incoming Mail Server (POP3)
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)
Webmail URL
Control Panel URL
CGI Status
Document Root
FrontPage Extensions Status
Logs (.gz zipped versions of raw log files)
Platform Type
MySQL Version
Perl Version
PHP Version
Path to Sendmail
Path to Perl
Path to PHP
Secure FTP (SFTP) Port
Installed Perl Modules
Installed Pear Modules
Site Editing
Drag & Drop Site Builder
WordPress
FileManager
View My Website
WordPress
Quick link to the WordPress installer
Category: Email
MailCentral
Create mailbox accounts
Create email forwarding
WebMail
Web access to your email accounts via the internet instead of a POP3 email client.
Change Catch-All
Setup for handling email sent to email addresses not on your account.
Mail Tool Settings
Select your preferred WebMail client. AtMail or SquirrelMail.
Manage Spam Filter
Spam management settings for all domains on your account. Applies to the entire account, NOT per addon domain.
Category: Domain
Domain Central
Lists all domains on your account.
Allows you to reserve and purchase new domain through iPage.
Add Registered Domain to Account
Lets you add additional already purchased domain names onto your account.
Domain Pointing Manager
Redirect domains on your account to another URL
Registrar Transfer
Allows you to transfer domain names purchased at another registrar to iPage‘s eNom registrar.
Subdomain Pointing Manager
Create subdomains on your account and point them to internal subdirectories.
Category: Ecommerce
ShopSite
Optional upgrade to enable the ShopSite shopping cart.
@crawlcraft, here’s how you create a sub-domain on iPage.
Log into your control panel.
Click on Domain.
Click on Sub Domain Pointing Manager. You’ll get this screen.
1) Enter the new sub-domain name.
2) Select the domain you want to put it on.
3) Enter the internal directory you want to point the sub-domain to. Ok, this is where it might be confusing, but it’s actually pretty cool because you get to do it right here instead of having to create a separate re-direct after you create a sub-domain. Just enter the same name as field #1 and be done with it.
OR…
Sub-domains are nothing more than pointers to an internal folder and those pointers are re-directs. If you type in blog.yourdomain.com, it redirects you to a folder called. yourdomain.com/blog. So if they are the same name, then why make you enter field #3 at all? Because it could be someone to hard to remember or type. Say you have a folder called marys-blog-about-surfing.
So instead of going:
marys-blog-about-surfing.yourdomain.com which would point to yourdomain.com/marys-blog-about-surfing
You’d want to do this:
surfingblog.yourdomain.com and that points to yourdomain.com/marys-blog-about-surfing
my domain is also hosted by ipage but sometimes i do not like the upgrades. e.g. now I do not know how to created a subdomain for my blog. previously it was very simple!!!
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@crawlcraft, here’s how you create a sub-domain on iPage.
Log into your control panel.
Click on Domain.
Click on Sub Domain Pointing Manager. You’ll get this screen.
1) Enter the new sub-domain name.
2) Select the domain you want to put it on.
3) Enter the internal directory you want to point the sub-domain to. Ok, this is where it might be confusing, but it’s actually pretty cool because you get to do it right here instead of having to create a separate re-direct after you create a sub-domain. Just enter the same name as field #1 and be done with it.
OR…
Sub-domains are nothing more than pointers to an internal folder and those pointers are re-directs. If you type in blog.yourdomain.com, it redirects you to a folder called. yourdomain.com/blog. So if they are the same name, then why make you enter field #3 at all? Because it could be someone to hard to remember or type. Say you have a folder called marys-blog-about-surfing.
So instead of going:
marys-blog-about-surfing.yourdomain.com which would point to yourdomain.com/marys-blog-about-surfing
You’d want to do this:
surfingblog.yourdomain.com and that points to yourdomain.com/marys-blog-about-surfing
my domain is also hosted by ipage but sometimes i do not like the upgrades. e.g. now I do not know how to created a subdomain for my blog. previously it was very simple!!!
I was wondering which control panel iPage web hosting uses… But ive found the anwser, thanks alot. I appreciate it