About Ensim Pro
Ensim Pro is a more robust control panel solution for small and large professional hosting providers. Ensim Pro includes all the tools and features that you, as a hosting provider, need to build compelling, commercial-quality plans for shared and reseller hosting.
In addition to the tasks identified at the Ensim Basic level, Ensim Pro allows you to:
Define targeted, compelling Service Plans for shared site and reseller hosting. By defining a Service Plan once, you can establish new customers very quickly, while controlling application settings and resource quotas.
Review detailed reports of bandwidth usage per site and allow accurate and complete billing of all traffic used by sites.
Protect shared sites with a virtual private file system and provide additional site security and prevent theft of customers’ data.
Delegate administration to your customers, including your resellers, site owners and site users, while simultaneously reducing your support calls and improving customer satisfaction.
The control panels allow many different users to easily manage their specific Web hosting administrative tasks.
The user levels include:
Appliance owner - managed by the Appliance Administrator
Reseller - managed by the Reseller Administrator
Site owner - managed by the Site Administrator
User account holder - managed by the User Administrator
The appliance level of administration is designed for the hosting provider or reseller who either owns server hardware or has remote access to physical servers.
As the owner of appliances, you are called the Appliance Administrator, and can:
Set up your server with Web hosting capabilities
Configure the server applications for your customers
Create new sites
Manage existing sites
Back up and restore data and configuration scripts
Automate many frequently performed administrative tasks
To begin managing your appliance level tasks, log on to the control panel as the Appliance Administrator.
The reseller level of administration is designed for individuals or businesses who want to resell or manage sites without actually owning or maintaining hardware. As a reseller, you buy sites from an ISP or hosting provider and resell them to individual customers. If you are already a Web site creator, designer, or consultant, becoming a reseller is a perfect way of diversifying and expanding your business.
As the reseller, you are called the Reseller Administrator, and can:
Customize the control panel
To begin managing your reseller level tasks, log on to the control panel as the Reseller Administrator.
Note: You cannot perform operating system level tasks like starting and stopping services.
The site level of administration is designed for businesses that want to manage their hosted sites and the services installed on the sites.
As the owner of sites, you are called the Site Administrator, and can:
Set up security features for an entire site or just an individual Web site
Manage the user accounts on an entire site or just an individual Web site
Set up protected directories on the Web server
Set up your site email and FTP features
Work with the directories and files on your site
View traffic reports about your site
Back up data from your site
To begin managing your site level tasks, log on to the control panel as the Site Administrator.
Note: The Appliance Administrator automatically has access to the Site Administrator control panel.
The user account level of administration is designed for someone who subscribes to a site and is assigned a user account.
As the subscriber, or user account holder, you are called the User Administrator, and can:
Maintain your account contact information
Set up your email services
Access your email messages over the Internet
Publish your Web site content
Back up and restore files from your Web site
To begin managing your user level tasks, log on to the control panel as the User Administrator.