external credits, or external charges are the charges exported from external billing systems.

External charges are stored in the external_credits table. The ecCron internal CP cron adds charges from external billing software to the external_credits table as the accounts’ credits.

To set the time interval when ecCron is launched, you need to add the following line to hsphere.properties:

EX_CHARGE_CRON=5

In the above example, ecCron would start every 5 minutes.

The external_credits table is created during H-Sphere upgrade and has the following structure:

CREATE TABLE external_credits (
id int NOT NULL,
account_id int4,
amount float,
created timestamp with time zone,
description varchar(128),
PRIMARY KEY(id)
);

Customers are being provided a facility to set individual interface preferences: preferred design (skin), icon set, or language – for a particular account.

This can be implemented within an H-Sphere template by using the following Freemarker commands:
<assign res = account.preferences(“KEY”, “VALUE”)> – set account preferences.

Here:

KEY is the key of an interface preference to be assigned to an account (up to 64 chars),
VALUE is its value (up to 256 chars).

The following keys are available in H-Sphere :

design_id – preferred design id (in design_config.xml);
icon_image_set – preferred icons image set (in design_config.xml);
skill_icon_set – preferred icons skill set (in design_config.xml);
lang – preferred language.

For example, to assign the XPressia design for an account:

<assign res = account.preferences(“design_id”, “xcp”)>

<assign property1 = account.preferences(“KEY”)> – retrieve account preferences.

hi,
i have a Web hosting account with H-Sphere Control Panel, now i want to Migrating H-Sphere Control Panel to a different server. Plz. help

Migrating H-Sphere Control Panel :-

1. Prepare for migration

2. On the target server, install the latest stable version.

3. On the source server, update to the latest stable version.

4. Make sure the source and target servers have the same versions of all software packages.
   For example, make sure that the target server has the same version of PostgreSQL as the source server.

5. Move system data

6. Log into the target server as the cpanel user.

7. Copy files and directories in the table below from the source server to the target server with the rsync utility:
8. Stop H-Sphere CP on the target server.
9. Stop H-Sphere CP on the source server.

10. Repeat the rsync command for each of the above directories to synchronize any changes made while you were copying the data.

11. Change IPs on the target server

12. Switch the IPs of the source and target servers. To do this, you’ll need to run the setup utility on each of the two servers.

13. Reboot both source and target servers simultaneously to avoid having the same IP on both servers.
14. Restart the router.
15. Start H-Sphere CP on the target server.

hi,
my site is hosted with cpwebhosting.net. how can i do traffic calculation of my site?

There are two types of traffic calculation in H-Sphere:

1. Traffic calculation by third-party log analyzers – H-Sphere writes log files for each customer’s domain into respective directories to make them available for third-party log analyzers included into default H-sphere installation: Webalizer, Modlogan, and AWStats.

2. H-Sphere built-in traffic calculation – H-Sphere provides its own mechanism of traffic calculation used in billing. H-Sphere traffic reports are available in admin CP as Transfer Traffic Report in the Reports menu.

hi,
my Domain name will expire next month.can i Extend domain registration with the help of H-Sphere?

yes, u can do Domain Renewal with the help of H-Sphere

there are two types to do Domain Renewal In H-Sphere

1. manual and
2. automatic renew modes.

For Manual Domain Renewal:-

In Manual renew mode, you will be warned about domain expiration in advance, so that you can renew the domain on time. To renew your domain manually:

1. Go to your CP Domain Settings/Domain info menu, and click the domain name link.
2. On the page that appears in section Domain Renew Mode, click the Renew domain link.
3. Choose a domain renewal period in the form, you will be taken to
   4.Press Submit and agree to charges, if any.

Automatic Renew Mode

If you have opted for an Automatic Renew Mode, the domain will be automatically renewed the number of years, you specified when choosing the Domain Renew Mode. The charges for a renewal will be made according to your plan settings

hi,
i want to move domains already registered from outside my CP. how can i do it?

Yes, u can transfer domains.
u can update domain’s info and change its DNS servers in the OpenSRS or Enom databases to the H-Sphere ones.

Transfered domains are registered with OpenSRS or Enom for the period chosen at transfer plus the time remaining from registration with original registrar.

What do I do to get started and understand the control panel?

When you first opened your account you received an e-mail with your account information. This e-mail provides you with everything you need to access and publish to your new web account.

There is a default web page placed in your web folder, which you can also use as a login page, until you overwrite the page with your web site index.html page. You can always login to your control through our main site.

At any time, you can open a support ticket through your control panel as well. This is the way we address all support issues. We can respond quickly and have the ability to assign the best support representative to your inquiry while tracking and measuring our levels of support.