or by using the link to your File Manager (hereby dubbed "FM").
Both will prompt you for your user name and password.
(Your user-name/log-in name is your domain name, minus the ".com".)
After you sign up, you should receive an email from Arbor that will contain the links to your two areas.
Bookmark these two links.
The URL to your Control Panel will look ike this:
https://216.234.118.53:19638/webhost/services/virtualhosting/siteadmin?ocw_login_domain=YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.COM
The URL to your FM will look like this:
http://www.YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.COM/FM/FM.cgi
Just replace "YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.COM" with your domain name.
Both the Control Panel and the FM are open only to you.
Even if you sent the link to someone, they can not get in without the password.
If you use the link to go to your Control Panel, you will get this prompt:
After entering your user name and password, you will be in your Control Panel which looks like this:
If you use the link to go to your FM, you will get this prompt:
After entering your username and password, you will be in your FM which looks like this:
All the directories listed here, except for the ones circled, are ones I created.
They contain all the subdirectories and individual files that I've created or uploaded.
The four items that are circled are there by default and necessary for your account. The three directories I've circled in red, you can open and browse thru, but don't edit or delete them. The "webalizer" directory contains your domain statistics. This is where you will want to look later on to see how many people are visiting your site, where they come from, etc...
(I was popular in Portugal last month. This month I'm popular in Australia. Go figure.)
The "index.html" (note this is a file and not a directory) is the front door to your site for guests. This is the webpage that anyone who types in "www.yourdomain.com" will see. You can put anything you want on this page, but do not change the file name. It must remain titled "index.html". (We'll get into the purpose of "index.html" files later.)