Once your Administrative Account is setup, the first thing you will want to do is define your "DNS Zone." Doing this adds your primary domain name to our nameservers and allows you to start hosting your own domains.

1. Select DNS Manager in the E. Manager menu.
   

2. On the page that appears, click the Add DNS Zone link.
   

3. Enter all necessary information on the page that appears, where:
   
   Name: the name of your domain without the "www" part.
   
   Admin e-mail: your e-mail address with ' . ' instead of @
   
   Allow third level domain hosting: check this box to let your customers setup domains like customerdomain.yourdomain.com.
   
   Master server and slave 1: Leave as is.
   

4. Click Submit.

Before you leave that section you will also need to create an instant alias template.

The instant alias template is required to generate "instant aliases." They provide immediate access to your customers' sites while DNS servers get updated (think of it as a substitute for an IP address). It allows them to access their control panels and upload their files immediately upon sign-up, while they wait for the domain to be registered or transferred to our servers.

To create an Instant Alias Template in your admin account control panel, do the following in you Admin CP:

1. Select DNS Manager in the E. Manager menu.
   

2. Click the Edit icon under the Action field.
   

3. At the top of the page that shows, click the Add instant alias link.
   

4. In the form that appears, enter "u" or any other letter for prefix and leave the shared IP tag value as it is.
   

5. Click Submit.

Your next step is to add your Aliases. "Aliases" simply route the various resources you and your clients will use through your DNS zone on our servers, such as web, mail, control panel, nameservers. etc. To access the  alias section, click on "Server Alias" from the E.Manager link.

There are two types of aliases to add, one is required and the other is optional.

The required aliases are for the various resources such as the control panel, web server, windows server, etc. To enable these aliases simply hit the "submit" button at the bottom of the "Server Aliases" page.

The optional one is the server alias. A server alias provides you with your own "virtual" nameservers. Once you set up the server alias, your nameservers (ns1.yourname.com and ns2.yourname.com) will appear everywhere in place of the real server name (including in whois lookups etc.).

In other words, we will become totally transparent to the end customers, and you will look to them as a totally independent hosting provider.

Note: If you don't need your own virtual nameservers, you can skip this step and simply use our nameservers: 

NS1.ONNETSECURE.NET     207.154.22.2  
NS2.ONNETSECURE.NET     207.154.22.110 

The above are "generic" nameservers and do not link to any public website, so many resellers simply select this option. 

Remember: Even if you decide to use our nameservers you should still hit the "submit" button for the bottom section under "server aliases" to generate "Other reseller server aliases" for the individual resources as described above.

To add a Server Alias, do the following:

1. Select Server Aliases in the E. Manager menu.
   

2. Set your server aliases for NS1 and NS2 in the Reseller`s DNS server aliases section and click Submit. 
   
   You will see two new IP's in the right hand column -- those will be your permanent IP's for your NS1.YOURNAME.COM and NS2.YOURNAME.COM nameservers. Now you can register those at your Registrar.
   
   IMPORTANT: These server aliases must be REGISTERED with the same Registrar that holds your domain name. It is very important that you do this or else nothing will work if you point domains to ns1.yourname.com and ns2.yourname.com without registering them as nameservers first. Please contact your Registrar directly if you have any questions about this. They will not charge your for this but it's a step you must do in order to use your own custom nameservers.

Your next step is to set your Email Notifications so that you, or members of your staff, receive various notices from the H-Sphere system. 

Continue to Step 3