We do not offer a control panel with website disk usage reports that is available on a global basis due to security and availability concerns. If you wish to have a disk usage report available for your website, you can easily use FTP to upload your own disk usage report software.  We currently suggest the following software for disk usage reports:

1. Disk Usage Reports

Disk Usage Reports is a free Ajax space usage reporter with an easy-to-install explorer for remotely viewing disk usage on a web server. Its “rich client” layout and actions make it accessible to any end-user for a variety of reports. Only PHP (4 or 5) is necessary, no database needed.

• Navigate the report using a sortable directory tree. Sort by name, size or file count.
• Each directory has a separate JSON file, allowing the report to be very large with no impact on the client.
• Errors encountered during scanning and report generation are displayed in the report for easy troubleshooting.
• The original path of the scanned directory is hidden by default, just in case you want to keep it secret.
• Lists top 100 largest files within a directory.
• Last modified distribution, grouped by customizable time frames. Each time frame shows the total size and file count.
• File size distribution, grouped by customizable size ranges (e.g. 500 KB – 1 MB). Each time size group shows the total size and file count.
• File type distribution (e.g. .txt). Each file type shows the total size and file count.

We do not offer a web based file manager that is available on a global basis due to security and availability concerns. If you wish to have a file manager available for your website, you can easily use FTP to upload your own file manager.  Here is a list of 7 examples of file managers that are available:

When you leave emails on your Mail Server, you can choose from several options to delete your emails. To make your choice, you need to consider several factors about your email usage, such as how long you want the emails to be accessible from multiple computers and the storage limits imposed by your email server administrator. If you exceed your storage limit, you might be unable to receive new emails or might be charged additional fees.

In Outlook, it allows you to select a time duration for leaving email on the Mail Server.

1. On the ‘Tools’ menu, click ‘E-mail Accounts’.
2. Click ‘View or change existing e-mail accounts’, and then click ‘Next’.
3. Select your email account, and then click ‘Change’.
4. Click ‘More Settings’.
5. Click the ‘Advanced’ tab, and under ‘Delivery’, select the ‘Leave a copy of messages on the server’ check box.
6. Under ‘Internet E-mail Settings’ dialog box, select one of the following options:

a) Remove from server after x days
Emails are downloaded to your computer but remain on the Mail Server for the number of days that you specify. This is the most common setting for people who want to read their emails at work but also download them for permanent storage on their home computer. We recommend that you choose the smallest number of days that suits your needs. The longer you leave emails on your Mail Server, the greater the risk of exceeding your mailbox size quota.

b) Remove from server when deleted from ‘Deleted Items’
Emails are downloaded to your computer but also remain on the Mail Server indefinitely until you delete the emails in Outlook and empty the ‘Deleted Items’ folder. Just deleting the email doesn’t remove the email from the Mail Server.

*** If you do not select either check box, emails are left on the server indefinitely. You can eventually exceed your mailbox quota, unless you connect to the Mail Server from another computer that has Outlook configured to remove emails from the Mail Server.

The main difference, as far as we are concerned here, is the way in which IMAP or POP controls your e-mail inbox.

When you use IMAP you are accessing your inbox on the central mail server. IMAP does not actually move messages onto your computer. You can think of an e-mail program using IMAP as a window to your messages on the server. Although the messages appear on your computer while you work with them, they remain on the central mail server.

POP does the opposite. Instead of just showing you what is in your inbox on the mail server, it checks the server for new messages, downloads all the new messages in your inbox onto your computer, and then deletes them from the server. This means that every time you use POP to view your new messages, they are no longer on the central mail server.

IMAP makes it easier to view mail from home, work, and other locations

Because IMAP leaves all of your messages on the central mail server, you can view these messages from any location with Internet access. This means the e-mail inbox you view from home will be the same one you see at work.

Since POP downloads new messages to your computer and removes them from the server, you will not be able to see those new messages on another computer when you check your inbox. Those messages exist only on the computer that downloaded them using POP. If you loose this computer, then you will also loose all your emails that were downloaded to it using POP.

However, if you use IMAP and create e-mail folders on the server, these folders are accessible from anywhere you read your e-mail using IMAP. If you use POP and create e-mail folders, they are stored locally, and you cannot access these folders from anywhere except the computer on which you created them.

POP can create problems if you alternate between it and IMAP. There is an option in many POP e-mail programs to leave copies of the messages on the server, but this option has complications. When you leave copies of the messages on the server, then access your e-mail using WebMail or another IMAP e-mail client, the POP client may create duplicate messages next time it accesses the inbox; you will see each of the messages more than once, and you will have to clean out (delete) the unwanted ones.

You may want to keep local copies

While using IMAP to save e-mail on the central mail server is recommended, there are reasons to have local copies of messages (messages downloaded to the computer, as with POP). Fortunately, IMAP allows you to keep local copies of all your messages. The option of local copies is useful when you are connecting from a dial-up connection. You may want to download your messages, then disconnect from the Internet and work with your mail offline. Please note that while you are working offline, you cannot send or receive mail. You need to be connected to the Internet to do those tasks.