Here’s a common scenario: you’ve got three new members of staff starting work this morning. You’ve sourced them office space, desks and computers, but in order to help them to be productive, you also need to provide them with a company email address and make sure that existing staff and customers can contact them immediately.
In the old days, this might have required frequent telephone calls to your network provider and a visit from technical support to configure the email clients. Sometimes you could wait for a whole day or more before everyone got set up. This was because configuring a server to do these things required a level of technical expertise that may have been out of reach of all but very large businesses.
All CWCS Web Hosting Plans include a control panel, accessed from a standard web browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari. This control panel allows those of us with little experience of server configuration to perform the day-to-day tasks required to keep staff working productively. Email accounts can be set up and configured with a few clicks of a mouse. Email forwarding and automatic email responses are easily handled – as are the complexities of allowing FTP access to authorised personnel, setting up a Blog on your website, and examining site statistics.
Web-based control panels will save you both time and money, minimise the need for convoluted technical telephone conversations, and ensure that your staff remain productive. They also allow you to have quick and easy control over many of the aspects of your online business.