Start Hosting Now offers a membership management system that allows you to add, edit, and delete members. Additionally, you can place a users into groups. Groups allow you to grant or deny access to particular pages for multiple people at a time. The following is a brief overview of the membership management system.

First, point your web browser to http://www.yourdomain.com/admin and login as you normally would when accessing the My Account section of your website.

Once logged in,you should see the view below.

Click on "Members" in the left hand side of the page.




You will notice the "Members" tab loads in the right Pane. On this pane you have the ability to create a new user, edit an existing one, or delete an existing one.




Let's first take a look at new member creation.
On this dialog you are only required to specify Email Address, Password, and Access Rights.
Access rights have to be at least 1, and you have to type this in. There is a greyed out "1" in this box by default, but it is just as a reminder. You will have to actually type that value in. Additionally, if you know the role you would like this user to initially be a part of; you may type it in the Role box. Please not that this is case sensitive, and the role must already exist. Click "Save" to create the user.




Next let's take a look at editing a member.
When you select a member from the members grid and click edit; a new tab entitled "Edit Member" appears.
This dialog has 4 tabs of it's own along the left side. Most of the information on this page is self explanatory, and it allows you to edit all data stored in our system for each user.





Clicking on the "Roles" tab shows this dialog.
This allows you to add a user to multiple roles. Roles themselves may be given rights to view certain pages, or rights to perform certain site editing tasks. If you would like to limit access to a page for a specific role, please submit a support ticket, or email us at support@starthostingnow.com.
Once you are done making changes to that member, click save to commit those changes, anc close the tab by clicking the x next to "Edit Member"




Now let's move onto roles.
To get to the roles grid, go back to your left pane menu, and expand the "Members" tree node.




Click on "Roles".




This will open a new tab entitled "Roles". From here, you can create a new role, edit an existing one, or delete an existing one.




First, let's take a look at creating a new role.
This dialog allows you to input only one field. Role name. Role names are arbitrary, but it should be named with relevance to its purpose. For instance, if this will be a group that will allow users to download certain files, name it "Downloaders" or maybe something more specific to the type of files they will be allowed to download.Click save to create the new role.




Next, let's take a look at editing a role. Just like creating a new role, the only field that is editable is the role name. This is fairly straightforward, make sure to click save to commit the changes.



If you have further questions, please submit a support ticket, or email us at support@starthostingnow.com.