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We are currently compiling some commonly asked
questions for this section. However, this may be of some help
for the current time...
POP3 mailboxes
- Individual Email accounts that you can use to send and receive
email, quite often a single "catch-all" email per
domain name is adequate as this will collect all email aimed
at the domain.
Unlimited e-mail forwarding
- Email forwarding to other email accounts (eg. another@hotmail.com)
Unlimited aliases - As many names@domain.com
as you can imagine - you can share POP email accounts so that
support@domain.com and help@domain.com
arrive in the same POP or forwarding account
Unlimited auto-responders
- Extremely useful when you are busy - these send an automatic
response to anyone who emails this account. A copy of the
original message is sent to you normally and you'll be able
to reply when you have the time without worrying about acknowledging
receipt
SMTP Access - Allows you
to send email from your domain regardless of other email accounts
setup. Normally the username and password are the same as
your main "catch-all" email account
CGI, SSL, SSI - CGI-scripts
are widely used to execute commands such as sending email
or processing information online. SSL (secure socket layering)
is an impenetrable method of encryption suitable for protecting
all data within your site. SSI (Server Side Includes) allows
you to request information from the server such as date, time,
page modified dates, file inserts, download information etc.
Free sub-domains - Generally
Rarely provided with value hosting services elsewhere, you
can setup a number of subdomains without charge before your
main domain name. These can be setup as: shop.domain.com and
links.domain.com or even mary.domain.com adding new gateways
to your site, in addition to the normal www.domain.com.
Internet bandwidth - At 120Mbps speed you
could technically download files from your site at 14MB a
second, with 255Mbps, this goes up to around 30MB per second!
Unlimited internet bandwidth
- No matter how much traffic you receive, you'll not be penalised
we simply judge download usage per month (data-transfer).
Data-transfer - The cumulative
size of files downloaded from your site. This is usually measured
in MB or GB per month.
Log files - Webalizer
can be installed directly into your site, offering fast and
easy access to all your stats
Telnet Shell account - Ground
control of your site using Telnet commands usines a clint
such as Putty.
FTP for file uploads - This
is just access through FTP clients such as CuteFTP
and WS_FTP
with all the resume features available for use. This is pretty
widely accepted as standard for all hosting accounts and if
you already use an FTP client, this will be no trouble at
all. Download a demo copy here.
Perl 5.8 - The latest version
of Perl, giving you access to all the latest scripts for your
CGI-BIN.
ASP - Only available with
Windows 2000 hosting as it cannot be used on Unix systems.
Allows integration of ASP databases and adds a dynamic feel
to the website if ASP pages are used correctly.
PHP-5 Dynamic Scripting -
PHP is becoming more widely used on the internet, an improvement
to SSI; arguably with the greater flexibility of ASP scripting.
Pay per name, not extension
- An example would be: you register domain.co.uk for £10
for years. The hosting is tied in with domain.com - you only
pay for the site hosting once and the two domains are tied
together so that they act as one.
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