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Our Web Hosting Features |
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What is Hosting? |
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Once your web site has been built it needs to reside on a computer that maintains a constant connection to the Internet. We call this kind of computer a web server. This is because it serves up the web site information to Internet surfers who visit the site. The function of holding the web sites information and making it accessible to Internet visitors is called Hosting.
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Domain |
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A domain is basically known as an address, or URL such as www.yourname.com, that links visitors to your web site. Each domain contains a set of records that pertain to the process of matching your domain to your web site. For one to acquire a domain, they must purchase it through the domain registration organization known as InterNIC, a Network Solutions company. InterNIC is the organization that manages, registers, and bills for all domains. Companies and/or Organizations other than Educational or Governmental facilities must choose a domain extension with one of 3 suffixes: .com, .net, or .org. Educational and Government organizations, however, may purchase domains with the extensions consisting of: .edu or .gov.
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Disk Space
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This is the space on the servers’ hard drive that is allocated for your files and databases to be stored on.
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Bandwidth |
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Bandwidth is the amount of traffic and content your site will deliver. When a visitor requests a page, you site will return your page along with graphics. This is bandwidth. A good analogy for bandwidth is that bandwidth is like water in a pipe. The amount of water flowing from a pipe is like bandwidth
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MySQL |
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SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is a international standard in querying and retrieving information from databases. mySQL is essentially an SQL server - it responds to requests for information that are written in SQL. You can communicate with mySQL using a wide variety of programming languages (PHP being one of the most common). mySQL is Open Source software and generally free for use.
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Shopping Carts
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If you sell any products online, you will need a shopping cart system. A shopping cart system is a series of forms to help your visitors select and purchase your products with ease.
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PHP Support
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PHP is an open-source server-side scripting language for creating dynamic Web pages much like CGI scripts. PHP is today's fastest-growing technology for dynamic Web pages |
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Web Based Control Panel
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A very useful feature to have in administering and customizing your site settings. With this tool you can change your sites settings like, e-mail address, sub-domains, site stats, password protected directories, etc. You have total control 24 hours a day, 7 days a week .The user interface that is so fully automated and simple to use that you'll have your website online and set-up the way you want it in no time.
Information on the Control Panel can be found at www.cpanel.net/docs/cp/
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E-Mail Options |
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Web Mail
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Web Mail allows you to access your e-mail through a browser without using an e-mail client. This means that your e-mail is accessible from any computer connected to the internet.
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POP3 Mail Account
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A POP mail account is where all your messages are sent and received from. If you are the only person maintaining the site, 1 POP mail account will do fine. However, lets say you are the webmaster and another person is for support. You would want to have 2 separate POP mail accounts.
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E-mail Forwarders
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E-mail forwarders allow you to forward e-mail messages from one e-mail address to another address. e.g. you could forward
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E-mail Auto Responders
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(AKA austerely) are very useful. You can configure an auto responder so when a message is sent to an e-mail address, a reply is automatically sent to the sender. A great use an auto responder is to inform a sender you have received their message. This is automatic feedback to the sender.
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FrontPage Extensions
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Did you create your site with Microsoft FrontPage? FrontPage will work with any provider but then you will need to have FrontPage extensions installed in order for some advanced features of FrontPage. We run the latest FrontPage extensions.
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