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Hosting Glossary
If you would like to
have your own unique web address, we can register your chosen domain name
(e.g. www.mycompany.com) with Network Solutions Inc. We can also transfer
your existing domain name from other hosts for you. MyHosting will be
responsible for paying Network Solutions a registration fee of $9.95 for
the first year for the usage of the name, and this charge will be reflected
on your hosting invoice. Currently, they are billing $9.95 for each year
thereafter. With POP3 email accounts,
you can retrieve all emails addressed to your domain on our server. With
multiple POP3 email boxes, you can have multiple addresses, such as yourname@abc.com,
yourfriendsname@abc.com to your domain etc. You may also set up addresses
for members of your staff, or divisions within your company, such as accounting@abc.com
or support@abc.com. Whenever there is any
user activity on a web site, it is considered data transfer. For example,
each time a web page, image, midi file, mpeg video, etc. is loaded, e-mail
sent, data transfer is generated. All of our plans include unlimited web
site traffic allowance. Email forwarding feature,
which enables you to forward emails sent to various addresses to one specific
email box, is included in all of our hosting plans. You can consolidate
all emails, business and personal, to say your personal mailbox at your
local Internet Service Provider so that you can retrieve them all from
one location. Go back
FrontPage helps you
easily create and manage professional-quality websites without programming.
Both new users and web development professionals will enjoy the ease in
building and maintaining high-quality web sites in very little time. SoftCom
provides FrontPage extensions free of charge in all of its hosting plans
and encourages use of FrontPage due to its ease of use. ASP technology allows
HTML pages to contain complex scripts that are executed at the server,
allowing for dynamic pages to be created from data retrieved from databases
or any other resources available to the server. You can write your own
ASP scripts and execute them from your cgi-bin. Mailing list is a group
of people with same hobby, interest etc. Whenever someone sends email
to the mailing list, it is received by all members of the list. In fact,
mailing list is a great way to turn email into a public forum or business
tool. Autoresponder is email
address setup so that whenever it receives email, it automatically replies
with prepared response. Great business tool! Tell your customers "send
email to price-list@yourdomain.com if you'd like to receive our price
list" - and the price list can be sent to their email box automatically
without your intervention. Copy of your client's request can also be sent
to your email address for you to follow up. With virtual domain
comes email alias. All email addressed to anything@yourdomain.com will
be delivered to your email box. You can use this feature to provide your
customers with variety of addresses to send their email to, which in turn
could help you sort out your incoming messages. You could have info@yourdomain.com
for general questions, sales@yourdomain.com for orders and more. We have developed a
unique software for you to analyze the log files created by your web servers
and provide you with valuable information about your site and visitors.
All SoftCom web accounts
come with full access to their own cgi-bin directory. Your web site can
be fully interactive by using the power of custom programs executed from
your cgi-bin directory. Go back
Audio/Video enables
your web site to play prerecorded sound, video & animated file over
the Internet using http protocol. Go back
We are redundantly connected
to the Internet backbone via UUNET and Teleglobe, the largest Internet
Service Providers in the world. This means speed and reliability should
not be a concern of yours. Go back
To provide security
and privacy for your customers interested in online commerce, you can
take advantage of our Secure Socket Layer server. This way personal data
such as credit card information submitted through a secure form are encrypted
en route to our secure server. Go back
Password protection
add-on for Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), allows you to
protect directories by asking browsers for their username and password.
using HTTP-standard Basic Authentication. The general procedure for setting
up access authorizations for your users is the following: Someone simply types
in your new address (http://www.newdomain.com) and his browser automatically
sends him to your primary web site (http://www.primary.com). The redirection
is performed at DNS level and does not involve any CGI script, meaning
it's fast, reliable and will work with any web browser. Due to the fantastic
speed of our servers there is absolutely minimal delay involved and what's
more - your original address will still work perfectly too! This is simply
an alias; it doesn't change or alter your existing address or web site
in any way at all. Furthermore, since Domain Alias is implemented on Domain
Name Server, so all ftp connections are forwarded to your domain name
and e-mails are delivered to your mailbox associated with your domain
name (someone@mail.primary.com).
If you want different domain
names point to different directories of your web site, then you need DIR
Aliasing. For DIR aliases, we assign a unique IP address and create a folder
in your root directory, as the home directory of DIR Alias. Ftp connections
and e-mails are routed to the your main domain.
Ex: http://www.newdomain.com points to http://www.primary.com/newdomain A sub-domain is just
like directory aliasing with the exception that instead of http://www.newdomain.com
pointing to http://www.primary.com/newdomain , this time http://newdomain.primary.com
points to http://www.primary.com/newdomain. Basically, the difference
is you don't need another domain name but instead you choose a sub-domain.
For sub-domains, we assign another IP address and assign a directory in
your domain as the home directory of your sub-domain's web site. |
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