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Glossary
Below you will find
a brief explanation of each of our features
- Active Server Pages
- A Microsoft standard for developing server-based web applications, we offer ASP
functionality with our NT Hosted sites.
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- Anonymous FTP
Anonymous FTP allows the public to access files of your choice
via the FTP protocol without an assigned username or password.
- Autoresponder
- Easily configured to work with your existing pages, the
Autoresponder is a script that takes client input from
a standard HTML form and sends it to an email address
of your choice, then sends the client an email with text
of your choice. It's largely based on Form
Mail. Click
here for help on this.
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- CGI Directory & Scripts
Everyone gets a /cgi-local directory to allow them to run the
proliferation of CGI and Perl scripts for specific purposes. These scripts are both
commercially available and quite a few of them are shareware or free. Script functions
vary from simple hit counters to online shopping systems ('carts').
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- Control Panel
- This web-based program allows all of our customers
access to set up POP3 e-mail boxes, mail forwarding, view
comprehensive site access logs, and perform basic administrative
functions, such as password protecting sub-directories,
and setting usernames and passwords.
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- Counters
- A simple way of determining how many people
have loaded a particular page, our counter script can
display 'hits', as well as the current time & date.
Use as many as you like. Click
here for help on this.
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- CyberCash
Process credit cards transactions with CyberCash, a popular
browser-friendly automated verification service. Collect credit card numbers from your
customers and process them automatically. Configured for use with our servers for a
one-time fee.
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- Database
Support: ODBC & SQL
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ODBC & SQL drivers allow you
to serve database files on the web. We have drivers
that are compatible with many popular formats such as
Access and FoxPro. One driver is included with the NT
Hosting plan, and Active Server Pages can be used to
interface between the client and the database.
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- Data Transfer
- Every customer is allocated a certain amount
of monthly outbound bandwidth that is used up each time
a file is served from the site. This amount may vary according
to when you signed up for hosting, check your agreement
for details. Most of our users do not use up all their
bandwidth each month, but a small proportional fee is
incurred for those who use more -see our pricing
page for details.
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- Disk Space
- All customers are allocated a block of disk
space in which to store all of their web sites files -
pages, images, audio and video clips, etc. Our standard
site includes 20 megabytes of server space. Additional
space is available at the cost of $1 per megabyte / per
month.
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- Domain Registration
- We can register domain names, such as yourcompany.com
(or .net or .org as needed) and have it resolve to your
web site. The cost is just $45 for the first two years
of domain ownership. Our
registration page gives you all the details.
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- Form Mail
- A convenient script that takes input from an HTML form and
sends it to an email address(s) of your choice. It is
very easy to configure your existing form to work with
Form Mail. Click
here for help on this.
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- FrontPage
- Microsoft FrontPage is a graphical web page editor and site management tool. The
editor allows a person who is unfamiliar with HTML to create web pages they way they would
look in a browser, while the explorer part of the software tracks hyperlinks and allows
users to move and rename pages without breaking links. In order to take full advantage of
FrontPage, your web provider must offer the FrontPage server extensions; we offer
them to all customers for FREE.
Click
here for more information about FrontPage
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- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol is a simple Internet standard for
moving files between computers. All customers get 24 hour
FTP access to their sites. You will need an FTP client
program on your own machine; clicking one of the following
links will allow you to download an FTP client. Windows
users can try WS-FTP,
Mac users can try Fetch
or Interarchy.
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- Logs
- All our UNIX customers have the ability to view detailed access logs which track
usage statistics. Logs can be seamlessly generated with Analog through the Control Panel, and are also available in the raw format for users
who wish to use their own log analysis software.
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- Mail Accounts
(and Forwarding)
- All customers have the ability to create their own POP3 mailboxes to receive
mail and change passwords, as well as designate certain addresses to automatically forward
to another address of your choice. Both are very easy to configure using our Control Panel.
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- NT Hosting
- With this plan your site will be placed on a Windows NT server to utilize Active Server Pages, as well as a System DSN to serve a database of your own design.
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- ODBC
- Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is an open
standard application programming interface (API) for accessing
a database. ODBC statements allow user to access files
in a number of different databases, including Access,
dBase, DB2, Excel, and Text. It is based on and closely
aligned with The Open Group standard Structured Query
Language (SQL) Call-Level Interface. It allows programs
to use SQL requests that will access databases without
having to know the proprietary interfaces to the databases.
ODBC handles the SQL request and converts it into a request
the individual database system understands.
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Password Protection
All customers have the ability to restrict the public from viewing all or part
of their site on the web. By password-protecting a folder of your choice, only people who
have a correct username and password are allowed to browse.
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PHP
PHP is a script language used primarily on Unix
and Linux Web servers, that is freely available as part
of an open source license. PHP, originally meant Personal
Home Page Tools, but now stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
It's on of the better alternatives to Microsoft's Active
Server Page (ASP) technology. As with ASP, the PHP script
is embedded within a Web page along with its HTML. Before
the page is sent to a user that has requested it, the Web
server calls PHP to interpret and perform the operations
called for in the PHP script. An HTML page that includes
a PHP script is typically given a file name suffix of ".php"
or ".php3."
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Real Media (RealAudio & RealVideo)- A popular multimedia standard for the web, RealMedia
allows you to serve audio and video files in real-time
regardless of the client's connection speed. Streaming
capability is included FREE with for all sites. The following
links will allow you to download the Player
software. You can purchase and download the RealEncoder
5.1 as well.
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- Secure Server
- Our Secure Server (SSL) uses state-of-the-art encryption
to protect the data connection between the server and
the client from prying eyes. A necessary standard for
anyone collecting credit card numbers or other sensitive
data over the web.
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- Shopping Cart Software
- All customers can utilize our Shopping Cart script to put a storefront on the
Internet. Users can browse your inventory and add items to a virtual shopping cart for
later purchase, then checkout and submit ordering information to you for order processing.
When used in conjunction with the Secure Server and Cybercash, your store automatically accepts credit card numbers from
your customers and processes them for payment. Build your site, then sit back and watch
the orders roll in.
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- Technical
Support
- We offer knowledgeable,
friendly technical support when you have problems with
our services. See
our detailed support pages here.
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- Telnet
- Telnet
is an Internet protocol that allows you to open a lUNIX
shell on our
server from your own computer. It uses a simple terminal
text window to send and receive commands & data. There
is a telnet client that comes with Windows 95 and NT called
"telnet.exe", doing a Find / Files or Folders should locate
it on your own hard drive.
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- UNIX Shell
- Every customer gets access to the versatile UNIX command-line operating system.
To use the shell, log in via the popular Telnet protocol to your domain name or IP
address. Once logged in, the powerful BSD UNIX facilities are at your fingertips.
If you aren't familiar with UNIX, there are many
great books available on the subject at your local library
and bookstore. Below are a couple of bookmarks to get
you started:
Webmonkey
Unix Guide: The basic commands, focusing on file
management.
TRFN UNIX Links - links to various UNIX resources
Using
UNIX commands - a quick reference page
UNIX
Pocket Reference List - a quick reference page
Commonly
used Unix commands - commonly used UNIX commands
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WebMail
If
you have ever needed to check your email while away from
the office or traveling then you'll find the WebMail feature
indispensible. Zillionbucks WebMail allows you to send and
receive Email from your domain name POP account using virtually
any web browser.
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