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Web Hosting
Glossary
Domain Name Registration:
If you would like to have your own unique web address,
we provide Free domain name registration for your chosen domain name (e.g. www.mycompany.com) through to our system using OpenSRS. We can also transfer your existing domain name from other hosts
for you. The Domain Name registration fee will be billed to you
separately by DiscountHosting.net. Current (.com, .net, .org) domain
registration charges are $9.95 for the first year and $9.95 per year
thereafter. Registration does not confer immunity from
objection to either the registration or use of the domain name. NOTE: with Annual hosting; otherwise InterNIC
charges apply $15 p/yr; 1 to 10 yrs (InterNIC Fee (s) included / FREE with 2 years hosting).
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DNS - Domain Name Servers:
What is DNS - Domain Name Servers and how does it work.
The basic method which allows a Domain Name to lead customers to your web site
is shown below. This diagram describes a request made by a customer's web browser
as he attempts to log onto your site.
To determine which primary name server contains your Domain Name Records, a
local name server contacts the root domain name server maintained by the InterNIC.
The root domain name server then returns the IP address of the primary name
server responsible for the domain being requested.
The primary name server becomes the next machine contacted by
the local name server.
The primary name server holds the IP address for the domain name and
satisfies the the local name server's request.
Then the local name server can finally return to the web browser with
the IP address.
Using the IP address, the web browser can then contact the company's web server
andretrieve your web pages.
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POP3 Email Account:
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.
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Web Site Traffic
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.
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Email Forwarding:
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.
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Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000:
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. DiscountHosting.net provides FrontPage extensions free of charge in all of its
hosting plans and encourages use of FrontPage due to its ease of use. more info...
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Active Server Pages:
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.
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Mailing List
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.
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Autoresponder:
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.
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E-mail Alias
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.
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Web site statistics:
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.
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CGI-BIN Access:
All DiscountHosting.net 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.
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Audio/Video HTTP Streaming:
Audio/Video enables your web site to
play prerecorded sound, video & animated file over the Internet using http
protocol.
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Redundant Backbone Connection:
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.
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Secure web site (SSL):
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. ( client - your own / or our SSL Key )
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Web Page Password Protection:
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:
1. Create one or more groups
2. Set up access authorizations to directories for each group
3. Add users to the groups
We have a web based administration utility which allows you to create users, groups and set up access authorization.
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Domain Aliasing:
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).
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Directory Aliasing:
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
E-mails sent
to anyone@newdomain.com is routed to anyone@primary.com
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Sub Domain:
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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