Setting Up Web Hosting Services
This topic explains how to set up Web Hosting services for your site.
This feature allows the site users to collect the Bandwidth usage of the site for a specific period of time
Bandwidth is the capacity of the transmission medium stated in gigabytes (GB). Generally, a higher Bandwidth number indicates faster data-transfer capability.
IIS Web Server service, is a part of the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) that manages Web services.
A virtual directory appears to be a folder when accessing a server but it actually refers to a different area of the hard disk or local network.
Each virtual directory points to a physical directory contained inside the site's file system and is referred to as the home directory for that particular virtual directory.
This feature allows the site users to add, change, and remove virtual directories.
A subdomain is an address which operates just below your top-level domain. Most sites obtain a domain name in order to assign names and addresses to individual hosts. However, sometimes, for the purpose of site structuring, one needs to sub-divide the domain into further domains known as subdomains. The subdomain behaves as a totally independent domain name.
By using the power and added benefits of subdomains, you can maintain a well organized Web site.
This feature allows the site users to add, change and remove subdomains.
A domain alias is a third piece of information that you can use in addition to the IP address and port number. This helps to uniquely identify a Web domain or, an application server.
This feature allows the site users to create multiple identities for the Web Site using a single IP address.
This feature allows you to customize the messages displayed when client browsers encounter errors such as missing files. You can customize the system to load a specified file or redirect the browser to a specified URL within a Web site when errors occur.
An SSL certificate enables visitors using Web browsers to verify your site's authenticity and to communicate with it securely via SSL encryption. The certificate authenticates your site to browsers and the Web connection is made through the HTTPS protocol.
This feature allows the site administrator to view the current Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) settings and generate a Certificate Signing Request for your site.
An SSL certificate is obtained from third party companies like Verisign and Thawte.
Having an SSL site assures your site visitors of security.
This feature allows you to view, download, and delete Web and FTP log files generated for your domain.
IIS FTP service is a part of the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) that manages File Transfer protocol (FTP) service.
FTP includes functions to log on to the FTP site, list directories, upload and download files.
Microsoft® FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 is a group of files installed on an HTTP service. This provides special Microsoft FrontPage functionality using which the users can view and manage a Web site.
The users can also create, change, and post Web pages to IIS remotely by connecting to the Web site using FrontPage client.
File Manager enables you to create, delete, upload, and rename file(s) and directories that are stored on your site.
This feature provides the site administrator a Web-based interface using which the users manage files and folders in their domains.
Using File Manager users can set security permissions for files and folders. This service eliminates the need to use a separate FTP program .
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard database access method that allows you to access and modify data from any application, regardless of which database management system is handling the data.
You can create two types of Data Sources, which use ODBC for data transactions. They are Access DSN and SQL server DSN.
ActivePerl enables you to run Perl scripts on your Web site.
PHP enables you to create dynamic Web pages. PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. Since it is compatible with networks using IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, or HTTP, it can easily manage dynamic Web page content.
Urchin Web Analytics Software is a Web analytics software package. It analyzes cookie-fortified Web server log files, puts the relevant information in a database, and delivers dynamically-generated browser-based reports.
Microsoft DNS is Microsoft's implementation of the DNS protocols. When you provision the Microsoft DNS component for a site, all the DNS entries necessary for the site are created automatically. In addition, the site administrator can create zones and records in DNS. The number of zones and records that can be created depends on the resources sold to the site.
Webalizer is a free Web server log analysis program. It produces highly detailed and easily configurable usage reports in HTML format for viewing with a standard Web browser.
Macromedia ColdFusion allows you to build and deploy powerful Web applications and Web services with far less training and fewer lines of code than ASP, PHP, and JSP. For more information about ColdFusion, see http://macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/?promoid=home_prod_cf_082403.
IMail mail server is a messaging solution with various features such as Web Messaging and Web Calendaring. For more information about IMail, see http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/IMail_Server/features.html.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine is a free, redistributable version of SQL Server.
MySQL is an open source database program. For more information, see http://www.mysql.com/products/index.html.
Power Tools are a collection of various Web applications such as Gallery (a tool to create and maintain photo albums), PHPBB (a discussion board) and WordPress (a news and Web log tool) which you can provision for sites to make your hosting plans more attractive. Because Power Tools are automatically installed and configured by Ensim Pro, you do not have to worry about support and integration issues.
Urchin, Imail, ColdFusion, and MySQL may not be available for your system. For more information, please contact your administrator.