Free Domain Aliases!
Domain aliases allow you to point multiple domain names to the same web
hosting package. For e.g. suppose yourdomain.com was the primary domain
name for the hosting package and you also wanted to point
yourdomain.net (additional TLDs) or yourdomains.com (mis-spellings) or
someothername.com (additional brandnames) to the same hosting package -
then you would specify these additional domain names as domain aliases.
The important point to note is that the way a domain alias functions -
the visitor is not redirected to the primary domain name - the domain
name that he or she typed in the browser continues to be displayed
as-is through out the visit.
You can add up to 5 Domain Aliases with each hosting
package that you purchase. Kindly note that DNS Services are included
for the primary domain name only and not for domain aliases.
Domain Access with and without "www"
Our web and email servers are configured to allow domain access
with and without the "www." in front of the domain name i.e.
http://www.yourdomain.com and http://yourdomain.com will both work
perfectly.
FTP Features
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a software standard for
transferring computer files between machines with widely different
operating systems. With our hosting packages, you can use any FTP based
client to upload data / content to the web space included in your
hosting package.
Unlike some hosting companies which restrict the amount of data
that you can upload and download on a daily basis, with ALL our hosting
packages - you get the ability to upload and download data 24x7,
unlimited number of times. Add to this, you get the ability to add up
to 100 FTP users. Using the FTP Manager in the hosting control panel
you can do all of the following:
- Add / Delete FTP Users
- Restrict Access of a FTP User to a particular folder
- Set Disk Quota Limitations on a per FTP User Basis
- Change Passwords
- Suspend / unsuspend access of FTP Users
You are also given access to the Complete Log of Actions performed
by each user i.e. you can find out which FTP user connected from what
IP Address, at what time, and uploaded / modified / deleted which all
files.
Private Folder for Storing Sensitive Data
A private folder is included with every hosting package which
allows you to store data and files securely and quickly via FTP. This
folder is outside your web directory i.e. not directly exposed on the
internet via HTTP and has special security permissions such that no
user, other than the FTP Users specified by you, has read or write
access to the data in this folder. By creating sub-folders within this
private folder and restricting Access of FTP Users to particular
sub-folders, you can share files securely and reduce or eliminate the
need to copy data on disks for overnight delivery, thus saving both
time and money. Our FTP servers allow you to resume partial transfers
where they left off, so even if you get disconnected or end a session,
you can always reconnect and resume the transfer where you left off at
a later date or time.
Web Traffic Reporting
A powerful web traffic reporting tool is included within your
control panel. This tool generates web based reports that provide
insightful information about the users visiting your website, such as,
the number of unique visitors, no of hits, avg duration spent by each
user on your website, most viewed entry and exit pages, search engines,
keyphrases and keywords used to find your site etc.
Using the Web Statistics Manager in the control panel, you have the:
- ability to password protect your web based traffic reports to ensure that only authorised people have access to this data
- option to automatically delete web log files after generating the web based traffic reports to save disk space
- ability to disable the generation of the web traffic reports
- ability to customize your web traffic reports by setting the following parameters
- Skip
Hosts - Specify hosts / IP addresses from which all data (hits/page
views etc), should not be taken into consideration while generating
statistics
- Skip Files - Specify filenames / directories which should be ignored while generating statistics
- Only
Files - This is the opposite of the 'Skip Files' option. The option is
used to include in stats, only accesses to URLs that match the
specified filenames / directories
- Not Page List - List of file extensions which must be counted as 'Hit only' and not as a 'Page View'
Password Protect your Directories
Directory Protection is an easy-to-use web based tool included in
the control panel that allows you create as many password protected
areas as you want without requiring any programming. This allows you to
store sensitive material online and give browser based access to such
content / data to authorized users only. A password dialogue box will
automatically popup in the browser when an attempt is made to access
the password protected directory or any of its sub-directories.
Your Own Backup Policy Manager
The Backup Manager provides comprehensive and cost effective
protection by allowing you to define highly flexible backup policies
that will protect their critical data. The web-based backup policy
manager provides an easy-to-use one-step wizard to add each policy. You
just needs to follow the steps mentioned below:
- select
the directory for which the policy is being created - this could be the
entire website directory, a sub-folder or the database directory -
depending on what critical data you wants to backup
- specify the frequency of the backup - daily / weekly / monthly
- specify the number of backup files to keep - backup archives are rotated 'no of backlogs' times before being deleted
You are allowed to add as many policies as you want. This allows
you to creatively structure any kind of backup policy that you require.
For e.g. you can add one policy which takes a backup of the entire
website on a daily basis, with 5 backlogs. Another policy, which takes
a backup of the entire website on a weekly basis, with 4 backlogs, and
yet another policy which takes a backup of the entire website on a
monthly basis, with 6 backlogs.
With the above set of policies, you has created a comprehensive
backup plan with multiple restore points for his website. You can roll
back to a point in the last 5 days, or restore a backup which was taken
every week for the last whole month, or a backup that was taken monthly
upto 6 months ago.
Raw Log Files
Comprehensive Raw Log files are made available in each web hosting packages Logs Folder. The raw log files consist of:
- Web Log Files: These files are generated by the web server
to record all requests made to the website. They are primarily used by
website statistics software to generate reports on essential marketing
metrics for your website such as the no of visitors, pages viewed,
visit duration, referring websites, search engines, keyphrases and
keywords used to find your site, visitor's computer configurations etc
- FTP
Log Files: These files are generated by the FTP server to record all
logins, uploads and downloads made to and from your hosting package
- Mail Log Files: These files are generated by the mail server to record all emails sent using code on your website
The Log Files Manager in the control panel provides extremely
flexible options to manage these raw log files. All options can be
configured seperately for Web, FTP and Mail Log files. The user can
choose to disable a particular type of logging in order to save disk
space. If the user chooses to enable logging, the system allows the
user to specify log rotation options to delete older log entries
automatically so that the log files do not continue growing in size
indefinetely. The user can specify the no of backlogs to maintain for
each type of log file, set a max log file size and set log rotation
frequency (daily/weekly/monthly).
Customizable Error Pages
When a visitor attempts to connect to a web site and an HTTP error
occurs, a generic message is sent back to the visitor's browser with a
brief description of what happened during the attempt to establish a
connection. For example, if a visitor attempts to connect to a page
that no longer exists on the web site , an HTTP error will be returned
in the form of an HTML page that contains the statement "The requested
URL was not found on this server."
You can use the "Custom Errors Pages" section of the Control Panel
to customize HTTP errors that are sent to clients when web server
errors occur.
You can customize the following HTTP errors:
- 401 - Authorization Failed
- 403 - Permission Denied
- 404 - File / Resource Not Found
- 406 - Resource Not Acceptable
- 500 - Internal Error
The customization options allow you to redirect the user to a local
URL / remote URL or specify a text / HTML message on the occurance of
the specified HTTP error.
Unlimited Web Forwarding Rules
The Redirect Manager in the hosting control panel gives you the
ability to forward requests for any local folder, sub-folder, file to
another domain name, URL, or IP address seamlessly. For e.g. if you
want http://www.yourdomainname.com/corp to redirect to
http://www.someotherdomain.com, then you can add a rule for the same.
The easy-to-use Redirect Manager allows you to add as many such web
forwarding rules as you want.
Supported Web Publishing Tools
You can upload data / publish content on your website / transfer files to and from the server using any of the following:
- FTP Based Clients
- Macromedia DreamWeaver
SSL Secure Server Manager
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology protects data by creating a
secure connection between a client and a server using encryption
enabled by a server's SSL Certificate. SSL is required if your website
is an ecommerce website (or) has any secure login areas (or) requires
any secure pages. The SSL Manager in the control panel allows you to
manage your CSR's (certificate signing requests), public and private
keys, SSL certificates provided by your CA and self-signed certificates
generated by the server.
Direct Download Manager
Another feature exclusive to our control panels - the Direct
Download Manager helps you save several hours of your valuable time by
allowing you to download files to your web space directly from another
server via a HTTP URL or FTP URL. If you need to transfer large files
to your web space that are already available on some other server, then
you would typically have to download these files locally to your
desktop and re-upload them. All of this could take up quite some time
depending on the file size and your internet connection speed. However,
using the server-to-server transfer facility provided by the Direct
Download Manager you can utilize the server's high speed connection to
directly download large files, so, even if you are connected to the
Internet via a dial-up connection, file transfers will occur at the
very high speeds.
This feature is most useful when you are transferring your website
date from your previous web hosting provider, as you could just zip up
your whole website and instead of downloading it locally to your
desktop, directly download it on the server and unzip it there.
- Branded File Extensions (Custom MIME types)
- Bandwidth Theft Protection
- IP Deny Manager
100 ODBC DSN Connections
Database Source Names (DSN), are data structures used to describe a
connection to a database. Using the control panel, you can add up to
100 DSNs for connecting to Microsoft Access, Excel, SQL Server.
Unlimited Microsoft Access Databases
You can deploy unlimited number of Microsoft Access Databases within
any windows hosting package. We have created a Private Database Folder
within your web space where you should upload/create all Microsoft
Access Databases. This folder has been placed outside your primary web
folder for security reasons, so that visitors to your website do not
get direct access to your databases.
Please note that for performance and reliability reasons, we
strongly recommend the use of Microsoft SQL Server for the deployment
of production-quality web sites/applications. Microsoft itself has
stated the following - "Microsoft Access was designed as a single-user
desktop database, and not for server use. When multiple, concurrent
users make requests of a Microsoft Access database, unpredictable
results may occur."
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database Services
If the hosting package that you have purchased includes MSSQL
Database(s) then you get 5 Database Users per Database that you have
purchased. Using the Database Manager section in your control panel,
you can add / delete MSSQL Databases, add multiple database users for a
single database, change passwords etc.
Each database user can use Enterprise Manager or Query Analyzer to connect to and manage the MSSQL databases.
.NET Support
All our windows hosting packages support the following .NET technologies:
- .NET Framework v1.1 and v2.0
- ASP.NET
- ADO.NET
- ASP.NET Web Services
- XML Web Services
- .NET Mobile Internet Toolkit
Other Supported Web Development Technologies
All our windows hosting packages support all the popular
windows-specific web development technologies, empowering you to create
your website or web application in the language of your choice.
Supported web development technologies include:
- Active Server Pages (ASP) 3.0
- MSXML 4.0
- XSL 2.1
- CDO
- Cdonts
- Window Media
- Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
- Real Audio / Video HTTP Streaming
- Macromedia Flash
- Macromedia Shockwave
- If
the hosting package that you have purchased includes Custom DLL
Registration, then you can also register Custom DLL and OCX files
instantly using the Control Panel.