Glossary of Technical Terms
Counters count the number of visitors to the page they setup on. Website Statistics are more detailed.
A form or a
survey created for the webuser to complete and send you the results via email of
whatever is asked on the form. You can use it to evaluate customer wants
or satisfaction.
If you would like to have your own unique web address, we can register your
chosen domain name (e.g. www.your_company.com) with Low Cost Domains. We can also
transfer your existing domain name from other hosts for you. You will be
responsible for paying Low Cost Domains a registration fee of $24 per year. 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. Auto-responder 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. 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 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 Our webhost's servers 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.
Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000:
Audio/Video HTTP Streaming:
Redundant Backbone Connection:
Secure web site (SSL):
Web Page Password Protection:
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.
E-mails sent to anyone@newdomain.com is routed to anyone@primary.com