Email Addresses
As
part of the web and email hosting services you can use as
many email addresses as you like @your-domain.com.
For example if you are ‘Joe Bloggs Consultancy Ltd’ you
could register the domain name bloggs-consultancy.co.uk
and you could use the email address joe@bloggs-consultancy.co.uk.
Mailboxes
A
mailbox is a password protected container on our server for
your email to be delivered to, so if someone sends
an email to
joe@bloggs-consultancy.co.uk it is delivered to one of
our servers and then to your mailbox. You will then collect
the email from
the mailbox using either an email program such as Microsoft
Outlook or our Web mail system.
Spam
/ Virus Filtering
All of our current web and email
hosting services include spam and virus protection.
Virus
If
an email is sent to you that our system decides
is an virus it will automatically
quarantine
the email
and send you notification, if you were expecting
the file and it has been incorrectly identified
as virus you can request
that it be release from the quarantine.
Spam
All
email that is sent to your email address/s is processed
through a spam scoring system
using many
different rules so identify if a message is spam or
not. Each message
is
given a score and the higher the score the more
likely the message is to be a spam email. If the
score is
above a certain
threshold
it will flag the message as spam and this can then
be auto-filtered from the rest of your valid email.
Control
Panel
For the web and email hosting packages you
are given access to a control panel where you can do the
following:
- Change
passwords
- Add/Edit email addresses
- View web stats
- Check disk usage
- Change Spam settings
Web Mail
The
Web Mail system allows you to go to a web page from any
Internet connection and view any emails
that are
in your mailbox,
this
is particularly useful if you are away on holiday
or work from different locations, there is many features
too numerous to mention here.
Web Forwarding
Web
forwarding is where you forward your domain name to another
web address, for example if you registered
multiple versions
of your domain name such as bloggs-consultancy.co.uk
and bloggs-consultancy.com you can setup web
forward so if someone goes to www.bloggs-consultancy.com
they will be redirected to the website you have
setup on www.bloggs-consultancy.co.uk.
There is two
types of web forwarding:
Frame Redirect
This
is where the redirect is done using an ‘HTML Frame’,
if someone goes to www.bloggs-consultancy.com the address
bar at the top will not change until but
they will see the website on www.bloggs-consultancy.co.uk.
This
is more
useful if you decide to forward to some free
web space that you may have with your ISP.
Header Redirect
This
type of redirect means that if someone goes to www.bloggs-consultancy.com
they will
instantly
be redirected
to www.bloggs-consultancy.co.uk and the address
bar in your browser will change to reflect that.
Web space
Web
space is an area on one of our web servers where you can
upload your website to so that
if anyone
on the Internet goes
to www.bloggs-consultancy.co.uk they will see
the website you or your web designer as created.
FTP Account
An
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) account is a username and
password that you will allow you
and you only
to connect to your web space
and make changes to your website.
PHP
PHP
is an open source web scripting / programming language
that is used for creating dynamic
and interactive web
pages.
CGI / Perl
A
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) script is a program / script
that is used to process
information
sent
from a web browser to
a web server, they can be written in
a number of languages including Perl and are most
often used
to process the
information submitted
by a contact/order form. We only
support Perl at this time.
Server Side
Includes (SSI)
Server Side Includes is a server
side web scripting language mainly used for adding
simple dynamic
elements to a webpage
such as including the contents of another
web/HTML page.
Web Stats
Every
time someone visits your website or a particular
web page this is logged by our server
and is then summarized on a daily basis so that you
can see how many visitors
come your website, which pages are
most popular and where visitors
come
from etc.
Monthly Traffic
Whilst
few website's reach this limit each package
does have a cap on the amount of traffic it can use on
our network
per month, for example if you have
lots of high resolution
photos or MP3 downloads on
your site you are more likely to
use up
your monthly traffic quota than a
site that just contains
text and web optimised images. The
reason we impose such limits
is to prevent very busy websites
using up all the resources that are
intended
to be equally shared with other websites
on the same server. Monthly traffic
is measured in GigaBytes of 'GB',
if you use in excess of your bandwidth
limit
you
will be invoiced for that excess
traffic. For details please see the
FAQ relating to excess traffic.
Microsoft
FrontPage 2002 Extensions
FrontPage Extensions
are a server side extension to the web design
program
Microsoft Front
Page; the extensions
perform a similar
function to CGI scripts and PHP
whereby they will allow dynamic elements
to web pages
such as contact
forms.
Jargon
Explained