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Detailed Descriptions of
Website Hosting Features CGI
Wrapper
This website hosting feature "changes" to your
user id, and runs a program that you specify on your
behalf.
Guest book
This website hosting feature allows visitors to your site
to leave a public note commenting about your website. (this
can also be turned into a blog merely but rewording it
and passwording access to just you)
Counter
This website hosting feature allows you to apply a small
bit of code with your normal HTML allowing you to have a
live visitor counter on your site.
Cgi email
This website hosting feature allows forms on your website
to send you an email with the information a visitor put
in the form.
Formmail clone
This website hosting feature also allows forms on your
website to send you an email with the information a
visitor put in the form.
Search engine submitter
This website hosting feature is a small engine submission
tool meant only to give you a jump-start on your search
engine submission process. Consult with your designer
first whether they have a pro-level system before using
this feature.
POP Email addresses
This website hosting feature is for services such as
Outlook Express, allowing access to your mail system
without logging into your hosting control panel.
Mailing lists
This website hosting feature is to create and track
emailing lists you can send to later.
Auto-responders
This website hosting feature allows a custom auto
response to an email sent to you at an email address you
create.
Unlimited forwarders
This website hosting feature silently forwards email sent
to your website, to any email address you want.
Unlimited email filters
This website hosting feature keeps the spammers out of
your hair. You can block emails from domains or even by
keywords the scan finds anywhere in the incoming email
and automatically deletes it.
osCommerce (The Exchange Project)
This website hosting feature is for installing a PHP
shopping cart on your website.
FrontPage web and mail extensions (on request)
This website hosting feature allows you to use a program
called Frontpage to build and maintain your website and
mail systems.
Password protect any file or directory
This website hosting feature allows you to hide files and
pages from the public by password.
Anonymous FTP
This website hosting feature allows you to use any FTP
program to upload your website.
Trace route
This website hosting feature allows you to trace how
visitors arrived at your website.
Raw access log
This website hosting feature allows you to crunch numbers.
Its a visitor log with ever bit of information about page
views, megs used per view and such.
Easy back up
This website hosting feature will allow you to back-up
your website to protect yourself if you are planning to
make large changes. If your change goes wrong you can
just put in the backup and all is right again.
Telnet
The Telnet program runs on your computer and connects
your PC to a server on the network. You can then enter
commands through the Telnet program and they will be
executed as if you were entering them directly on the
server console.
SSH Shell
This website hosting feature is a set of standards and an
associated network protocol that allows establishing a
secure channel between a local and a remote computer.
Cron Jobs
This website hosting feature is an automated process that
operates at predefined time intervals. For example,
reindexing your Web site using Excite at 3:00am every
morning.
Mime Types
This website hosting feature is an Internet Standard for
the format of e-mail. Virtually all human written
Internet e-mail and a fairly large proportion of
automated e-mail is transmitted via SMTP in MIME format.
Custom error pages
This website hosting feature allows you to set a default
page if for example someone attempts to visit a page no
longer on your website, rather then getting a blank or
Error page.
Domain name look up
This website hosting feature allows you to look up
availability of domain names.
Apache handlers
This website hosting feature tells the server how to deal
with web files that need to be processed on the server.
Such as PERL scripts.
PHP enabled
This website hosting feature allows you to create and
install PHP applications.
Perl 5
This website hosting feature is a general-purpose
programming language originally developed for text
manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks
including system administration, web development, network
programming, GUI development, and more.
Python enabled
This website hosting feature is a dynamic object-oriented
programming language that can be used for many kinds of
software development.
Interchange 4.8 by RedHat
This website hosting feature is an open source commerce
server and application server/component application,
written in the PERL programming language to automate and
database-enable your web site or build online
applications.
Analog and webalizer statistic
This website hosting feature is the cleaned up version of
the raw log files including graphs.
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