| Autoresponders |
Autoresponders are e-mail messages that are sent
automatically when an e-mail arrives for a specific e-mail
account. Autoresponders are most commonly used for an "Out
of Office" style message to inform your correspondents that
you are not available, without you having to reply manually.
You can have more than one autoresponder on one account. You
can use plain text or include HTML code in the autoresponder,
and choose from a wide variety of character sets. |
| Forwarders |
Forwards simply allow you to automatically forward
e-mail sent to one account to another account. This is
useful when you work at two separate locations, or have gone
on holiday. |
| Web Mail |
You can read your online e-mail using NeoMail, Horde, or
SquirrelMail. All of these popular web mail applications
allow you to read your e-mail, save them, keep an address
book, and perform all of the other basic e-mail functions
that you are used to. The main difference between web mail
and an offline e-mail applications, such as Eudora or
Microsoft Outlook Express, is that all of these functions
are performed online, rather than on your own computer, and
offline applications generally provide more features.
Web mail is optional. You can still use your favorite
offline e-mail applications, if you prefer. |
| Mailing Lists |
Mailing lists are an ideal tool for communication
between far-flung participants and can be about anything you
want. Mailman allows you to set up a mailing list with a
large number of configurable options, such as who is on the
list, where mailing lists messages are sent, and whether you
include welcoming messages to new subscribers. |
| Spam Assassin |
Spam Assassin is a mail filter installed on a mail
server used to identify spam. It checks for spam using a
large number of pre-set rules that check the header, body,
and sender of all e-mail messages sent to your domain
mailbox. |
| Mail Exchanger (MX Entry) |
By altering your MX (Mail Exchange Record) Entry you can
point your e-mail to another mail server, if this is
required.
We will not be able to manage your e-mail if you change your
MX Entry setting. Do not change your MX Entry unless you
know what you are doing. |
| Addon Domains |
An addon domain is a domain name that that points to a
subdirectory within your account. For example, you may want
innovation.org.nz to point to business.org.nz/innovation/.
Addon domains must be registered domain names that you own
and configured to point to your web site's servers. |
| FTP Manager |
The FTP area deals with all the tools relating to
setting up and managing FTP accounts, as well as managing
FTP sessions. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a method by
which you can transfer files between computers, usually
using the Internet.
We allows you to set up FTP accounts so that certain
external users can access a restricted part of your system.
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| File Manager |
The File Manager allows you to manage your site through
HTML, rather than an FTP tool or other third-party
application. You can upload, create or delete files,
organize files in folders, and change file permissions.
While not as sophisticated as most FTP tools, File Manager
is free and gives you all the basic functionality necessary
to manage your site. |
| Backup |
The Backup area allows you to download the daily,
weekly, or monthly backup file of your entire web site, or a
particular MySQL, alias, or filter backup file. If your
computer crashes, or your personal backups are destroyed,
these files allow you to recover your site in a convenient
manner (you could also use FTP to download each file, but it
would take much longer as the files are not compressed). |
| Password protect
directories |
You can protect directories within your site from
browsers by using a password to protect them. This allows
you to restrict material to only authorized users or store
sensitive material online. |
| Subdomains |
Subdomains are a way of creating separate accounts
within your master account, which are accessed as separate
URLs. For example, you could set up a "timber" subdomain on
your master account "hardware.org.mart", which would be
accessed as "timber.hardware.org.mart". |
| MySQL |
SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is an
international standard in querying and retrieving
information from databases. MySQL is essentially an SQL
server - it responds to requests for information that are
written in SQL. You can communicate with MySQL using a wide
variety of programming languages (PHP being one of the most
common). MySQL is Open Source software and free for use. |
| Redirects |
The Redirects area allows you to redirect Internet
traffics from one web page to another. This is usually used
when a web page has been moved to another location. |
| Frontpage Extensions |
Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your web site
using Microsoft Frontpage. These extensions can occasionally
become corrupted, so you can uninstall and then reinstall
Frontpage Extensions whenever required. |
| Web/FTP Stats |
The Web / FTP Statistics area presents you with a wide
variety of information about your web site, from the latest
visitors to a detailed monthly summary of hits, as well as
providing an error log. Use the Statistics tools to keep
track of what pages are being visited most often, and where
they are being referred from. |
| Raw Log Manager |
Raw access logs contain all the recorded hit information
that your site has received. You can set the Raw Log Manager
to archive this information every month and/or delete the
previous month's log at the end of every month. |
| CGI Center |
CGI Center area allows you to use some pre-installed CGI
scripts through CPanel. This section contains information
about using these scripts, as well as using CGI scripts in
general. Following scripts are available through CGI Center:
Simple CGI Wrappper, Random HTML, Guestbook, Advanced
Guestbook, Counter Maker, Clock, Java CountDown/CountUp
Maker, CGI EMail, FormMail Clone, Entropy Search, Entropy
Banner
Please Note: Some scripts may be disabled due to
security issue or bug. |
| Shopping carts |
Agora & Interchange shopping cart - is a fully-featured
shopping cart that can be installed with the click of a
button. |
| Cron jobs |
Cron jobs allow you to automate repetitive tasks on the
server that hosts your web site. This is a powerful tool
that allows you to take a hands-free approach to repetitive
tasks. For example, you could add a cron job that
automatically copies a MySQL database to a separate location
on your site as a backup. |
| MIME Types |
MIME types tell browsers how to handle specific
extensions. Most MIME types are set globally on the server.
For example, the text/html MIME type equates to htm, html,
and shtml extensions on most servers, and this tells your
browser to interpret all files with those extensions as HTML
files. You can alter or add new MIME types specifically for
your site (note that you can not alter the global MIME type
values, only add to them). MIME types are often used to
handle new technologies as they appear. When WAP technology
first appeared no one had these extensions set up on their
server. With MIME types, however, you could have set it up
yourself and begun serving WAP pages immediately. |
| Apache handlers |
Apache is an open-source HTTP server, and is used to
serve your site. Apache handlers tell the server how to deal
with web files that need to be processed on the server. For
example, Apache is set up to process files with .pl
extensions using Perl. However, if for some reason you also
wanted to process files with .script extension using Perl,
then you would have to set up a custom Apache handler for
your site.
Warning: Please check with us before adding an Apache
handler, as we can easily alter the correct functioning of
your web site. |
| OpenPGP keys |
OpenPGP is a tool for secure online communication.
CPanel uses GnuPG for its public-key cryptography so that
users may communicate securely. Each person gets a pair of
keys, called the public key and the private key. Each
person's public key is published while the private key is
kept secret. Messages are encrypted using the intended
recipient's public key and can only be decrypted using their
private key. |
| HotLink Prevention |
Hotlinking is when another web site owner links directly
to one or more of your images or multimedia files and
includes it on their web page. Not only is this theft of
your intellectual property, you are paying for the bandwidth
used by that site. CPanel can prevent hotlinking by only
allowing named sites (such as your own web site) to access
files on your site. |
| Index Manager |
The Index Manager enables you to control how directories
on your web site are displayed. If there is no index.html in
a particular directory, the contents of the directory will
be displayed to the browser. This is usually undesirable and
can cause security issues. You can set the four different
options for any directory through the Index Manager. |
| IP Deny Manager |
The IP Deny Manager enables you to block access to your
web site from specific IP addresses. This is useful to
remove nuisance surfers who use a large amount of bandwidth
or to prevent hotlinking to your site. |
|
Shell/Telnet access |
We DO NOT allow SSH/Shell/Telnet access on our
servers.
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