Shared
Control Panel Based Hosting
If
your organization's IT Department and/or Webmaster wish to perform
maintenance, administrative functions, and updates for your hosted
applications, control panel hosting is better suited to meet your
needs. Webservio offers control panel based hosting within a shared
environment for both Windows and Linux platforms.
Shared Environment
- Features Common to Both Windows and Linux Platforms
Domain
aliases allow you to point multiple domain names to the same web
hosting package. 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 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.
- Domain
Access with and without "www"
Our
web 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.
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. You also have 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 aqccess to the Complete Log of Actions performed by each user. You can find out which FTP user connected from what IP address, at what time, and uploaded/modified/deleted which 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.
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:
- Password
protect your web based traffic reports to ensure that only
authorized people have access to this data
- Automatically
delete web log files after generating the web-based traffic
reports to save disk space
- Disable
the generation of the web traffic reports
- 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
- 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 critical data. The web-based backup policy manager provides
an easy-to-use one-step wizard to add each policy.
Your
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 example:
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 eintire 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 have created a comprehensive backup
plan with multiple restore points for your company's 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 month, or a backup that
was taken monthly up to 6 months ago.
Comprehensive Raw Log files are made available to each web hosting package's 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 number 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 genterated
by the mail server to record all emails sent using code on
your website.
- Log Files Manager 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).
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.
- 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.
- 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, 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.
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