Features Glossary
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All-starZ will handle either domain registration or transfer on
your behalf. The U.S. governing agency InterNIC charges $100 to
register a domain name which covers the first two years. They
currently bill at a rate of $50 per year thereafter. Non-US domain registration must
be handled by the end user.
You will have unlimited access via FTP 24-hours a day to set
up and maintain your web site. You can literally work on HTML
documents, graphics, and scripts locally and then upload files to
your web site when ready.
In general, any outward bound traffic from a website with the
exception of email is considered to be data transfer. For
example, each time a web page or image is loaded, a file is
downloaded from your web site (not uploaded), or and audio file
is requested data transfer is generated. The data transfer
threshold is 500 MB per month on domain plan #1 and 1 GB per
month on plan #2. Our experience has shown that 500MB/month will
be more than enough bandwidth for the average web site.
The T3 is our connection to the internet. The presence of a T3
affords a high speed at which data can be transferred. In
addition, the T3 ensures that sufficient bandwidth will be
available to each All-starZ customer. All-starZ maintains multiple full
T1 lines as back-up. The T3 is equivalent to 28 T1's.
Once your domain name is active worldwide, you can receive all
email addressed to your domain such as webmaster@yourname.com,
sales@youname.com, etc. By default, all email addressed to your
domain will forward to your real email address provided by
your local internet provider. For convenience, 10 mail forwarding
options are available if you need specific addresses to be
forwarded to different addresses on the internet. For example,
email addressed to webmaster@yourname.com could forward to an
account at AOL, but sales@yourname.com could forward to a Prodigy
account.
In addition to mail forwarding, users have the option to
retrieve email directly from POP3 mailboxes on the mail server
using a Program like Eudora. One master POP and five additional
ones are included in your domain web site service. The additional
POPs can be assigned unique ids and passwords to ensure privacy.
A PPP internet connection is needed.
"Autoresponders" reply to incoming e-mail
automatically. An autoresponder could be used to send a standard
text file to persons addressing, say, info@yourname.com . If you've ever received a reponse to
an email which suggests that the recipient is away from the
office, you may have received such an automated response.
All customers have access to a personal cgi-bin
directory which is reserved for custom CGI scripts.
CGI scripts are often used to accomplish tasks which are not
supported by basic HTML such as a "hit" counter or
guest book. All-starZ makes a number of CGI scripts
available, but this directory can be used to set up scripts that
you write or locate elsewhere on the web.
We use a program called MKStats to track web usage statistics
such as what domains are accessing your web site, how many
"hits" you are getting, how much data is being
transferred and more. All-starZ uses a multi-processor Silicon
Graphics web server to crunch these numbers.
All users have access to a web-based Control Panel which
allows you to set mail forwarding options, enable/disable
anonymous FTP access, change your password and more. It also
allows access to other features such as an HTML Form Generator,
web-based HTML editor and Perl script checker. Users can also
update account contact information at anytime without having to
contact customer support.
Enabling anonymous FTP allows visitors to access your web site
to upload and/or download files without a unique id and password.
By controllable anonymous FTP, we are referring to an
environmment whereby anonymous access can be limited to specific
files and directories.
p>mSQL (mini
SQL), is a lightweight database engine designed to provide fast
access to stored data. We provide the tools to create a
searchable database. In most instances, custom programming
(commonly Perl or PHP) is needed to implement a fully functional
web-to-database interface.
The shopping cart program allows you to have multiple web
pages featuring items for sale. The shopping cart script keeps
track of what visitors have ordered allowing them to add or
remove items from their virtual shopping basket. When a visitor
decides to check-out, the order information including the buyer's
name, address and billing instruction is emailed to the site
webmaster and a receipt is sent to the shopper.
Leading the way to the Internet!