50 megabytes of
Webspace will give the Average Website enough space
to :
write a Book ,say a Novel by Jefrey Archer , roughly
about 250 pages in all .
A good size small business website .
Consider ,is your website a home website ,about you
,and all the webspace you need is 10mb ?
A Domain Name is a personal or
Business Address that will show up in the Address bar
on your computer Browser ( browsers are what you use
to view a website from your computer ) Example is
http://www.webezi.com ,this is called a URL and
contains a Domain name webezi.com .
Webezi is the
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- What is
a Monthly Transfer ?
- The best definition of Monthly Transfer
is how many Visits to your Website you may have a month .
Put it another way , Unless your site is equal to some of the bigger websites on the internet such as Yahoo
, Amazon or Google whom have been around for many years and
have established a big audience and expect to receive many
visitors per hour , then you probably needn't worry about
Monthly Transfers .
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- Pop; Post Office Protocol Email;
is Email that you can use from your personal computer
email programme client , such as microsoft Outlook Express
. Now I could go into Jargon here and baffle the reader
, but I won't , simply the pop (pop3) email connects to
the Hosting server and picks up your email .
Email Forwarding ; allows you to re-direct your pop email
to another email address .
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- What is a Sub Domain and
How can I get one ?
- Sub Domains are extra
names based on your own Domain name ,
there are varied types of Sub Domains
that are refered to on the internet , one
example would be an address such as this
: http://gallery.webezi.com
, it is in essence a prefix addition in
this case the word gallery.
- How much do Sub Domains
cost
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- Some Hosting packages
offer sub domains as part of the package
others do not and cost £10 / $15 per sub-
domain , contact us for bulk purchase and
any reductions that we may be able to
offer you.
- What is FTP and
How do I get one ?
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- FTP stands for File
Transfer Protocol , which means to
Transfer a File , with this you Transfer
a file to your webspace , a file is a
webpage or an image (or for the more
experienced user scripts etc ) .
This is done by using an FTP programme ,
you can either use your own or download a
free or paid version from the internet ,
we provide a free FTP for you to use with
your webspace in our Website Services
area .
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- What
is MySQL ?
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- MySQL is a
database , a database is where
information is stored ,a simple database
would be email addresses and telephone
numbers , but generally MySQL can contain
much more information then that ,for
instance it can be used with PHP script
and store lots of members details of a
community usernames , passwords infact a
whole lot of things and the best thing
about it ; is that it can be called very
quickly from your webspace , some
companies use it for huge amount of
information retrival such as search
engines .
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- Backups , how can I be sure my
website is safe ?
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- Backing
up your work on your webspace is important ,
however safe your server is ; on the internet
there can be numourous reasons why this must be
so . Believe it or not your webspace provider is
subject to all of the mis- fortunes that befall
the everyday personal computer user at home ;
Virurses , Hackers and computer crashes to name a
few . So it is very important to make sure your
website webspace is protected by the provider ,
but if all else fails , there is always a need to
have your website work backed up regular , so
that it can be retrieved as quickly as possible .
- Who does the back up ?
Webspace providers sometimes
offer a manual backup generally in the control
panel and also offer a automatic backup system
for users that requires no interaction from the
user , check for details on your plan or contact
us for futher information .
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- Dedicated IP : What does
this mean ?
Beware
hosting companies that host your site using a
shared IP address, if your neighbour is caught
spamming your web site can be blacklisted as a
result! The same goes for pornographic or other
content that is often penalized.
- ,What is Webmail and where do I
find it ?
Webmail
is to send and receive email on the Server only ,
you may use your Domain name own email or indeed
any email address that you wish from the Webmail
. The advantage of Webmail is that you cn view
your emails from any computer , so if you are on
Holiday abraod or in another US state all you
need to do is find yourself a internet cafe
connect to the server through your Webmail
Located on our website and check , send your
emails .
There is another advantage with
Webmail and that is the emails you receive
through the server and remains up on the server
itself and not to your own computer , will mean
that no Viruses can be transmitted to your own
computer at Home (or Laptop) .
- What is a Control Panel
and what does it do ?
Some Hosting plans offer the user
features that can enhance your webspace and email
usage , for instance email can be made more
business like with an auto response , which means
that any email to your box sends out a thankyou
email or however you wish to develop it to
respond for your customers .
Some Hosting plans offer the user
features that can enhance your webspace and email
usage , for instance email can be made more
professional with an auto response , which means
that any email to your box sends out a thank you
email or however you wish to develop it to
respond for your customers .
The Control panel should be
secure and only you or people with your
permission should be able to access it online .
There should also be additional features in your
Control Panel to allow for webspace usage
statisics to keep you up to date on how much
space your website has used and who has visited
your website or is using your webspace allocated
transfer ,sometimes without your own knowledge
,by drawing on your images etc . You should also
have access to the server status information via
this area and also information about how it is
performing .
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About our Online Website Editor
And
- About Buying a ready made website
.
You need to Host a website to make it
Live to the world on the Internet
(see
Hosting plans) .
We have a selection of websites available Free ,once you have signed
up .
With your Hosting; you can Create Folders and Webpages ,Upload
, Download and Edit Your website online in real time with the
File Manager , you do not need to have any knowledge of HTML to
use the easy editor , 
Learn Basic HTML (should you want to use or learn) .
Trial Hosting is available for upto 30 days,if you
click here a new page will open to take
you to view some of it's fantastic facilities .
- What is a Frontpage support and Editor
?
Frontpage Editor is a Microsoft Windows Explorer
addon ; it allows for the easy construction and administration
from your computer for your Website , it can be used offline to
make develop and once connected to the internet upload and download
your work to your webspace . Download Frontpage Editor
For more information press the button
- SSL Security ?
When doing business on the internet a website
needs to be able to offer security online for business transactions
for selling or supplying your goods from your webstore and website,
this generally means a form that your customers fill in and send
through the internet and often contains personal and financial
important information that you do not want intercepted by prying
eyes for customer safety . This means that you need to be able
to offer security online via a secure connection that is encrypted
and supplied with a trusted certificate such as Verisign and Thwate
.
You will see this Lock appear on your Browser lower right when
entering a secure area  .
- What are scripts and where can I get them ?
Scripts are useful for
Forms and many other applications that you might need from your
website , many of these can be downloaded and set up on your website
by you for Free , there are some though that you have to pay to
have on your website generally in the fashion of a license fee
to the provider of the script, but most software that you can
download from the internet or you can use have some form of License
to use and agreement for you to follow when using them . You can
download many types of scripts such as PHP or CGI from our Website Services area and you can access many other places
from here to find Scripts .
- What are Stats and what do they tell me ?
Stats : is short for
Statistics , that means your Website Stats , So what are your
Website Stats ? The easiest way to decribe this is to show you
. Go to this address ADD STATS TO YOUR WEBSITE (this will open a new
webpage Browser , so that you will also have this page still open
) Then click onto on our our members Free Stats area and then view statistics there . This will give you the idea of the
details your website can get about your visitors .
- How can I get information on whats really happening
on my Website ?
- Raw logfile access
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Measures every aspect
of your online business. You can determine how well your Web site
is working, the origin and number of visitors, where they are
going and how they found you in the first place . Analyze what's
really going on with your web sites . This is very much the same
as stats , but much more indepth .
- Htaccess : what about restricted access
to areas of my website ?
Htaccess is used in conjuntion with Htpassword
and is used to password secure a Folder on your Hosted Webspace
, when these 2 are used together they will restrict access to
a folder so that the information inside the folder webpages images
etc can only be viewed if you or a person with your permission
knows the username and password .
- Htpasswd : What about passwording areas
of my website ? This is used with htaccess to provide the information
to secure a folder (see above for infomation on htaccess .
Addons Script Library And Shopping Carts ++
- Secure Payment : How secure is the service ?
- We take payment secure with a
https secure connection with a certificate from Thawte
that is renewed every year on our Hosting
Server ;
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- The payment
itself is processed through http://www.Paypal.com .
In order to use this online payment service you must have an account
with or signup for an account with Paypal who will verify and
process your card details . You will have the opportunity to sign
up for an account with Paypal during this Process Free.
Paypal (at time of writing this article) charge 3.5% of an amount processed ,but have no Annual charges.
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