Web Hosting Related Questions
What kind of server is my web site hosted on?
Windows 2003 Server with Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 1212 AMD64 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 3 ~2411MHz
2GB of RAM
Running IIS, PHP4, PHP5, ASP.net, Python, Ruby, CGI-Perl, MailEnable, Plesk 8.3 control panel
Top speed connection
Why compromise the quality of your website speed to your visitors when you don’t have to? Some providers will offer you a lot of traffic but at a compromised line speed. Our servers feature 100 MBit data connection, 10 times faster than most providers.
No constraints or data collisions
100 MBit data connection means that your server can provide fast access to your visitors, experiencing no constraints or data collisions.
The 100 MBit data connection is also helpful when you make local updates or re-image your server with a new operating system. Updates that would normally take several minutes can be completed in seconds.
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What is a web and or mail server?
A web server hosts web sites and internet applications, your home computer most likely can host a web site if you configured it to. Other computers find your web site through your computer ip address (like a unique internet id)
A mail server sends and receives email, this is where problems with SPAM and Unsolicited Commercial Email come in, while a computer can easily be set up to be a web server, doing so is highly undesirable as someone could send a million email messages through your computer. In reality this would probably not happen as you Internet service provider will notice the traffic and turn off your Internet account for violation of their terms of service.
We use certain restrictions and third party software to help us have mail servers that are not listed in the SPAM blacklists and block a majority of the SPAM sent to you.
DO NOT TRY SENDING SPAM THROUGH YOUR ACCOUNT
(Our mail servers will stop sending @ 100 messages)
Contact us if you require a newsletter application or have an email marketing list as we simply run that on a different server, however this is not an offer for SPAMMING but to mail a legitimate opt-in mailing list.
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Can I send SPAM through the mail server?
NO!!!!!!!
YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE SUSPENDED AND YOU
WILL LOSE ANY MONEY YOU HAVE PAID TO
WebmasterNotRequired.com
This we take very seriously and will if approached by any government agency turn over your information to them if you are SPAMMING through our mail servers. While we take steps to stop most people from being able to send SPAM through our servers, be it known if you circumvent our efforts we will turn you in.
If you have a legitimate email list let us know and we WILL SET UP A MAILER FOR YOU THAT
WILL NOT AFFECT OUR SERVERS!!!.
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What is SPAM?
SPAM is Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) .
Generally UCE is unwanted (think flyers in your mail box or newspaper) and consumes bandwidth and at times exposes people to things or images they have no interest in and many times find offensive.
It doesn't mean that the UCE is not wanted by some of those it reaches it has more to do with those that do not want it. So if you want to harvest email addresses or buy a list of random email addresses than you are spamming when you send out your mailer, regardless how much you think the world needs your products or services.
Besides mailing a targeted list that your recipients signed up for will bring you a better return.
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I'm receiving a Server Not Responding Error?
Please try back in 2 or 3 minutes, while we don't have to reboot the web server often some times we have to after installing software, security patches, or for better overall performance. Possibly you have reached the server at one of these times.
note: We try to do these reboots between 12am and 6am PST, but have had to in the past outside of these times.
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My web site does not display?
First make sure you are connected to the Internet try maybe Google.com or MSN.com if you can reach them please hit f5 on your keyboard or refresh/reload from Menu/View. If you still see Google or MSN then contact us through a
Support Ticket
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What kind of access do I have to the server?
FTP access to your web sites root
Optional Plesk 8.3 for Windows
Click for more info on the Plesk Control Panel
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Can I run custom scripts on the server?
For the most part NO!
However if it a professional web application / script then quite possibly it will be allowed. Well written scripts that use and release resources like they are suppose to will be allowed. Practice scripts or development scripts will not be allowed.
We will install any custom script for you and at that time take a good look at how it works and how it will affect the web server.
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Can I run custom software on the server?
Same as above, if you are thinking of purchasing software to run on the server please send us a Support Ticket with the softwares details or sales page and we will have a look at it and make sure it will run on your web site.
We will also install it for you if approved (Basically we install it to your web site and test it).
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Do you offer Reseller Hosting or Developer Accounts?
No, however we do offer a business in a box franchise system if you would like to duplicate what we do (At that time you will have a dedicated Windows Server that you can Resell and Develop on) For more info please see here
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