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GENERAL FEATURES

1. Web Space

Directory Structure
Every hosting account gets it's own password protected username under Linux. By logging in with this username, you will gain access to your web storage space. Every user "owns" a structure of subdirectories in the Linux file system. The "root" or base of this structure is the "home" directory, found at /home/username. Inside of the home directory, you will find the "public_html" subdirectory. Files within the public_html directory are publicly available over the Internet. A more common name for the directory used to store public files is "www", so we've created a directory under this name as well. The www subdirectory is a symbolic link to the public_html folder, so accessing the www folder will automatically re-direct the user to the public_html directory.

For example, when a browser asks for URL http://yourname.com/page.html , Apache looks for the file /home/username/public_html/page.html and sends it back.

The "Home" Page
The file name of your home page within any directory needs to be index.html or index.htm. Apache will automatically send the file /home/username/public_html/index.html when a browser requests http://yourdomain.com

The "CGI-BIN"
"CGI" stands for "Common Gateway Interface", another name for programs running on the web server that can be invoked from a public page at the browser. The "bin" part alludes to the binary executables that result from compiled or assembled programs. It is a bit misleading because CGI's can also be Unix shell scripts or interpreted languages like Perl. Every hosting account comes with it's own personal CGI-BIN.

2. FTP Space

Secure FTP Access
Every hosting account comes with at least one password protected FTP login. By default, this will be setup with your main username / password. The main FTP login will have access to all files and subdirectories within your /home/username directory. Additional FTP logins are available, which can be restricted to a special subdirectory under public_html.

Anonymous FTP Access
All accounts come preset with an anonymous ftp area, where files can be uploaded and downloaded by anyone in the world without a password. This area is separated from the rest of your files for obvious reasons. The path to the anonymous FTP area is /home/username/public_ftp. If you want both upload and download anonymous FTP, then you may want a read-only subdirectory for distributing files and a separate write-only subdirectory for receiving files. This is to prevent files that you are distributing from being destroyed accidentally, and to prevent files uploaded to you from being distributed to others before you examine them.

FTP Account Administration
All settings, for both secure and anonymous FTP can be managed via your online Control Panel. You also have full control over all FTP sessions in progress, the ability to add and remove additional FTP logins, and more...

3. Telnet / SSH

Telnet / SSH Account
O n our shared web hosting accounts isTelnet because security reasons disabled.

SSH is basically a secure form of Telnet. To quote the README file: SSH (Secure Shell) is a program to log into another computer over a network, to execute commands in a remote machine, and to move files from one machine to another. It provides strong authentication and secure communications over unsecured channels. It is intended as a replacement for rlogin, rsh, and rcp.

You can download and install SSH software from http://www.vandyke.com/
On our shared web hosting accounts is SSH disabled.

4. Real Audio / Video

The "Real Server"
The Real Server software is a real time audio and/or video transmission system. A digital audio or video stream is transmitted from the server over the Internet to the destination and played immediately, rather than being stored to disk first and then played. With this extra added feature, visitors to your website need not wait for several minutes, or longer, to listen to an audio file, or view a video file, while the large file is downloading.

Real Server Usage
Each Real audio or video file you wish to transmit requires two files: a metafile with extension .ram, and the digital audio or video clip itself, with extension .ra. The .ram file holds one or more lines of ASCII text, each of which references the .ra file to be played when the .ram file is accessed by the browser.

Entries in .ram files have the form:
http://yourdomain.com/realaudio/filename.ra or http://yourdomain.com/realvideo/filename.ra

Place your .ram and .ra files in the realaudio, or realvideo, subdirectory under your public_html directory.
.ram files must be uploaded in ASCII mode while .ra files must be uploaded in BINARY mode.
You may then access these files at
http://www.yourdomain.com/realaudio/filename.ram or http://www.yourdomain.com/realvideo/filename.ram

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