Microsoft FrontPage 2000

Microsoft FrontPage is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. One of the best HTML editors. It is easy to use. You can create, edit, modify your HTML, ASP, txt, etc page directly on the server. Our servers both Linux and Windows 2000 support Microsoft FrontPage2000


Statistics

Log files give an accurate picture of who is coming to your site, what they viewed at your site, and where they came from. Each domain is given its own log file. Using the Web Control Panel, you
can see the web statistics for each domain.


CGI-BIN

Every webmaster has heard about CGI. CGI lets you run a program on the server. Comment forms, message boards, and web counters are some of the common uses for CGI. While not as fast as ASP, CGI is still the preferred option by many webmasters.

Each 100 Meg account comes with a private per domain CGI-BIN
directory at no extra cost. That means you can start building a dynamic web site right away using CGI.

Our Web Hosting has support for Perl(Unix), Visual Basic 4, and Visual Basic 5 scripts.


Unix based Perl scripts

ALL Unix Perl scripts will work at with our servers.

Form to Email Tutorial

Quick Overview

A very common task for many websites is a form that submits its results to an email account. We commonly refer to this task as form to email. There are several ways to add form to email to your
website(s) hosted with us. You can use Perl(Unix), ASP, or Cold Fusion to accomplish the task. Here we will explains how to send email using each of those three popular technologies.


Perl based form to email

One of the most popular tools for accomplishing the form to email task is formmail.pl

ASP based form to email

At Windows based hosts , ASP can be used to accomplish the task of form to email. We do not promote CDONTS. For sending email via ASP, we support ASPEmail and OXCMAil. Here is a code sample for sending email from an ASP page.

for more details please see http://www.flicks.com/ASPMail/intro.htm


Cold Fusion based form to email

If you prefer to code your pages in Cold Fusion, you can use Cold Fusion to accomplish the task of form to email. Cold Fusion uses the CFMAIL command to send email. The following code could be used within a Cold Fusion page to send email.

Important Things to Consider

When sending email for web site hosted with us, Our email servers will not allow email to relay unless the FROM or TO address in the email is a valid local email address. If your form to email page appears to work, but the email never arrives at the destination, check to make sure either the FROM or TO address is a valid local email address or not.

In the ASP based form to email example, we list 127.0.0.1 as the outbound SMTP server to use. Each web server has a simple outbound SMTP relay installed. For optimal effeciency and reliability, we strongly urge you to use 127.0.0.1 as the outbound SMTP server in your scripts instead of mail.yourname.com or IP Address. By default, sendmail and Cold Fusion also use 127.0.0.1.

Please remember that our email servers are not to be used as spam cannons. Do not write a script that sends lots of spam. Sending spam through our servers wastes CPU time and bandwidth, and can degrade performance. Any script being used to cannon spam will be instantly removed without any warning.


Active Server Pages Enabled

ASP is a powerful server side scripting language that you can use at no additional charge. ASP was originally developed at Microsoft for use with their freeware IIS web server package, but it is also supported by WebSite Pro 2.x, which is used with our servers. ASP is a powerful tool for creating dynamic content, and for connecting to ODBC databases. Documents that have the .asp extension will be processed as an ASP document.

ASP can connect to databases, dynamically format the page, execute complex logic statements, and much more. Our Servers supports the use of VBScript, JavaScript, and PerlASP(Unix) within Active Server Pages with VBScript set as the default scripting language.

You can easily build form to email solutions using ASP. All of the servers cluster have both ASPEmail and JMail components installed, so you can use those in your ASP pages. 

We does not and will not help debug ASP scripts. If you cannot get your ASP scripts to work properly, consult the Microsoft website or one of the readily available books about ASP.


We support Perl ASP on our Unix Servers

Online ASP Help
http://www.microsoft.com/
http://www.aspdeveloper.net/
http://www.15seconds.com/faq/


Cold Fusion 5 Enterprise Enabled

Cold Fusion is a powerful server side scripting language that you can use at no additional charge. Cold Fusion is an excellent tool for creating dynamic content, and for connecting to ODBC databases. It is similar to Active Server Pages.


To use Cold Fusion, the page must have a .cfm filename extension.

Cold Fusion can connect to databases, connect to remote web servers, dynamically format the page, add the current date to an existing page, show the time on a page, execute complex logic statements, and much more. We currently have Cold Fusion Enterprise 5 installed on our servers.


Disabled Tags
CFFile, CFDirectory, CFRegistry, and CFObject are disabled for security reasons. We do not allow any 3rd party Cold Fusion tags.


Cold Fusion Help

Your local book store should have several good books about Cold Fusion programming.


SSL - Secure Sockets Layer

SSL certificates offer a secure method for transmitting and receiving sensitive information (such as credit card numbers, medical documents, legal writings, and similar). When your website is ready for e-commerce, an SSL certificate will be one peice of the overall e-commerce solution.

Premium Level Accounts can requests SSL certificates for websites. There is no monthly cost for using SSL. We charges a US$100 setup for each SSL Certificate Request file. Thawte (or Verisign) will also charge a setup fee for issuing the SSL Ceritificate.

To get SSL setup on your website, follow these simply steps:

Server Side Includes

You can use simple SSI tags within pages to automate many frequent server side functions, such as including a common toolbar within multiple pages. Server side include tags can be used within any pages that have the .shtml filename extension.


List of SSI configuration tags