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GlossarySelect the link below to learn more about that particular feature. Also, check out the FAQ sections and Online Support Manual pages for more information. Anonymous FTP (No longer supported due to Security issues.) Anonymous FTP allows visitors to FTP into your account and download files without a log-in or password. People who are uploading files through anonymous FTP into your account will be required to use a log-in and password. Autoresponders (Infobots) / Vacation Messages Autoresponders reply to incoming e-mail messages automatically. An autoresponder could be used to send "more information" to persons that send e-mail to a specific address, such as info@yourname.com. If you have ever sent an e-mail and received a reply within 5 minutes, you probably received a message automatically generated by an autoresponder. Bulletin Boards (Forums) On-line forums creation and maintenance: Enhance your Web site with community building forums generated with PlusScripts. Using PlusScripts you can administer all forum functions via your Web browser. Customize Each Forum - Edit the following templates: Index of Forums page, Main board page for each Forum, Error page, Individual Post page, Replies to post page. Automatic Moderation Functions - Ban select IPs from posting, Screen out posts that contain profanity. Main Admin Control - Create or delete Forums, Set Forum Moderator passwords, Edit Forum Templates. Forum Moderator Admin - Edit Look and Feel Templates, Delete or Archive Threads, Delete or Archive Posts, Edit Censor List, Edit IP Ban List. Catch All E-Mail The network has been designed using the trademarked Power PlusMail System to automatically capture any name that may be sent to your domain name. As long as you do not remove or modify the default line in your .redirect file, anything sent to @yourname.com will automatically be forwarded to your POP+Telnet account (yourdomain@yourdomain.com). For domain names that have been purchased through us, then this also means that mail addressed to AnyName@yourdomain.com will be delivered to any e-mail address you specify (for example, your e-mail account provided by your ISP, or a free e-mail account such as by yahoo or hotmail). C++ C++ is an object-oriented enhancement of the C programming language. CGI-Bin Access CGI ("Common Gateway Inferface") refers to the computer programs running on a Web server that can be invoked from a WWW page at the browser. You are given your own cgi-bin in which you can install your own scripts, such as 3rd-party shopping carts and databases. An excellent resource for free scripts is the CGI Resource Index. Many of the scripts that we include as standard features for our accounts have come from there. Chat Room Chat rooms can be used for building customer help desks, multimedia conference rooms, sales counters, distance learning centers, and on-line communities. The Java Chat Rooms included with all our linux web hosting accounts are each capable of supporting up to 20 users at one time. By password-protecting the directory of your chat room, you can limit access. For a demo of this type of chat room, click here. Click & Go Redirection Script This script uses a pull-down select box to allow users to select a page/site and then click a 'GO' button to visit it. Below is what one would look like: Cron Jobs Cron is the ability to run programs based on the system clock. We allow up to one operation per day. Custom "404:File Not Found" Error Page This is the page that is displayed when someone tries to access a page on your domain that does not exist. This page is fully customizable. Disk Space (Web Space) Disk space is the amount of space you are allowed on the server. We give you a very generous amount of space and designate 5,000 files for each 100 megs of space allotted to your account. Domain Name Transfer and Setup (Free) When transferring a domain name to our systems (or when hosting a domain name on our servers), the Domain Name Servers (DNSs) associated with your domain name need to be updated to the ones we use. If necessary, we can perform these DNS modifications for you at no additional fee. E-Mail Alias The network has been designed using the trademarked Power PlusMail System to automatically capture any name that may be sent to your domain name. As long as you do not remove or modify the default line in your .redirect file, anything sent to @yourname.com will automatically be forwarded to your POP+Telnet account (yourdomain@yourdomain.com). E-Mail Redirects (Forwarding) You can have your POP e-mail addresses automatically forwarded to other e-mail addresses (for example, have all e-mail sent to webmaster@YourDomainName.com forwarded to 1) your e-mail address with your Internet Service Provider and/or 2) a free web-based e-mail service such as provided by hotmail or yahoo). Error Logs (on qualifying accounts) Error logs will list the errors that occur with a cgi script. The log is located in the home directory of your domain. This is useful for script installation and development. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) FTP is how you upload and download your Web pages, graphics, etc. from/to your computer to/from your virtual hosting site. You have unlimited FTP access 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to set up and maintain your Web site. Formmail and Cgiemail Forms These are on-line forms that allow you to collect data from a visitor to the site. Once the visitor has submitted the form, the server will forward the data to an e-mail address specified by you. Free-for-All Links Page This script allows you to set up a page that visitors can add links to in specific categories. Newest links are added to the top of each category. A running total of the number of links present as well as the time when the last link was added is shown at the top of the page. Graphical Page Counters Counters record the number of hits to your site. A graphical counter displays this information graphically. People's Ware provides two types of graphical counters—one is a simple counter while the other includes various stats such as time and date of the visit and domains from which your visitor came. Guestbooks (VisitorBook Pro) VisitorBook Pro lets you set up as many individual guestbooks as you want! The Master Admin Program lets you (the administrator) easily add, modify, or delete VisitorBooks from your system. Administrator Options: Create New VisitorBooks, Set password for each VisitorBook, Edit VisitorBooks, Delete VisitorBooks. Java Java is an interactive programming language like Python. Refer to our Tips & Tutorials section for more information. Majordomo Listserver (add-on feature) Majordomo is a full-featured mailing list program that allows your customer the ability to subscribe and unsubscribe. This type of list is particularly designed as a method of interaction, and can be run as closed or open, moderated or not. As the list owner, you can control all e-mail allowed to be distributed to the list. Each list can e-mail up to 1500 mails per day. If you would like to increase the limit, e-mail us for pricing. Microsoft FrontPage 2002 FrontPage 2002 extensions can be installed on your account at no additional charge. This allows you to create and maintain your web site with the easy-to-use Microsoft FrontPage program. Microsoft provides direct support for all FrontPage users. More information on Microsoft FrontPage extensions is available in our online FrontPage Support Manual, in our FrontPage FAQ, and at the official Microsoft FrontPage web site. Miva Mall (add-on to E-Commerce Plans) The Miva Mall is designed to be a one-stop solution for a complete e-commerce center (on-line mall). It allows the flexibility to start small. You can add more stores as you need them. Each additional store offers all the same features as your main Miva Merchant store and allows you and your tenants to create and maintain a professional presence using nothing more than a Web browser! Miva Merchant (E-Commerce Plans) Miva Merchant is a browser-based Storefront and Catalog development tool that integrates cataloging, product maintenance, category management, shopping basket, order and credit card processing. You can build an online store with an unlimited number of products. A more detailed overview is here: Miva Merchant The Miva Merchant license that you will receive from us is good only on our network and cannot be taken with you. For a complete list of features and a demo of Miva Merchant, please visit Miva Corp.'s site at http://www.miva.com/products/merchant/. For links to sites that are currently using Miva Merchant, please visit their Miva Galleria at http://www.miva.com/galleria/. Miva Merchant Online Training Course (Free) Miva Script (formerly Htmlscript)The XML based Miva Script language lets web site developers access advanced commerce and database features in a familiar environment—HTML like tags. Because the system is tag based, HTML users can build active content documents without the burden of steep training and support. Advanced users can develop function libraries using Miva Script's user defined function capabilities. Developing an application using Miva is as easy as using industry standard tag based syntax in the active document. There is no easier way than Miva Script to build sophisticated active server-side documents. Web developers can implement applications that integrate HTML, commerce gateways, electronic mail, database, and internet protocols in a few hours.
For links to sites that are currently using Miva Script, please visit Miva Corp.'s Miva Galleria at http://www.miva.com/galleria/. MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs/libraries. For more information on MySQL, please refer to our MySQL FAQ, our MySQL Support Notes, and the official MySQL web site. Network Soutions (Domain Name Registration) Network Solutions is a regulatory agency that handles the assignment and database tracking of active/inactive/available domain names. Each country has its own NIC registry service for handling foreign (or domestic) domain names. Online Support Manual Our Online Support Manual provides complete, detailed information on setting up and managing your web site. Also check out our Online Support Desk, which includes various FAQs and other helpful information. Online Training Tools Free Online Training Courses are available for the following subjects:
PageSearch (On older accounts) PageSearch is a good freeware search engine script that performs searches based on a prior index made of your entire site, thus allowing for search results to be returned quickly. PageSearch includes a convenient Admin Center from which you can administer all of the features of your PageSearch program right from your browser. More info on PageSearch is available here. Park Additional Domains (add-on feature) Parking additional domains is having several virtual domains point to the same IP address. There is a one-time setup fee for each parked domain. Many companies do this to protect their name. Keep in mind that the domain registraion fees still apply. Password-Protected Directories When visitors try to access a password-protected page, they are prompted for a username and password. They cannot view this page unless they have a valid username and password. Perl Scripts Perl was originally designed as an interpreter to help UNIX users with common tasks. However, with the explosive growth of the Internet it has been adapted to be an excellent interface to the Web. Refer to our Tips & Tutorials section for more information. Personalized Name Servers (add-on feature) We can setup an alias to our name servers in your domain name. You can either use our anonymous name servers (DNSBIN.NET) or your own name servers. Currently the name servers, as listed on the bottom of a whois record, appear as follows: Domain servers in listed order:
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PHP is a third-party scripting engine. We do not provide technical support for this. We have added it for users that are already familiar with it. To use PHP on your domain, your files need to end with .php3 rather than .html. For additional information on PHP, please visit their web site at http://www.php.net. phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is a web-based administration tool that allows you to administer your MySQL databases directly from your web browser. Features of phpMyAdmin include:
Use your Web Control Panel (http://yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/plusmail) to setup phpMyAdmin. The official phpMyAdmin site is here: phpMyAdmin official site. PinePine - a Program for Internet News & Email - is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Pine was developed by Computing & Communications at the University of Washington. Though originally designed for inexperienced email users, Pine has evolved to support many advanced features, and an ever-growing number of configuration and personal-preference options. You access pine by logging into your account via SSH (Secure Shell), then typing "pine" at the prompt. Very convenient, and highly recommended, for reading your messages over an encrypted link. PlusRoamer II Web-Based E-mail PlusRoamer is described here: PlusRoamer Overview. POP3 E-mail Accounts POP stands for "Post Office Protocol" and is the method that e-mail programs, such as Eudora, Netscape Mail, Microsoft Exchange, etc., use to retrieve e-mail. Each POP account has its own unique log-in and password. Multiple POP accounts work well if you need e-mail addresses for several people within your organization. Postcards Script This is a ready-to-run script with several pictures and sound files set to run. It's a freeware script and knowledgable clients will be able to customize the pictures. Power PlusMail™ System Simply the most powerful and flexible mail system available on the Web! In addition to allowing unlimited autoresponders (infobots) by simple addition of text files to a directory, mail can also be redirected for everyone in your domain by simple modification of a text file. Perlfect Search (Our former Power Search) Installed by request, this is a full-featured search script that performs searches based on a prior index made of all the pages in the site. The script is very lightweight resource-wise and very fast at returning results and works with boolean logic. More info is available from the Perlfect search web site. Python Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language—comparable to Tcl, Perl, or Java. Refer to our Tips & Tutorials section for more information. Quiz Master Script This freeware script allows you to create up to 25 multiple choice questions from your browser that your visitors can take and lets them know how they did. Random Text Generator Displays a rotation of simple phrases or quotes using SSI. RealAudio / RealVideo G2 Version 8.0 Progressive Networks' RealAudio and RealVideo system is a client-server-based streaming media delivery system for the Internet. Providers of news, entertainment, sports, and business content can create and deliver audio-based streaming multimedia content through the Internet to audiences worldwide. Referrer Logs (on qualifying accounts) This is an extended logging feature that will document where each visitor came from. You will know if they found you from a search engine, another Web site, link, etc. This is invaluable information when planning your site's marketing. Secure Shell Access (SSH) Quoted directly from ssh.org, "SSH Secure Shell is the standard for remote logins and file transfer over the Internet. It encrypts all traffic, and provides a high level of protection against hacker attacks. Main features of Secure Shell include secure remote logins, terminal emulation, fully integrated secure file transfers, secure tunneling of X11 traffic, and secure access to e-mail over the Internet." For a free Win32 client, consider PenguiNet or PuTTY. And for the Mac, consider NiftyTelnet. SSL Secure Server Access A secure server allows users to collect data such as credit card information in a secure environment. Our secure server is run by Apache-SSL. Information submitted via a secure form is sent to the server in an encrypted mode. Secure Server Order Forms Normally, any text sent from your browser to the Web server is sent as plain text. This means that a hacker could potentially intercept the information. By using the secure server, you encrypt the information before it is sent. It would be practically impossible for anyone to decrypt it without knowing the key. Server-Side Imagemaps An imagemap is a graphical set of links—different parts of an image will link the visitor to other pages on your Web site. Server-Side Includes (SSI) SSI, or Server-Side Includes, allows the server to parse special page commands. For example, if you want a footer on all your pages which may change from time to time, you can create a text file with the desired footer information and place it in your domain. On the pages where the footer is to appear, you add a "simple include" to read that file and place it at the bottom of the desired pages. Server-Side Spam Filters We have implemented server-side Spam filters for our clients using the Plusmail web control system. The anti-spam filters use several spamming blacklists for spam detection. We have chosen the organizations below as they have the most reliable and current lists available.
If a website owner feels they are wrongfully listed on a Spam blacklist, they should refer to one of the websites listed above to see why they were blocked and how they can be removed. SFE PageSearch is yet another good freeware page search script that you may customize to fit your needs. More info is available here. Simple Site Search (on older accounts) Search engines allow you to provide visitors an easy means of searching your site's content for specific data. This script can be configured for your site's needs. More information on Simple Site Search is available here. SiteBuilder (on qualifying accounts) SiteBuilder is described here: SiteBuilder Overview. Site Manager (add-on feature) Site Manager enables disk space quotas to be set on subdirectories of your domain. Your users can upload their files using just their Web browser. No need to purchase additional FTP accounts. Site Manager features include:
Spam Assassin is a mail filter that identifies spam and junk mail using text analysis. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify spam or unsolicited commercial email. On the 'Plusmail' accounts, you can configure its settings via the "Options" page of your web-based email: http://YourDomainName.com/webmail On the Ensim accounts, login to your "user" web control panel (http://Your DomainName.com/user), and select "Spam Filtering." Squirrel Mail (Webmail for Nuts) SquirrelMail is a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no Javascript) for maximum compatibility across browsers. SquirrelMail has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation. Check out the SquirrelMail site for more info: SquirrelMail To activate SquirrelMail on your 'Plusmail' account, you need to first activate PHP. Do this via your web control panel (http://YourDomainName.com/cgi-bin/plusmail), under the "Free Scripts" category. Once PHP is activated (about 15 minutes), then you will be able to access the SquirrelMail login page. (On the Ensim accounts, SquirrelMail is activated by default.) To access SquirrelMail on your account, go to http://YourDomainName.com/webmail/ Subhosting / Subhost Domains / Domain RedirectionYou can have multiple domain names pointing to different subdirectories of your main domain. For example, suppose "www.client1.com" is the name of the domain you would like to subhost. Within your main account, you create a subdirectory for "client1," naming the directory anything you choose. For purposes of example, suppose the name of this directory is "services." Therefore, whenever someone types "www.client1.com" in their web browser, they will be taken to "www.client1.com/services/". Here's a real-life example: we subhost the domain iShopWare.com in the subdirectory named "iShop" on the PeoplesWare.com domain. When a visitor goes to the URL http://iShopWare.com, they are delivered to http://iShopWare.com/iShop/ and in the process they never see the PeoplesWare.com domain name in the URL. Note: In order to do this type of subhosting, we must first park the domain to be subhosted onto your main account domain, and then you use the Web Control Panel to specify the subdirectory to which the domain should be redirected to. You need to pay the one-time set-up fee for parking a domain first, before it can be subhosted. There are no additional monthly fees. With a maillist, you can offer your clients a monthly newsletter, sales updates, or just a friendly hello. Your clients can easily subscribe to your list via e-mail. The PlusMail System is capable of multiple lists, so you can organize the information your customers may be looking for. There is a limit of 1,000 subscribers per list, and you can e-mail a message up to 75k. Tcl Tcl (Tool Command Language) is two things: a scripting language and an interpreter for the language which is designed to be easy to embed into other applications. As a language, it is much like UNIX shell languages. There is very little syntax, and it is easy to learn. It is used to glue together building blocks built in system programming languages like C, C++, and Java. These building blocks appear as commands, or verbs, in the script language. Refer to our Tips & Tutorials section for more information. Telnet NOTE: This is replaced by Secure Shell Access for all accounts. Telnet is a very powerful tool for logging directly into a server to perform advanced (and some basic) features like compiling a program, archiving files, etc. Most likely, if you don't know what Telnet is, you don't need it. Most Telnet features (like CHMOD, which is used to change file permissions) can be done through FTP. Text-Based Page Counter This is the simplest kind of page counter. It uses SSI. You can select the text and size attributes. That's An Order Shopping Cart Add complete e-commerce capability to your Web site with this full featured and powerful e-commerce solution. With this package you can set up ALL your store options and e-commerce entirely on-line using just your Web browser! Set up all the e-commerce options with an easy step by step process. Perform inventory tracking and integrate shipping with FedEx and UPS. Powerful Tracking Options: Taking Orders: E-Commerce Setup: E-Commerce Look and Feel: Setup Product Info: Admin Utility to Maintain Your Store:
Third-Level Domain A third-level domain is something like "SubDomainName.YourDomain.com". The benefit to this type of account is that there are no domain name registration fees for the sub-domain, only for the main/principle domain. You simply Park the third-level domain to your existing main account, specify a sub-directory you want the domain pointed to, and we activate a script that allows the third-level domain to be redirected to that sub-directory. Traffic Allowance Your total traffic allowance includes www and ftp usage. You can determine your traffic usage by examining the daily totals displayed on your site statistics program (wusage). Our systems monitor and forcast the traffic usage for each account. If it appears that your account will exceed your traffic allowance, we will send you an e-mail with the forcasted amount of over-usage. You'll have the opportunity to increase your traffic allowance as needed, according to the price schedule provided in our Policies and Guidelines. True Domain With this type of account, you use a domain name of your choice (yourname.com). This domain is assigned its own Internet Protocol (IP) address and is not aliased of another IP. People's Ware also serves non-U.S. domain names (for example, domain names with .hk, .cn, .tw, .sg extensions), and will transfer those names for FREE. Refer to our Domains section for more information. TrueSpeech is a high quality speech compression which compresses speech down to as much as 1/40th its original size. Since regular speech files are normally large, compression using TrueSpeech enables them to be transferred faster and more easily. Support for TrueSpeech real-time audio is available for use in your Web pages. Virtual Hosting Virtual hosting is a means to having your own domain name (http://www.yourname.com) without having to install expensive server hardware and software. With virtual hosting, you utilize our server's storage space, software and high speed Internet connections. VolanoChat Chat Room (On qualifying accounts.) VolanoChat allows you to create customized Java chat rooms for building customer help desks, multimedia conference rooms, sales counters, distance learning centers, and on-line communities. By password-protecting the directory of your chat room, you can limit access. For a demo of this type of chat room, click here. Vote / Survey Script This is a freeware script that offers the ability to add a vote or survey to an existing page with a graphical display of the results. Webalizer Site Stats The Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser. More Info Web Control Panel For your ease and convenience, we include as a standard feature a Web-Based Control Panel, which allows you to manage from anywhere in the world where you have Internet access all of your POP, FTP and Telnet (Secure Shell) accounts as well as Park Domains and create chat rooms. You can also manage all of your e-mail redirects, autoresponders, maillists and subscribable maillists; setup MySQL databases; password-protect directories; change file and directory permissions; edit your web site and use basic Unix commands right from your web browser. The Web Control Panel will also display your monthly traffic usage and site statistics. Web Site Transfer and Setup (Free) If you have a web site hosted by another provider, we will transfer that site to our servers for no additional fee. If possible, please supply us with your FTP account info at your other provider. Whois Script This script checks Top Level Domains (TLDs) with the following extensions: .COM, .ORG, .NET, .EDU, .GOV, .MIL, .CA, .UK, .MX, .FR, .DK, .DE, .CH, .BE, .AT, .AU, .CZ You can search the Whois Database by domain name (with any of the extensions above), NIC Handle, host IP, or Individual's Name. If you would like to see the script in action, please go to http://www.peoplesware.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi. Wusage Site Stats This is a very powerful tool for keeping track of and monitoring visitors to your site. It will tell you how long they were there, what pages they visited, and the order in which the pages were visited. With advanced logging activated, it will even tell where they came from and what browser was being used. This is invaluable information when planning your site's marketing. |
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