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Features Glossary
- The Archive manager will allow you to
compress and or extract any files within your home directory.
To compress a script:
1) Click on the directory or directories, file or files, you would like
to compress (do this by clicking in the check box next to the script).
2) Click on compress.
3) Choose the name you would like for the archive.
To extract a script:
1) Choose the script to extract (do this by clicking in the check box
next to the script).
2) Click on Extract.
Included with all plans
Autoresponders reply to incoming e-mail automatically. An
autoresponder is set up to automatically send out an e-mail to the
sender. If you've ever received a response to an e-mail which suggests that the
recipient is away from the office, or that says "thank you for your
inquiry" you may have received such an automated response.
Autoresponders can be easily setup through your Control
Panel.
Unlimited with all plans
Anonymous FTP
Anonymous FTP is the ability to upload and/or download files from our servers without having a login username and password. Obviously, for security reasons, we only allow anonymous FTP to specific directories.
Included with all plans
Bonus Domain Names
- Bonus Domain Names are a way of adding
additional domain names to your existing virtual domain web site
account. For example, if you have an on-line clothing store you may wish
to have the domain names clothes.com, shirts.com, and jeans.com all
point to your website. This is an excellent way to increase your
visibility and bring more visitors to your site!
Please contact use if you would like to use this feature
If you want to point your domain to an existing account and keep your email forwarding,
autoresponders, statistics etc. that go along with the domain name that is
being redirected, then see domain
pointing.
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- Parking your Bonus Domain Name is FREE.
Included with all plans
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- CGI Bin
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- All hosting customers have access to a personal cgi-local
directory in which you can place your own custom CGI scripts. CGI scripts are often used
to accomplish tasks which are not supported by basic HTML such as a "hit"
counter or guest book. This directory can be used to set up scripts that you write or find
elsewhere on the web. We also offer several pre-written scripts, available free for your
use. These include a hit a counter, & a mail form.
Included with all plans
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- Control Panel
- All users have access to a web-based Virtual Control Panel which
allows you to set up POP3 accounts, e-mail forwarding options,
autoresponders, change your password, view your statistics, add a
counter to your site, manage your files, change your contact
information etc.
Included with all plans
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- Data Transfer
- In general, any outward bound traffic from a web site, with the
exception of e-mail, is considered to be data transfer. For example, each time a web page,
image, midi file, Real Audio/Video, etc. is loaded, data transfer is generated.
For more information on Data Transfer see Monthly
Transfer.
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- Disk Storage Space
- Disk storage space refers to the amount of server disk storage
specifically allocated to your account. This space is used to store your html files,
graphics, audio clips, POP3 mail messages, pdfs, and other files that make up your web
site. Each of our plans includes a specified allotment of disk storage
space. You can purchase more disk space at the rate of $5 per extra 20
MB of space. Just contact XtrTech, and we will upgrade your account immediately.
Included with all plans
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- Domain
Pointing("URL Forwarding")

- Domain Name Pointers are used to
redirect existing virtual domain accounts that are on XtrTech's
servers to another existing virtual
account that is already on our server or from one directory/file in an existing
account to another directory/file in an existing account.
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- Domain Pointing is helpful if you want to
point another domain name to a sub-directory of an existing
account. You MUST have an account for both the domain that you are
pointing from and the domain that you are pointing to in order to use
domain pointing. If you want to "park" another domain under
your account and have it go to your same website, that is called Domain
Parking and that is FREE with all accounts after the one time $25 set-up fee.
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URL Forwarding is can be used when you want a Sub
Domain (ie info.yourdomain.com) that will point to a subdirectory of
your main domain name (yourdomain.com). This enables you to just edit
one website. Sub Domains are also a very inexpensive
alternative to another domain name since they do not have to be
registered!
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- More information on
Sub Domains
Included with all
plans
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- Email Forwarding

- Once your domain name is active worldwide, you can receive all e-mail
addressed to your domain such as webmaster@yourname.com, sales@yourname.com, etc. By
default, all e-mail addressed to your domain will forward to your real e-mail
address provided by your local internet provider. For convenience, specific mail
forwarding options are available if you need specific addresses each to be forwarded to
different addresses on the internet. For example, e-mail addressed to
webmaster@yourname.com could forward to an account at AOL, but sales@yourname.com could
forward to a Prodigy account. Setting up Mail Forwarding can be
easily done through your Control
Panel.
Unlimited with all plans
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- File Manager

- The File Manager is a very powerful
feature. It allows you to manipulate all the files in your web site.
You are able to create, delete, and move your files. You can also
upload files from your local PC to the server in File Manager. Plus,
you can edit the HTML in any of your files from this option.
Everything you need to manage your site can be found in this
feature.
Unlimited with all plans
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- FrontPage extensions
- Through the Control Panel, you can install Microsoft FrontPage
extensions to your account. This allows you to use the easy-to-use Microsoft FrontPage
program to create and maintain your web site. XtrTech works
closely with FrontPage users and can provide support for many of your
questions. Microsoft also provides direct support for all
FrontPage users.
Included with all
plans
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FTP Access
- You will have unlimited access to your account via
FTP 24-hours a day to set up and maintain your web site. You can work on
HTML documents, graphics, and scripts locally and then upload files to
your web site when ready.
Included with all plans
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Java Servlet
Manager
- The ServletManager is used to install or
remove support for Java Servlets. The customer can use this Servlet
Manager to install the their servlet zone in order to start using
servlets immediately on their account.
Included with Deluxe Plan and above
Monthly Transfer
a. What is a Monthly Transfer?
Monthly Transfer is the amount of information that you transmit from your site. In other words, each time a picture or HTML
page is viewed by a visitor, it adds to your Monthly Transfer.
b. How many HITS will my does my Monthly Transfer allow me?
The average HIT is approximately 10k. This would mean that
a transfer limit of 1.0 Gigabyte would allow 100,000 hits, a limit of
2.5 Gigabytes would allow 250,000 hits, and a limit of 6.0 Gigabytes
would allow 600,000 hits. (That's a lot!)
c. Is Monthly Transfer monitored daily or monthly?
Bandwidth Traffic is based on MONTHLY transfer.
d. How can I see how much TRANSFER I am doing?
You can monitor your usage on the first page of your
control panel.
For more information on Monthly Transfer see Data
Transfer.
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- Through your Control
Panel, you can use our Traceroute
Manager. The Traceroute Manager can be used to trace the
connection from your web site to the place where you are connecting
from, or to another location on the internet. To
trace from your web site to your current location, just press the button
labeled 'from yourwebsite to yourip address'. To trace from your
web site to another location on the Internet, place its name in the text
box labeled 'Server Name' and click on the 'Trace Route' button.
Included with all plans
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- mySQL Database Server
- Through your Control
Panel, you can setup a fully
functional lightweight database engine designed to provide fast access to stored data.
Up to 5 databases can be added.
Included with the Deluxe Plan and Higher
Perl 5.6.0
- The new features of 5.6.0 include
generation of C code and support for lightweight processes. This
latest version offers increased stability and security features.
This version is a stable, production release that compiles out of the
box for virtually any Unix, its native environment, plus VMS, OS/2,
and 32-bit Microsoft platforms as well. In standard terminology
a compiled program can be run multiple times, as opposed to a script
which must be translated by a program each time it's used. An
informative site describing the new features in Perl 5.6.0 is titled
"What's New in Perl 5.6.0" and located on the internet at
the following Url http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/04/whatsnew.html.
Perl programs, are neither strictly compiled nor strictly interpreted.
Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text
files, extracting information from those text files, and printing
reports based on that information. It's a derivation from C
programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the Unix
shell, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Perl's process,
file, and text manipulation facilities make it particularly
well-suited for tasks involving quick prototyping, system utilities,
software tools, system management tasks, database access, graphical
programming, networking, and world wide web programming.
Information on debugging compiled Perl scripts can be found at the
Perlbug Database v2.23 http://bugs.perl.org/perlbug.cgi.
To search on the Perlbug Database website, be sure to change the
Operating System drop down box from the default "any" to
"Linux", enter the latest version 5.6.0, and click the
"Query" button to run the search sequence.
- POP3 Email Accounts
- POP3 email allows you to add any email
address to your website identity. For example, you could have email an
email address for sales go to: sales@yourdomain.com and your support go
to: support@yourdomain.com. Every business should have their
domain name in their email addresses to promote website and company
recognition.
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- You can setup your POP3 email addresses
easily in the Mail Manager of your Control Panel. Then you can
specify whether you would like to retrieve your email directly off our
servers using an email program such as Eudora,
Netscape, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, or our new Web
Based Email. Or you can specify to have your email forwarded
to another email address such as your AOL email address. Each of our plans offers
unlimited POP3 email accounts.
Unlimited with all plans
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- RealAudioTM
/ RealVideoTM
- Real Networks' RealAudio system is a client-server based streaming
media delivery system for the Internet. We provide the server extensions to use RealAudio/RealVideo in your web pages.
You cannot stream live content through our servers without licensing a
live streaming server from Real Networks but you can stream Real
Audio/Video files.
Included with the all plans
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- Search Engine Submission

- In order to get your site to show up on the search
engines you must submit it. We offer a submission tool that is
part of the Control Panel that allows you to submit to the 12 top search
engines with a click of a button!
Included with the all plans
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- SSL Secure Server
- SSL (Secure Socket Layer) allows users to collect data such as credit
card information in a secure environment. Information submitted via a secure form
is sent to the server in an encrypted mode. If you would like to have
your taxes and shipping automatically added to your orders, then you may
want to consider one of our shopping cart
systems.
Included with all plans
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- Statistics
- Through the Control Panel you can access your web usage statistics
such as what domains are accessing your web site, how many "hits" you are
getting, how much data is being transferred and more.
Included with all plans
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Shopping Cart System
- A Shopping Cart System is a system that allows customers to add
items to their shopping cart and continue shopping throughout a web site before finally
checking out. When the customer check's out totals are calculated and
shipping, and tax are added automatically. Through your
Control Panel, you can setup a
fully functional shopping cart system for your web site designed to allow your customers
shop at your web site.
Included with the Commerce and the Commerce Plus+
Plans
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Sub Domains (ie
info.yourdomain.com)
- A Sub Domain does not have to be
registered! This makes Sub Domains a inexpensive option if you
want another domain name. You can also point your sub-domain to
your main account if you only want to have your web pages under one
account. You can have an unlimited amount of Sub Domains.
The only restriction is that you have the main domain name (ie
yourdomain.com) with us. And since you don't have to register your
Sub Domain, you can use it right away without waiting for your domain registration or transfer to propagate throughout the net.
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More information on URL Forwarding (Domain
Pointing)
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Included with all plans
Web Based
Email
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Web Mail Check (Web
Based Email) is an email access program that provides a convenient way
to manage email and works in conjunction with the Mail Manager tool in
the Control Panel. Web Mail check has many different
user-friendly email options including the following: logout, delete
selected mail, check new mail, compose mail, options and addresses.
Clients can read and send mail from any computer that is connected to
a web browser (Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, AOL) and a
POP3-compliant mailbox.
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The User Panel for Web
Based Email is accessed in the users browser by typing in your domain
name followed by /up.
(ie http://www.yourdomain.com/up)
Unlimited Email accounts and Web Based Email is
Included with All Plans
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