FAQ

Autoresponders send an automated email response to incoming email sent to a specific address. One autoresponder per email address. e.g. Visitor X sends an email to sales@siteminders.com. Autoresponder sends an prewritten message to visitor X automatically.

CGI scripts are used to supplement basic HTML to make your website more interactive and functional. e.g. hit counter, guest book, and order form. You, as our customer, have the option to request any of the above listed CGI scripts that you feel will enhance your website.

*CyberCash is used for secure processing of credit card transactions. It works with all popular browsers in the market and other Web store software applications.

Detailed Usage Statistic/ Access to Raw Log File: You can request detailed graphical and tabular usage statistics of your website grouped by weeks, days, and hours so you can track how many hits you are getting, from where those hits are coming from, which page is the most popular, how much data transfer is occurring, and more. You also have access to raw log files so you can analyze the usage using even more sophisticated programs.

Domain Alias Allows additional domain names to point to your website. e.g. Company X registered two domain names, A and B. It decides on A as its default website. Then domain B becomes a "domain alias" of domain A. Whenever someone types in domain B, he/she/it is automatically "pointed" to domain A.

Domain Names are basically an easy to remember internet address in plain alphabet which computers will translate into an ugly IP address which is a long set of numbers. Examples are:  siteminders.com and yourcompany.com     ... A more formal definition is below:
"An addressing construct used for identifying and locating computers on the Internet. Domain names provide a system of easy-to-remember Internet addresses, which can be translated by the Domain Name System (DNS) into the numeric addresses (Internet Protocol (IP) numbers) used by the network. A domain name is hierarchical and often conveys information about the type of entity using the domain name. A domain name is simply a label that represents a domain, which is a subset of the total domain name space. Domain names at the same level of the hierarchy must be unique, for example there can be only one com at the top level of the hierarchy, and only one netsol.com at the next level of the hierarchy." from InterNIC.

Domain Name Registration:  In order for visitors to find your website using the domain name of your choice, you need to do two things, both of which are handled by Siteminders, Inc.  First, you need to reserve your domain name with InterNIC. Second you need to provide InterNIC with the nameserver of your domain name. If you order any of our Webhosting plans, we will handle the above process for free.

Email Forwarding Is a system that routes Email to your personal (or any other) Email account. For example, I send an email to you@yourcompany.com. Our server receives the mail and immediately forwards it to you@yourisp.com

FrontPage Extensions: In order for you to use all the features that come with websites constructed using the Microsoft FrontPage WebPages editor, FrontPage extensions are installed on our servers for your account.

mSQL is a database engine used for accessing database. We have support for creating a simple searchable database. A more complex database-website interface requires custom programming.

POP3 Email Accounts: These are your email mail boxes in our server that can be accessed directly to retrieve your mail using such programs as Eudora, Outlook Express, and Netscape Mail. Each POP3 account has its own password to ensure privacy.

*RealAudio/RealVideo Real Networks' RealAudio/Video system is client-server based (meaning both the browser and the server must have RealAudio/Video components for it to work) streaming audio/video delivery system for the Internet. Through our servers, your website can create and deliver audio/video-based streaming multimedia content through the Internet to audiences worldwide.