1.What is FTP?
2.What does "Unlimited FTP Site Updates" mean?
3.What is the first step in setting up a website?
4.How do I gain FTP access to my site?
5.How do I "upload" and "download" files using CuteFTP?
6.Where do I put the index.html file?
7.What does "updating the site" mean?
8.What is HTML, and what is an HTML editor?
9.How do I set up email accounts with my domain?
10.What about Email Autoresponders?
11.How do I set up an Email Autoresponder?
12.What is an email redirect account?
13.How do I set up email redirect accounts?
14.How can I track who is requesting email from my Autoresponders?
15.What is a MailBot or ListServ?
16.How do I set up a MailBot?
17.How do I get a domain name?
18.Will you do the domain name registration for me?
19.What about reselling?
20.Do you allow "adult" sites?
21.How do I get access to traffic statistics for my site?
22.Does Superhosting really offer unlimited hits?
23.What is Superhosting's policy on "spam," or unsolicited email?
24.What about Microsoft Frontpage 98?
25.Hey I just checked out my new site - and the counter does not work!!
26.Do you have an 'uptime' guarantee?
27.Can you help me with my HTML, TELNET, webpage, CGI programming, etc?
28.How do I change my domain over to Superhosting from my old hosting
company?
29.Can I change a password to my email account, FTP account, or main
account?
30.Where are you located?
31.Do you offer tech assistance by telephone?
32.Do you offer training in Computers and the Internet?
33.I don't want to learn HTML or design a web site - can you design it for
me?
34.I can't get my CGI script to work. HELP!!
35.Why don't you offer virtual domains?
36.Where are you located?
37.What is your connectivity?
38.What server side apps do you support?
39.What databases do you support and is it FREE?
40.How secure are your servers?
41.Can I have subdomains?
42.How do I set it up to sell my space or FTP accounts?
43.Do you offer Cold Fusion Support?
44.Do you offer ASP (active server pages)?
45.What the heck is CNAME DNS entry into dns tables 46.What
are the LAWS regarding my ADULT content?
47.Can I park Domains or (STACK), and what does it cost?
48.What are the limitations of the ftp directories that I resell?
49.I NEED TELNET HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
50.Can I send targeted email if it is all opt-in lists?
51.Can you help me promote my site?
1. What is FTP?
FTP is File Transfer Protocol, an internet protocol used to transfer materials over the
Internet. It is very fast, very efficient, and very reliable.
2. What does "Unlimited FTP Site Updates" mean?
This means that you have access to your site via FTP over the Internet 24 hours a day, 7
days a week. You can "upload" files to your site - in other words, transfer
files from your computer to the Superhosting webserver on the Internet - and you can also
"download" files from your site - in other words, transfer files from your site
on the Superhosting webserver, to your computer.
3. What is the first step in setting up a website?
The first step is to gain FTP access to your site, and upload the initial file to the
proper directory. This initial file is generally named index.html, and it is the web page
that will be returned when you call up www.yourdomain.com
4. How do I gain FTP access to my site?
First, get the best FTP program on the Internet, which in our humble opinion is CuteFTP.
You can download it at:
5. How do I "upload" and "download" files using CuteFTP?
CuteFTP is VERY easy to use, and has a very intuitive, easy to use interface. The lower
left panel is YOUR COMPUTER - the lower right panel is THE REMOTE SITE - in this instance,
your Superhosting ftp site. Everything is drop and drag - to upload, drag the
appropriate file from the left panel to the right panel. To download a file on the remote
server, simply reverse the process - drag the file on the remote server - lower right hand
panel - over to the lower left panel. Easy!
6. Where do I put the index.html file?
When CuteFTP opens the site ftp.yourdomain.com, it initially goes to the correct directory
- usr/www/htdocs/userid This is the place to put index.html/ Make sure you do NOT put the
file into one of the folders you see there - put it UNDER those folders. Also put all your
pictures and other files for you site in this same directory.
7. What does "updating the site" mean?
Basically what a webmaster does is download files from a website, operate on them and/or
change them with an HTML editor such as Arachnophilia, and the upload the changed file
back to the site.
12. What is an email redirect account?
These "aliases" are simply lines of code in your HOME directory which
"bounce" emails from one email address to another. Let's say you have a webpage
and you want people to email you, but you don't want your personal email address to appear
on the page. Solution? Use a forwarding email account. Emails sent
[email protected](the address shown on the webpage) will automatically be forwarded to
13. How do I set up email redirect accounts?
This is similar to setting up Autoresponders, but with one extra twist. First, use an HTML
editor (NOT a word processor!) to create a text file called redirect.txt (or redirect.doc)
in this form:
jim [email protected]
george [email protected]
laurak [email protected]
default [email protected]
Once properly renamed, this file will redirect any email sent to [email protected] to [email protected]. Emails sent to [email protected] will be remailed to [email protected] - and so on. Any email that the system doesn't recognize (default) will go to [email protected].
Several caveats: when creating the above file, all aliases (jim, george, etc) should be FLUSH AGAINST THE LEFT MARGIN. The target email addresses ([email protected], etc) are a couple of tabs over. Also important: NO spaces after each target; no extra lines between aliases (i.e., make this file single spaced!); and no extra line UNDER the default line.
Now UPLOAD your redirect.txt file to the HOME directory - but be SURE to keep a copy of it EXACTLY as it appears in your HOME directory! (You'll see why in a moment) Now you must RENAME redirect.txt file - go to COMMANDS, then RENAME - and then rename the file: .redirect Yes, there's a leading period, and yes, no extension to the file. That's all there is to it. Oh, one more thing. Since the file has a leading period, it is now INVISIBLE to FTP! That's why you kept a copy! To update the file, simply modify the copy you kept, upload it, and rename it again, as above.
Use as many of these as you wish - no extra charge! Uses are endless. Many
colleges now provide one of these ("[email protected]") for every one of their
alumni - companies assign them to their favorite clients - and on and on.
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14. How can I track who is requesting email from my Autoresponders?
You will often want to know who is requesting information from your various
Autoresponders. Tracking is easy. Simply add an additional line to your Redirect file.
Let's say you have an autoresponder called info, that sends information on your products.
Add the following line to your redirect file:
info [email protected]
Now, the autoresponder will send the info to whoever requests it, AND the redirect line
will send YOU a copy of the requesting email - so you'll know who's interested in the
product. Great for building a mailing list of interested prospects!
15. What is a MailBot or ListServ?
A MailBot is a robot which resides on your site, and which redirects a single email
sent to it, to a list of email recipients. There are companies out there specializing in
setting these up - many of them charge plenty for it too! With your Superhosting Web
Domain, however, you can set up as many as you like - free!
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16. How do I set up a MailBot?
Basically, the MailBot is just a variation on the email redirect account, covered in
(.13) above - all the same rules apply - it goes in the HOME directory, and you must
rename it .redirect - it's thus a file that is invisible to FTP. Create it with an HTML
Editor - NOT a word processor. It will look like this:
myclub [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected]
NOTE: Now any email sent to: [email protected] will automatically bounce from your domain, back to all the folks on the list above. NOTICE: this is the drill: From the hard left margin: alias name tab tab email space comma space email space comma space etc If you alter the list, which you probably will, to add and subtract members, be sure to maintain the spaces and commas as shown here.NS.SKYPORT.NET 216.169.96.10
NS2.SKYPORT.NET 216.169.97.10
Internic will send you an invoice for $70 which covers the first two years. A less expensive choice is the .nu domain. Check name availability at: www.nunames.nu You can reserve and pay for a year's domain registration ($25) right on line with a credit card.*Scripts must be made executable with chmod 755 filename
*Any script must end in .cgi to ensure execution.
*Scripts that don't respond with Content Type tag as firsLIne, must be named nph-Scriptname.cgi . The nph- stands for non-parsed-headers.
*Perl 5 is located at /usr/bin/perl perl 4 is at /usr/bin/perl4.036 , make sure the first line has this right.
*Perl scripts will REFUSE to run if uploaded in binary from a non-unix computer. Make sure you upload scripts in ascii mode only!!!
Perl 4 scripts usually will need to have any @ or $ escaped with \ character to be perl 5 compatible. ie print "webmaster\@yourdomain.com"
The directory cgi-bin is reserved for our shared cgi directory. Your cgi(s) are called from your cgi-bin with an alias. This is the only way the server can distinguish between the main cgi-bin and the cgi-bin in your /www/htdocs directory.
Example Alias
Let's say your domain is joe.com.
Use FTP to go to: ftp.joe.com
You'll find a folder there in your main directory called cgi-bin
That is the cgi-bin for joe.com
Now let's say you upload a script to that cgi-bin, called script.cgi
The ALIAS address of that script is now: http://www.joe.com/cgi-joe/script.cgi
NOTE WELL: The address is NOT: http://www.joe.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi
In setting up your script, you will need the PATH - the path of the above example is: /www/htdocs/joe/cgi-bin
Yes this is confusing but you must get it right for the script to work!
index.cgi is valid, as a directories home page for a cgi script. Like wise you could replace index.htm with index.shtml to use PARSE(Server Side includes).
Server Side Includes only work in files with .shtml extension. The execute bit and read public bits must be on to use .shtml.
.shtml files need to have their permission changed to 755 -- chmod 755 filename.cgi
Cool server variables
If you can't figure out why it doesn't work , run it from the command LIne, or rename it to nph-Scriptname. You'll see more error messages.
CGI is programming, don't be mistaken into thinking it is as easy as HTML. It isn't. We have a list of consultants well versed in CGI and would be glad to work for you on a consulting basis.
If you are going to use perl, buy a Perl book. If you can't figure it out, ask us and we will help you by email on a time permits basis.
There are many documented examples in /www/htdocs/cgi-scripts
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35. Why don't you allow virtual domains?
Quite simply, we could do this with no problem, but what happens to your server is not
good at all. We only allow 100 domains per server, yours being one of them, so with
virtual domains packs up the server and with the more domains you have on a server it
reeks havoc therefore reducing performance and your site suffers. May hosting companies
will allow this as a "draw" because its cheaper for the consumer, but is it
worth it to have a slow site?
36. Where are you located?
We have offices in New York and New Jersey USA as well as Texas and Mattawa Ontario Canada
37. What is your connectivity?
Our connection is WIDE OPEN and SCREAMING FAST and you get 5 free gigs of it a month in
transfer. Actually we do not have connections to conventional ISP such as MCI,
Sprint...etc We peer along side of them at both public and private exchange points. We get
our information the same place they do, and exchange that information that either
originates or terminates on one another at these IXPs (Internet Exchange Points)
Currently the capacity of our local facility is limited to 5 fiber ring 0C48's with 5
gigabytes egress
That comes to 5000 MBPS!!! The use of up-to-date technology and Apache hardware allows us
to be a forerunner in this industry and model for other hosting companies.
38. What server side apps do you support?
server side apps Java, Perl, C++, TCL and Python, IMAP4, ProcMail PLUS support for the
following Truespeech Digital Audio, Midi Audio, Format, Infinop's Wavlet Image
Compression, Macromedia Shockwave, Sizzler, Futuresplash,Voxware, Vivoactive, and Vocaltec
Internet so far and there is always some being added as time goes on.
39. What databases do you support and is it FREE?
Currently we support mSQL and mySQL and yes they are free for your use.
40. How secure are your servers?
Encryption Level is high It is excellent "Stronghold" by Apache nothing but the
best!
41. Can I have sub-domains?
i.e.: products.yourdomain.com if resides within your domain YES we offer them but the same
price as domains. 239.00 A person should really obtain another server at that price. We
offer our package so low in price that it is worth it to obtain another server instead of
a sub domain and get the real domain instead. Remember you can always sell off some of
your space.
42. How do I set it up to sell some of my space or FTP accounts?
Very simple! Email [email protected] and request that you would like to have
passworded FTP space or accounts and you will be e-mailed a form to fill out and send back
afterwhich consider it done. :)
43. Do you offer Cold Fusion Support?
No, you'll only find Cold Fusion on funky, unreliable Windows NT machines - if you want to
see what hell is like, try hosting your domain on an NT machine
44. Do you offer ASP (active server pages)?
Not at present, but we plan to implement this feature real soon.
45. What the heck is CNAME DNS entry into the dns tables?
ie store.yourdomain.com if linked to another site entirely This is done when a person
needs a link to another server external from theirs but wants to give the impression that
the client has not left the site at all. This requires the dns numbers of the place they
are linking to and the information is passed on to tech support so they may add it into
the dns tables. This is a little more time to implement as you need the co-operation of
two totally different systems administrators to have this implemented.
46.What are the LAWS regarding my ADULT content?
Quite Simple to find out.
47.Can I park Domains or (STACK), and what does it cost?
Yes we can stack domains or Park domains as many call it for a fee of 10 dollars.
48.What are the limitations of the ftp directories that I resell?
After you have requested a passworded ftp directory,and received our response, the
user that gets the access to that directory will only be able to access it and it alone.
They cannot access your main directory. If that user wishes to use cgi they must call the
scripts from YOUR cgi-bin and YOU are responsible to set them up and look after them. Same
applies to the redirects and autoresponders. After all, they are YOUR customer and you
must provide them with GREAT service as well.
49.I NEED TELNET HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK... so you need some telnet help... Please remember that telnet and communicating with
UNIX can be as frustrating as heck! But if you really want to study this stuff try
50.Can I send targeted email if it is all opt-in lists?
YES... if you wish to send email to people in OPT-IN lists, this is allowed being that
those individuals "ASK" to receive advertisements or newsletters. For a GREAT
services that sends out TARGETED emails 200-300 fresh addresses everyday for you targeted
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51.Can you help promote my site
YES we can. After making sure that your pages are optimized with proper keywords and meta
tags we can submit your URL for you via our submission software. You best bet is to go to