Services are software applications, scripts, or packages
that are enabled when you add or modify a site. The services are optional
and may not be installed on the server.
Service |
Description |
Analog
Web/FTP Log Analyzer
|
Measures the usage traffic on your Web and FTP servers.
The Analog Web/FTP Log Analyzer is an automated log analysis program
that compiles Web site traffic statistics into an easy to read and understand
form. |
Apache
Web Server |
Responds to Web browser requests. |
DNS
(if available) |
Translates domain names into IP addresses.
DNS is a database that performs name translations. To manage this information
effectively, DNS has a distributed architecture, composed of many DNS
servers in a hierarchical fashion. Each server is responsible for both
name-to-IP-address and IP-address-to-name translations. |
Email |
Routes outgoing and incoming mail using SMTP.
Sendmail is an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) mail server that
routes SMTP email messages through the Internet to be stored on a mail
server. SMTP is the most common email protocol on the Internet.
Sendmail also enables management of email features, such as email aliases,
responders, and spam filters. |
FTP |
Transfers files over the
Internet.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
allows you to transfer files across the Internet. Anonymous FTP allows
you to use an FTP site without a password and without creating a user
account.
|
Mailing
Lists (Majordomo)
(if available) |
Manages mailing lists.
Mailing lists are commonly used to circulate topic discussions. A mailing
list includes a set of list members. Whenever a list member posts an email
message to the mailing list email address, that email message is distributed
to all list members. |
MailScanner |
Email scanning service that scans incoming and outgoing emails for viruses. |
WebDAV
server |
WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is
a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol, which allows users to collaboratively
edit and manage files on the remote Web servers. |
Microsoft
FrontPage Server Extensions |
Allows you to support customers who want to use Microsoft FrontPage
to manage their Web sites.
You can access FrontPage administration Web pages, as the Site Administrator,
from the Web Server Manager (of the control panel). |
Miva
Merchant |
Provides e-commerce support for domains.
Miva Merchant enables you to create multiple online storefronts and
support e-commerce on a domain. |
Mod_perl
for Apache |
Enables you to write Apache
modules entirely in Perl.
It embeds a Perl (Practical
Extraction and Report Language) interpreter into the Apache server, so
that the dynamic content produced by Perl scripts can be served in response
to incoming requests, without the significant overhead of re-launching
the Perl interpreter for each request. |
MySQL
|
Allows you to work with your SQL databases.
MySQL is a widely used relational database management system for SQL
databases. A database management system allows you to add, access, and
process data stored in a SQL database.
In the control panel, you can use phpMyAdmin to set
up, configure, and view your databases. |
OpenSSH
Secure Shell |
Provides secure remote
access to another system over a network.
Secure Shell (SSH) is
a facility for logging into a remote machine and remotely executing commands
on a remote machine. It is intended to provide secure encrypted communications
between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. |
OpenSSL
Secure Web |
Provides secure Web pages.
SSL is a protocol that
transmits private documents through the Internet. It creates a secure
connection between a client and a server over which any amount of data
can be sent securely. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data
transferred over the SSL connection.
You can secure a domain
through the Web Server Manager (of the control panel). |
PHP
Hypertext Preprocessor for Apache |
Creates dynamic Web pages.
PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor)
is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. |
phpMyAdmin
Web Based MySQL Administration |
Allows you to manage your
SQL databases over the Internet.
phpMyAdmin can handle
administering entire MySQL database servers or just a single database
over the Internet by removing any platform-specific limitations. |
POP3
+ IMAP Server |
Processes incoming mail.
POP3 (Post Office Protocol,
version 3) and IMAP (Internet Messaging Access Protocol) mail servers
store incoming email messages until users download them to their computers.
In addition to storing
incoming email messages, the IMAP server allows users to archive email
messages in folders, share mailboxes with other users, access multiple
mail servers at one time, and more efficiently access email attachments.
|
Power
Tools |
Enables customers to install
and use off-the-shelf Web applications through the Site Administrator
control panel. Power Tools are used to provide e-commerce, content management,
forums, chat, and other dynamic features of Web sites. |
Python |
Enables you to write system
utility programs and scripts.
Python is a popular, object-oriented,
interpretive scripting language used for writing system utilities and
Internet scripts. |
Spam
Filtering |
A spam filtering service
that scans email messages for spam and enables user level control and
management of spam. |
SquirrelMail
Web-based Email |
Provides Web-based access
to email accounts.
SquirrelMail is an email
client that uses IMAP to provide your email account users with access
to their email messages directly on the Internet. |
Telnet |
Provides remote access
to another system over a network.
Telnet is a common terminal
emulation protocol that connects computers locally or across the Internet.
The protocol runs on your computer and connects your local
computer to a server on the network. It also
allows a user at a local computer to log on to a remote computer. |
Vacation
Auto-responder |
Automatically responds
to incoming email messages with a predetermined response.
Vacation Autoresponder
creates automated email responses that replies to incoming email messages
during times when the user is not available to check and reply to email
messages. This feature is most commonly used when a user intends to be
unavailable for an extended period of time. |
Virus
Scanning (Clam AntiVirus) |
Interfaces with the MailScanner
to integrate with the mail server for scanning incoming and outgoing emails
for viruses. |
Webalizer
Log Analyzer |
Webalizer
is a free web server log file analysis tool. Webalizer generates usage
statistics for Web and FTP servers in easily comprehensible graphical
or tabular formats. The logs generated are a statistical encapsulation
of user traffic on your server and can be viewed in HTML format. |