This topic explains options for service plans. You choose
these options when you add or modify a service
plan or site.
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Site
information section |
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Option |
Description and settings |
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Security Level |
The security level assigned to a site establishes the operating
environment of the site. Depending on the security requirements of the
site, select one of the following options:
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IP-Based Hosting
(Service Plan field only) |
Click this option if you are creating a Service Plan template
for IP-based
sites. |
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Name-Based Hosting
(Service Plan field only) |
Click this option if you are creating a Service Plan template
for name-based sites. |
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DNS
section |
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Option |
Description and settings |
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Add to DNS |
If you want to add an entry to the DNS
server provided by the control panel, select the check box; otherwise,
leave it blank. |
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Enable Zone Management |
If you want to enable zone management capability for the
reseller (if you assign the site to a reseller) or the Site Administrator,
select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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Enable DNS Logging |
If you want Ensim Pro to maintain a record of all the DNS-related
events, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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Master |
Enter the fully qualified domain name of the server you want
to designate as the primary (Master) DNS server. |
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Slaves (one per line) |
Enter the fully qualified domain name of the server you want
to designate as the secondary (Slave) DNS server. You can specify multiple
slave servers, one entry per line. |
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Aliases
section |
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Option |
Description and settings |
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Domain Aliasing |
If you want to allow other domain suffixes to map to this
domain, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
In the text box, enter the specific domain suffixes you want
to map to the domain, for example, .net or .org. Enter only
one suffix per line.
Note:
If you add records to an alias zone (that is, a zone added to an alias
domain), before you remove the alias domain, make sure you manually migrate
all the records to another zone. |
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Aliases (one per line) |
In the text box, enter the specific domain suffixes you want
to map to the domain, for example, .net or .org. Enter only one suffix
per line.
Note:
If you add records to an alias zone (that is, a zone added to an alias
domain), before you remove the alias domain, make sure you manually migrate
all the records to another zone. |
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Monitoring
section |
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Option |
Description and settings |
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Threshold (MB) (if available) |
Enter the upper limit of network traffic (greater than 0),
in Megabytes, that the site is allowed to have per month.
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Cycle Start (if available) |
Specify the day of the month the bandwidth threshold monitor
resets and begins a new monitoring session.
Click the arrow and from the list, choose a number between
1 and 28. For example, if you want the monitoring to start
on the 10th of each month, choose 10. |
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Analog Web/FTP Log
Analyzer |
If you want to provide your customers with analysis reports
of Web and FTP server use, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
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Webalizer
Log Analyzer |
If you want to provide your customers with graphical log
analysis reports of Web and FTP servers usage, select the check box; otherwise,
leave it blank.
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|
System
Limits section |
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Option |
Description and settings |
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Disk Quota |
If you want to set a specific amount of disk space that can
be assigned to a site, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
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Allocated Disk Quota (MB) |
Enter the numerical amount (in MB) you want to assign. |
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User Quota |
User quota defines the number of users that can be created
for the site.
To allow unlimited
number of users:
Do not select the User Quota
checkbox; Leave the Max Users
field empty. To allow limited
number of users:
Select the User Quota checkbox;
Enter the maximum number of users in the Max
Users field. |
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Maximum Number of Users |
Enter the maximum number of users, for example, 25, that you want to create for the site. |
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Web
Server section |
|
Option |
Description and settings |
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Apache Web Server |
If you want to provide Web server support to your customers,
select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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Web Server Name |
Enter the domain name prefix, for example "www.". If you do not specify a prefix,
a DNS record
will not be created for that domain name. |
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CGI |
If you want to allow your customers to run CGI scripts on
their Web servers, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
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Script Alias |
Specify the directory in which you will store CGI scripts
created for the site. The default directory is cgi-bin. If you
are unsure of what to enter in this field, retain the default. |
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Secure Web (SSL)
(for IP-based
sites only) |
If you want to provide your customers with secure Web pages,
select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
Note:
1. Secure Web (SSL)
is only available to IP-based
sites.
2. SSL
encryption will slow down page browsing on the Web site.
3. The customer must obtain
a SSL certificate from a certifying authority. He is also provided with
a self signed certificate, which is valid as any other certificate, however
this may result in warning messages being displayed on the server. |
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Server Side Includes |
If you want to allow your customers to create .shtml
Web pages, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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Mod_perl for Apache |
If you want to allow your customers to use Mod_perl for Apache,
select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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FrontPage
Server Extensions |
If you want to support customers who want to use Microsoft
FrontPage to
manage their Web site, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
Note:
Microsoft FrontPage
has its own protected directory feature. If you select the FrontPage
option, your users cannot use the directory protection provided by the
control panel. Your users can protect their directories through FrontPage
instead. For information on this FrontPage feature, see the Microsoft
FrontPage user guides. You can either enable FrontPage
Server Extensions or WebDAV server for the users. If you enable FrontPage
Server Extensions, the WebDAV server will be automatically unavailable
to the users. |
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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.
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Alias |
The default directory alias is /perl/. |
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Generate Web Logs |
If you want to provide statistics about Web site traffic
for the CustomLog
report, and provide error information for the ErrorLog
report, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
If you have enabled the Analog Web/FTP Log Analyzer option,
you must also enable this option. The Generate Web Logs application provides
the statistics used for the Analog Web/FTP Log Analyzer reports. |
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Tomcat 4 (if available) |
If you want to provide Tomcat 4 support to the site, select
the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
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|
Subdomains
section |
|
Option |
Description and settings |
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Subdomain Interface |
Select the check box to enable Site Administrators with access to the
subdomain interface for creating and managing subdomains. |
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Maximum Subdomains |
Enter the maximum number of subdomains that can be created for the site. |
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Base Directory |
The base directory indicates the location in the site's file system
where all the regular subdomains for the site can be located.
Enter the complete path to the base directory. By default, they will
be located under /var/www. |
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E-Commerce section |
|
Miva Merchant |
If you want to allow your customers to create e-commerce storefronts
using Miva Merchant, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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File
Management section |
|
Option |
Description and settings |
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File Manager
|
If you want to allow your customers to access, create, and
remove files and directories on the site, select the check box; otherwise,
leave it blank. |
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Export/Import |
If you want to allow your customers to backup and restore
data or configuration files, select the check box; otherwise, leave it
blank. |
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Mail
Access Protocol section |
|
Option |
Description and settings |
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POP3+IMAP Server |
If you want to provide your email users access to their email
from remote mail clients, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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Mail
section |
|
Option |
Description and settings |
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Email |
If you want to allow your customers to send and receive email
messages from the mail server on the site, select the check box; otherwise,
leave it blank. |
|
Mail Server Name |
Enter the prefix you want to use, for example, "mail.". |
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Mailing List (Majordomo if available) |
If you want to allow your email users to create mailing lists,
select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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Vacation Auto-Responder |
If you want to allow your email users to create vacation
messages to automatically respond to incoming email messages, select the
check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
Note:
If you select this option, and later temporarily remove it from the site
then add it back to the site, you must notify your users to reactivate
this feature. When you remove this feature from the site, Vacation Auto-Responder
automatically resets the option to Off for any user account currently
using the feature. Users will not be able to use this feature until they
manually set it to On again. |
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Spam Filtering |
If you want to allow
your email users to manage spam, select the check box; otherwise, leave
it blank. |
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Web-based
Email Access section |
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Option |
Description and settings |
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SquirrelMail Web-based Email |
If you want to provide your customers access to their email
messages over the Web, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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Mail Scanner |
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MailScanner/Virus Scanner |
If you want to enable email scanning for the site, select the check
box; otherwise, leave it blank.
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Scan Incoming mail |
If you want to allow only incoming email messages to be scanned, select
the check box, otherwise leave it blank. |
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Scan Outgoing mail |
If you want to allow only outgoing email messages to be scanned, select
the check box, otherwise leave it blank. |
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Remote
Login and Tools section |
|
Option |
Description and settings |
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Development Tools |
If you want the virtual domain shell of your customers to
have access to development tools like GCC or G++ compilers, select the
check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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OpenSSH Secure Shell |
If you want to allow your customers to log on and access
the site using
an SSH connection, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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Telnet |
If you want to allow your customers to log on and access
the site using
a Telnet connection, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
The maximum number of Telnet domains supported on one server
is 250. |
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File
Transfer section |
|
Option |
Description and settings |
|
FTP |
If you want to allow your customers to transfer files to
and from the site using an FTP connection, select the check box; otherwise,
leave it blank.
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|
FTP Server Name |
Enter the prefix you want to use, for example, "ftp.". |
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Anonymous FTP (if available) |
If you want to allow anonymous users to access the FTP server
without a password, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank. |
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Database
Server section |
|
Option |
Description and settings |
|
MySQL |
If you want to allow your customers to manage their SQL databases
through MySQL, select the check box; otherwise, leave it blank.
Do not configure the rest of the options
in the Database Server section
if you do not enable MySQL.
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Database Administrator |
The Database Administrator exercises administrative control
over all the databases of the
site.
Enter the user name of the Database Administrator. Note: By default, the site name is used as
the database in this field. The name should not exceed 16 characters.
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Number of Databases |
Enter the maximum number of databases permissible for the
site.
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Database Prefix |
Enter a prefix for the database. The prefix is necessary
to ensure that the database is unique to the site and can have a maximum
of 30 characters.
Prefix caveat
The prefix name,
once set, must not be changed, as this will change the name of all the
databases across the site. As a result of this, your site databases will
be inaccessible.
To restore connection to the database, do one of the following:
Revert to the original
prefix. Change
the code references in your site pages so that they refer to the new prefix. |
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Reseller
section |
|
Option |
Description and settings |
|
Reseller |
Select the reseller for whom you want to create sites using
the service plan template. You must select the Reseller
Interface check box before you select the reseller.
Note:
When you create a site using this Service Plan, the site will, by default,
be owned by the reseller. The Service Plan template you create for resellers
does not limit them in any way from defining their own Service Plan configurations.
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Power Tools section |
|
Option |
Description and settings |
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Enable Power Tools |
To enable Power Tools
for a site, select the check box next to Power Tools. To allow Site Administrators
to install individual tools, select the check boxes that appear next the
tools. To prevent Site Administrators from installing individual tools,
disable tools by clearing their check boxes.
To disable Power Tools for a site, clear the check box next
to Power Tools. If this check box is cleared, Power Tools is disabled
even if individual tools are selected. |