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When a visitor downloads information from your Web site, data is transferred
from your site to that person's computer. Data Transfer bandwidth is the total
amount of data that can be downloaded from your Web site each month. The amount
of data transferred is measured in gigabytes.
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| Disk space is the maximum amount of storage space that you have available to
upload pages to your Web site. These pages will be stored on your Web server.
The amount of storage space that the pages occupy is measured in megabytes.
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| A POP (Post Office Protocol) account is a standard email account that you can
access using an email client like Outlook, or Eudora. When
you create a POP account, you're dedicating a place on your Web hosting server
where the account stores and accesses email messages. Using a POP account lets
you have access to messages that you have downloaded even when you're not
connected to the Internet.
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| The Mailing List feature allows you to send the same email to a group of people
who have opted to receive messages from you. Any email message that you send
using this feature will be delivered to everyone who has subscribed to your
mailing list.
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| Email forwarding addresses (or email aliases) allow you to automatically
redirect email from one account to another. Using email forwarding, you can set
up several email aliases that forward messages to addresses at your domain to
one mailbox. For example, you can configure your settings so that all messages
sent to CustomerService @YourDomain.com and Info @YourDomain.com are
automatically forwarded to YourMailbox @EarthLink.net.
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| Password Protection lets you restrict access to certain areas of your Web site.
You can designate a username and password that visitors must provide to enter
these restricted areas. This is useful if you want create pages that are
viewable to specific customers or employees, for example.
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| Dropboxes are special FTP directories that can only be accessed by users who
have the password that you create. FTP dropboxes are associated with a
particular POP email account. They share the same password with that POP
account. If your employees (or other users who you have authorized) need to
disseminate or exchange files, FTP dropboxes are a simple, secure solution.
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| FTP (File Transfer Protocol) programs let you upload and download files to your
Web site. Using an FTP program like WS_FTP, CuteFTP, or Fetch,
you can change and update what people see when they visit your Web site online.
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| Microsoft FrontPage is a popular program used to create and upload Web
pages. We is a registered Web Presence provider for Microsoft FrontPage.
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| RealMedia
streams deliver real-time audio and video content to people who visit your
Web site.
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| CGI (Common Gateway Interface) allows your Web pages to interact with
applications (or "scripts") that you've uploaded to your Web server.
CGI programs are useful for creating dynamic Web pages with features like page
counters, Web-based bulletin boards, and sophisticated Web form handling.
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| This CGI script allows you to track how many people visit your Web site.
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| A message board is a CGI script that allows visitors to your site to post and
respond to messages.
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| A guest book is an area of your site where visitors can leave their names, email
addresses, and brief messages.
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| Keeping track of Web site statistics allows you to measure how many people visit
your site and which pages are the most popular. Using a Web site statistics
program like Urchin Web site software, you can measure the effectiveness of
advertising campaigns, monitor your site's traffic and bandwidth, and compare
current and historical data.
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| All incoming email
will be checked for potential viruses at the server level. This will
eliminate many potential threats before the email is downloaded to your
computer.
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| A Web server that supports
any of the major security protocols, like SSL, that encrypt and decrypt
messages to protect them against third party tampering. Making purchases
from a secure Web server ensures that a user's payment or personal
information can be translated into a secret code that's difficult to crack.
Major security protocols include SSL, SHTTP, PCT, and IPSec
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| One courtesy update per month is included with the Pro Site Plan. Common include Editing text, adding or replacing photos, etc. Updates do not accrue. Maximum of 1/2 hour per update. |