To set up a Web site:
Having the www alias preceding the domain name does not cost anything, and it will allow users to get to the site no matter what they type in their browsers: www.your-domain.com and your-domain.com will both direct users to the site.
Bear in mind that e-commerce sites need a dedicated IP address (not shared among other sites) to implement Secure Sockets Layer data encryption.
After your Web site is set up, you will be able to assign another IP address to it, if you have several IP addresses and if you are authorized to perform this operation. Note that after you change a site's IP address, your domain/site will be unreachable and e-mail messages sent to mailboxes under your domain will not reach them until the information about the new IP address is propagated across the DNS system. This can take one or two days.
Upon completion of this procedure, your control panel will set up the domain name server on this machine to serve the new domain name and prepare the Web server to serve the new Web site: a new zone file with appropriate resource records will be added to the Domain Name Server's configuration files, a Web space will be created inside the Web server's directory, and necessary user accounts will be created on the server.
Note: If your site is hosted on another machine, and you wish to set up your control panel's DNS server only to serve the DNS zone for that site, select either Frame forwarding or Standard forwarding option. With standard forwarding, a user is redirected to the site and the actual site's URL is shown in the user's browser, so the user always knows that he or she is redirected to another URL. With frame forwarding, a user is redirected to the site without knowing that the site actually resides at another location. For example: your customer has a free personal web site with his or her Internet Service Provider or a free Web host, and the Web site address is http://www.geocities.com/~myhomepage. The customer purchased a second level domain name www.myname.com and wants you to provide domain forwarding to his Web site. In this case you would normally choose the Frame forwarding service. See the chapter "Serving the Domain Names for Sites Hosted on Other Servers (Domain Forwarding)" for details.
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directory, select the Use a single directory for housing SSL and non-SSL content check box.Note: When you switch from one statistics program to another, all reports created by the previously used statistics program are deleted and new reports are created in accordance with the information read from log files kept on the server. This means that if you configured the system (at Domains > domain name > Log Manager > Log Rotation) so as to keep log files only for the last month, then Web statistics will be available only for the last month.
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folders. Please note that selecting this option might seriously compromise the Web site security.Note: The overuse policy does not apply to the limits set on size of mailboxes (mailbox quota). Therefore, even if you enable overuse, be sure to allocate enough disk space to mailboxes.
Now the server is ready to accommodate the new Web site, and you can do the following:
To learn what else you can do with your Web site through the control panel, see Managing Web Sites.
To learn what else you can do with e-mail accounts through the control panel, see Managing E-mail Services.