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Backups
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All our servers are backed up daily to prevent loss of your information
in the event of a catastrophe. Nonetheless, it is highly advisable that
you also maintain a copy of any important data and store it on your
local computer.
- Hot Link Protector
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A common problem faced by many web masters is the problem of "hot
linking". This is the practice of literally stealing bandwidth from
another web site. This occurs when somebody embeds images from your web
site on their page and force the images to be loaded from your web
site (thereby making you responsible to the transfer generated by his
web site).
To protect against this problem Silicon Valley Web Hosting has developed
a set of filters that, if enabled, will allow your virtual servers to
refuse to serve any images not requested by a page within your site.
If somebody does try to hot link to images on your web site they will
instead receive a "not authorized" message.
- CGI Support
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CGI scripts and CGI script development are fully supported. Each
account has a private cgi-bin directory where customers can place their
own CGI scripts. Our UNIX shell server can also be used to develop CGI
scripts and web applications. In addition to the private cgi-bin
directory Silicon Valley Web Hosting provides a globally accessible
cgi-bin directory with the latest popular and publicly available CGI
scripts, as well as some custom CGI scripts developed by Silicon Valley
Web Hosting to meet some common needs of our clients.
- IMAP Mail Services
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The IMAP mail protocol is used essentially the same manner as the POP
protocol. The main difference is that IMAP stores the mailbox entirely
on the mail server whereas POP stores the mail on the client machine
(e.g. A Eudora or Netscape mail box on your hard disk). This feature
makes IMAP useful for those who read mail at more than one machine and
would like to keep the same mailbox state information with them where
ever they go.
- Java Servlets
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Java servlets present an extremely attractive alternative to using
server-side CGIs. This emerging technology allows you to leverage to
full flexibility of the Java language and the persistent nature of the
virtual machine.
Unlike most servlet hosting companies, we provide each servlet customer
with their own virtual machine. By providing private virtual machines
we completely eliminate all of the security concerns that most companies
face when they host shared virtual machines. Since each user has his
own runner/virtual machine, we can allow you access to your own
configuration file -- you are free to make any changes as you see fit.
Included with servlet support are the MM JDBC drivers for use with our
MySQL database server. Also preinstalled is the
GNUJSP parser to allow the use of Java Server Pages (a formidable
replacement to Microsoft's Active Server Pages).
Coupled with UNIX shell access, you are provided with a complete
servlet hosting environment.
- Mail Forwarders
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A Mail Forwarder is a virtual email address that automatically forwards
any mail sent to it to another email address. All Silicon Valley Web
Hosting customers receive up to 100 Mail Forwarders per domain. It's
common for businesses to setup mail forwarders for departmental email
addresses, such as sales@your_domain.com, info@your_domain.com,
support@your_domain.com. This routes mail to your sales team,
information services, or your support department, respectively. An
online mail controller is provided so that you can manage your own
mailboxes and mail forwarders.
- Password Protector
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A common problem for people running pay-for-access sites is that of
password posting. Password posting is where your web site members post
their username and password to a "free passwords" web site to allow
others to gain access to the pay-for-access material on your web site
without actually signing up for service. This can be a very costly
problem since literally thousands of people could be using your web site
without paying you a dime.
To protect against this problem Silicon Valley Web Hosting has
developed several monitoring programs. When enabled your user activity
is monitored throughout the day and if there is any account which is
used by an excess number of IP subnets (indicating a hacked account)
your are sent a warning email. The Protector also has an option to
automatically delete those user accounts.
Additionally, the Protector monitors your account for brute-force hack
attempts. If found the Protector will send you a warning email and it
will optionally block all further access attempts from the offending IP
address(es).
- MySQL Database Access
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As a courtesy to our customers, Silicon Valley Web Hosting provides
access to the MySQL database server at no additional monthly charge.
Although this is a feature used mainly by web site and software
developers, there are some CGIs that require SQL services to properly
function.
- POPmail Accounts
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POPmail accounts allow you to have a custom mailbox where you can
receive mail. It's common for our dedicated connection customers to
have a popmail account for each member of their organization
(employees, volunteers, partners, etc). All Silicon Valley Web Hosting
customers are entitled up to 10 POPmail accounts at no additional cost.
An online mail controller is provided so that you can easily administer
your own POP mailboxes and mail forwarders. In addition to POP mail
services we offer IMAP mail services. See the description of IMAP Mail Services for more information.
- Secure Server (SSL)
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SSL allows for encrypted and authenticated transmission of information
via the https protocol. Transmission of sensitive information such as
credit card information can be encrypted by using a secure server.
- Subservers
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Subservers allow you to arbitrarily create vanity servers underneath
your domain. For instance, you may create a subserver called
"support.your_domain.com". When somebody follows a link to
"http://support.your_domain.com" they are shown the support section of
your web site. Subservers make it extremely easy to modularize and
divide your site.
When you set up your account you must request that subservers be enabled.
By default subservers are not enabled.
- UNIX Shell
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UNIX shell access allows you to easily develop and install your own CGI
programs. We have various development packages installed including a C
compiler and Perl interpreter. The UNIX shell is accessible via either
telnet or SSH (secure shell).
- Virtual Domain Name
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Each Silicon Valley Web Hosting account has the ability to use custom
domain names (mydomain.com). Silicon Valley Web Hosting provides name
service and registration services for custom U.S. domain names.
- Virtual FTP Server
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Each virtual domain is allotted a virtual FTP server where you can have
your own authenticated virtual users. An online management tool is
provided that will allow you to create, delete, or modify your
existing virtual FTP user. With the virtual FTP server you gain the
ability to grant access to specific portions of your web site.
As an example, let's suppose you manage a web site that deals with movie
reviews. Further, let's suppose that you have three people working for
you; one is assigned to work on the "westerns" section, one is assigned
to work on the "action" section, and the third is assigned to work on
the "comedy" section. You can create three virtual FTP users and
restrict one user to the westerns section, one to the action section,
and the third to the comedy section. Each person will then have the
ability to update his or her own section but will be restricted from
accessing any other sections of the web site.
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