• Miscellaneous Technical Questions
    What is data transfer ?
    Anything (images, HTML files, data generated by CGI/PHP scripts, etc...) downloaded and or viewed off your website generates data transfer, because our servers have to transmit this data over the Internet to the end-user. For example, if 1024 visitors download a 1 megabyte file off your website, they will consume 1 gigabyte of data transfer.
     
    What is bandwidth ?
    Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted through the network at any given time.
     
    What's PHP ?
    PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. If you are completely new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, have a look at the Introductory Tutorial.
     
    What's shell access ?
    Shell access is the capability of using telnet or ssh to connect to the server and run various programs on the server.
     
    What's MySQL ?
    MySQL Database is very light and yet featureful SQL database engine that allows webmaster to create dynamic websites.
     
    Can I run Java applets?
    Yes, you can compile (if not already) them on our server and then use them on your website.
     
    What version of java virtual machine you support ?
    Currently, we run 1.1.8 java virtual machine on our servers.
     

    Can I use Berkeley's DB?

    Yes, we have C libraries and Perl modules installed for use with Berkeley's DB.
     
    What is a sub-account ?
    A sub-account is an account within your main account,
    which supports most of the features of the main one, but costs much less.

    It has following characteristics :
    1. It shares disk space with your main account
    2. Administration is done through main account's control panel
    3. Every email feature is supported ( just like in main account )
    4. Separate statistic reports
    5. Supports frontpage extensions
    The docs and cgi-bin folders for sub-account would be
    /web1/users/username/sites/subaccount.com/docs &
    /web1/users/username/sites/subaccount.com/cgi-bin
    respectively.