UK Web Hosting Support

 

Viewing Domain Information

 

Select Domains from the main control panel.

You will be shown the following screen:

If you plan allows, it is possible to create a sub domain. This is a lower level of the main domain. In this example the domain is priderides.co.uk. A sub domain would be busses.priderides.co.uk. To view or change your subdomain settings, click either the corresponding subdomain name link or the Edit icon. To view the site, click the View icon. To delete a subdomain, click the Trash Can icon.

This is your domain name's numeric address at which it is accessible from the Internet. Your domain name can have either:

Shared IP - one IP address is assigned to several domains and access to a site is available only by its domain name. Shared IP is used by more than one virtual hosts. This approach is known as name-based Virtual Host Support, as opposed to the traditional IP-based Virtual Host approach, and is used to avoid assigning a dedicated IP address to every virtual host, which is hard to implement on some servers .Shared IP does not allow to create FTP Virtual Hosts.

Dedicated IP - one IP address is assigned to one domain name. To access a site you can use either its IP address or its domain name. Dedicated IP is a paid service and is required to create Virtual FTP Server and uses SSL on your web server. If you switch back from Dedicated IP to Shared IP, any your FTP and SSL resources will be removed.

The name servers are the controls for your domain name. When you transferred your domain name you put in our DNS (Domain Name Servers) to point your domain. We then set up the corresponding record in our server to receive requests from any user for your domain name. Name servers everywhere communicate with the main WHOIS database of domain name records to point users to the proper servers. We then populate where a user should go when they are looking for your domain name. We point the user to your default web folder. This all happens in a split second.

This DNS configuration allows you to separate the specific pointing of your domain name. The domain name elements or functions are actually split into three areas. In this feature, mainly for advanced users, you can redirect your e-mail to run off of servers other than our network, or your web site etc. to run separate from your e-mail servers.

Click the Edit (hammer) icon to configure your mail resources' settings. By clicking the On/Off button you can enable or disable mail resources. Warning: disabling mail service will permanently remove all your server settings. After that, you will have to configure them from scratch. This feature is the same as editing your e-mail settings from the E-mail/Mail Info feature.

Web Service is the same as editing your site through the WEB OPTIONS features.

Each domain name can have aliases - secondary names that refer to the primary i. e. original domain. For instance if your web site is called company.com, you can have an alias company.net point to company.com.

Click the Add icon to add a new alias to the domain name.

Click either the alias name link or the Edit icon to view/change your alias settings.

Go to the "Add new domain" page.