Frequently Asked Questions.

How long does it take to set up an account?
Orders can be set up almost Instantly after the signup.

How much do you charge for domain registration?
We can register your .com, .net.,.info or .org domains for Rs:900 per year with our personal plan, Domain name Rs:300/ yr with Our Small Business Plan , Free Domain with OurProfessional Plan

What methods of payment do you accept?
(1) simply deposit cash direct into our bank account.

Do I need credit cards?
Yes.Please go through LKwebs.com

Do you provide phone support?
Absolutely! Yes.

How do I access my control panel?
You can login to your control panel at
http://yoursite.com/cpanel

where "yoursite.com" is your own domain name.

Do you allow Adults sites ?
No. We do not host adults web sites on our servers.

Where are my statistics?
Click the report button after logging into Control panel and hit the Webstats option. This will open a new window to Webstats with all your statistics for that domain.

What is the full path to my cgi-bin?
/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/yoursite.com/cgi-bin/

where "yoursite" is your own domain name.

Which folder do I load my web pages to?
You should place all of your web documents in the public_html directory

I've uploaded my site and still see "placeholder for ..."?
You are still seeing the default index.html page set up when you ordered your hosting plan through us. Make sure to delete that old index.html page, then your site should resolve correctly. note: All letters must be simple letters. eg:- index.htm or index.html

Can I have CGI outside of the bin?
Yes, CGI will function in the folder

What version of Perl comes installed on your servers?
Perl 5.6

What version of PHP comes installed on your servers?
PHP 4.1.2.

What version of MySQL comes installed on your servers?
MySQL 3.22.46

What is the correct path to Perl?
#!/usr/bin/perl

What is the correct path to sendmail?
/usr/sbin/sendmail

How long does it take for my DNS changes to update world wide?
Normally you can expect to see your web site DNS to change within 24 hours once you have made the modifications at your registrar. However, we have seen it take up to 7 days in some cases where registrars and ISPs are a little slower.

Basic questions

What is web hosting?
Web hosting refers to the process of publishing a web site so that it is available to the world on the Web. Paid web hosting also involves getting a domain name and not having forced ads displayed on your site.

What is a domain name?
A domain name is a sequence of letters and numbers which determine the address of your site. This site's domain name is "mywebsite.com." You need to register a domain name before your web site becomes accessible at this address

What are PHP, SQL, IP, etc.?
Those acronyms refer to various features such as programming languages, databases, etc. that might be available with a hosting plan.

What are POP3 e-mail accounts ?
POP (Post Office Protocol) refers to the protocol commonly used by e-mail software (for example Outlook Express) to retrieve e-mail from a mail server. POP3 is currently the most common e-mail standard. eg: samantha@samantha.com

What are -mail aliases ?
E-mail aliases can be setup as additional e-mail accounts, all under one domain name. If, for example, your primary e-mail is mymail@example.com and you'd like to add a secondary mail to your mailing account you can use an e-mail alias to set up your second e-mail address as backup@example.com.

What is Mailing list ?
A mailing list is a system which allows people to send an e-mail to one address, where their message and/or attachments are copied and then resent to all of the other subscribers in that particular mailing list

What is SPAM filter ?
Using a SPAM filter, you can sort out unwanted e-mail messages. We use SPAM Assassin software to filter unwanted e-mails. Usually the SPAM Assassin software with the default settings that we offer will successfully filter 85-95% of all unwanted e-mail messages. If you devote sufficient amounts of time and attention to the additional settings of the SPAM filter, you can considerably increase this percentage to 95-99% combining it with the additional manual settings of the e-mail filter!

What is web mail ?
All our clients receive access to the our web mail. It's a free web-based e-mail system for easy and quick access to your mailbox. It can be used from anywhere and at any time, no e-mail client is required.

What is E-mail forwarding ?
E-mail forwarding is a concept very similar to e-mail aliases. Using this service, you can also forward e-mail messages to Yahoo e-mail accounts, AOL e-mail accounts, Hotmail e-mail accounts, etc. wherever you wish. In other words, an e-mail message to your.email.account@yourdomain.com can be forwarded to your.friends.account@hotmail.com for example, as well as to any other e-mail address that you specify for this service.

What is Autoresponder e-mails ?
An e-mail autoresponder is a special function that automatically returns a pre written templated message to anyone who sends e-mail to a particular e-mail address. E-mail autoresponders are widely used for the purpose of responding to visitor comments and suggestions in a pre-made, templated answer.

What is Catch-all e-mails ?
Catch-all e-mail is used to directs e-mail sent to any user (existing or not) on your e-mail list. This means that should an e-mail ever be sent to any address with @yourdomain.com at the end, the mail will be received and sorted in a special mailbox of your choice.

What is MySQL ?
MySQL is a multi-user SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL is quite a common database, proving APIs (application program interface) for such languages as C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP and Python. Information in the database is stored and retrieved using SQL.

What is PHP ?
PHP (a recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language, used to create dynamic Web pages. A dynamic Web page is a page that can interact with the user viewing it, so that each page visitor sees specially customized information. PHP is open source and freely available for (primarily) use on Linux (UNIX) Web servers. It is also a great alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. The PHP script is embedded within a Web page along with its HTML, just like ASP is. Before the page resolves, the Web server calls PHP to interpret and perform the operations called for in the PHP script. Any HTML page scripted in PHP is typically given a file name suffix of ".php," ".php4," or ".phtml.".

What is FTP ?
File Transfer Protocol - Primarily used for uploading or downloading files to and from remote computer systems on a network using TCP/IP, such as the Internet. An FTP account consists of a username and password, which is used to login to a users FTP archive or to be able to access it with a software program (FTP client or a HTML editor).

What is File manager ?
Our web-based file manager is a browsing, uploading and downloading tool, specifically designed for the needs of new users. Using the web-based file manager, they can execute specific file-related commands with ease.

What is Custom Error 404 page ?
A HTML Error 404 means a request was made for a file (or an object) and it was not found on the queried server. The most common reasons for such an error are : Moved pages, renamed pages, general user or server mistyping, and also the fact that some operating systems are case sensitive.

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