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Do you have Front-Page extensions? How do I request to enable SSH/Telnet? How do I setup SSH/Telnet software? What SSH program should I use? What is SSH? I want Personal Nameservers. How do I add them? How do I protect my directories with a password/and do you support .htaccess? What is Virtual Hosting? My site won't come up or is slow, what's wrong? Do you have a database system? How do I update my credit card details? What software do you run? Do you offer Server Side Includes (SSI)? How do I setup cron jobs? Why aren't my pages updating when I upload? Do you provide shell/telnet support? How do I obtain my website statistics? What domain names do you support? Can I modify MIME types? How do I upgrade my account? Why can't I create sub-domains? Where are my raw log files? Can we add services as we grow and need them?
Do you offer password protected directories? Why do I need a static/dedicated IP address? Are you a reseller of a larger Web hosting company? Do you offer Ecommerce or a shopping cart program? Does my website get a control panel? Do you offer a money back guarantee? Ok, I'm convinced, how do I transfer my domain name to The Server Center without downtime? Can I host an XXX/adult site? Why don't you offer "unlimited bandwidth"? Can I transfer my existing domain name to The Server Center servers? Why doesn't The Server Center offer phone support? Can I order even though I do not live in the US? How soon will my account be setup and ready to use? What are Domain Pointers? Can I have Warez, Appz, Serialz and or commercial software on my homepage? I've seen web hosting cheaper than yours, what's the deal? What is your policy on SPAM? Do you offer an uptime guarantee? How many virtual hosting accounts are located on each server? What if my site breaks your "acceptable usage policy" rules? What happens if I do not like your service? What kind of Technical Support do you provide? What is your connection speed and hardware/software like? How long does it take to get my domain working? What are your server specifications? Do you offer 24/7 technical support? Are eggdrop bots allowed? Do you support Macintosh systems? How long does it take for me to get my money back if I want to cancel? Can I resell space within my own account? Will I have unlimited access to update my pages? Is there a minimum time contract/commitment required?
What can I expect if I am transferring a domain name to The Server Center? Who is InterNIC? Do I need a domain to host a site with The Server Center? Who owns the domain name if I purchased it through you? What kind of domain TLD's can you initiate domain modification requests for? What is propagation? How do I contact InterNIC? Can I have multiple domain names pointed to my current website? How can I visit my site before propagation? What are your Primary and Secondary DNS numbers? Is there any charge to transfer my domain name to The Server Center? Why can't I create sub-domains? How long does it take before my domain name is active? Will I be able to access my domain name with or without the 'www.'? Can I have additional domain names pointed to a subdirectory on my account? Where should I register my domain name? How do I transfer my domain name to The Server Center? What is a domain name? What is a NIC handle?
I have billing questions regarding my account, who should I contact? How can I pay? Is there a grace period? How will I be charged if I upgrade or downgrade? Why was I charged this? How do I manage/update my Account/Billing Information? What do I do if my account is already deactivated? How do I cancel my account? When is my payment due?
How do I upload my website using Cute FTP? How do I access my main FTP account via a web browser? What FTP software should I use and where do I get it? How do I block visitors from my site? How do I create an FTP account for a user? How do I setup Anonymous FTP? I use another product. Is it compliant with your servers? How do I upload my website using MS FrontPage? How do I upload my website using WS_FTP? I uploaded a new version of a file, but I still get the old one? What directory do I upload my CGI scripts to? I've uploaded my files but my site is not coming up in my browser? Files are uploaded, but I still see your welcome page? How do I configure my FTP program to upload my files to my site? What is FTP? I am getting stuck trying to upload, what do I do? How do I access a file on my Anonymous FTP site from my web browser? What is "CHMOD" and what does those numbers mean? How do I access my Control Panel? How do I create/access my secondary FTP accounts?
How do I manually backup my db via phpmyadmin? Troubleshooting "Cannot connect to the database" Errors. Can I use the Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) forum on my site? What version of PHP are you running? How do I use formmail? How to I create a MySQL Database? How do I set permissions with WS_FTP? How do I create a mySQL User and grant them permission to a certain database? Can you help me troubleshoot my script? What is the exact physical path to your root directory on the webserver? Why doesn't my CGI work? Where can I learn how to use it? I am unable To Delete CGI Related Files... Where can I put my CGI scripts? Can I use the Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) forum on my site? Why am I getting a 403 Forbidden Error? How do I use mySQL to create & maintain databases, tables, etc? How do I setup Hit Counters, Guestbooks, etc? What Perl modules are installed? What version of mySQL are you currently running? What is PHP? What version of Perl are you running? What are the basics of installing scripts? Where do I put scripts? What is the path to ...? Why Does My CGI script give me a Permission Denied Error? What permissions should I use? How can I troubleshoot an "Internal Server Error"? How do I manually backup my database via ssh/telnet? How do I move around in Telnet. What are some UNIX commands? Do you allow CGI to run on your servers? What is CGI? I keep getting a 500 Internal Server Error. Why?
How do I check my Emails? Do you support Everyone.Net? How do I check my email through eudora or netscape mail? How do I tell if my ISP is blocking my outgoing mail? How much space do I have for my POP Accounts? Why do I get a "Relaying Denied: Authenticate with POP first" error when trying to send email through the server? Can I change my own MX Records? How do I block SPAM messages? Will my existing pop accounts still work if I use Everyone.Net/BigMailBox.com? Is my Email setup? What do I use for my SMTP? Can you forward all my email to a separate email address? If so, how do I do it? You offer unlimited E-mail aliases, what does that mean? How do I check my e-mail through a web browser (webmail)? I still can't send email. What's wrong? I have a mailing list, how many emails can I send out? How come I can't send mail? How do I setup Auto Responders? What is the difference between POP3 and Forwarding? How do I setup Email account with Outlook Express? How do I create additional POP accounts and Email forwarding?
How do I create a guestbook with FrontPage? Can you help me with FrontPage problems? Will Frontpage forms work? Should I use my FTP account if i have Frontpage Extensions installed? Do you support FrontPage 2002? Why does FrontPage just hang when establishing a connection to my account and then times out? Will using FTP corrupt my FrontPage Extensions? Can I use cgi-scripts when FrontPage extensions are installed? Can I use FTP to upload my files when I have FrontPage Extensions? How do I publish with FrontPage 2000? What are FrontPage Server Extensions? How do I prevent FrontPage from uploading several large files that are already on the server? How do I activate my FrontPage extensions?
How do I create an additional domain on my Multi-Hosted account? Why can't I create sub-domains? How do I add an FTP Account for my additional domain? What are Multi-Hosted Domains? Important details about multi-hosted domains.
Where can I learn more about Real Audio and Video? How do I get around not having "bandwidth negotiation"? How do I setup real audio streaming? How do I get around not having "bandwidth negotiation"? What software do I use to create Real Audio and Video files? You do not have the RealServer software running on your servers. Will we be able to stream RealMedia files? What are some of the special features of the RealServer? What software do I use to create Real Audio and Video files? Do you have Real™ server installed? Where can I learn more about Real Audio and Video?
What Plans will I be able to resell? What if one of my clients break your "acceptable usage policy" rules? What is to prevent my clients from moving directly to you? How much does it cost to join as a reseller? How are accounts billled under the Reseller Program? How do I upgrade an account to an IP account? What is a Reseller? Who provides technical support? Will my clients find out about The Server Center? What if I want to upgrade to a dedicated server in the future? Can I customize the control panel? Can I have my own name server? How do i gain access to the WHM? What happens if I decide to leave The Server Center reseller program? What kind of discount do I get? Can I make up my own plans? Is there a root login I can use for all my user accounts? How do I setup my accounts once I am a reseller? Why Cant I access my or my customers sites by IP Address? Will you handle the billing to my customers? What reseller tools do you have?
Can my software application maintain state when switching from normal HTTP (non-secure) protocol to HTTPS (secure) protocol? Where should I get my own Secure Certificate? I can't get SSL to work with my frame pages. Why? What do I need to do to accept credit card payments? Can I access my secure pages as https://www.mydomain.com/ What is SSL? How should I access my information through SSL? Why do my pages load more slowly when I use SSL? Can I transfer a SSL certificate to you? I want my own SSL certificate. Tell me the steps involved! Doe you offer SSL (secure server access)? Do I need an SSL Account? What's the difference between using my own certificate and using your shared one? Can you recommend a good merchant provider? What is a digital key? What is a certificate? Do you offer a shopping cart? Why do I get the message 'some items are insecure'?
What is phpMyAdmin, and how can I use it with my account? Where is my upload directory? Options ExecCGI Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks Can I add and manage mailing lists? How do I password protect certain directories? How do I setup custom error pages? When I log in by FTP, where do I upload the files for my web site? I try to send mail using Outlook, but get an error. I can receive email. How can I enable directory listings? Do you support Python/PHP/Perl/CGI? Now that I have an account... what next? How do I create a catch-all email address? How do I test to see if mod_dtcl is working on my account? How do I enable the PHP command "register_globals"? How do I test to see if mod_perl is working on my account? Where can I download the control panel manual? What type of control panel is provided with Advanced Plans? Is procmail installed? How To SSH? How do I login to FTP? How do I setup additional user accounts? How does my user access their control panel? How do I upload files to my database? In addition, how do I backup my database? What usage statistics are available to me? What is the precedence of index pages? Do you support forum scripts? Why can't I receive email at mail@mydomain.com? Where is perl located? Is there a way that I can access my email via the web? What JSP engine are you using? Do you have mod_rewrite? Where is the MySQL database situated? I can't connect via Telnet! Why? I have created an additional user through my Control Panel, how can I view their website? How do I backup and restore my database with Ensim? What version of Java are you running? How do I view my Apache log files? My php scripts don't work in the cgi-bin.. How do I create email redirect/forwarder/alias/autoresponder? How do I allow execution of .cgi scripts outside of cgi-bin? Is there a space limit imposed on each database? How do I test to see if modpython is functioning correctly? How often are stats updated? I uploaded my files, but I don’t see my page? Why? How do I access my control panel? How can I change my default MySQL password? Whats the difference between Site Admin and User Admin? What sort of databases do you support with advanced plans? How do I specify another index page? How can add a POP3 account? What should I do to set up a MySQL database for my account? How to I create Sub-Domains? What is the path to Sendmail? Can I incorporate flash .SWF files in my site? How to upload via Frontpage Extensions? What is my SMTP server name? I am trying to use a SSI call to invoke a cgi script, but it is not working.. Where can I view my Analog-generated statistics? Setting up virtual Anonymous FTP... What are all these files that start with a dot? What is my POP3 server name? Do you back up my site for me? How do I install Frontpage extensions? How to upload via FTP? I can't login to the POP or SMTP servers to send/retrieve my email.