Registration for personalized web space open for public.

.ME registry, today announced that the landrush is underway, which means for the first time anyone can apply for names with the new .ME domain name extension. It states that the landrush process began Friday and is a 20-day period in which the public can put a stake in the ground for .ME names they want to register. It adds that it has been accepting .ME applications since May for trademark registrations.

The registry states that more than 70 registrars from all over the world are already offering .ME registration. Open registration is slated for July 17, initiating on a first-come, first-served basis. It avers that two-year minimums are required on all .ME domain names registered during the Landrush and initial Open Registration periods. Landrush domain names receiving more than one application will go to an auction process, adds the company.

“We’ve seen tremendous interest in .ME from every corner of the globe,” said Predrag Lesic, the registry’s executive director. “The .ME extension clearly offers opportunities to develop catchy phrases and add personality to your Web presence, including personal sites as well as business applications associated with products, brands and services. Now is the time to get in on the ground floor with a great name.”

MySQL Database Services

MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) relational database server. If the hosting package that you have purchased includes MySQL Database(s) then you get 5 Database Users per Database that you have purchased, and the ability to do the following from your hosting control panel, using the Database Manager section:

• Add / Delete MySQL Databases
• Restrict Access to the database from a set of IP Addresses / Hosts
• Add multiple database users for a single database
• Define granular level database access policy on a per user basis i.e. you can decide which all privileges a user should be given from Select, Insert, Update, Delete, Create, Drop, Grant, Reference, Index, Alter Privileges
• Change Passwords
• Suspend / unsuspend access of database users
• One-click Access to phpMyAdmin - a web based tool for administering your MySQL database that allows you to create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields etc.

Website Speed Booster

The Website Speed Booster, as of this writing, is a feature unique to our hosting control panels ONLY. It automatically enhances the speed of your website by upto 20x times and more. This tool works by compressing the content delivered to the client when it is sent across the network. It uses the browsers ability to uncompress this data seamlessly. The tool does not require any changes in website code nor does it require any additional software on the client. All browsers starting from Internet Explorer 4.0, Netscape 4.06, Opera 5, Lynx 2.6 support this feature. Our solution will simply not compress the data if the visitor has a non-compliant browser.

Using the control panel you can boost the speed of all of the following:

• all static pages i.e. html, js, css files etc
• all dynamic pages i.e. php, perl, cgi, python files etc
• all images and downloadables i.e. gif, jpg, png, doc, pdf, xls files etc

Auto Correct URL Spelling

This option is another feature unique to our hosting control panels ONLY - it attempts to automatically correct misspellings of URLs that users might have entered, by ignoring capitalization and by allowing up to one misspelling (character insertion / omission / transposition or wrong character). Requests to documents sometimes cannot be served by the web server because the request was misspelled or miscapitalized. This option addresses the problem by trying to find a matching document. It does its work by comparing each document name in the requested directory against the requested document name without regard to case, and allowing misspellings. A list is built with all document names which were matched using this strategy.

If, after scanning the directory,

• no matching document was found, then the server will proceed as usual and return a “document not found” error
• only one document is found that “almost” matches the request, then it is returned in the form of a redirection response
• more than one document with a close match was found, then the list of the matches is returned to the client, and the client can select the correct candidate

For example, if the visitor to your website types in http://www.yourdomainname.com/home.htm or http://www.yourdomainname.com/Home.html in the browser’s address bar, and the actual page which exists on the web server is home.html then the visitor will automatically be redirected to http://www.yourdomainname.com/home.html if the Auto Correct URL Spelling option is enabled.

Unlimited Web Forwarding Rules

The Redirect Manager in the hosting control panel gives you the ability to forward requests for any local folder, sub-folder, file to another domain name, URL, or IP address seamlessly. For e.g. if you want http://www.yourdomainname.com/corp to redirect to http://www.someotherdomain.com, then you can add a rule for the same. The easy-to-use Redirect Manager allows you to add as many such web forwarding rules as you want.

Direct Download Manager

Another feature exclusive to our control panels - the Direct Download Manager helps you save several hours of your valuable time by allowing you to download files to your web space directly from another server via a HTTP URL or FTP URL. If you need to transfer large files to your web space that are already available on some other server, then you would typically have to download these files locally to your desktop and re-upload them. All of this could take up quite some time depending on the file size and your internet connection speed. However, using the server-to-server transfer facility provided by the Direct Download Manager you can utilize the server’s high speed connection to directly download large files, so, even if you are connected to the Internet via a dial-up connection, file transfers will occur at the very high speeds.

This feature is most useful when you are transferring your website date from your previous web hosting provider, as you could just zip up your whole website and instead of downloading it locally to your desktop, directly download it on the server and unzip it there.

Supported Web Development Technologies

All our linux hosting packages support all the popular linux-specific web development technologies, empowering you to create your website or web application in the language of your choice.

Supported web development technologies include:

• PHP
• Perl
• CGI
• Python
• Ruby
• Server Side Includes (SSI)
• Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
• Real Audio / Video HTTP Streaming
• Macromedia Flash
• Macromedia Shockwave

Supported Web Publishing Tools

You can upload data / publish content on your website / transfer files to and from the server using any of the following:

• FTP Based Clients
• Macromedia DreamWeaver