1-Hour Response Guarantee
Resellers Panel guarantees that all your requests to our Supports or Sales Department will be answered in a time span of no more than 60 minutes.
Account Setup
Setup is the act of preparing a resource (account) for productive run, which requires some type of adjustments or configuring leading to optimal working characteristics.
Advanced Control Panel
Our Web Hosting Control Panel is an advanced and user-friendly tool available to your clients after they sign up for a web hosting plan. It's packed with features and functionalities and will help them easily manage their web hosting account.
Anti-Virus Protection
Software installed on a machine to prevent the introduction of viruses. Its purpose is to detect their presence, repair or remove them. Virus is a software that is covertly introduced on to a computer system with the intent of corrupting data or inhibiting the normal operation of the system or network.
Apache
Apache is a freely distributed Web server that is available under an Open Source license. According to a popular web server survey, 60% of the web sites on the World Wide Web are driven by an Apache server. This makes Apache more widely used than all other Web servers combined.
Autoresponder E-Mails
An e-mail autoresponder is a special function that automatically returns a pre-written templated message to anyone who sends an e-mail message to a particular e-mail address. E-mail autoresponders are widely used to respond to visitor comments and suggestions in a pre-made, templated answer.
Catch-All E-Mails
The catch-all e-mails account collects all emails of the type invalidname@yourdomain.com. This means that should an e-mail ever be sent to any non-existing address ending in @yourdomain.com, the mail will be received and sorted in this special ‘catch-all e-mails’ mailbox of your choice.
Crontab
Crontab is a Unix command for scheduling jobs, which will be executed at a particular time/conditions in the future. A cron is usually used to schedule a task that is carried out periodically - for example, to send out an e-mail message to specified people every month. Being a daemon process, it runs continuously, waiting for specific events to occur.
Custom Error 404 Page
An HTML Error 404 shows that a request had been made for a file (or an object), but the requested item had not been found on the queried server. The most common reasons for such errors are: moved pages, renamed pages, general user or server typo error, and also the fact that some operating systems are case sensitive.
Custom MX And A Records
MX Record (Mail Exchange Record) – Mail Server record designating the mail servers that will be handling the mail for a given domain name. When a user has more than one mail servers, the MX records can also specify the order in which the mail servers will be used as primary, secondary, backup, etc.
An A record is a DNS Address resource record. It maps the route of a host name to its address on a server and specifies the Internet Protocol address (in dotted decimal form) of the host. Each host address should have one A record.
Daily Data Back-Up
We treat our clients’ information with utmost care. We backup all information stored on our servers on a daily basis. Should there arise any technical issue, we can restore all data from the previous day.
Detailed Bandwidth Stats
All our users have access to detailed reports of their bandwidth stats.
Disk Space
Disk space is the amount of storage you/your clients receive when signing up for a web hosting account. It can be used for uploading different types of files - anything from text and html documents to pictures.
Domain Name Registration
Domain registration is the process of registering a unique name address (e.g. mydomain.com) which will identify your web site on the Internet. Domains consist of top-level domain name (mydomain) and secondary-level domain name (.com). After you/your clients register a domain name, you/they need to assign to it name servers (DNSes) which will point to the IP address of the server where the domain is hosted. Any server can host multiple domain names, but a domain name can only point to one server.
Extensive Online Documentation
We have written and compiled one of the largest online documentation available on the Internet. We have various FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) and Tutorials available to all our users.
E-Mail Aliases
E-mail aliases can be created as additional e-mail accounts, all under one domain name. If, for example, your primary e-mail is mymail@mydomain.com and you'd like to add a secondary e-mail address to your mail account, you can use an e-mail alias to set up a second e-mail address, such as info@mydomain.com.
E-Mail Filter
The e-mail filter is a different service from the SPAM filter. The SPAM filter has two levels of protection (low and high), while the e-mail filter has specific conditions and requirements, which should be set up manually for additional filtration according to specified conditions for receiving and sorting of your incoming e-mails.
E-mail Forwarding
Using this service, you can forward e-mail messages received in your mailbox to external e-mail accounts, such as Yahoo mail, Hotmail, etc. For example, an e-mail message to your.email.account@yourdomain.com can be forwarded to your.friends.account@hotmail.com, as well as to any other e-mail address that you specify for this service.
File Manager
Our File Manager is an advanced web-based tool, specially designed for the needs of our end-users and available in their Web Hosting Control Panel. With its help they can manage (browse, upload, etc.) all their web hosting account files.
Frontpage Extensions Support
FrontPage® is a Microsoft® product. It is a software built for web publishing and its main priority is to give HTML programmers a visual perspective when creating web documents. It also allows users to FTP documents onto a web server, giving them the possibility to view their web pages online. For more information about Microsoft® Office FrontPage®, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/FrontPage/.
FTP
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It is 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 represents 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 an HTML editor).
Hosted Domains
Resellers Panel is proud to announce that we can host virtually any top-level domain, no matter if it is .CO.UK, .US, or even .FJ!
Integrated Ticketing System
Resellers Panel has developed and integrated an online ticketing system for all its resellers and end-users. Should you ever experience any technical difficulties, feel free to post an online trouble ticket from the Reseller Support section of your Reseller Control Panel. All end-clients can contact our Support Department from the Help Center in their Web Hosting Control Panel. Our experienced team will solve any problem in an average of 15 minutes.
Instant Account Activation
Your reseller account will become active immediately after you've filled out our signup form. You can access it instantly and begin work on your web store.
Mailing Lists
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 subscribers included in the particular mailing list.
Money Back Guarantee
We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee for all our web hosting clients. Within this period they can have a money refund. Anything beyond these 30 days is non-refundable. (Domain names do not qualify for this service, they are non-refundable once registered.)
MySQL
MySQL is a multi-user SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. It is a commonly used 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.
Network Connectivity
The internet connection speed is currently one of the fastest available - 2.5 Gbits. This is the total connectivity that our network providers, located in Fremont/California (US) and Maidenhead/Berkshire (UK), have with the outside world.
Over 3500 Perl Modules
A Perl module is a re-usable package defined in a library file, the name of which is the same as the name of the package (with a .pm extension at the end).
Password Protected Directories
Password protected directories allow you to protect information on your web site by specifying a single user or multi-user password protected directory. Password protected directories allow you to store information online that is not be accessible to the general site visitor. This option has the big advantage of giving a limited range of people a place to log into your website and view documentation that is intended for them only.
Perl
Perl (short for Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a general-purpose programming language invented in 1987. With way over one million users around the globe, it has become the language of choice for web developments, text processing, Internet services, and any other common task requiring portable and easily-developed solutions.
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 on each page the visitor can see 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.
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP, intended specifically to handle the administration of MySQL databases over the Internet. It can create and drop databases, it can edit tables (create, drop, modify) and fields, execute an SQL statement, manage privileges and also export data into various formats.
Plan Price
Our web hosting plan prices are paid for on an annual basis. The monthly prices are included for orientation as well.
POP3
POP (Post Office Protocol) refers to the protocol used by e-mail software (for example Outlook Express) to retrieve e-mail from a mail server.
Raw Access And Error Logs
The error log records any unusual activity on a web site or a web server. Depending on the use and abuse of the system, the different sites or servers generate custom error logs. Systems administrators have to retrieve and examine such logs for any errors. Access logs record the visits to your site and all the hits made inside it.
Site Studio
Site Studio is a free, advanced online web site builder, which will help you to easily create and modify your web pages! Now you can have a web site up and running in 30 minutes!
SMTP
An SMTP server is a mail server that supports the SMTP protocol for e-mail transfer.
SSH
SSH means Secure Shell and allows you to securely access your web site using SSH encryption software. It’s very useful for advanced web developers.
SSI
Server-Side Include (SSI) communicates with the web server and performs specific tasks. SSI commands typically take the form of an HTML comment. For example, if a given web page has a .shtml extension, then it is likely that the page was generated using SSI commands.
SSL Certificate Generation
SSL means Secure Sockets Layer and enables encrypted, authenticated online communications. It is being widely used for online commerce purposes. Web addresses that start with "https://" indicate utilization of SSL.
SSL certificate generation is the process whereby unsigned SSL certificate codes are generated before being sent to an authorized registrar for approval.
Spam Filter
You can sort out unwanted e-mail messages by using a SPAM filter. We offer the SPAM Assassin software, which successfully filters 85-95% of all the unwanted e-mail messages. You can considerably increase this percentage to 95-99% if you further configure the additional manual settings of the e-mail filter!
Stable Linux With Apache
Linux is the most popular freely-distributed open source operating system, which runs on a number of hardware platforms. Linux has become an extremely popular alternative to paid operating platforms due to the fact that it comes free of charge and has a very high platform compatibility (including PCs and Macintoshes).
Subdomain
A subdomain is a subdivision of a given domain, e.g. john.yourdomain.com.
Technical Support
Technical support involves calling or sending an e-mail or a trouble ticket to our technical support team in cases when something with the service you are using has gone wrong, or you don’t know how to handle a given task and would like professional assistance.
Traffic
The term “traffic” describes the amount of data transferred and the number of visits made to a web site for a given period. The level of traffic generation determines the type of infrastructure you need for your personal or business web site, as well as the price that has to be paid to your Internet Service Provider for the traffic consumed over a specific period of time.
Traffic Stats - Webalizer
The Webalizer, which is a traffic statistics utility, produces graphic and text reports and generates summary pages for current and previous months. The yearly report shows statistics for a 12-month period, whereas the monthly report has detailed statistics for a particular month with links to URLs and referrers found.
Unrestricted Bandwidth
It implies that you can use the maximum of our available bandwidth resources in any given moment. There isn’t a curb on the bandwidth, so basically it’s unrestricted.
UPS & Diesel Back-Up Generator
Should we ever experience a prolonged power outage, there are powerful UPS’s and diesel backup electricity generators at our disposal.
Webmail
All clients of ours have access to a free, web-based e-mail system, which gives you quick and easy access to your mailbox. It can be used from anywhere and at any time, no e-mail client is required.
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