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Hosting FAQ
What is Virtual Web Hosting?
We specialize in Virtual Web Hosting, which means we will provide a home
for your web site on our servers. Your web site will be accessed through
your own domain name "www.your-name.com". Having your own domain name does
not suggest that you are renting web space, and, since email can be
addressed to your domain (e.g. WWW.YOURNAME.COM ) you will not have to
announce a new email address if you change internet providers.
Do you offer web page design services?
Yes, see our web development services.
How do I transfer files to my web site?
Files may be transferred to your web page via FTP or FrontPage.
Can I host an adult site on your server?
We do NOT allow adult sites on our servers.
Do you support CGI?
Yes, for scripts that we provide. We try to provide all of the common
cgi scripts that customers ask for. We do not charge extra for this service.
We do NOT allow customers to upload their own cgi programs without prior
consultation.
Can I have a public FTP server?
Global Millennia Marketing doesn't allow public FTP servers for security
reasons. We only provide a private FTP for maintaining your web site. As an
alternative we suggest offering files directly from your web site.
Do you accept international orders?
Yes. We are pleased to have customers around the world and we're as close as
your computer. If desired, we can host non-US domain name extensions.
What contract and payment terms are available?
We have package pricing available here or
we can quote you a custom package to suit your
individual needs.
What page is loaded when I go to http://www.my-domain.com?
Our servers are configured to read index.html as the default homepage, so
people browsing your site can simply type http://www.yourdomain.com rather
than having to specify a filename, such as http://www.yourdomain.com/homepage.html
It is strongly advised that you have an index.html file in each directory
of your web site. Directories without it allow browsing through your files,
possibly exposing to public view files not intended for that purpose.
My site looks good on my hard drive, but after uploading it the images
are missing and the links are broken?
Unlike Windows or DOS, UNIX is case sensitive. This means that index.html is
different from Index.html, INDEX.HTML and all its various case combinations.
This creates a problem when transferring your site from your hard drive
(Windows or DOS) to one of our UNIX servers. It can often result in pages
having broken links and missing images.
If you encounter this problem, check to make sure that your hyperlinks in
your web pages correspond to the exact filenames on your web site. If they
do not match, you can either modify your hyperlinks in your web pages or
rename your files with an FTP program so they match your hyperlinks.
Please note that if you are referring to your pages with a .htm extension
in your hyperlinks, make sure the filename actually ends with a .htm
extension. If you are referring to your pages with .html extension in your
hyperlinks, make sure the filename actually ends with a .html extension.
Another problem encountered is that you are referring to web pages and
images on your hard disk. For example,
c:/website/index.htm
The above hyperlink should be replaced with the one below:
http://www.yourname.com/index.htm
How do I prevent web surfers from viewing the contents of my
subdirectories?
Place a file called index.html within the subdirectory that you don't want
viewed. Instead of a file listing being displayed, index.html will be
displayed.
How do I edit my files while they are on the server?
Download the file to your workstation to edit the file, then copy it back up
to our servers.
What is an appropriate file size for HTML files?
When people browse your home page, it's important to remember that they
might be on a slower 28.8kbs modem. Hence, to download 100K of file and
graphics, it takes approximately 30 seconds. Studies show that most surfers
won't wait more than 20 seconds for a page to load before giving up and
continuing to another site.
Here are a few suggestions to alleviate this problem:
Split your home page to a few separate pages.
-Reduce the graphic size by shrinking the image size.
-Save photographs as .jpg files with about 85% compression ratio.
-Save images with mostly solid colors using .gif compression.
-Experiment with reducing the number of colors in your gif files.
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