| Pre-Sales FAQ |
Question:
Can I check my mail from any PC in the world ? How to access Webmail?
Answer: Yes, you can receive you email from any computer that is connected to the internet. If you are unable to check your webmail from an office, please check with your server administrator on corporate firewall.
To access your webmail, point your browser to:
http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail/
Note that there is a slash on the end, you will not be able to access webmail through this method if you do not add the slash.
See Outlook configuration |
Question:
What are the scripts that are allowed?
Answer: You can install any script except for these ones:
UltimateBBS (all versions) Ikonboard (all versions) IRC Egg Drops Proxy Servers nph-proxy The Anonymizer any soap mailers |
Question:
Do you offer a money back guarantee?
Answer: Yes. If for any reason during the first 30 days you are not completely satisfied with any of our services, we will cancel your account and refund your money for that month's service. |
Question:
How do I get my email?
Answer: If you're familiar with your email client's setup, use the following information to retrieve email from your POP account: Incoming mail (POP3) server: mail.yourdomain.com ...Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: mail.yourdomain.com unless your ISP blocks port 25. In this case, use your ISP's outgoing mail server. Please remember to check "my Outgoing mail server requires authentication".
See Configuration in Outlook... |
Question:
Will you install a bulletin board for me?
Answer: Yes
on all accounts there is a very nice bulletin board pre installed, you just have
to configure it. click here for more info! |
Question:
Can I upgrade my account?
Answer: Yes. You can upgrade your account at any time at no extra cost. |
Question:
How can I tell how many visits my web site gets?
Answer: Included FREE with every account is
webalizer, a very powerful tool for editing and graphically tracking visitors to your site. The tracking provides you statistics on how long visitors were there, what pages they visited and the order in which they were visited. With the advanced logging feature activated it even captures what browser was being used and how the visitors found you, whether through a search engine or a web site link. |
Question:
Will I have unlimited access to my site for updates?
Answer: Yes. You have unlimited access via FTP 24 hours a day 365 days a year. As such, you can create and maintain your web pages on your own computer and upload files to your web site at your leisure. |
Question: Do you guys offer SSL for e-commerce sites ?
Do you guys offer SSL for e-commerce sites ?
Answer: Yes we do.
you can easily configure it in your control panel. |
Question:
Will Server Side Includes (SSI) work on your servers?
Answer: Yes. SSI's will parse on any page ending in .sht or .shtml. |
Question:
What is virtual Web Hosting?
Answer: We specialize in virtual web hosting, which means you can find a home for your web site on our high performance web servers and establish your presence on the Internet with your own unique domain name. This is a cost effective alternative to hosting your own web site internally. Our shared hosting environment gives you the benefits of high performance servers, high bandwidth connectivity that can seamlessly grow with your needs, pre-installed software, guaranteed reliability and round the clock technical support, all at a fraction of the cost of doing it yourself. |
Question:
What Operating System and Server Software is being used?
Answer: All our systems run
on windows server 2003 with support for RedHat, Apache. |
Question:
Where can I see a demo of the control panel ?
Answer: You may view a cpanel demo screenshot at:
DEMO |
Question:
Can I have more than one domain under one account?
Answer: Yes. Each package comes with a certain number of "domain pointers". Basically a domain pointer is where an extra domain points to a subdirectory of your main site. |
Question:
Do I have to have a domain in order to host with you?
Answer: Of course not! If you feel that you do not need a domain, you can have a sub-domain instead (ex. yourname.paxhost.com). There is not extra fee or discount if you use a sub-domain. If you ever do get a domain, we'll add the domain to our server and transfer your files over to it at not extra cost! |
Question:
Is your hosting packages shared SSL on your certificate or do I need to get my own SSL certificate?
Answer: Our shared SSL is on the shared server. To utilized the shared SSL, you would need to point your browser to https://secure.paxsoft.net/~yourusername |
Question:
Do you allow adult websites ?
Answer: NO! Adult sites, eggdrops bots, irc scripts, spam scripts , warez, or any other kind of illegal activity is not allowed. If you host such content on your site, your account will be terminated, and refunds will not be issued. |
Question:
Do you offer NT, ASP, .Net hosting ?
Answer: As of September 10, 2003 we
are now offering Windows 2003 hosting with powerful features and servers. Please
have a look at the different
plans.How do I manage
my web site?
You can easily manage your web site anytime of the day.
Visit
yourdomain.com /cp.
What is all this I hear
about HSphere?
HSphere is a new web hosting online control panel and management center that has
revolutionized the way an administrator can manage his web site. HSphere puts
you, the administrator in control. PaxHost happens to be one of the few web
hosts that has begun to fully implement this new industry standard.
Click here
for more information on HSphere.
Is it possible to design a
web site myself? I don't know much about design but would rather do it myself.
Can I?
It is most definitely possible to do it yourself. Paxhost
offers Site Studio
with it's $5 & higher per month plans. You can also
purchase it for a one time fee added to any existing web hosting account. Please
click here for
more information on Site Studio.
Does PaxHost
have windows 2003 Servers?
Yes we do,
ASP & ASP .NET is
available.
e-mail
info@paxhost.net for
any questions you may have.
Is it possible
to switch from my current web host to PaxHost?
Yes, Contact us today and we'll take care of the rest. If
you registered your domain name yourself switch the NAME SERVERS to point to:
dns1.paxsoft.net (DNS Server) 209.208.123.124
dns2.paxsoft.net (DNS Server) 209.208.123.125
Once you establish an account with us you should be set with no downtime on
your site. We'll even transfer the pictures & pages for you
upon request. You can also transfer the domain name &
automatically have us change the name servers through our Domain Name Center.
Just visit the domain name center at
http://domain.PaxHost.net
and enter your domain to begin the transfer process.
More about
domains!
What does Paxsoft Stand For?
Software Technology through the use of the
Internet for businesses through web sites, and other new and
innovative internet technologies all working together in harmony.
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