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This document covers the following topics:
Removing Domains
To change/view any settings connected with your domain name,
select the Domain Settings menu:
Next, click the Delete icon next to the domain name.
When removing a domain, you will be asked to choose
whether you want to remove the web content:
- If you choose to leave web content,
all this web site will remain on the server and will be
accessible by FTP.
- If you choose to remove web content, all this website
will be permanently deleted from the server.
Creating Sub Domains
A subdomain is a lower level domain. You can create as many
subdomains as allowed by the plan. Domains and subdomains
have equal functional capabilities, including web site management,
e-mail service, FTP, etc., but subdomains do not have their
own DNS zones.
To create or add a subdomain to your domain, go through the following
steps:
Step 1. In the main domain settings, switch to the dedicated
IP.
Step 2. Click the OFF button in the FTP field to create
a Virtual FTP host. In the window that appears, enter parameters
to this Virtual FTP host.
Step 3.
- Click the Add icon in the Sub Domains field. You
will be asked to enter the subdomain name:
- Enter the name of the new subdomain (you will see it on the left
of your main domain name). For example, if your domain name
is mydomain.com, entering mysubdomain will
make your full subdomain name look like mysubdomain.mydomain.com.
Newly created subdomain will be displayed in the Subdomain
entry on Domain Settings page.
Step 4.
- Go
to the FTP Virtual Host page. Click the Add
icon in the Virtual FTP Users field.
- Create
a new user for this subdomain.
Step 5.
- Click
the Add icon in the Virtual FTP Directories field.
- In
the Directory field of the page that appears, enter
full subdomain name ending with a slash (e.g. subdomain.domain.com/).
- On
the same page, set appropriate permissions to this directory
and add authorized users, if appropriate.
To create another subdomain, just go through steps 3 to 5
again.
Switching
between Virtual Hosting (Shared IP) and IP Based Hosting (Dedicated
IP)
The system offers 2 kinds of IP:
- Shared IP - one IP address is assigned to several domains
and access to a domain is available only by its domain name;
- Dedicated IP - one IP address is assigned to one domain.
To access a domain you can use either its IP address or
its domain name.
Shared IP is used by more than one virtual hosts.
This approach is known as name-based Virtual Host Support,
as opposed to the traditional IP-based Virtual Host approach.
The traditional approach is hard to implement on some machines,
so Shared IP is used to avoid assigning a dedicated IP address
to every virtual host.
The benefits of using the new name-based virtual host support
are:
- virtually
unlimited number of servers;
-
ease of configuration and use;
-
no additional hardware of software requirements.
The
main disadvantage is that the client must support this part
of the protocol. Also, which is critical for NatHost, shared
IP does not allow to create FTP Virtual Hosts.
Dedicated IP is a paid service. You need a Dedicated
IP to create Virtual FTP. This service uses SSL on your web
server. Switching back from Dedicated IP to Shared IP will
remove any of your FTP and SSL resources.
By default every domain has a Shared IP. Shared IP is free.
You can change the type of IP at any time as you work with
the system. To change the type of the IP, click the Change
to Shared/Dedicated IP link in the Edit Domain page.
You can use IP-only server. To create it, choose "no domain"
item during signup. Following the signup, you should change
type of IP to Dedicated.
Changing HTTP Traffic
Every user plan has a default traffic limit. If you exceed
it, you will have to pay charges per each extra gigabyte of
traffic.
Per-gigabyte charges are usually higher, so it is wise to
set your transfer limit to the level you are expecting to
have. To change your plans default, click on the limit value.
In the window that appears, enter the HTTP monthly traffic
that you think you will run up. The traffic that goes beyond
this limit will be charged at a higher rate. HTTP traffic
is calculated separately from FTP traffic, but works quite
similarly.
Setting Domain
Alias/Domain Stacking (version 2.05 or higher)
A stack domain is a domain alias in terms of apache.
A stack domain may have:
-
its own DNS zone;
-
custom DNS records;
-
mail service.
In other words, a stack domain is a domain alias (i.e. your
domain's alternate name) that points to a 'primary' domain.
For example, if your domain name is company.com, you
can register another domain name, e.g. company.net
and have it point to the location of company.com. This
means, every Internet user who goes to company.net
will land in company.com.
A user plan can be configured to allow or disallow stack
domains. Also, there can be a limit to the number of stack
domains you can create.
To create a new domain alias, click the Add icon next
to Domain Aliases in the Edit Domain table.
The following window will appear:
Enter the name for a new domain alias (this must be a fully
qualified domain name, e.g. company.com).
How shall I configure DNS?
- leave the box unchecked if the domain alias is registered
on a different DNS server. In this case, your hosting services
provider won't be able to maintain DNS for this domain alias.
If you have a stack domains, you will only be able to access
your account via HTTP. Mail Service will be inaccessible,
and it will not appear as hypertext in the list of domain
aliases.
- check the box if you want NatHost to create a DNS record
for the domain alias on your hosting server to point to
the IP address of the existing domain. NatHost will create
an appropriate DNS record for this domain alias. In this
case you'll be able to create and edit custom DNS records
for this domain alias (which is not recommended unless you
know how to work with DNS records), and Mail Service will
be accessible for this domain alias. It has no DNS zone
of its own and does not support virtual FTP or MySQL services.
Editing an existing Domain Alias
Click the existing domain alias text link to view and/or
edit its configuration. The following page will appear:
- Name Servers: the name and the IP of the server
the domain alias is registered on.
- DNS Configuration: click the Edit icon
to edit alias's DNS configuration. For more information
check Viewing and editing DNS
settings.
- Mail Service: click the ON/OFF button
to enable Mail Service. For more information check Managing
your E-mail resources.
"Pinging"
Internet Hosts From Your Hosting Server
(version 2.05 and higher)
This
net troubleshooting tool allows you to ping any Internet host
from your hosting server (in other words, to test if a host
can be reached and how long it takes)
- Select Trace Route in the Domain Settings menu.
The following window will appear:
- Enter the host name or the IP address of the server to
ping. If the tracing takes longer than the timeout period
you specified, the process will be stopped and the tracing
results will be displayed. For more information on traceroute,
type man traceroute in the command line.
Submitting Sites to Search
Engines (version 2.05 and higher)
This
tool submits specified URLs to the most popular automatic
search engines such as
- Northernlight
- Ebcrawler
- Hotbot
- Excite
- DirectHit
- Google
- Infomak
- Webwombat
- AllTheWeb
- lycos
- Whatyouseek
- WebTop
On the Submit sites page (Submit URLs, Domain Settings):
- Domain
to submit: select the site you would like to be indexed.
- Contact
Email: most search engines require an e-mail address
to contact you if needed.
- Key
Words: some search engines provide the possibility for
entering additional keywords your site can be searched by.
- Timeout:
set the timeout period. The timeout period is the time you
allow for registering one site with all search engines.
You
may have to wait a week or more after the submittal of your
sites before some search engines start showing your sites
in the search results.
Warning:
Avoid submitting a large number of web sites at a time, or
the browser will time out before the program has finished.
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