22 Jul 10 Connecting Remotely to your database
In order to connect remotely to your database, you can use any third party tools available on the Internet. However, you need to set certain specifications from within your Control Panel to allow remote connections to your database.
Follow the process below to do so:
- Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package and proceed to the Order Details view. Click here to read how >>
- Click Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.
- In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> Database Manager -> List Databases.
- Click the database user for which you want to allow remote connections.
- Click Modify.
- Under the Hostname Details section, select either Allow User to Connect from any Host or Specify Hosts (Comma Separated) if you would like to specify any specific computers that you are going to connect from (you need to know the IP addresses of these computers for this purpose).
- Click Submit.
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22 Jul 10 Transferring your .EU Domain Name
Before proceeding with the Transfer you are advised to first go check if your Domain Name can be Transferred. Click here to check if your domain name can be transferred >>
IMPORTANT
In case of a .EU Domain Name Transfer, the Expiry date is updated to 1 year from the date of Transfer and not to 1 year from the date the domain name was set to expire prior to Transfer.
For example, if a Domain Name has the Expiry date as 24 Oct, 2007 and it gets Transferred to another Registrar on 2 Sep, 2007. The new Expiry date will be 2 Sep, 2008 and not 24 Oct, 2008.
If you wish to Transfer a .EU Domain Name to Gossimer, then you need to follow the steps mentioned below:
Transfer Process for Customers
1. Login to your Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/customer.
2. In the Control Panel go to Domains -> Domain Registration -> Transfer. There, enter the Domain Name you wish to Transfer.
3. Select the Registrant Contact for this Domain Name. You may select from the available list of contacts or Add a New Contact.
It is compulsory for you to agree to the associated Product Agreement(s) by selecting the Check Box.
4. In order to avoid any downtime for the website/emails associated with your .EU domain name during the Transfer, it is necessary to mention the Name Servers already in use by your .EU domain name. You may also provide any new Name Servers that you would like to associate your .EU domain name with. Here, it is obvious that all the necessary DNS records are already created on the new Name Servers for the website/emails to be functional.
5. You need to mention any existing Child Name Servers for your .EU domain name alongwith their respective IP Addresses. This is necessary to avoid any downtime for the website/emails associated with any domain name using these Child Name Servers as their Name Servers. If you wish to Register any new Child Name Servers, you may also mention the same alongwith the respective IP Addresses. These new Child Name Servers will be Registered once the domain name is Transferred successfully.
Child Name Servers can also be Registered separately. Click here to know how >>
6. Finally, proceed with the Payment of the Invoice. Click here to read more details on Payment >>.
Now that you have placed the Transfer Order, the Registrant Contact for the Domain Name will receive an e-mail from the Registry for the Transfer Authorization process, which needs to be approved within 7 days. The Registry provides an additional grace period of 7 days for approval, in case the Transfer was not approved within the initial 7 day period. The authorization can also be provided through a fax to the Registry from the Registrant Contact. Template of the confirmation fax is provided below:
The request is processed once the Registry receives approval from the Registrant.
Transfer Process for Resellers
1. Login to your Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller.
2. In the Control Panel go to Products -> Domain Registration -> Transfer. There you would have to enter the Domain Name you wish to Transfer.
IMPORTANT
Transfer request for .EU Domain Names cannot be placed from the Storefront/within the Control Panel. Hence, it is advised that you re-direct all purchase related links from within your, your company user’s and your Customer’s Control Panel to your SuperSite URL or your Custom URL (if you have integrated with our platform using our API).
Reference:
Click here to know what is SuperSite >>
Click here to read about API Integration >>
Click here to read how to integrate your Website and Shopping Cart with your Customer Control Panel >>
3. Enter the Username (Email Address) of the Customer, on whose behalf you wish to buy this Service. If the Customer is new, you can Add the Customer, by filling the form given there.
4. Select the Registrant Contact for this Domain Name. You may select from the available list of contacts or Add a New Contact.
It is compulsory for you to agree to the associated Product Agreement(s) by selecting the Check Box.
5. In order to avoid any downtime for the website/emails associated with your .EU domain name during the Transfer, it is necessary to mention the Name Servers already in use by your .EU domain name. You may also provide any new Name Servers that you would like to associate your .EU domain name with. Here, it is obvious that all the necessary DNS records are already created on the new Name Servers for the website/emails to be functional.
6. You need to mention any existing Child Name Servers for your .EU domain name alongwith their respective IP Addresses. This is necessary to avoid any downtime for the website/emails associated with any domain name using these Child Name Servers as their Name Servers. If you wish to Register any new Child Name Servers, you may also mention the same alongwith the respective IP Addresses. These new Child Name Servers will be Registered once the domain name is Transferred successfully.
Child Name Servers can also be Registered separately. Click here to know how >>
7. Finally, proceed with the Payment of the Invoice. Click here to read more details on Payment >>.
Now that you have placed the Transfer Order, the Registrant Contact for the Domain Name will receive an e-mail from the Registry for the Transfer Authorization process, which needs to be approved within 7 days. The Registry provides an additional grace period of 7 days for approval, in case the Transfer was not approved within the initial 7 day period. The authorization can also be provided through a fax to the Registry from the Registrant Contact. Template of the confirmation fax is provided below:
The request is processed once the Registry receives approval from the Registrant.
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15 Jul 10 What is Free DNS? Which types of Resource Records does ResellerClub allow?
The Domain Name System [DNS] is a distributed database, arranged hierarchically, containing records for domain names. The DNS system’s main aim is to match a domain name to an IP Address. In order to fulfill this role, the DNS Server contains Records [called Resource Records] in a Zone File, which contains the domain name and IP address mappings for computers contained within that Zone. All Resource Records have a TTL [Time To Live], specifying the number of seconds other DNS servers and applications are allowed to cache the record.
Most Web Hosting companies do not provide you with an interface to manage your own DNS Records and/or the ability to select multiple providers for various Services like Web Hosting, Mail Hosting, etc..
Gossimer, LLC gives you complete control over the following Resource Records by using our Free DNS Service:
I. Address Record [A Record]
The A Record is the most basic and the most important DNS record type. They are used to translate human friendly domain names such as “www.domain.com” into IP-addresses such as 1.2.3.4 (machine friendly numbers).
When you wish to host your domain name, you will be provided with an IP address that needs to be set as an A Record for that particular domain name.
II. Mail Exchanger [MX] Record
A MX Record identifies the mail server(s) responsible for a domain name. When sending an e-mail to user@xyz.com, your mail server must first look up the MX Record for xyz.com to see which mail server actually handles mail for xyz.com (this could be mail.xyz.com – or someone else’s mail server like mail.isp.com). Then it looks up the A Record for the mail server to connect to its IP-address.
A MX Record has a Preference number indicating the order in which the mail server should be used (only relevant when multiple MX Records are defined for the same domain name). Mail servers will attempt to deliver mail to the server with the lowest preference number first, and if unsuccessful continue with the next lowest and so on.
III. Canonical Name [Alias / CNAME] Record
CNAME Records are domain name aliases. Often computers on the Internet have multiple functions such as Web Server, FTP Server, Chat Server, etc. To mask this, CNAME Records can be used, to give a single computer multiple names (aliases).
Sometimes companies register their multiple domain names for their brand-names but still wish to maintain a single website. In such cases, a CNAME Record maybe used to forward traffic to their actual website. For example, www.abc.in could be CNAMEd to www.abc.com.
The most popular use of the CNAME Record type, is to provide access to a Web Server using both the standard www.domain.com and domain.com (without the www). This is usually done by adding a CNAME-record for the www name pointing to the short name [while creating an A Record for the short name (without www)].
CNAME Records can also be used when a computer or service needs to be renamed, to temporarily allow access through both the old and new name.
IV. Authoritative Name Server [NS] Record
NS Records identify DNS servers responsible (authoritative) for a Zone. A Zone should contain one NS Record for each of its own DNS servers (primary and secondaries). This mostly is used for Zone Transfer purposes (notify). These NS Records have the same name as the Zone in which they are located.
But the most important function of the NS Record is Delegation. Delegation means that part of a domain is delegated to other DNS servers.
You can also delegate sub-domains of your own domain name (such as subdomain.yourname.com) to other DNS servers. An NS Record identifies the name of a DNS server, not the IP Address. Because of this, it is important that an A Record for the referenced DNS server exists, otherwise there may not be any way to find that DNS server and communicate with it.
If a NS Record delegates a sub-domain (subdomain.yourname.com) to a DNS Server with a name in that sub-domain (ns1.subdomain.yourname.com), an A Record for that server (ns1.subdomain.yourname.com) must exist in the Parent Zone (yourname.com). This A Record is referred to as a Glue Record, because it doesn’t really belong in the Parent Zone, but is necessary to locate the DNS Server for the delegated sub-domain.
V. Text [TXT] RecordA Text Record provides the ability to associate some text with a domain or a subdomain. This text is meant to strictly provide information and has no functionality as such. A TXT Record can store upto 255 characters of free form text. This record is generally used to convey information about the zone. Multiple TXT records are permitted but their order is not necessarily retained.
For example, you may add a TXT Record for yourname.com with the value as “This is my mail server”. Here if anybody was checking ALL or TXT records of yourname.com, they would notice the above text appearing in the TXT record.
TXT Record is also used to implement the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys specifications.
Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
Sender Policy Framework is an extension to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). SPF allows software to identify and reject forged addresses in the SMTP MAIL FROM (Return-Path), a typical nuisance in e-mail spam.
SPF allows the owner of a domain to specify their mail sending policy, e.g. which mail servers they use to send mail from their domain. The technology requires two sides to work in tandem -
i. the domain owner publishes this information in an TXT Record in the domain’s DNS zone, and when someone else’s mail server receives a message claiming to come from that domain, then
ii. the receiving server can check whether the message complies with the domain’s stated policy. If, for example, the message comes from an unknown server, it can be considered a fake.
DomainKeys
DomainKeys is an e-mail authentication system (developed at Yahoo!) designed to verify the authenticity of the E-mail sender and the message integrity (i.e,. the message was not altered during transit). The DomainKeys specification has adopted aspects of Identified Internet Mail to create an enhanced protocol called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM).
VI. Start of Authority [SOA] Parameters Each Zone contains one SOA Record, which holds the following parameters for the Zone -
Name of Primary DNS Server - The domain name of the Primary DNS Server for the Zone. The Zone should contain a matching NS Record.
Mailbox of the Responsible Person – The email address of the person responsible for maintenance of the Zone.
Serial Number - Used by Secondary DNS Servers to check if the Zone has changed. If the Serial Number is higher than what the Secondary Server has, a Zone Transfer will be initiated. This number is automatically increased by our Servers when changes to the Zone or its Records are made.
Refresh Interval - How often Secondary DNS Servers should check if changes are made to the zone.
Retry Interval - How often Secondary DNS Server should retry checking, if changes are made – if the first refresh fails.
Expire Interval - How long the Zone will be valid after a refresh. Secondary Servers will discard the Zone if no refresh could be made within this interval.
Minimum (Default) TTL - Used as the default TTL for new records created within the zone. Also used by other DNS Server to cache negative responses (such as record does not exist, etc.).
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09 Jul 10 Using the IP Deny Manager to manage access to your website
By default, your website becomes visible to all people browsing the Internet. Typically, large websites running forums, blogs, ecommerce activities, etc. are prone to abuse from spammers, people posting malicious content, etc., causing disruption of website services. The most effective method of dealing with such nuisance is to deny access to your website from such mischief mongers.
Using Gossimer’s IP Deny Manager tool within your Web Hosting Control Panel, you can easily control access to your website based on the visitor’s IP Address. Moreover, you may deny access from all IP Addresses of a particular block of IP Addresses, if you are receiving constant abuse from the entire range of IP Addresses.
Follow the process listed below to block/allow access to your website based on IP Addresses:
- Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package. Click here to know how >>
- In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the Order Details View.
- Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.
- In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows,
go to Manage Website -> IP Deny Manager, if you have a Windows web hosting package
or
go to Manage Website -> Web Server Manager -> IP Deny Manager, if you have a Linux web hosting package
- From this interface, you may either restrict access to your website or allow previously blocked IP Addresses to access your website. a. Restricting Access to your website – You may mention either one or more individual IP Addresses, or entire Blocks of IP Addresses on individual lines.
Examples
i. If you wish to block a single IP Address, simply input the same in the textbox as
1.1.1.1
ii. If you wish to block multiple individual IP Addresses, then you may mention them on separate lines
2.2.2.2
3.3.3.3iii. If you wish to block an entire range of IP Addresses, then you may mention them as
4.4.4.*
5.5.*.*
6.*.*.*IMPORTANT1. Use extreme caution when deciding to deny access to entire range of IP Addresses, as you might end up denying access to your genuine visitors.
2. IP Address of the type *.*.*.* is not allowed.
b. Allowing Access to your website - If you wish to enable access to a previously blocked IP Address, then you need to simply select that IP Address in the textbox and press the Delete key on your computer’s keyboard.
- Clicking on the Submit button would save all your settings.
In order to complete the action in case of Linux Hosting, the Web Server needs to be restarted. Random restarts affect other services running on the Server. In order to avoid this, the Server has been scheduled to restart at intervals of 20 minutes. Hence, the changes might take upto 20 minutes to be effective.
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06 Jul 10 Web Statistics Management Settings
Gossimer gives you the ability to comprehensively customise your Web Statistics reports, to obtain accurate and more pertinent details about your Website. You can customise your reports from your Control Panel itself; follow the process mentioned below to do so:
1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package. Click here to read how >>
2. In the search results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the order details view.
3. Click on Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.
4. In the Website Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> Web Statistics Manager -> Settings.
5. This page allows you to specify the following options, configure them as per your requirement:
- Generate Web Stats: Select YES if you wish to obtain statistics for your website. The statistics are generated on a daily basis.
- Keep Backup of Historic Files: Whenever your web statistics are to be updated, the system overwrites the old (historic) files with the new data. However, if an error is encountered (e.g. if your site runs out of allowed disk space), the file may get corrupt, causing you to lose all old data as well. Selecting this option would keep a copy of the old file for your referral.
- Purge Log File: Your raw log files would be deleted after the statistics are generated, if you choose YES. This would prevent logs from taking up web space.
- Skip Hosts: Choose this option to avoid recording statistics from specific hosts. For example, you might wish not to record statistics for all hits/visits from your own home/office. Specify such hosts or IP addresses here.
- Skip Files: Use this option to avoid recording data for particular URLs. Using this, you can make sure that statistics pertaining to unimportant pages are not recorded.
- Only Files: This is the exact opposite of the previous option. Using this, you can choose to record data only pertaining to specific/important pages.
- Not Page List: Enter a list of file extensions that would be considered only a Hit, and not a Page View.
- Protect Webstats: Password protection for web statistics can be enabled/disabled using this option. This option is available only in case of Windows hosting. Click here to read how to enable password protection for web statistics in case of Linux hosting >>
In order to complete the action in case of Linux Hosting, the Web Server needs to be restarted. Random restarts affect other services running on the Server. In order to avoid this, the Server has been scheduled to restart at intervals of 20 minutes. Hence, the changes might take upto 20 minutes to be effective.
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03 Jul 10 Viewing Website Statistics of my SuperSite and PartnerSite
Gossimer maintains detailed daily logs of traffic visiting your SusperSite and PartnerSite websites. These website statistics are graphically displayed within your SuperSite and PartnerSite Website Statistics Area, for you to analyze traffic trends such as:
- Number of visits and number of unique visitors
- Visits duration and last visits
- Days of week and rush hours (pages, hits, Bandwidth for each hour and day of week)
- Hosts list, last visits and unresolved IP addresses list
- Most viewed, entry and exit pages
- Files type
- OS used (pages, hits, KB for each OS, 35 OS detected)
- Browsers used
- Visits of robots
- Search engines, keyphrases and keywords used to find your site
- HTTP errors (Page Not Found with last referrer, …)
- Number of times your site is added to favorites bookmarks
It is imperative that you set a Username and Password for your SuperSite and PartnerSite Web Statistics area, before being able to gain access to the same. Click here to know how you can add your Web Statistics Area Username and Password >>
There are three methods of viewing your SusperSite and PartnerSite Website Statistics:
I. From your Reseller Control Panel
1. Login to your Reseller Admin Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller.
2. To view your SuperSite Website Statistics, or PartnerSite Website Statistics, go to
Settings -> SuperSite & PartnerSite -> View SuperSite Stats
Settings -> SuperSite & PartnerSite -> View PartnerSite Stats
This will open the respective Statistics Area in a new window.
II. From the Supersite or PartnerSite URL
1. Go to http://<your supersite URL>/admin, or http://<your partnersite URL>/admin, as applicable.
2. Enter the Username and Password to your Reseller Account, and click on Submit.
3. Click on the link Other Misc Functions and then, click on the View Detailed Website Statistics of your SuperSite/PartnerSite link. This will open the respective Statistics Area in a new window.
III. By directly visiting the SuperSite and PartnerSite Website Statistics Area
If you know your Reseller Id (a unique number available in your Reseller Admin Control Panel under Settings -> Primary Profile), then you may visit the following URLs directly:
SuperSite Statistics Area -> http://<your Reseller Id>.stats.supersite.myorderbox.com/
PartnerSite Statistics Area -> http://<your Reseller Id>.stats.partnersite.myorderbox.com/
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Gossimer in the News
- Gossimer Puts Indian Domain Extensions Up for Sale February 21, 2010Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration and web hosting company has announced a sale on Indian domain extensions. During the promotion period, domains ending with .in will be offered at discounted price. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Unveils a New & Improved Payment System February 14, 2010The Melbourne-based (Florida) web hosting and domain name registration company Gossimer has announced the inclusion of three more payment options in its system. From today the customers and the web hosting resellers can use AlertPay, WebMoney, and Liberty Reserve to pay for the domain registration as well as web hosting services. Gossimer already offered Pay […]
- Gossimer Has Opened Its Treasure Chest for Webhost Resellers January 16, 2010Gossimer, the fast growing domain name registration and web hosting company has yet again opened its door of their reseller program. This program offers a comprehensive web hosting product portfolio for resellers and resellers of Gossimer’s resellers. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Invites Customers to Try Digital Certificates for Free January 2, 2010Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration and web hosting company is offering 21 days free trial on digital certificates. This trail will allow webmasters to understand the role Https plays in building visitors’ confidence in their website. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Announces Special Domain Name Registration Deals December 25, 2009Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration and web hosting company has announced a special deal on 12 top domain extensions and that includes some CTLDs as well. This promotion is available on the registration of new domain names, and you can register as many domains as you want. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Announced a Transfer-in Domain Promotion to Allow Customers to Consolidate Their Domains Into One Account November 7, 2009Save money on domain name transfer to Gossimer. Gossimer is currently running an attractive promotion on domain transfer-in that will save a lot of money for the domain portfolio builder. You can transfer as many domains as you wish under this promotion. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Became Reseller of the Month for October October 17, 2009October brings another piece of good news for Gossimer. The fastest growing web hosting and domain name registration company has been chosen as the Reseller of the month for October by ResellerClub. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Offers One Year Free Extension on Domain Transfer October 3, 2009Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration company, is offering one year free extension with every domain name transferred to its system. This service when coupled with other services puts Gossimer in the position of price leadership. The company offers the most economic rate for domain name registration and webhosting services. [PR.com] […]
- New Deals Make Gossimer Bigger, Better and Smarter October 2, 2009October is going to be hot with offers, extended support, and enhanced serviceability, as Gossimer has acquired HiTek Networks, and launched new and improved Support desk. The web hosting world is abuzz by the two important developments in Gossimer. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Offers Unlimited E-mails for $1 September 28, 2009Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name and webhosting company, has announced a no-upgrade “The Ultimate Email Plan” that will give the buyer an access to unlimited email accounts for just $1/month. [PR.com] […]
Gossimer Promotions and Announcements
- TechSupport Notifications February 28, 2010Technical support information and notifications […]
- PHP4 Discontinuation - 18th September September 7, 2009As announced earlier, PHP4 will not be supported on our Linux Hosting Servers from the 18th of September, 2009. Please pass on this information to your Customers and Resellers to ensure that they can update their websites to work with PHP5. […]
- .CN Launch - Coming Soon August 16, 2009We are glad to announce the launch of .CN - the most popular and fastest growing ccTLD worldwide. The .CN domain extension has seen an exemplary growth since its launch throughout the world. Earlier this year, .CN crossed over 13 million registrations to become the second most registered domain extension after .COM. Moreover, with China now representing the […]
- Live Chat Product Discontinuation - Moved to 18th August August 16, 2009Based on feedback that we received from several Resellers, we have decided to postpone the Live Chat discontinuation to the August of 18th, 2009 at 12:30 UTC. From the 18th of August, it will not be possible to purchase new Live Chat packages but exisiting packages will continue to function normally. […]