12 Mar 10 How do I monitor my account for Data Transfer overages?
To monitor your data transfer limit you can use the Web Statistics for your website, which Gossimer provides you free of cost. The web statistics, or webstats, provide you detailed information about visits to your website, including the data transfer generated by them (bandwidth). These statistics are generated once a day, and are maintained on an hourly, weekly and monthly basis.
You can view your web stats at http://<yourdomainname>/webstats.
Alternatively, you can monitor your data transfer overages through your Website management interface. To do so, follow the steps mentioned below:
1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this hosting package.
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, you will see Usage statistics for your website, which also includes the data transfer (in Mb/month).
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12 Mar 10 Deleting an existing Virtual Directory
If for some reason, you wish to delete your existing Virtual Directory, you may do so by following the below mentioned process:
- Login to your Control Panel, search for the Domain Name for which you have purchased this Web Hosting package and proceed to the Order details view. Click here to know how >>
- Click Manage Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar. A Website Management interface will pop-up.
- Go to Manage Website -> Virtual Directory Manager -> List Virtual Directories.
- Select the checkbox adjacent to the Virtual Directory you wish to delete and click the Delete button above to delete the Virtual Directory.
- Click OK in the confirmation pop-up window to complete the deletion process.
A Virtual Directory with .NET Framework version 1.1 and no write permissions for the IIS (anonymous) User is created for the web folder by default. You cannot delete this Virtual Directory. You may however -
- modify the .NET Framework version for this Virtual Directoryand/or
- grant/deny write permissions for the IIS (anonymous) User on this Virtual Directory
Click here to read how to perform either of the above mentioned actions >>
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08 Mar 10 How do I disable Web Statistics?
If you do not wish to generate a report of your Web based traffic, you can choose to disable the option at any time. Doing this would save the disk space actually utilized for these reports, and could be done if you do not feel it necessary to monitor the usage of your site.
Follow the process mentioned below to disable Web statistics:
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. On this page, you would see the option to Generate Web Stats. Select No from the drop-down adjacent to this option.
This would disable all web traffic reports for your site.
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 change might take upto 20 minutes to be effective.
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07 Mar 10 Bulk Renewal
The Renewal Management interface can be used as follows -
For Customers:
- Login to your Customer Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/customer.
- Go to WebSite Builder -> Renewal Management
- Select WebSite Builder or any other Product whose Orders you wish to renew from the drop down and enter the number of days, to obtain a list of all expiring domain names within this period, and click on Go.For example, if you want to obtain the list of WebSite Builder Orders expiring in the next 30 days, select it from the drop-down and then enter 30 to obtain this list.
- Select one or more Orders that you wish to Renew. To select all Orders, select the check box on the top of the form.
- Click on the Renew Selected Orders button, to select the Number of years for which you wish to Renew each Order.
- Upon selecting the number of years you want to renew each order for, you would be displayed your Current Debit Account Balance with Gossimer and the Total Amount for renewing the selected orders, at the bottom of the page.
- If you have selected less than 25 orders to be renewed, then upon clicking on the Continue button, you would be prompted to Pay for the Renewal of these orders. Click here to read how to settle a pending Invoice/Debit Note >>
- If you have selected more than 25 orders to be renewed, then
- if you have sufficient funds in your Current Debit Account Balance, then upon clicking on the Continue button, your Bulk Renewal request will be added to the queue and it will be automatically processed shortly.
- if you do not have sufficient funds in your Current Debit Account Balance, then you would need to first click on the Add Funds link.This will pop-up a new window, where you need to select one of the payment methods and add sufficient funds to cover the cost of renewing these domain names (ie. Total Amount – Current Debit Account Balance).Upon completion of the Add Funds process, close this window and refresh the Set Years for Renewal page. Now upon clicking on the Continue button, your Bulk Renewal request will be added to the queue and it will be automatically processed shortly.
At any point of time, you can only add two Bulk orders. This implies that you would not be able to add another Bulk Registration / Renewal / Modification request, if two Bulk Actions are already running. You will be able to add another Bulk request once the earlier request has been processed completely.
For Resellers:
- Log in to your Reseller Admin Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller
- Go to Products -> Renewal Management
- Before clicking on the Go button, select/mention the following details
Product – Select WebSite Builder or any other Product whose Orders you wish to renew from the drop down
Number of Days – Enter the number of days to obtain a list of all Expiring orders of (all) your Customers within this period
Customer (optional) – If you wish to renew only orders belonging to a particular Customer, you may do so by mentioning the Customer Username (email address) or Customer ID (number) in the appropriate field. If you leave this field blank, the search will result in orders belonging to all your Customers.
For example,
Case 1 – if you want to renew Orders belonging to All Products, expiring in the next 30 days, then you would need to select the Product as All Products, mention 30 days and not fill the Customer field.
Case 2 – if you want to renew only Customer Username a@somedomain.com all orders belonging to All Products, expiring in the next 30 days, then you would need to select the Product as All Products, mention 30 days and fill the Customer field with a@somedomain.com.
- Select one or more Orders that you wish to Renew. To select all Orders, select the check box on the top of the form.
- Click on Renew Selected Orders, to select the Number of years for which you wish to Renew each Order.
- Decide how you wish to Pay for the Renewal of the Orders by selecting one of the Payment Options mentioned below and then click on the Continue button to execute the Renewal
- Option 1 – Renew the Orders and the Invoices will be kept Pending for the Customer. This way, he can pay for the Invoices later.
- Option 2 – Renew the domain names using the Current Debit Account Balance of the Customer. This option would immediately debit your Customer’s Debit Account for the Cost of the Renewals. If there are insufficient funds in the Customer’s Debit Account balance, then the system would renew as many Orders as possible.
- Option 3 – Renew the Orders without raising any Invoices for the Customer.
At any point of time, you can only add two Bulk orders for any Customer. This implies that you would not be able to add another Bulk Registration / Renewal / Modification request for a Customer if two Bulk Actions are already running for this Customer. You will be able to add another Bulk request once the earlier request has been processed completely.
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07 Mar 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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05 Mar 10 How to install your Digital Certificate on your Web Server?
Once you have been issued your Digital Certificate, you need to install the same on your web server. Click here to find instructions on how to retrieve your Digital Certificate >>
Depending upon the type of Digital Certificate that you have purchased and the Web Server Software where you intend to install your Digital Certificate, you need to refer to the appropriate instructions provided below:
| Gossimer Digital Certificate Name | thawte Digital Certificate Name | Installation Instructions |
| SGC SuperCert | SGC SuperCert | Click here to find instructions on how to install your SGC SuperCert on your web server >> |
| Web Server Certificate | SSL Web Server Certificate | Click here to find instructions on how to install your Web Server Certificate on your web server >> |
| SSL123 Certificate | SSL123 Certificate | Click here to find instructions on how to install your SSL123 Certificate on your web server >> |
| Wildcard Server Certificate | Wildcard Certificate | Click here to find instructions on how to install your Wildcard Server Certificate on your Apache web server >> |
- If you wish to secure your domain name on multiple servers, you need to purchase Additional License(s) for your Digital Certificate and install your Digital Certificate on these servers. Click here to read about Additional Licenses in detail >>
- If you have purchased Web Hosting service for this domain name from Gossimer, then you may ignore the above mentioned instructions and can yourself install your issued Digital Certificate. Click here to read the instructions for installing your Digital Certificate through Gossimer Website Management interface >>
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04 Mar 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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04 Mar 10 Deleting a MySQL database
Follow the process below to delete an existing MySQL database:
1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this Hosting package.
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 -> Database Manager -> List Databases.
5. The following page would contain a list of databases associated with your website, with complete details for each database such as the database name, space utilization and the Users associated with it.
6. Select the check-box before the database that you wish to delete, and click on the Delete button.
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02 Mar 10 Adding MySQL Database Users
If the hosting package that you have purchased from Gossimer contains MySQL Database(s), you can add as many as 100 Database Users cumulatively for all your Databases. Moreover, the distribution of number of Users for each Database is not pre-defined – you can specify how many Users you wish to allow access to a particular Database, as long as the total number of Users is limited to 100.
Follow the process mentioned below to add additional Database Users for your MySQL Database:
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 -> Database Manager -> Add Database User.
5. On this page, specify the following details
- Database: The name of the Database for which you wish to add this User.
- Database Username: The Username for the User you are creating.
- Password: A password for the User you are creating.
6. There are also some additional details that you can specify; however, they are not essential and can be specified at a later time as well. These are:
I. Hostname details: Specify the hosts from which you wish the User to access this Database. You have 3 options
- Allow connection from any host
- Allow connection only from the same server
- Allow connection only from specific hosts (enter specific hosts here – hosts can be in the form of a hostname, or IP Address).
Reference: Restricting access of a MySQL Database User to allow connection from Specific Hosts only >>
II. Security privileges: Click on the Security Privileges button to specify access rights for that particular Database User. Click on Save Changes to submit the settings.
Reference: Defining Access rights for a MySQL Database User >>
7. Once you have specified all details, click on Submit.
If you have installed a Power Tool in your Web Hosting Package, then you need to ensure that you do not perform any of the following actions:
- Modification/Deletion of the Database, that you selected during installation of the Power Tool
- Modification/Deletion of the Database User, that you selected during installation of the Power Tool
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02 Mar 10 Deleting a MS SQL Database
Follow the process below to delete an existing MS SQL Database:
1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this Hosting package.
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 -> Database Manager -> List Databases.
5. The following page would contain a list of Databases associated with your website, with complete details for each Database such as the Database name, space utilization and the Users associated with it.
6. Select the check-box before the Database that you wish to delete, and click on the Delete button.
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02 Mar 10 Suspending/Unsuspending a MySQL Database user
You can temporarily disable a particular User’s access to your Database, by Suspending that particular User. 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.
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 -> Database Manager -> List Databases.
5. The following page would contain a list of Databases associated with your website, with complete details for each Database such as the Database name, space utilization and the Users associated with it. Here, click on the User whom you wish to Suspend.
6. In the User details view that follows, click on Suspend. This would disable the User’s access to the Database.
Unsuspending a User: To revoke a User’s Suspension, simply click on Unsuspend in this view.
If you have installed a Power Tool in your Web Hosting Package, then you need to ensure that you do not perform any of the following actions:
- Modification/Deletion of the Database, that you selected during installation of the Power Tool
- Modification/Deletion of the Database User, that you selected during installation of the Power Tool
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