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ASP.NET hosting is now available on AWARDSPACE.COM! 3 comments

AWARDSPACE.COM is proud to announce that our paid Linux hosting now supports ASP.NET technology.  ASP.NET is a part of the Microsoft .NET framework, it is a powerful tool for creating dynamic and interactive web pages. The current version our hosting supports is ASP.NET 2.0. You can run the following file types .asax, .ascx, .ashx, .asmx, .aspx, .soap, .rem, .axd, .cs, .dll;

To enable ASP.NET support for your web hosting account please login your web hosting account ASP.NET Manager section, choose the hostname you wish to use ASP.NET from a given list and click “Activate ASP.NET” button. Free accounts do not support ASP.NET.

Disclaimer: Here we have to make clear that ASP.NET is the latest version of Microsoft’s Active Server Pages technology (ASP). This is not the classic ASP. ASP.NET is an entirely new technology for server-side scripting and is not an upgraded version of ASP. You cannot run classic ASP on though this means .asp files.

SSL Certificates and SSL Control Panel! No comments yet

For those of our clients that have ecommerce web sites, SSL certificates are a must. While before you were facing the difficulties where to get SSL certificate and how to set it up with us, we have done this for you. Now you can pucrhase SSL Certificate from our web site or from your Web Hosting Control Panel, SSL Manager.

Buying  SSL Certificate will automatically create SSL Control Panel for your ease. Inside this SSL Control Panel you can see your SSL Certificate, CSR and Private Key. Purchase additional SSLs or renew expired one.

For those of you who will use the SSL Certificate with a web site hosted with us you have to set it up inside the Web Hosting Control Panel, SSL Manager.

Domain Name Control Panel launched! 1 comment

At AWARDSPACE we aim to give as much freedom of our clients as we can, developing various different functionality for their ease. That is why we have developed separate Domain Control Panel.

Every one of our clients who register or transfer a domain name will have separate Domain Control Panel. By purchasing domain registration/transfer you will receive separate Welcome Emails with ClientID and Password for Domain Control Panel. Use this login to access your Domain Control Panel. Login is available with either ClientID or Email address used for domain registration/transfer.

For domain names registered before Feb 2009 please contact our support from your Web Hosting Control Panel, Support Center, Trouble Tickets and ask your domain(s) to be setup with Domain Control Panel.

Virtual Private Servers – VPS Hosting launched. No comments yet

VPS Hosting is available for all our clients that have the need of getting their sites over to more reliable solution than shared hosting. VPS is partitioning a physical server into multiple Virtual Servers having the appearance and capacity of a dedicated server. Each Virtaul Server is absolutely independent from the others on the physical machine. Each one has its own operating system, and each server can be independently rebooted.

Unlikely other providers we value our clients time and support VPS Hosting with Control Panel you can easily use. Webmin Control Panel is fully installed and ready to be used on the VPS once you purchase it.

Visit our VPS Hosting offers here.

How can I access my Webmail? No comments yet

Answer: You can access your webmail from the control panel, if you follow the instructions:

1. Login to your control panel.
2. Go to E-Mail Manager.
3. Click on Webmail.

You wil be forwarded to a login screen from where you can manage your emails via your web browser.

How can I add an e-mail alias? No comments yet

Answer: To add an e-mail alias, you should follow the instructions below:

1. Login to your control panel. 2. Go to E-Mail Manager.
3. Click on E-mail Aliases.

You will be forwarded to a page where you will find a list of your current e-mail aliases.. To add the alias, you will have to complete the form.

I’m having trouble setting up an email account in Thunderbird, what are the correct settings? No comments yet

Answer: Delete the email account you have already set up, start again and follow these steps:

  1. Tools -> Account Settings
  2. Add Account -> New Account Setup -> Choose Email account
  3. Identity:
      • Your Name: Firstname Lastname
        • Email address: name@domain.com
        1. Server Information:
            • Choose IMAP
              • Incoming Server: mail.yourdomain.com
              1. User Names:
                  • name@yourdomain.com
                  1. Account Name:
                      • name@yourdomain.com
                      1. Finish -> OKThunderbird might ask you for email account password, enter it.
                      2. Inside your Thunderbird right click on the email account -> choose Properties
                      3. Dialog box will open, go to Server Settings -> click on ‘Advanced’ button
                      4. Second dialog box will open, in IMAP server directory write: INBOX, click Ok on the second dialog box
                      5. On the first dialog box on the left below find -> Outgoing Server (SMTP), click on and choose ‘Add’
                      6. A dialog box will open with title ‘SMTP Server’ enter the following settings:Settings:
                          • Description: name@domain.com
                            • Server Name: mail.domain.com
                              • Port 25

                                Security and Authentication:

                                  • Check box ‘Use name and password’ should be checked.
                                    • Username: name@yourdomain.com

                                    Confirm all dialog boxes with OK, close Thunderbird and reopen it again. You may be asked for your password again, place the password and check the box to save it.

                                    This is the whole process of setting up an email account with Thunderbird.

                                    How to set up email forwarding? No comments yet

                                    Answer: To set up forwarding for all emails coming to any@yourdomaindomain.com to be forwarded any@anydomain.com, do the following:

                                    1. Go to your Control Panel -> E-mail Manager section -> E-mail Filters menu;
                                    2. If you want all emails sent to any@yourdomaindomain.com to be forwarded to any@anydomain.com, these are the correct settings in the E-mail Filters menu:

                                      E-mail: any@anydomain.com (choose from the drop down menu)

                                      Rule description: any@anydomain.com type any explanation for this rule

                                      Filter priority: any not already taken from 1 to 500, start from 1

                                      Set filter criteria: ‘Addressed To’ ,type any@anydomain.com

                                      Action to be taken: ‘Forward message to e-mail’ any@anydomain.com

                                    If you want the emails sent to any@yourdomaindomain.com, to be forwarded to any@anydomain.com, and in the same time kept in any@anydomaindomain.com as well, you should specify all emails to be forwarded to any@anydomain.com as well as any@anydomaindomain.com, space delimited.

                                    I am unable to use PHP mail() function from my paid hosting account, why? No comments yet

                                    Answer: Here is a script example you can test php mail function with:

                                    <?
                                    $from = “From: You <you@yourdomain.com>”;
                                    $to = “you@yourdomain.com”;
                                    $subject = “Hi! “;
                                    $body = “TEST”;

                                    if(mail($to,$subject,$body,$from))
                                    echo “MAIL – OK”;
                                    else
                                    echo “MAIL FAILED”;
                                    ?>

                                    This script is sending email (to you@yourdomain.com) and printing “MAIL – OK” on the page.

                                    Please note that the ‘from’ header should be an existing email account inside your Email Manager of your hosting Control Panel.

                                    I can’t send e-mails. It seems that the POP3/IMAP connection is not working. Please help? No comments yet

                                    Answer: In order to check, if your email client does connect to POP3, please observe the following steps:

                                    1. Open command prompt from -> Start button -> Run -> type cmd, a black dialog box will open the so called Command Prompt
                                    2. Type in -> telnet mail.yourdomain.com 110 -> press ‘Enter’

                                    You should receive – OK status, this means POP3 is working and connection is ok to the mail server.

                                    In order to check if your email client does connect to IMAP, do the following:

                                    1. Open command prompt from -> Start button -> Run -> type cmd, a black dialog box will open, this is the so called command prompt
                                    2. Type in -> telnet mail.yourdomain.com 143 -> press ‘Enter’

                                    You should receive – OK status, this means IMAP is working and connection is ok to the mail server.

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