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Help is available on the following:
E-mail
Like other hosting companies, Elirion does not offer outgoing e-mail. We assume that you can send mail using
your ISP account. Most ISP outgoing mail servers will let you claim to be just about anyone, so you can set your
mail "identity" to match your incoming mail account name.
Each hosting account includes a limited number of POP3 mail accounts. (We currently also run IMAP, so you can get your mail using an IMAP client like Netscape Messenger.)
Procmail
Procmail is a powerful program for processing incoming mail. You can use it to route mail into folders for later inspection, and to split e-mail digests into separate messages.
See http://www.procmail.org.
Sendmail
Sendmail is the most popular mail delivery program for UNIX.
See http://www.sendmail.org.
Mailman
The Mailman mailing list manager lets you set up mailing lists to keep in contact with your friends and customers. Postings to the lists can be automatically converted to web pages.
See http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/.
Bandwidth
Bandwidth is the amount of data you can transfer to and from your web site (and mail server) in a given period
of time, usually a month.
Each hosting account comes with a limited amount of bandwidth.
Disk Space
The disk space allocated to your hosting account is used for several things:
- Storing the HTML pages, image files, CGI programs, etc. that make up your site.
- Storing the mailbox files for your POP3 accounts.
- Storing error logs and access records for your web site.
- Storing the setup files and posting archive for your mailing lists.
- Storing numerous configuration files that customize your account.
POP3
Post Office Protocol, version 3 (POP3) is the most popular protocol for retrieving mail over the Internet.
PHP
PHP is a popular server-side scripting language. The PHP program is embedded in the HTML page, and is executed by the server while it is serving up the page. PHP-enabled HTML pages normally have a .php extension.
See http://www.php.net.
There's also useful information at http://phpbuilder.com and at many other sites.
Perl
Perl is a powerful scripting language used to run some of the best known sites on the web. You can write Perl programs of only a few lines that manipulate text and talk to databases. There's a massive library of modules you can use in your own programs on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).
See http://www.perl.org and http://www.cpan.org.
Java
Java is a compiled Internet programming language that's easy to learn and powerful. You can build robust web sites using servlets and JSPs.
See http://java.sun.com.
Microsoft FrontPage
Microsoft FrontPage is an easy-to-use web site builder that includes several common features like e-mailable
forms, guestbooks, etc. These features are implemented through server extensions. All of our hosting plans include
optional FrontPage extensions.
See http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/
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