Friday, July 07, 2006

Web Hosting Billing System

Web Hosting Control Panels

1. ensim
Ensim Pro is the industry's leading single-server hosting automation and control panel solution for hosted web sites, email and online applications. It includes comprehensive tools that enable hosting providers to create, control and deliver a variety of professional-quality hosting plans in minutes.

Ensim Pro's control panel offers four powerful roles, each with their own roles & responsibilities.
http://www.ensim.com

2. Cpanel
cPanel® and WHM™ (WebHost Manager) is the next generation web hosting control panel system. Both cPanel & WHM are extremely feature rich as well as include an easy to use web based GUI (Graphical User Interface).

WHM allows you to but is not limited to administering individual accounts, reseller accounts & performing basic system and control panel maintenance via a secure interface.

cPanel is designed for the end users of your system and allows them to control everything from adding / removing email accounts to administering MySQL databases.
http://www.cpanel.net

3. Plesk
Plesk is comprehensive server management software developed specifically for the Hosting Service Industry with the assistance of Web hosting professionals. Time tested tough in real world hosting environments this award winning “control panel” software has proven itself for years to be simply the best. Learn the ABCs of server self administration and see why Plesk is considered the global leader of control panel software applications.
http://www.swsoft.com

4. H-SPHERE
A scalable multiserver web hosting control panel that provides complete hosting automation for Linux, BSD & Win2000/2003 platforms, is easy to use, and has extensive user interface, billing solution, brandable resellers, and integrated trouble ticket system
http://www.psoft.net

5. Helm
Helm is the only true multi-server management and control system for Windows 2000 and 2003 based web hosts. Helm grows with you, providing a solid platform that automates all of the day-to-day tasks that would otherwise require highly skilled man power.
http://www.webhostautomation.com

6.DirectAdmin
Control panel for web hosting companies running Red Hat 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, Red Hat Enterprise and FreeBSD.
http://www.directadmin.com

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Domain Name Expiry

Domain Name put on Parking Page

Whenever a particular Domain Name is not renewed till the expiry date, it would slip into the Renewal Grace Period. This period is of 40 days, during which the Domain Name would be put on a Temporary Commercial Parking Page, which would show that the Domain Name has expired. During this period any website and mails associated with the Domain Name would become non-functional.

When a domain name expires, the Registry Auto-Renews it and locks our funds for the same. However, the auto-renewal action is not immediate, but is queued up for execution. This often takes up to 48 hours to complete. Now, if you were to add another renewal action, the domain name would get renewed for an additional year, even though you do not wish it to get renewed for any more years than you requested.

To avoid this situation, the Parking Action is maintained under process. The domain name would bear the following status at this stage -

Action Requested: Parking of
Status of the action: Awaiting update at Registry

Once the execution is completed at the Registry, OrderBox will complete the Parking action and readily renew your domain name.

After you have Renewed the Domain Name, it would take around 24-48 hours for DNS propagation to complete World-wide and the actual website to start resolving properly and to start receiving mails.

Note: During this DNS propagation period, your website may intermittently revert to the Parking Page and then change again to your actual website, depending on how ISP caches refresh. However, if you have already renewed your domain name, do not renew your domain name again. The parking page will automatically get removed as soon as the DNS propagation completes.

If you do not renew the Domain Name in the Renewal Grace Period, then the Domain Name would be Deleted. However, should there be no back-order for the domain name, you would still have the option to Redeem it.