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Aussie Site Seeing scans incoming and outgoing messages for viruses. However Aussie Site Seeing does not guarantee that every message will be scanned, or that every virus will be detected and removed. Additionally, Aussie Site Seeing reserves the right to remove attachments from incoming and outgoing email messages if there is any indication that the attachment is, or might be, infected with a virus.

Our virus scanning facilities provide a high level of protection against viruses but you acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for protecting your property and email accounts from virus threats.

Our system will:

• Block thousands of known viruses (such as BugBear, Klez etc)
• Block virus-like attachments
  

Attachments which end in any of the following are dropped:

adp,bat,com,cpl,lnk,pif,reg,scr,shs,wsc,wsf,wsh

Those are the ones which are both dangerous and unlikely to be sent for any valid reason.

Attachments which end in any of the following are NOT being dropped but a warning message will appear in the main message advising the recipient that opening the attachment could be dangerous.

exe,cmd,jse,sct,shb,url

The reason these are not being dropped is that we believe it is likely that the files would be sent for valid reasons.

Regardless of the above rules, an attachment may be dropped if it appears to be dishonestly reporting itself. For example, a .exe file with a content-type of .wav, .jpg, etc would be dropped automatically. These need to be dropped because they can infect a machine without the person explicitly choosing to open them. Also, it is extremely unlikely that this sort of filename/ content-type combination would be used for a valid reason.

Finally, while the overwhelming majority of messages passing through our servers are scanned thoroughly for viruses, please note that the following limits apply:

• Messages larger than 2 MB are not scanned - scanning very large attachments is extremely resource intensive so is not appropriate in a shared hosting environment. Please note however, that the vast majority of viruses are spread in files smaller than 2 MB.
• If a message contains 4 or more binary attachments, then only the first three are scanned. Again, this is a necessary limit to prevent overuse of resources, and we anticipate that it will affect very few messages.
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Autoresponders are a great marketing tool and can save you time answering common questions.  You can set up an autoresponder so that when a message is sent to, say, info@yourname.com, then your pre-written message is automatically returned to the sender.  It can also notify the sender that their email has been received when you are unable to reply straight away.

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Your logo banner with an embedded hyerlink to your minisite will be placed on our front page for 1 month period in a rotating banner. No more than ten banners will be displayed and rotated at any given time.

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We set you up with a CGI Bin where you can install scripts.  We provide some  "pre-installed" scripts but they may require some configuration from you. Our CGI Script Wizard makes installation and configuration of our ready-to-use scripts a breeze.

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What can I do through the AussieSiteSeeing Control Panel?
Our AussieSiteSeeing Control Panel is packed with features to help you build, manage and promote your site.  The panel has a simple point-and-click interface.  You can use it to:

• Upload files to your Web site;
• List, move, and delete files;
• Create and remove directories;
• Set permissions;
• Set up email aliases and autoresponders;
• Set your SpamBoxer anti-spam settings
• Redirect your email;
• Manage your mailboxes
• Reset passwords
• Access your account through Telnet (if your account has Telnet access);
• View your site statistics;
• Check your account details;
• Update your contact details
• Upgrade your account or select optional add-ons
• Learn about and use CGI scripts (which we provide);
• Password protect directories.
• Access Aussie Site Seeing WebMail
• Read tutorials, How-To guides and our web glossary

Customer Mailing List Sign-up Form Page

We design and configure an opt-in mailing list form on a separate page which is linked from your front page and allows your site visitors to sign up to receive your emails. The information that your visitors are signing up to receive will be detailed on the page in line with Australia's privacy regulations. Inputted data from your form is sent to your dedicated email address to make list maintenance less time consuming. If you are using mailing list software to manage your list, it can be configured to automatically input data received from your form.
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A directory listing includes your logo, a short introduction to your business and link/s to your minisite and coupon. Coupon preview

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If you host your site with Aussie Site Seeing, we will register and configure your .com; .net; .org; .info; OR .biz Domain Name. At Aussie Site Seeing all domain names we register are registered in the customer's name. This means that for the duration of the registration period YOU are the licence holder of the domain name.

When the licence is due for renewal, you will have to pay a renewal fee. If you do not renew the licence, then it will become available for any eligible applicant to register on a first come first served basis.

You can optionally upgrade your Domain Name to .com.au. (conditions and charges apply)
You can use the Domain Name search box at the top of this page to see if your preferred name is available or visit our Domain Site AussieDotComs for more information about Domain Names.

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We can optionally set up your main email account so that any mail sent to an unrecognized user at your domain is delivered to your main email address.  This can be very useful because it means you can use many different email aliases without actually having to set them up explicitly. You can also give any email account an unlimited number of email aliases so that when mail is sent to, say, an_alias@yourname.com then you will receive the email at, say, colleague@yourname.com (a real mailbox).  Email aliases can be set up very easily through our control panel.

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You can choose to forward your email to a different email account anywhere on the web.  This is easily achieved through a web-based interface.

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The Email Management section of the Control Panel now includes some new tools to make managing your POP accounts even easier:
Set up and adjust redirection settings

• Adjust their SpamBoxer anti-spam settings and view SpamBox messages
• Reset your passwords - you can reset the password on any POP account. If you reset the password on your catch-all POP account, the change will also apply to your FTP/Telnet/SSH/CustomerHQ login details
• Mailbox Cleanup - enables you to delete messages without having to download them first - a great way to get rid of those unwanted large messages
  
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When a visitor to your site tries to access a page that does not exist, they will usually receive the server's default Error 404: File Not Found message. If you prefer you can set up your account so that your own customized 'missing document' page is displayed instead, perhaps with a link to your home page (or whatever you like).

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You can access your account via FTP 24 hours a day, every day of the year.  You can upload your site using FTP, or you can use the Aussie Site-Seeing Control Panel instead.

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GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is an OpenPGP compliant application which enables you to encrypt data on your web site.  It is compatible with PGP  5.x and has very similar functionality.   If you site comes with secure server access, we will setup GPG for you for free. 

If you intend to receive sensitive information over the web, SSL access alone does not guarantee the safety of your data.  SSL keeps the information safe as it travels to your web site, but does not provide any protection once the data arrives.  GPG can be used to immediately encrypt the data when it arrives at your web site - you only decrypt it once you have downloaded it to your hard drive.  That gives you peace of mind knowing that the information your customers enter into your secure form will be safe all the way across the web.

We install a special version of FormMail on your secure server so that, when you receive sensitive information via your secure server, you can have the information immediately encrypted and mailed to you in encrypted form.  Once you have retrieved your mail from the server, it can be easily and safely decrypted on your hard drive using your PGP or GPG software.

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A text or graphic that are hyperlinked will transport a user to another location of content either on the same page or another page.

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Mailing lists are programs which automate the management of Internet mailing lists. Commands are sent via electronic mail to handle all aspects of list maintainance. Once a list is set up, virtually all operations can be performed remotely, requiring no intervention upon the postmaster of the list site.

Here's a short list of some of the features:

• Supports various types of lists, including moderated lists
• All list management activities are handled by email
• Supports confirmation of subscriptions, to protect against forged subscription requests
  

One subscribable mailing list (with up to 1,000 subscribers) is included with each Site Seeing Giant account.

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If you have built your site with FrontPage and you are using any FrontPage active elements such as hit counters, search forms and so on, then you will need to have the FrontPage Server Extensions installed on your site. The server extensions also make it possible for you to publish your site using FrontPage, and allow you to edit your site directly on the internet using FrontPage. Our servers support the server extensions for Microsoft FrontPage 2002/2000/98/97. The extensions are available for free on all accounts.

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An excellent database package.  Our servers also support PHP which works very neatly with MySQL. For more information on the way these two products work together you may like to review the WebMonkey PHP/MySQL Tutorial. For further information about MySQL, please refer to the MySQL Home Page.

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Reset your passwords - you can reset the password on any POP account. If you reset the password on your catch-all POP account, the change will also apply to your FTP; Telnet; SSH; Control Panel login details. If Aussie Site Seeing is maintaining your website, we need to know the password for the FTP to be able to access your account.

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You can restrict access to any directory on your site so that visitors are prompted for a user name and password in order to access any files in the directory. This is easily setup through our Control Panel.

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We will set you up to receive email messages at you@yourdomain.com. A POP email account is basically a mailbox on our server which you can access through mail software such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or web-based systems such as Aussie Site-Seeing WebMail.

We allocate generous amounts of disk storage space for your use.

Each POP account can consume a maximum of 20 MB of storage space. Recent mail is stored within the 20 MB of space. When you download your messages using your mail software (such as Microsoft Outlook) your software would normally delete the messages from the server and in doing that it would free up space for new messages.

We also provide an additional 4 MB of space for your WebMail folders. Mail is kept in these folders in compressed format so you can fit approximately 16MB of plain text messages within the 4MB of folder space.

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Our servers support Perl, PHP, ASP, C/C++ and Python.  Your web pages can also include Java applets (though not Java servlets).

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Promotions Coupon preview

Offer your site and business customers an incentive to keep returning to your business by providing them with a VIP customer special. Aussie Site Search provides a special 'promotions' section where we list yours and other mini site specials. Just as you are sending your customers to your mini site to download your coupon, other mini site customers will be doing likewise. As everybody loves a bargain, site visitors will be sure to click on multiple promotions in the locality of where they will be shopping, therefore creating a network linking local businesses which will create opportunities for you to gain potential new customers.

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Our total connectivity to the Internet is over 600 Mbps!  That is very fast! We have a 99.9% uptime track record - in most months your site will be online 100% of the time. Our network is fully switched using only top quality components from Cisco Systems.  All servers are fed from a multi-homed backbone and have conditioned UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) power that will run if utility power fails. The UPS power subsystem is N+1 redundant with instantaneous failover in case the primary UPS fails. In the event of an extended power outage, an on-site diesel generator can run indefinitely. The generator is regularly tested to ensure that it will continue to function in the event of an emergency.
Our network fully supports BGP4 which provides great redundancy and helps your data avoid internet trouble spots.  Our facility has full backup power including a backup generator in case of extended power outages.  The center is monitored 24 hours a day by a comprehensive security system supplemented by video surveillance equipment.

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Set-Up Charge

Our secure server facilities enable you to receive payments and transmit information securely via the web. 

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Server side includes are a neat and simple way of repeating blocks of HTML code in different web pages.  The file containing the repetitive HTML code can be included in any page(s) you like with only one line of HTML code (a server side include statement).

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All of our hosting packages come with "Site-O-Matic" - our free, easy-to-use, website creation tool. That's right, it's free on all accounts!  With Site-O-Matic you can have a professional website up-and-running within minutes! No HTML experience necessary; simply choose one of our our highly configurable design templates, and follow the interactive instructions provided. Website creation has never been easier!

Over 30 design templates to choose from!

You can:

• Build website pages via our easy-to-use, interactive interface
• Swap and change design templates effortlessly.
• Create your own personlised navigation bar
• Select and edit pages from your site through our interactive interface
• Optionally insert your own blocks of HTML code.
  
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SpamFilter is our new anti-spam tool which you can use to protect any POP account or cell phone-enabled email address from spam (unsolicited email).
SpamFilter is easy to use but provides an unprecedented level of sophistication as an anti-spam facility in a web hosting environment. You can customize the way it works. You decide what messages should be treated as spam, and you decide what to do with messages marked as spam - you can either delete them or have them set aside in your "SpamBox" for up to 14 days. By regularly reviewing your SpamBox you can be sure that no legitimate messages are being discarded as spam. This way, you can reduce the amount of spam arriving in your mailbox, while still being certain that no genuine messages are being lost.

You can block spam based on any mixture of the following:

• SPAM recognition software - the actual content of each message is analyzed and the message is assigned a score to determine how likely it is to be spam. You can choose to block messages based on the level of that spam score.
• Blacklists - you can block mail based on any or all of the following anti-spam blacklists: SpamCop, ORDB, Osirusoft, SpamHaus SBL, DNSRBL and the Distributed Server Boycott List (DSBL).
• Custom Filters - block messages based on your own rules. For example, you can choose to block all mail from spammer@somedomain.com.
  
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We generate a weekly statistical report about your site's traffic.  The report will include information about visitors, page views, file accesses, referrers, browsers used by your visitors, platforms used by your visitors, visitors' hosts, visitors' top-level domains, and the most common entry and exit pages.   These reports are among the most detailed and useful around, but you will also have access to your raw log files in case you want to examine the data further.

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How much disk storage space do I need?
We allocate generous amounts of disk storage space for your use. To give you an idea of how much space you will need, you can fit approximately 300 basic web pages (including graphics) per 10 Mb. Sites utilizing databases and animated or complex graphics etc. will require more space.

Can I increase the amount of disk space if I need to?
Extra disk space can be purchased by arrangement at our usual excess disk space charges. Please see our Price Sheet for details. Another option is to upgrade your account. Upgrades can be performed at any time. There are no upgrade setup fees - you are simply charged the higher monthly rate from the date of the upgrade.

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We provide professional, responsive customer service via email 7 days a week.  We also provide loads of advice on our website with more added continually

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Telnet/SSH access allows you to log on to your server and administer your site by issuing commands at the Linux prompt.   Our servers support SSH secure shell so that you have peace of mind knowing that nobody is eavesdropping on your shell session.

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   Example 1  Example 2  Example 3  Example 4

In short, lots! All Aussie Sited Seeing hosted accounts come with 1 Gigabyte of traffic each month. This allows you to have complete peace of mind even if your website becomes very successful indeed. For instance an average webpage, such as this one (including all images and content), weighs in at around 30 kilobytes.

If I exceed my traffic limit, how much will the excess traffic cost me?
In the rare event that you exceed the 1 GB of traffic that comes with your account each month you will be charged $4.40 for each extra 100 MB of traffic (or part thereof).

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WAP pages enable you to make your website available to people through their WAP-enabled cell phone. WAP pages are supported on our servers. Unlike web pages, WAP pages are written in WML rather than HTML. To create a WAP version of your site you need to:

• write WML code for each of your WAP decks (page sets)
• name the deck file a .wml extension (e.g. mydeck.wml)
• upload the deck to your site in ASCII transfer mode
• view it via your WAP-enabled mobile phone, or a WAP emulator.
  
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Our WebMail system allows you to access your POP accounts through an easy-to-use browser-based interface. No configuration is required, which makes it a perfect tool for people who need to access their POP accounts while travelling.
WebMail provides folders to store your mail, a customizable interface (choose your own look and feel from a set of predefined templates), an address book, custom message signatures and the ability to specify your reply-to address.

Please note that the WebMail system can only be used for mailboxes under 20 MB in size. For that reason we recommend that you use it when convenient, but that you also use mail software such as Microsoft Outlook, Eudora Pro or The Bat! to access your POP mailboxes. We provide comprehensive instructions on setting up your mail software to retrieve messages from your POP accounts. Our customer support team is also available to assist if you run into problems while setting this up.  

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