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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.
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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.
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 |
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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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| Banner Advertising |
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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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| CGI Bin |
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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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| Control Panel |
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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
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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. Top
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| Directory Listings preview |
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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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| Domain Name |
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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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| Email Aliases |
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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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| Email Design and Handling |
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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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| Email Tools |
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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
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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/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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| FTP (File Transfer Protocol) |
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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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| Hyperlink |
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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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Your provided logo image should be no bigger than 150 x 150 pixels or 4cm x 4cm and in a compatible web format (either .jpg or .gif) |
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We provide a mini control panel which makes it easy for you to update the text elements of your pages. |
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| Subscribable Mailing List |
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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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| Microsoft Frontpage Server Extensions |
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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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| MySQL Database |
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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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| Passwords |
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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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| Password Protected Directories |
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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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| POP3 Email Account |
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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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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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| Reliability and Speed |
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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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Our secure server facilities enable you to receive payments and transmit
information securely via the web.
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| Server Side Includes |
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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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| Web Site Builder |
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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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| Storage Space |
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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 and Secure Shell (SSH) Access |
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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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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
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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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