ASP.NET Hosting FAQ

What is Web Forwarding?

It allows you to point your domain name to any pre-existing web address. For instance, you can have the domain yourdomain.com be forwarded to http://www.yourotherdomain.com/forums.

The domain name will redirect (change from yourdomain.com to yourotherdomain.com when the …

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How do I count how many hits my website gets?

You should use a web counter. The web counter or hit counter is a computer software program that indicates the number of visitors, or hits, a particular webpage has received. Once set up, these counters will be incremented by one every time the web page is accessed in a web browser.

The number is usually displayed as an inline …

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What is FTP?

File Transfer Protocol is used to transfer data from one computer to another over the Internet, or through a network. FTP is a file transfer protocol for exchanging and manipulating files over any TCP-based computer network. A FTP client may connect to a FTP server to manipulate files on that server. As there are many FTP client and …

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What is Shared SSL?

A Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate ensures that your user has a secure connection to your website. Usually ASP.NET shared hosts provide Shared SSL, which means, that you receive sub-folder on their secured site that you …

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What is SSL?

Secure Sockets Layer is cryptographic protocol that provide secure communications on the Internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging and other …

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Can I install MySQL on Windows Server?

Yes, a native Windows distribution of MySQL has been available from MySQL AB since version 3.21.

To run MySQL on Windows, you need a Windows operating system such as Windows 7, or Windows Server 2003/2008/2012. Only 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 2003 and later …

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What is MS SQL?

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) produced by Microsoft. Its primary query language is Transact-SQL, an implementation of the ANSI/ISO standard Structured Query Language (SQL) used by both Microsoft …

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What is MS Access?

It is a relational database management system from Microsoft which combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software …

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