Category: Hosting

Home Folder, Redirects and Site Security Settings

Short answer: The Home Folder page in your control panel sets which folder your site is served from — or redirects the whole site to another address. The same page holds the permissions (write access, directory browsing, parent paths, isolated application pool), the authentication options (anonymous, Integrated Windows, Basic) and compression. Applies to: Infosaic Windows…

Setting Up Custom Error Pages

Short answer: Upload a page of your own and have it shown when a specific error occurs. Set this up in your control panel at controlpanel.infosaic.com. Available for 400 Bad Request, 401 Authorization Required, 403 Forbidden, 404 File Not Found and 500 Internal Server Error. Applies to: Infosaic Windows web hosting · shared and virtual…

Stopping and Restarting Your Website

Short answer: Your control panel at controlpanel.infosaic.com has a Stop/Start Server control for your virtual server. Use it to pick up new content, to break out of a runaway script, or to make a newly installed component load. Pressing stop takes your website offline — it comes back only when you press start. Applies to:…

Setting Your Default Document

Short answer: Open Modify Default Document in your control panel at controlpanel.infosaic.com. It sets which file is served when somebody visits a folder without naming a page. On a Windows server that is usually default.htm, default.asp or default.aspx, but you can specify any extension you like, and the change takes effect immediately. Applies to: Infosaic…

What Your Infosaic Mail Service Can Do

Short answer: Full webmail from any browser, spam and content filtering at both domain and individual level, auto-responders, an online address book, spell checking and folder auto-clean. Whoever administers the domain also gets mailing lists, domain aliases, catch-all addresses, per-user statistics and bandwidth reporting — all through the browser, from anywhere. Applies to: Infosaic web…