Creating Templates

To implement a hosting plan (or simplify setup of multiple domains), create a domain template, and define hosting services and resource allotments in accordance with your hosting plan:

  1. On your Home page, click Domain Templates in the Tools group.
  2. Click Add New Domain Template.
  3. Specify the template properties:
    1. Template name. Specify a name for this template. During setup of a new hosting account, you will be prompted to select the required template by its name. Therefore, we recommend that you choose a meaningful name that corresponds to one of your hosting plans or describes the amount of allotted resources. For example, Mail hosting, 1GB disk space, 500 mailboxes.
    2. Mail to nonexistent users. Specify the domain-wide mail bounce options: When somebody sends an e-mail message to an e-mail address that does not exist under your domain, the mail server on your domain accepts mails, processes it, and when it finds out that there is no such a recipient under your domain, it returns the mail back to sender with the "this address no longer accepts mail" notice. You can choose to:
    1. Choose the required WebMail client software in the WebMail menu to enable the ability to read mail through a browser-based WebMail application for users of mailboxes in this domain. If you don't want to provide this ability, select None.
    2. Maximum number of domain aliases. Specify the number of domain aliases that can be used for this domain.
    3. Maximum number of subdomains. Specify the number of subdomains that can be hosted under this domain.
    4. Disk space. Specify the total amount of disk space allocated to a hosting account associated with the domain. This amount is measured in megabytes. It includes disk space occupied by all files related to this domain/web site: web site contents, databases, applications, mailboxes, log files and backup files. This is the so-called soft quota: when it is exceeded, domain names and web sites are not suspended automatically, only the appropriate notices are sent to your and your provider's e-mail addresses and the resource overage is indicated by the icon shown in the control panel to the left of the domain name (see the list of domain names on your Home page). And then it is up to you to decide what to do with the domain:
    1. MySQL databases quota and Microsoft SQL databases quota. Specify the maximum disk space amount that MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases respectively can occupy on a domain.
    2. Maximum amount of traffic. Specify the amount of data in megabytes that can be transferred from the web site during a month. Once the limit is reached, the appropriate notices are sent to your and your provider's e-mail addresses and the resource overage is indicated by a corresponding icon shown in the control panel to the left of the domain name (see the list of domain names on your Home page). When a web site starts attracting more visitors and requires more bandwidth, consider upgrading a hosting plan (see the instructions on upgrading hosting plan below).
    3. Maximum number of web users. Specify the number of personal web pages that the domain owner can host for other users under his or her domain. This service is mostly used in educational institutions that host non-commercial personal pages of their students and staff. These pages usually have web addresses like http://your-domain.com/~username.
    4. Maximum number of additional Microsoft FrontPage accounts. Speficy the maximum number of additional Microsoft FrontPage accounts that can be created on a domain.
    5. Maximum number of additional FTP accounts. Speficy the maximum number of additional FTP accounts that can be created on a domain.
    6. Maximum number of MySQL databases and Maximum number of Microsoft SQL Server databases. Specify the maximum number of MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases respectively that can be hosted on a domain.
    7. Maximum number of mailboxes. Specify the number of mailboxes that can be hosted in a domain.
    8. Mailbox quota. Specify the amount of disk space in kilobytes that is allocated to each mailbox in a domain.
    9. Total mailboxes quota. Specify the total amount of disk space available for all mailboxes on a domain.
    10. Maximum number of mail redirects. Specify the number of mail redirects that can be used in a domain.
    11. Maximum number of mail groups. Specify the maximum number of mail groups that can be used in a domain.
    12. Maximum number of mail autoresponders. Specify the number of automatic responses that can be set up in a domain.
    13. Maximum number of mailing lists. Specify the number of mailing lists that the domain owner can run in a domain. To allow the use of mailing lists, you should also put a check mark into the Mailing lists check box under the Preferences group.
    14. Maximum number of Java applications. Specify the maximum number of Tomcat Java applications and applets that the domain owner can install in a domain.
    15. Maximum number of shared SSL links. Specify the maximum number of subdomains (including their parent domain) that can link to the Master SSL domain defined by the server administrator.
    16. Maximum number of ODBC connections. Specify the maximum number of ODBC connections that can be set up on a domain.
    17. Validity period. Specify the term for a hosting account. At the end of the term, the domain/web site will be suspended, its Web, FTP and mail services will no longer be accessible to the Internet users, and domain owner will not be able to log in to the control panel. Hosting accounts cannot be automatically renewed, therefore, in order to bring the hosted domain name/web site back to operation, you will need to manually renew the hosting account: on your Home page, click the domain name your need, click Limits, specify another term in the Validity period box, click OK, then click Switch On in the Domain group (Home > domain name).
    18. Log rotation. All connections to the Web server and requests for files that were not found on the server are registered in log files. These log files are analyzed by the statistical utilities running on the server, which then present graphical reports on demand. If you need to view the contents of these raw log files for debugging purposes, on your Home page, click the domain name you need, click Log Manager, and then click the log file name you need. To prevent these log files from growing too large, you should enable automatic cleanup and recycling of log files:
    1. Specify additional settings in the Preferences section.
    1. DNS. Specify whether the DNS server on your Web host should act as a master (primary) or slave (secondary) name server for the domain name zone. A primary name server stores locally the zone file it serves, while a secondary server only retrieves a copy of this file from the primary. You would normally leave the Master option selected.
    2. Physical hosting account. If you are going to host not only domain names, but also web sites, select the Physical hosting checkbox and specify the hosting features:
  4. Performance. To avoid excessive usage of bandwidth, which can lead to resources overage, you can set various performance limitations for a domain.
  5. Click OK to complete creation of a template.

    During setup of a hosting account for a new domain/web site, you will select the required template and the hosting account will be created and allocated the resources and hosting services you defined.