Simplifying Setup of Domains and Web Sites

If you are going to serve numerous users with a sizeable number of domains, you may want to create hosting configuration presets, referred to as domain templates, that will that will simplify setting up hosting accounts for new domains and web sites. The templates cover all resource usage allotments, permissions and limits that you can define for a hosting account, plus mail bounce and Web statistics retention settings.

To create a domain template:

  1. Go to Domains > Domain Templates.
  2. Click Add Domain Template.
  3. Specify the template name in the Template name field.

    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.

  4. Specify the domain-wide mail bounce options in the Mail section:

    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:

  5. 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.
  6. Specify the limits for the template in the Limits section:
  7. Select the required log rotation options in the Switch on log rotation section.

    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. Select the Switch on log rotation check box.
    2. Specify when to recycle log files.
    3. Specify how many instances of each log file to store on the server.
    4. Specify whether they should be compressed.
    5. Specify whether they should be sent to an e-mail address after processing.
  8. Specify additional settings in the Preferences section.
    1. Mailing lists. Select this checkbox to enable the ability to create and manage mailing lists on the domain.
    2. Traffic statistics retention. Specify the number of months during which the bandwidth usage statistics should be kept on the server.
  9. In the DNS field 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.
  10. If you are going to host not only domain names, but also web sites, select the Physical hosting check box and specify the hosting features:
  11. Performance. To avoid excessive usage of bandwidth, which can lead to resources overage, you can set various performance limitations for a domain.
  12. 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.

To reflect the changes in your domain templates that will apply to the newly created accounts:

  1. Go to Domains > Domain Templates.
  2. Click the template name corresponding to the domain template you wish to update.
  3. Modify the settings as required and click OK.

    Note that modifying templates does not affect the existing domains and web sites.

To remove a template that you no longer need:

  1. Go to Domains > Domain Templates.
  2. Select a check box corresponding to the template you no longer need.
  3. Click Remove Selected. Confirm removal and click OK.