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- Will you place banner or advertisement on my site?
- Do you offer 24 hours phone support?
- Can I access my site without placing the www.?
- Is there any additional charge for having sub-domain?
- What will be the cost for me having my 2nd domain parked with HostingBegin.com?
- Do you host foreign domain names?
- Do I need a Linux machine to access my account?
- What kind of server uptime do you guarantee?
- Do you support IMAP?
- Do you support Java-servlets (JSP)?
- Do you support Active Server Pages (ASP) application?
- Do you support MS FrontPage Extension?
- Do you offer password-protected directories?
- What type of database system do you support?
- Do you support SSH or Telnet?
- What is the path to Perl/ Sendmail?
- Does HostingBegin.com have any pre-made templates for sale?
- What will the cost be for my domain name on the second year if I decide to host with HostingBegin.com?
- Can I change my domain name if the application was done wrongly?
- Can I have my refund by check, if I've paid by credit card?
- Is there a minimum contract that I have to keep or can I cancel at all time?
- Will your system support Dreamweaver?
- Can I use your services to send Spam?
- Can I upgrade my hosting package whenever it's needed?
- Are there any discount given for a Non-profit Organization?
- Which payment method do you accept?
- How often will I be billed?
- How do I access Webmail?
- What Is CGI and how is it going to help me?
- How am I supposed to install a script?
- What does "chmod" mean?
- What are the most common errors and how do I deal with them?
- What is the path to PERL (interpretator)?
- How can I remotely access my e-mail?
- How Do I Set up Streaming Audio and Video?
- Why Does My Web Page Not Load?
- Does hostingbegin support JSP pages?
- Does HostingBegin.com offer a 30-days money back guarantee?

Will you place banner or advertisement on my site?
HostingBegin.com does not require customers to place our banner ads on your site.

Do you offer 24 hours phone support?
HostingBegin.com are able to keep our prices lowest in the industry, because we do not support on-site and telephone support to our customers. Do be assured that HostingBegin.com will response to your technical request in a timely manner via email within less than 48 hours.

We will soon be launching technical phone support.

Can I access my site without placing the www.?
Yes, you can access your web site with or without the www.

Is there any additional charge for having sub-domain?
No, there aren't any additional charges involved if you wish to have more than one sub-domain.

What will be the cost for me having my 2nd domain parked with HostingBegin.com?
There will be no additional cost to have your 2nd domain name parked at HostingBegin.com DNS server. This are only allowed according to our Hosting Packages as there limitation for each hosting account to have limited domain parked.

Do you host foreign domain names?
Yes, all domain names will work with HostingBegin.com accounts.

Do I need a Linux machine to access my account?
No, you don't need to have a Linux machine to access your account as you may access your accounts with just an Internet Browser (example: Internet Explorer/ Netscape or Opera).

What kind of server uptime do you guarantee?
Well-maintained and responsive server administrative teams keep our server up time at around 99.999%, one of the highest in the industry today.

Do you support IMAP?
Our servers are configured to work with both POP3 and IMAP. We will recommend you to use IMAP due to security issue.

IMAP has encryption to your password during downloading of email to Outlook Express/Netscape mail, as POP3 does not support encryption.

Do you support Java-servlets (JSP)?
No.

Do you support Active Server Pages (ASP) application?
Unfortunately, we do not support ASP at this time due to the fact that we only host our customer on LINUX servers.

Do you support MS FrontPage Extension?
Yes, HostingBegin.com are able to support FrontPage Extension.

Do you offer password-protected directories?
Yes, since it uses .htaccess, FrontPage users must use the password protection utilities that come with the software.

What type of database system do you support?
HostingBegin.com only support MySQL database. Our server does not support Cold Fusion as this point of time.

Do you support SSH or Telnet?
No, we do not support both SSH and Telnet. It's mainly because we care for our customer web site security issues. By giving SSH/Telnet access are already 45% risk to all our customers that either one of the user will break the system and defaced any website.

We ensure 100% security for all our customers by not taking such risk; hence we at HostingBegin.com had to drop the SSH/Telnet Access.

An article wrote:

�The expense of tracking and collecting evidence per hacker costs up to US $250,000, not counting prosecution cost. Security is one of our top priorities, we hope our clients view our decision the way we do, and it is for our clients benefit.'

What is the path to Perl/ Sendmail?
The path for Perl and Sendmail are as below:

Perl: /usr/bin/perl

Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail

Does HostingBegin.com have any pre-made templates for sale?
Will be available soon.

What will the cost be for my domain name on the second year if I decide to host with HostingBegin.com?
HostingBegin will renew your domain name for *FREE* as long as the hosting account are renewed with HostingBegin.com

Can I change my domain name if my application was applied wrongly?
Yes, you may. But there will be an extra cost involved, as HostingBegin.com has make the purchase of your first domain name. Therefore, on the second domain name there will be a charge of $15.00 for the domain name.

At the same time, you would have to contact our technical support department regarding this issue, as there are changes that need to be change from the system.

Can I have my refund by check, if I've paid by credit card?
It is the clients' responsibility to supply a valid credit card at the time of refund request. Please note that refunds for money wires and / or check orders cannot be honored, as they are not applicable.

Is there a minimum contract that I have to keep or can I cancel at all time?
No, there is no contract for the amount of months that you have to keep the site. You can cancel your account at any time. When you cancel your account, we will refund the amount equal to the remaining unused portion of your account back to your credit card. The setup fee is not refundable and will be excluded from all our hosting packages.

Will your system support Dreamweaver?
Yes, our servers support Dreamweaver and other HTML editor.

Can I use your services to send Spam?
No, HostingBegin.com defines Spam to be mass, unsolicited, impertinent messages (i.e. junk mail on the Internet). Accounts, which send Spam, will be immediately terminated, and will be charged theft of service fines up to $1 per message plus a $10 processing fee per complaint received.

Can I upgrade my hosting package whenever it's needed?
Will be available soon.

Are there any discount given for a Non-profit Organization?
Our prices are one of the lowest in the industry for commercial web hosting. We believe our accounts are already very reasonably priced at $55.00 per year and the entire hosting package comes with a free domain name. There are no additional discounts for non-profit organizations at this time.

Which payment method do you accept?
We accept all major credit card (example: Visa, MasterCard, American Express).

Payment by check will be available soon.

How often will I be billed?
When you are billed is based on which hosting agreement you select. For
example: if you select a 3-year agreement you will be billed once every 3-year.

How do I access webmail?
To access the web mail feature from any computer please follow these simple steps.

1. Using a web browser access the following:

http://yourdomainname.com:2095 (replace yourdomainname.com with your domain name)

2. You will be prompted to enter the username and password to the email account that you wish to view and administrate. The username should be the complete email address of the account being accessed.

For example: username@domainname.com (replace username and yourdomainname.com with your username and domain name)

3. Then simply enter your password and you will have access to your web based email account.

What Is CGI and how is it going to help me?
CGI is translated as common Gateway Interface. It's used to provide interactivity and turn static pages into dynamic ones. What do I mean? Let's take a guestbook for example.

Most of them are powered by CGI. They allow your visitors to leave their comments on your site. This makes it interactive. But guestbook is only one example. You also have bulletin boards, form processing, counters, and much more.

How am I supposed to install a script?
Usually 95% of the scripts that I have tried before have complete instructions and a special ReadMe file with everything you need to know about installing that script. I recommend you reading the instructions a few times before starting to install the script. This will help you to make less mistakes.

What does "chmod" mean?
To chmod a file means to set a certain permission. Few of the most common chmod commands are 775 and 777. To chmod a certain file or a category using FTP client find something like "Change File Attributes" and enter the chmod command script instructions tell you. If you are using Telnet, here are a few commands that you should use in order to chmod a file or a directory:

u = the file's user (or owner)
r = read access
g = the file's group
x = execute access
o = others
w = write access
a = the user, the group, and others.

What are the most common errors and how do I deal with them?
One of the most common errors is "500 Internal Error". The chances are that you will experience it many times. The worst thing about it, is that it doesn't actually tells you what's wrong with the script. It only tells you that something isn't right. There are several possibilities that make up 99% of this error. Here they are:

* Incorrect path to PERL. See the next question for more information
* Syntax error. Check and see if you didn't accidentally deleted a command or a word that the instructions didn't tell you to.
* Incorrect CHMOD command. Make sure that you chmod the file exactly as the instructions say. Most of the times it will be either 755 or 777 (not always!). You can also get an "Access Denied" error, if you didn't chmod the file or a directory correctly.

What is the path to PERL (interpretator)?
The perl path is the very first line in every .cgi or .pl file. Usually it looks something like this #!/usr/bin/perl. Make sure that the path is correct, otherwise you'll get an error. If you don't have the telnet access, simply email your tech support and ask them.

How can I remotely access my e-mail?
You can access webmail from any computer that has a web browser by going to http://yourdomainname:2095. A dialog box will pop up and simply ender the username and password to the email account that you wish to view emails.

How Do I Set up Streaming Audio and Video?
To stream RealAudio or RealVideo, Copy your encoded RealAudio and RealVideo files (files with the .rm and .ra and .mp3 extensions) to your Virtual Private Servers using FTP. Be sure to FTP these files in Binary mode.

Use a text editor to create a metafile containing a RealAudio or RealVideo URL. For example, the contents of your metafile should be in the following form:

http://YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME/path/filename.ram

Save the metafile as a text file with the .ram extension. For example:

filename.ram

Then FTP this file to your Virtual Private Servers in ASCII mode (because it is a text file).

In your HTML document, reference the metafile in a hyperlink. For example:

You can use relative or complete paths. If you use complete paths, you must include both the hostname and the complete path.

When a user clicks on the link, the audio/video file(s) begin to download. The RealPlayer begins playing after a few seconds; it does not need to wait for the entire file to be downloaded.

Why Does My Web Page Not Load?
If you find yourself unable to reach your Web site, please make a note of any and all error messages that you may encounter. These will be invaluable to us in determining where the problem is occurring. If you do not get an error message, then simply wait until the action times out, if possible, and tell us so when you contact us.

Helpful Hints:
Try to reach HostingBegin's home page. Since this server is invariably up and running, it is a good indicator as to the nature of the problem. If you are unable to reach http://www.hostingbegin.com , then the problem is most likely an internet problem or a domain name registration problem, not a server problem.

Try clearing out the 'Cache' of temporary internet files and the 'History' folder on your Web browser, since these can result in the viewing of older, non-updated versions of your Web site. Also, try hitting the 'refresh' or 'reload' button a few times.

Try entering the IP address for your account and see if this brings the account up. If the IP works and the domain name does not, then we could be looking at an InterNIC or Domain Name Server (DNS) problem rather than a problem with the servers.

See if you can reach any site at all, or determine if you are unable to reach sites at random or specific areas of the country. This can aid in determining if the problem is internet or server related.

Call a friend who uses a different ISP, and find out if the site is accessible to them. This can indicate whether or not the problem is connection- or ISP-related.

Be aware that, in some cases, the rest of the internet may be able to reach your site just fine, whether you can reach it or not.

Also be aware that there are COMMON internet slowdowns all the time, and often connection problems that resolve themselves in time. The nature of the Net is that it is very unstable and subject to change at any time.

Go to the http://whois.net and do a WHOIS Query on your domain name. Make sure it is correctly pointing to the HostingBegin name servers (listed at the bottom of the record), and that the domain is not 'ON HOLD'.

If you are getting a 'Forbidden: You do not have permission to access / on this server' message, your account may be misconfigured or disabled. The only step you can take in this case is to contact our support team at support@hostingbegin.com for help with 'Forbidden' accounts.

Give the problem some time. Sometimes and hour or two of patience will pay off.

Be sure to note the time the problem first began.

Does hostingbegin support JSP pages?
All HostingBegin accounts support Java Applets and Java scripts, however, we do not support Java Servlets.
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Does HostingBegin.com offer a 30-days money back guarantee?
Yes. We offer a 30-day money back guarantee on the purchase of our Hosting Plans. The setup fee is excluded from this offer.