Hsphere Web Hosting FAQs:

What is H-sphere Web Hosting ?

How long has H-sphere been around in Web Hosting?

What are the limitations of H-sphere as far as Web Hosting?

Does H-sphere include email management?

Does Online Rack Web Hosting provide website statistics?

Does Online Rack Web Hosting provide referral logs?

Is FrontPage supported?

Does H-sphere support third level domain and sub level domain?

Can users set password protection on files and directories?

Does H-sphere support ASP mail and formmail?

Can Windows accounts support MySQL?

Can users that already have an account point another domian to their original hosted domain?

Which services of MS SQL are supported in Hsphere Hosting ?

Do we need to pay extra for SiteStudio (Website Builder) ?

Is H-sphere Vs. Cpanel as far as Web Hosting?

What is H-Sphere Web Hosting?

H-Sphere is a complete front end control panel and integrated back end for automating day to day tasks of web hosting operation such as billing, e-mail, web, FTP, DNS, POP3, cgi-bin, Webmail and FrontPage configuration. On the front end it is a user-friendly and intuitive web interface that allows complete customer self-care and can drastically cut down your maintenance and customer support costs. On the back end it is a system for managing above mentioned server side operation tasks that includes support for various hosting plans, operating systems, database platforms and e-commerce hosting services.

How long has H-Sphere been tested in the web hosting industry?

The first version was released in Jan 1998. Version 2.5. is the latest, the fastest, the most stable and refined.

What are the limitations to H-Sphere hosting?

There are no hard limitations that we are aware of. The software scales well to the physical limits of the hardware.

 

Does H-Sphere include e-mail management?

Yes, complete solution with auto-responders, POP3 e-mail accounts with catch all accounts and e-mail aliases, mail forwarding and mailing lists. Web-based e-mail with filters, folders and attachments is implemented through SqWebMail and IMP.

Does Online Rack Web Hosting provide web site statistics?

Yes, you will have access to the Urchin, AW Stats, and Webalizer statistics through the control panel.

Do you provide referral logs?

Yes. Referral logs contain information of the web site from which visitors reached your page. Using this information you can optimize your advertising efforts and increase traffic to your site. The logs can be turned on from the control panel.

 

Is FrontPage supported?

You can install or remove FrontPage extensions from the control panel. The extensions are required if you want to use FrontPage to publish your site, or run tools supported by FrontPage.

 

Do you support third-level domains or sub domains?

Yes, you can add as many levels of sub domains as you want. You can also create aliases for sub domains. This all is available through the control panel.

Can users set password protection to their files and directories?

Yes. H-Sphere comes with a free server-side application called htAccess. It is accessible from the FTP/User Account page. Starting with H-Sphere version 2.3 RC4, this feature is integrated into WebShell 3.0.

Does H-Sphere support ASP mail or any kind of FormMail program?

Yes, it does.

Can windows-based accounts use MySQL services?

Yes, MySQL and MS SQL are installed on Windows. Linux has MySQL.

Can a user who already has an account set up another virtual domain name pointing to the same account?

Yes, via domain name aliasing. DNS configuration will be done automatically.

Which features of MS SQL are supported through HS?

You can create user logins, dabases, and db users with different database permissions.

Is SiteStudio a separate Licensing issue?

No, you get it for free.

Is Hsphere better than Cpanel?

There is no comparison. HSphere hosting panel is much more flexible, reliable, stable, and offers more features than Cpanel. All of our clients that used Cpanel in the past speak so highly of Hsphere. In our professional web hosting opinion, Hsphere is by far the best Panel.