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Billing Domain Name Security Web-Hosting

Documents required for domain name registration and web hosting purchase?

What documentation is required for domain name registration or to purchase the web hosting products?

If you are paying through credit card then, we will need a scan copy of your driving license to verify your name and address. For other payment methods, there is absolutely no documentation required. But we trust you as a customer and we expect you to provide us the correct contact number and address. This helps us to contact you in case there is any issue with your website and for renewals etc. If you are looking for the privacy then do let us know, we would be able to help you further, keeping your personal details private.

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MySQL Shared Hosting

MySQL Triggers on Shared Hosting Account

Do you allow MySQL Triggers on Shared Hosting Account

We are runnig MySQL 5.0.x on our shared and reseller hosting servers. In order to use TRIGGERS with MySQL 5.0.x, you must have the SUPER privileges. For security reasons, we do not grant this to regular users.

We do plan to eventually upgrade to MySQL 5.1 and it will be a simple matter of enabling the TRIGGER privilege per-user. As if now, for security reasons, we will not be enabling any sort of workarounds to enable TRIGGER privileges. TRIGGER will not be available on shared reseller servers until MySQL 5.1 is installed.

We will suggest you to have a look at our economy VPS packages, where you will be able to escalate the privilages with the latest version of mysql installed.

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Shared Hosting VPS Hosting Web-Hosting

Can I Install Sms Sending Script

Can I Install SMS Sending Script

Yes, you can install any kind of script whether it is open source or bought by you. You can install SMS sending script on the shared servers. All the servers are preconfigured for optimum performance with the enhance security. If any of the script you want to install requires root privileges or requires any kind of modification of the server configurations then we will suggest you go for VPS server. It will provide you the total control for the server configurations as per your requirement.

However, please note that you will need to take care of the issues arise by any third party scripts, we do not provide any support for installation or debugging of the third party scripts officially.

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Email Hosting Setup Web-Hosting

Steps for Setting up POP or IMAP Email Account in MS Outlook Express

Setting Up Your POP or IMAP Email Account in MS Outlook Express

This article shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook Express to work with your e-mail account hosted on UnicHost Web Server. These settings are mostly similar and worked with most of the versions of Microsoft Outlook Express as well.

To Set Up Your E-mail Account in Microsoft Outlook Express…

  1. Open Microsoft Outlook Express, under Tools menu, click on Accounts.
  2. Go to the “Mail” tab and click on “Add” menu, select Mail.
  3. In the Display Name field, enter you full name that will be display in From field, click Next.
  4. In the E-mail address field, enter your email address and click Next.
  5. On the E-mail Server Names page, add your information as follows:
    My incoming mail server is a select “IMAP”
    Incoming mail server (POP3, IMAP or HTTP)
    mail.yourdomain.com
    Outgoing mail (SMTP) server
    mail.yourdomain.com
    Click Next.

    NOTE: “mail.yourdomain.com” is an SMTP relay server. In order to use this server to send e-mails, you must have SMTP relay activated on your e-mail account. By default it is activated on account setup by UnicHost.com.

  6. In the Account Name, enter your email address and password in the Password field, click Next.
  7. Click Finish On the setup confirmation page.
  8. Now, on the Mail tab, select the account you just created, click on Properties on the right.
  9. Go to the Servers tab.
  10. Select My server requires authentication, and click Apply.
  11. Go to the Advanced tab for port settings. (Here you won’t need any modifications as such, except told to do so.)
  12. If you want to keep a copy of email messages stored on your email provider’s servers, in the Delivery section, select Leave a copy of messages on server (This is optional and applicable for POP settings only).

Your Outlook Express account is now configured, and it’s ready to use. Click Close to close the Internet Accounts window and return to Outlook Express.

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Ftp Server Transfer Web-Hosting www

how to use ftp client with your web hosting account

Tutorial to use FTP Client, CoreFTP with your web hosting account.

In this ftp tutorial we will assume that you own the domain ‘yourdomain.com’ and your FTP username is ‘ftpusername@yourdomain.com’.

Follow these steps to complete the ftp tutorial:

1. Get ftp client from CoreFTP website: http://www.coreftp.com/download/coreftplite.exe
2. Once you install CoreFTP, open it up. You should now see the ‘Site Manager’. Your screen should look like this:

FTP Site Manager

This is the screen where you enter your web hosting account information.

[Note: This is just an example, not your actual username and password.]

  • Site Name: yourdomain
  • Host / IP: ftp.yourdomain.com
  • User Name: ftpusername@yourdomain.com
  • Password: yourftppassword
  • If you are behind a firewall, enable Passvie Mode, by checking the ‘PASV Transfers’ checkbox.

To connect to the server, click on the ‘Connect’ button. And you are done.

Once the FTP program makes a successful connection, the left pane will show files/folders on your computer, the right pane will shows files/folders on the FTP site / remote web server.

Where, in which folder to upload your website files?

On Linux server /cPanel Hosting account, you will be able to see ‘public_html’ or ‘www’ folder in the right view.
On Windows server /DotNetPanel Hosting account, it will be ‘wwwroot’ folder.

Please note that index.html or index.htm or default.html or index.php or index.asp [windows only] file acts as your homepage. Whenever a visitor types in http://yourdomain.com UnicHost Web Server will look for one of the file first and will load homepage of your website.

Facing FTP connection problems?

1. If you just obtained your web hosting account at UnicHost then your domain may not be ready to start using our service. So, in this case, instead of using your domain in the ‘Host or URL’ box you should use the IP address given to you in your welcome e-mail.
2. It may be that you are behind a firewall and/or router and need to use passive FTP. Check step 2 to see how to enable passive FTP.

Once the FTP program makes a connection, you will be able to see/browse files and folders in the right view.

Any further help, we are there for you. Call us or open a support ticket at support [at] unichost.com