Yes, VIP PowerNet Web Hosting customers have the ability to create customized error pages such as 403 and 404 error pages.

Yes. Our services are compatible with Paypal for linking to the Paypal payment processing interface page.

VIP PowerNet has no restriction on the use of webcams however if the update frequency is high (more than 1 update per hour), the use of a webcam may use disproportionate portion of the FTP server resources which may affect other Members' use of FTP.

If this is the case the webcam must be removed from the website to continue using VIP PowerNet service.

Yes. Customers who use our FrontPage extensions, CGI, PHP/MySQL or other hosting optional features will have access to password protected directories functionality. These features can be ordered from Member Section.

We recommend the use of the osCommerce shopping cart which offers connection support forPaypal or any other payment gateway processors of your choice. osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved.

Please visit http://www.vipwh.com/oscommerce.htm to view our installation tutorial for osCommerce.

To conduct transactions securely, you will have to purchase a SSL certificate for your store to encrypt the transmission of sensitive data.

Yes. VIP PowerNet provides online statistics and log files to all customers which use our FrontPage extensions, CGI, PHP/MySQL or optional hosting features. These features can be ordered from Member Section.

Yes. Macromedia Flash, Shockwave and JavaScript are technologies which are supported by all of our hosting packages as they are supported by the web browser. This means that the mechanism that is required to serve the particular technology is provided by the website visitor's browser.

Yes. The VIP PowerNet Web Tools included free with every account does include a hit counter tool which can be installed on your web pages.

As an optional feature, VIP PowerNet also provides online statistics which provide you with details site access and traffic information about your website. This feature can be previewed and ordered from Member Section.

Yes. VIP PowerNet offer web design services. Please check our web design prices for more details

Yes. VIP PowerNet Web Hosting service supports SSL hosting. We can install an SSL certificate for you if you are using this service.

VIP PowerNet does not currently support Real Server streaming at this time. However you may use Real's HTTP streaming protocol which is compatible with our services.

Please refer to the RealAudio's document:
http://www.realnetworks.com/resources/contentdelivery/documentation/httpstream.php

The FrontPage extensions are is available feature with our hosting service.

Please have a look at the Search Engine Watch document on search engine submission tips located at: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.php.

If you are new to web building, you may wish to use a web composer program like Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver to build your website. These web composer programs will handle the conversion of your website design into HTML.

If you would like to learn how to compose HTML, a good tutorial can be found at:

http:/www.w3schools.com

http://www.w3.org.

There is no difference between .htm and .php pages. The server will recognize both of these file extensions. For consistency, you should name all of your web pages as .htm only or .php only.

Make sure that you've uploaded your images and put them in the proper location on your web server. For further Help on Uploading, please go to our Tech Support Tutorial section.

500MB of web storage should be adequate for most websites. Based on an average page size of 50KB, 500MB can hold 10000 pages.

If you feel that 500MB is not enough, you can consider subscribing to the other hosting plan offers higher storage space. Also you can order additional disk space if you required. Check out Shared Web Hosting section for plan and pricing details.

The VIP PowerNet Web Tools are a set of free tools provided to all VIP PowerNet clients the enhance website capabilities. They allow you to clients to create dynamic database driven web tools such as hit counters, email forms and guestbook, etc.

VIP PowerNet Web Tools are accessible by all VIP PowerNet clients from within VIP PowerNet Member Section. Login to Member Section to activate your Web Tools today!

For more information on how to use and install the Web Tools, please refer to the Tech Support Tutorial.

The Server Extensions for the Microsoft FrontPage are a set of server-side applications that allow you to:

1. Have multiple users simultaneously develop the same website
2. Allow users to author using FrontPage directly against a web server
3. Enable Microsoft Office applications to save directly to a web server
4. Include the following components on their sites: email form, discussion board, text search and hit counter components

The pre-packaged functionality lets users incorporate these advanced features without having to write the complex server-side programs typically required.

Click here to find out more about Microsoft FrontPage and view example sites.

You may upgrade your hosting service at any time. Please login to Member Section and select the Upgrade My Hosting Service option.

Account traffic is the total amount of data served by your web server to your website viewers. We have imposed a limit of 20GB (=20000 MB) of monthly traffic for each account which is equal to 1,00,000 page views based on a 50kb page size.

Yes, you may purchase additional traffic allowance from Member Section.

Both index.php and index.htm are the main page for your website. This is the first page that your visitor will see when they view your website. The only difference between them is the file extension. You can name your HTML pages as .php or .htm.

You may use any software tools you are comfortable with to design your website. Some popular applications used by VIP PowerNet Members include:

- MS FrontPage 2000
- Netscape Composer
- Macromedia DreamWeaver
- Adobe Golive
- Trellix
- ecBuilder

FTP is the industry standard and is primarily used by people familiar and comfortable with HTML. It is a means to upload your files onto a server. We recommed the use of WS_FTP LE. In using FTP, one has to organize his files on his own.

On the other hand, FrontPage is fairly convenient and normally used by novice site builders who prefer the templates and a graphical interface. FrontPage can upload the files onto the server in an organized manner but the server has to have the FrontPage server extensions installed.

Search engines such as Google use spiders to crawl the internet and find new sites. They will be able to find your site and categorize it based on keywords, context and number of hits. You do not need to submit your website URL to Google.

There are other lesser well known search engines allow submission but VIP PowerNet does offer search engine submission services please check SEO service for more details