Reseller Web Hosting Control Panel
iPowerWeb has one of the most popular Reseller Programs in the web hosting industry. This is largely due to the success of iPowerWeb's BusinessPro package and the fact the Reseller Program is free to join. Unlike most web hosting reseller programs, iPowerWeb does not charge its partners any monthly fees and there are never any hidden costs. All you do is pay for each account you setup, so for example if you have 6 customers (meaning 6 web sites) you will purchase 6 web hosting accounts from iPowerWeb. Another benefit of the Reseller Program is that every account is purchased at a special reseller discounted rate and as a Reseller you have access to our Priority Support Department which caters only to members of our Reseller Program. There are some many great features in our Reseller Program that it would truly take a long time if we were to go through everything one by one and show you what its all about - maybe we will do this in a future post. In this post we will just provide you with an answer to a common question that is asked by our Resellers. The question is, "How do I long in to my Reseller Control Panel?"
The answer is simple and you should probably bookmark this web address, http://resellers.ipowerweb.com/panel/index. The special vDeck reseller control panel allows you to manage your entire web hosting operation from one easy to use location. If you have not joined our Reseller Program or just want more information, visit our Reseller Web Hosting page at http://www.ipowerweb.com/reseller/index.html.
Logging into your control panel is very easy all you need is your special reseller ID (RS000####), password, and click Submit. If you do not remember your Reseller identification number of your password, please contact our Reseller Support department for help.
Gmail…What Happens When You’re Dead
I guess it happens to everyone...right? At some point we will all be gone, but what happens to your Gmail account? For those of you not familiar with Gmail, it is a free web-based email service provided by none other than Google. Gmail started on April 1, 2004 as a private invitation-only service and was opened to the public as a public beta on February 7, 2007. Currently Gmail is still in beta, a practice which is very common by Google. Gmail is unique for its constantly growing disk space, at the moment Gmail accounts come with over 2859 megabytes of free disk space. PC World ranked Gmail as the second best product in its release of "The 100 Best Products of 2005". Gmail was only behind of Mozilla Firefox. Gmail has become very popular due its is popular design, ease of use, and constantly growing storage space feature. So now that Gmail is so popular what happens to your account once you are dead. Generally we all have important information stored within our email boxes, so what happens to the sensitive emails that must be accessed by your family or friends? Well there is actually a process you can follow in order to gain access to the Gmail account of a deceased individual. Gmail Guide explains that these steps must be followed in order to gain access.
1. Your full name and contact information, including a verifiable email address.
2. The Gmail address of the individual who passed away.
3a. The full header from an email message that you have received at your verifiable email address, from the Gmail account in question. (To obtain the header from a message in Gmail, open the message, click 'More options,' then click 'Show original.' Copy everything from 'Delivered- To:' through the 'References:' line. To obtain headers from other webmail or email providers, please refer to http://www.spamcop.com/help_with_headers/)
3b. The entire contents of the message.
4. A copy of the death certificate of the deceased.
5. A copy of the document that gives you Power of Attorney over the Gmail account.
6. If you are the parent of the individual, please send us a copy of the Birth Certificate if the Gmail account owner was under the age of 18. In this case, Power of Attorney is not required.
It is best to send the information either via post mail or fax:
Google Inc.
Attention: Gmail User Support
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Fax: 650-644-0358
This typically takes about 30 days to be processed. We hope this information was useful...
Simple
If you are searching for a really good web hosting provider go with iPowerWeb. The reason we titled this post "Simple" is because it really is simple. iPowerWeb makes web hosting very easy and there is no reason why you should not host your web site with us. Our prices are unbeatable, we have a great history, our technology is of the highest quality, great people work here and we love what we do. We know web hosting is very complex but we try to make it as easy as possible. This post will not be long, we are just trying to let you know that if you need a host, choose iPowerWeb. I mean over 700,000 people have done so and they are happy - so what are you waiting for??? Visit us at www.iPowerWeb.com
Basketball and Web Site Hosting
This blog is generally about web hosting and what's going on at iPowerWeb. We provide readers with tips, tutorials and news regarding our company and Internet in general. This post will have nothing to do with hosting, rather I feel like talking about basketball - one of my favorite sports. Growing up in Los Angeles, I've always been a Lakers fan and probably always will be (even when we have some management and Kobe issues). As we said in one of our recent posts, iPowerWeb also has offices in Phoenix; so over time I have been exposed to Phoenix Suns basketball and as much as they keep beating on the Lakers in the playoffs, I am beginning to like them (in some way). The biggest news of the day is something that happened off of the court - which is quite interesting. We should note that the Spurs beat the Jazz and are headed to the NBA finals yet all we are hearing about is how Kobe demanded a trade from the Lakers and the management issues over in L.A. I cannot even imagine the Lakers without Kobe - is that possible (hopefully never). It is important to point out that the Spurs are now waiting to see who they will meet in the finals, it could either be the Cleveland Cavaliers or the Detroit Pistons. If it is the Detroit Pistons we may be in store for one of the least "exciting" Finals again. This is nothing against either team - both of them are great ambassadors for the NBA although the general public does not want to see this series. And I say this because the Spurs and Pistons Finals in the past was one of the lowest watch NBA Finals...this is very sad when you consider the quality of basketball being played. It is quite difficult to say why that is, that these teams don't get ratings when they play one another although neither team has an amazing superstar with celebrity status (Tim Duncan is not a celebrity) and they are not playing in huge markets such as Chicago, Miami, New York, and of course L.A. The NBA playoffs this year have been very interesting, Golden State and Utah really showed that "small" franchises without a history in winning could play with the best teams in the NBA. This was especially shown in the first-round battle between Golden State and Dallas, where the #1 team in the NBA (Dallas) lost to Golden State (a team with no particular history of winning). We should point out that there is absolutely no correlation between team salaries and they performance of the team. This is particularly true when you look at the New York Knicks this past year - they had the highest payroll in the NBA (BY FAR!!) and they were a lottery team.
Back to the news of the day, Kobe Bryant (one of the best players in the history of the NBA) demanded a trade from the LA Lakers, the team that he has played for his entire career. Kobe is upset with what the Lakers have done to build a team around him, which quite frankly is not much. The Lakers have had many opportunities to build a great team around Kobe but for some reason it never happens and it seems that he is just fed up. This led to Lakers and Kobe fans going crazy today about what the future has in store, this did not last for long though - shortly after demanding the trade on the radio - Kobe said he did not want to leave and L.A. and really wants to see some changes for the better. I can't imagine Kobe in any other uniform - he should always be a Laker. Now it will be interesting to see what the Lakers will do following Kobe's public presentations - there will be lots of pressure on Lakers management this summer in order to make some changes and we just have to wait and see what they will do, hopefully lots. This had nothing to do with web hosting or web sites, rather I just wanted to talk a little about Kobe, the Lakers, and basketball.
Jobs at iPowerWeb
Are you looking for a new job?
Do you love web hosting?
Do you enjoy the Internet?
Do you love iPowerWeb?
If you answered Yes to any of these questions you should consider working for iPowerWeb. On our web site we have a section dedicated to career opportunities with iPowerWeb. Visit our web hosting job portal to learn more about current job postings and how to being the application process.
To give you a background of iPowerWeb, we are one of the largest shared web hosting companies in the United States. iPowerWeb currently hosts well over 700,000 web sites from over 100 countries around the world. At iPowerWeb we work hard to be a leader and innovator in the web hosting industry. We have office locations in both Phoenix, Arizona and Los Angeles, California. Our official headquarters are in Phoenix, Arizona; in Phoenix we have a data center facility and our call center is located in Phoenix as well. We have comprehensive benefits which come with every employee from the point they are hired. These benefits include:
* Medical
* Dental
* Vision
* Company Paid Life Insurance
* 401K
* PTO
* Free Web Hosting Account
* Competitive Salary and Commission Structure
Please visit our list of open positions to get more information about available jobs at iPowerWeb. If you want to get into web hosting or just need a job - definitely visit our web site for more information and consider working at iPowerWeb. By the way, every employee at iPowerWeb gets a free web hosting account. So if you are thinking about getting a job and live in the area or are willing to move - you should apply for a job at iPowerWeb.
Currently we are looking for people interested in working as a Billing Support Inbound Representative, Technical Support and Sales Representative, and Telesales Specialists. We should not that iPowerWeb does not do cold calling, therefore we won't give you a list of numbers and have you call the people in order to make a sale. We love adding new people to our unique and hard-working team, come make a difference in the web hosting services industry with us.
Maximum Domain Name Length
We are hoping that this will never be an issue for you, but every once in a while we get some very interesting questions. We occasionally get a call into our Sales or Customer Support Department asking us "what is the maximum amount of characters I could use for my domain name?"
As you probably know the domain name you use for your web site is very important. Considering the attention span and memory capacity of most humans you want something that is easy to remember and catchy. So we don't know if a very long domain name is ever truly useful - but here is the answer. A standard domain name may have 63 characters, which could be made up of numbers, letters, and hyphens. Then there is room for up to four spaces for the domain name extension such as .com, .net, or .info. So overall a domain name may use up to 67 spaces but obviously you would want something with the least amount of characters so your users could easily remember your domain name and also type into in their web browser. From a search engine ranking perspective, it would be helpful if your desired keyword(s) is included in your domain name although you must find a balance because you cannot only please the search engines. For example you could use all of the allocated 63 spaces on keywords but then customers would probably not remember your company name - so this balance is very crucial. But don't feel that you won't rank on search engines if your keyword is not listed in your domain name. A great example of this is Google; Google started off as a search engine although if you were to hear the name Google 8 years ago you probably would not know that they are in the search engine business. So if a search engine were to come across the Google domain name it would not know that Google is a search engine just from the domain name. Rather there are a bunch of other factors which lead to search engine ranking and your domain name is just one component. So if your keyword is not included in your domain name, do not worry at all. For most people it is difficult to find the balance of easiness and search engine effectiveness. Hopefully this has helped, we would get further into the scoring method for search engines but quite frankly not too many people know this and we probably don't either. I mean if we did you would see us in control of every keyword on ever search engine - wouldn't that be amazing? In the end, just try to keep your domain names under 63 characters.
How Do I Find My IP Address
IP Address is short for Internet Protocol Address. An IP Address is a unique set of numbers which identify a specific Internet server. A common question we receive is "how do I find my IP address?" We will give you a quick explanation on how to find your own IP address - please note that your IP address may not always be the same. This is unless you have a dedicated IP address, which as the word states it is a "dedicated IP address". If you are using a static IP address there is a chance the numbers could changes, this is dependent on a few things which we don't have to get into here.
So if you ever need to know your IP address, here is how you find it.
If you are using a Windows computer click the "Start" button and choose the "Run" option. Once a small screen comes up type "CMD" and click OK. For older versions of Windows such as Windows 98, 95, Windows ME - please type COMMAND rather than CMD.
Next you will see the DOS screen, typically an all black screen with white text. Type the following - "ping yourdomainnname.com" and then press Enter. Once you have done this you will probably see a series of numbers in brackets, these numbers make up your IP address. Once you are done, type "Exit" and press Enter to close the Dos screen.
You see how easy that is. If you did not know how to find your IP address pass this on to some friends this a useful tool and you'll never know when it will come in handy. So next time a person asks you for your IP address you definitely should not say I do not know and don't feel like you need to memorize the words, you could just run this simple search and your computer will do the work for you.
Account Status Following Renewal
We all get busy sometimes and forget to take care of other important things. For example, you may be so busy with your booming online business that you may not remember when it's time to renew your web hosting account with iPowerWeb. We have experienced this quite a few times, this is why we send all of our customers multiple renewal notification emails well before your account is up for renewal. In most cases if you pay by credit card, we do keep your credit card on file within our secured system and are able to run the card once it is time for renewal - unless you wish not to. But there are also cases where we do run your credit card during our auto-renewal process and for some reason the card is declined. This may be due to multiple reasons (which we won't get into) therefore you are left with an unpaid web hosting account and a popular web site that cannot have any down time because you forgot to pay.
We all are human and at iPowerWeb we understand that things come up, this is why we typically leave your account live for about three days following the expiration of your account...if we don't hear from you by then we are forced to suspend your account - which hopefully will never happen.
Please remember that your hosting expiration date may not always be the same date as your web hosting expiration date. If both your hosting account and domain name are with iPowerWeb, you will be notified by us. But if for some reason your domain name is registered elsewhere please make sure to always renew your domain name on time so your website does not go down. Lets say your domain name is www.abcde.com and the domain name was set to renew on April 24, 2007. If you did not renew the domain name on time, if people were to type your domain name in their Internet browser they would most likely get to your web site. Also don't forget that this may impact your search engine traffic along with advertising campaigns. So to be safe make sure to always keep your accounts in good standing and we will do our best to remind you. If we don't hear from you regarding your account renewal emails, you may even get a call from our Customer Support Department just asking you if you still want your account. We really try to make the entire hosting process as easy as possible for you. Your accounts status following its renewal is just another example of how we work harder for you - we will generally keep your account live for about 3 days just to be safe and some cases even longer. Hopefully you will never have to worry about account renewals and issues like this.
Important Words For High Schoolers….Again
People will surely think we are crazy after this post but if the words are so important we should probably know there definitions...right? So here they are, definitions for the "very" important one hundred words.
If you still can't understand the words, don't worry at all. Hopefully this is very fun to read and (in most cases) learn.
abjure - to renounce, repudiate
abrogate - to abolish by formal or official means
abstemious - paring or moderate in eating and drinking
acumen - shrewdness
antebellum - before the war, esp. the Civil War
auspicious - promising success
belie - contradict
bellicose - aggressively hostile
bowdlerize - to censor passages in a written work
chicanery - trickery by quibbling or sophistry
chromosome - bodies that carry genes
churlish - boorish; rude
circumlocution - roundabout way of speaking
circumnavigate - to navigate a circuit
deciduous - transitory
deleterious - harmful
diffident - reserved in manner
enervate - to destroy vigor
enfranchise - to endow with rights
epiphany - a revelation or sudden perception
equinox - astronomical start of autumn and spring
euro - new European currency
evanescent - vanishing; fading away
expurgate - to purge of moral offensiveness
facetious - lacking serious intent
fatuous - foolish
feckless - incompetent
fiduciary - trustee or relating to a trustee
filibuster - impeding legislation by monopolizing the floor
gamete - a mature reproductive cell (sperm or egg)
gauche - lacking social grace
gerrymander - to finagle election districts to give a political party an advantage
hegemony - society that seeks to exert dominance
hemoglobin - oxygen carrying part of blood
homogeneous - containing the same quality or property everywhere
hubris - excessive pride
hypotenuse - side of right triange opposite right angle
impeach - to accuse
incognito - concealed identity
incontrovertible - indisputable
inculcate - to teach persistently
infrastructure - underlying framework
interpolate - to estimate/insert between two points
irony - meaning contradictory to that expressed
jejune - juvenile/dull
kinetic - of motion
kowtow - to show deference
laissez faire - noninterference (esp of govt)
lexicon - dictionary
loquacious - chatty
lugubrious - mournful
metamorphosis - complete change of form
mitosis - normal cell division
moiety - half, or indefinite share
nanotechnology - nanometer-scale technology
nihilism - anarchy or denial of any real existence
nomenclature - system of names
nonsectarian - no specific religious affiliation
notarize - to legally witness and certify
obsequious - complete deference
oligarchy - government by the few
omnipotent - infinite power
orthography - correct writing and spelling
oxidize - to combine oxygen or remove electrons
parabola - pattern formed by intersection of plane parallel with a cone
paradigm - a model or set of forms
parameter - a constant or variable
pecuniary - pertaining to money
photosynthesis - producing organic materials using light
plagiarize - to steal another's thoughts and words
plasma - ionized gas, liquid part of blood without suspended elements
polymer - using smaller molecules to build a complex molecular compound
precipitous - extremely steep
quasar - hyper-distant, hyper-old primordial soup of galaxies
quotidian - recurring daily, customary
recapitulate - summarize
reciprocal - mutual, or 1 divided by a number
reparation - amends
respiration - process of providing oxygent to tissues
sanguine - hopeful
soliloquy - talking as if alone
subjugate - enslave
suffragist - one who advocates giving a right to vote
supercilious - contemptuous
tautology - needless repetition
taxonomy - science of classification
tectonic - of construction, of earth's crust
tempestuous - turbulent
thermodynamics - of heat and energy
totalitarian - authoritarian, no tolerance
unctuous - excessive piousness, oily
usurp - to use or serve wrongfully
vacuous - without contents
vehement - zealous
vortex - a whirling mass
winnow - to separate impurities
wrought - that which has been worked on
xenophobe - fearing outsiders
yeoman - clerical naval officer, farmer owning own land
ziggurat - pyramidal Sumerian temple
JavaScript Support
Back to some common questions that come into our Sales and Customer Support Department, here we will talk about JavaScript and whether or not our servers support JavaScript. The answer is yes, our web hosting solutions do support JavaScript. Javascript is dependent on the client-side and does not run on our server. This means that all of our servers are fully able to run JavaScript and you do not have to worry at all. Although we should point out that it is your Internet browser that will make the final decision on whether or not JavaScript works. As we explained in an earlier post, two of the most popular Internet browsers are Internet Explorer and Firefox.