Custom Error Pages
When your website is hosted by iPowerWeb you can be sure that you are located on a great server in one of the world's best data centers. In some cases you may find that your pages are bringing back errors when they load. If this is the case you can always create custom error pages if you do not feel satisfied with our default error pages. If you have no idea what a customer error page is, a custom error page is the HTML or text pages you can create to provide a more personalized error to your users. When a user enters your site and encounters an error such as 404, you can create your own customized 404-error page for them to see. This way, the user does not see a generic error, and may even be presented with a number to call or an email address to report the error and obtain assistance. If you need more information on custom error pages or if for some reason your entire website is not loading properly, please contact our customer support at your earliest convenience.
Changing Your Username
You are probably aware that all shared web hosting accounts with iPowerWeb include the award winning vDeck control panel. The vDeck control panel allows you to manage your entire site from one easy-to-use location.
After purchasing your web hosting account with iPowerWeb, you will immediately receive an order confirmation via email. This email will provide you with a description of the product(s) you purchased along with a summary of the contact information we have on file for your account. If for some reason you do not receive your order confirmation email immediately following your purchase, please contact our Customer Support Department at 888-511-HOST.
Shortly after receiving your order confirmation email, you should receive an account setup email from iPowerWeb. The account setup email will provide you with the login information to your control panel. Once you receive your account setup email you are ready to have your website published on the Internet. The account setup email informs you that your hosting account has been setup and you are able to login to your control panel in order to start creating your website. So as we just explained, you will receive an email with your login information to your vDeck control panel. In order to login to vDeck you will need both a username and password - this information is included in the account setup email. If you wish to change your username please note that all of our usernames are computer generated. You may change your account passwords; however, your username cannot be changed. If you wish to change your vDeck password you may do so once you have logged into vDeck.
Raw Logs
A common question our customers ask our support department is regarding raw logs and what they are. Raw Logs are the actual log files that store access and error entries. The file that is generates is said to be "raw" because it is not analyzed and is presented in its original state. You can view your raw logs as an iPowerWeb hosting user and it is quite simple to do so via your vDeck control panel.
MySQL Connection String Information
If you are not familiar with the Internet and/or web hosting you may not know what MySQL is or even what a connection string is. A connection string is a string passed in code that specifies connection information directly to the Driver Manager and driver. iPowerWeb hosting accounts come with MySQL support, this means that if your web site needs to run programs and scripts that use MySQL - you are in good shape.
You can use the code found below this line to connect to a MYSQL Database through ASP. Please note: iPowerWeb Technical Support does not provide assistance with web scripting. The code below is provided out of courtesy.
<%
Dim DBName,DBUser,DBPass,objRS,objConn
'----------------------------------------------------
'DO NOT MODIFY ABOVE THIS LINE
'----------------------------------------------------
' Fill in the information below inside the quotation marks
DBName=""
DBUser=""
DBPass=""
'----------------------------------------------------
'DO NOT MODIFY BELOW THIS LINE
'----------------------------------------------------
Set objConn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConn.ConnectionString="DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};Server=localhost;Database="&DBName&";UID="&DBUser&";pwd="&DBPass&";"
objConn.Open
Set objRS=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
%>
If you have additional questions or need assistance please contact our customer department at 888-511-HOST.
How To Setup a New Account via our Reseller Program
iPowerWeb has one of the Internet's most popular reseller programs. The iPowerWeb Reseller Program enables virtually anybody in the entire world to become their own web hosting provider. Dependent on the number accounts you have with iPowerWeb, you are able to purchase iPowerWeb hosting plans at a discounted rate. To learn more about the Reseller Program and other iPowerWeb Affiliate Programs - Please visit this page. http://www.ipowerweb.com/affiliates/index.html.
If you already are a member of the iPowerWeb Reseller Program, here is an explanation on how to purchase a new hosting account.
First: Log into your reseller control panel. Click on Hosting Accounts -> Overview ->( there will be a link at the top of the Overview section which reads)To Purchase a New Reseller Hosting account - please click here
Submit the domain ( you can choose a new or transfer). If you choose New we will register the domain for your client.
By choosing transfer you are indicating that your client already has a domain name which they own & which they want to use for their account. Choosing transfer does not automatically mean that we transfer the domain to us. You can leave the domain at the current registrar and have that registrar point the domain to our DNS or ask our transfer to transfer the domain to our registrar & we will have the DNS changed.
You contact our transfer department by sending an email to transfer@ipowerweb.com and the reseller generic DNS is;
NS1.SECUREHOSTSERVER.COM
NS2.SECUREHOSTSERVER.COM
Now, on page 2 of the sign up form, you will fill out your client's contact information for everything except for the billing, which is where you use your credit card information. This ensures that we charge you for purchasing it through us, then you are to mark up the rate & charge your client.
Choose a plan (3mo, 6mo, 1yr or 2yrs) & a password and then submit your order.
After the order is processed your client will receive an account setup email which will come from the email address you list in the Settings Area for Sales.
You will also receive a duplicate of the account setup email to that email you list in the settings / sales area.
If you ever have any other questions or wish to learn more about iPowerWeb hosting services and our Reseller Program, please call us at 888-511-HOST.
How To Retrieve Your Host Number
All iPowerWeb shared and dedicated hosting accounts are located on servers which are connected to the Internet and housed in our powerful and secure data centers. A common question that comes into our support center is regarding our hosting servers and how customers can retrieve their host number(s). Please refer to your account setup letter in order to find your host number. Your host number is located in section 2 (II) of your account setup letter. If you no longer have the setup letter, please email support@ipower.com so that we may send you another copy.
Google To Create A New Meta Tag
Google, one of the most popular search engines in the world hqs recently announced that it will add an ¨Unavailable After¨ meta tag. The "unavailable_after" tag will allow you to tell Google when Googlebot should no longer crawl that page. Jill explains that this tag comes in handy when you have a limited time offer promotional page, and on this page, the promotion will expire on a specific date. By using the "unavailable_after" tag, you can tell Google that they should not crawl this page, after the promotion expires. There are several practical scenarios for this tag. If you have a web page that you wish to have visited by the public for a limited time, this new meta tag would be great for your site. Web site owners may not want visitors on certain pages after a certain date. Therefore this tag will most likely make sure that your special page is not accessed via the search engines after the specified date.
Renaming Web Page Addresses
Every iPowerWeb hosting account comes with a free web builder which enables our users to build a professional website in minutes. When using our web builder tool to create your site you also have the ability to create your own url's for each web page. But in many cases, when a person creates a new web page (including a url) they generally may want to alter the content of the page or the url eventually down the line. At iPowerWeb we understand that this may be an issue, therefore we provide our users with the ability to easily rename their web pages and alter their website's content very quickly. Here is a quick list of instructions on how to rename pages on your web site.
Step 1:
Log into vDeck and click on Web Builder.
Step 2:
Click on Edit Pages.
Step 3:
Next to the page you want to rename, click the rename (T) icon.
Step 4:
Enter a new name for that page. Then click OK.
Step 5:
Your page will now be renamed.
For a screenshot walkthrough of these steps, please visit: IPWHelp.com
Swicki
I came across an interesting web tool today that I thought might be a good fit if you have a website with a search engine. The tool is called a Swicki. It's like a Wiki, but used for search.
According to their website: "Swickis are a cross between search engines and Wikipedia - the community can add, delete and improve the results."
From what I read on their website, it looks like the search engine brings up results based on what other visitors of your site have searched for. So the results are then uniquely relevant for your community. Once the results are shown, you can also vote for or against the results.
Changing the Appearance of vDeck
All iPowerWeb shared web hosting accounts use a state of the art control panel by vDeck. Each vDeck control panel allows our web hosting users to manage their entire website from one effective and easy to use portal. The vDeck control panel have received many awards for its advanced technology, ease of use, and design. The control panel is easy to use and looks great, although in some cases our users must alter the resolution of their vDeck control panel. Therefore our IPWHelp Center provides you with information on how to properly adjust the resolution of your vDeck control panel and provides you with many other tutorials on how to better utilize your web hosting account. So if you wish to receive more information on how to change the appearance of your vDeck control panel, please visit http://www.ipwhelp.com/view_tutorial.php?w=111