136 Serving Your Customers
Maximum number of web users. Specify the number of personal web pages that the
domain owner can host for other users under his or her domain. This service is
mostly used in educational institutions that host non-commercial personal pages
of their students and staff. These pages usually have web addresses like
http://your-domain.com/~username. If you wish to allow execution of scripts
embedded in personal web pages, select the Allow the web users scripting check
box. See the Hosting Personal Web Pages (on page 168) section for details.
Maximum number of databases. Specify the number of databases that can be
hosted in a domain.
Maximum number of mailboxes. Specify the number of mailboxes that can be
hosted in a domain.
Mailbox quota. Specify the amount of disk space in kilobytes that is allocated for
storing e-mail messages and autoresponder attachment files to each mailbox in
a domain.
Maximum number of mail forwarders. Specify the number of mail forwarders that
can be used in a domain.
Maximum number of mail autoresponders. Specify the number of automatic
responses that can be set up in a domain.
Maximum number of mailing lists. Specify the number of mailing lists that the
domain owner can run in a domain. The mailing lists are served by the GNU
Mailman software, therefore the GNU Mailman should be installed and
configured before your customers can use it.
Maximum number of Java applications. Specify the maximum number of Java
applications or applets that the domain owner can install in a domain.
Validity period. Specify the term for a hosting account. At the end of the term, the
domain/web site will be suspended, its Web, FTP and mail services will no
longer be accessible to the Internet users, and domain owner will not be able to
log in to the control panel. Hosting accounts cannot be automatically renewed,
therefore, in order to bring the hosted domain name/web site back to operation,
you will need to manually renew the hosting account: click Domains shortcut in
the navigation pane, click the domain name your need, click the Limits icon,
specify another term in the Validity period box, click OK, then click the Switch On
icon in the Domain group (Domains > domain name).
5 Click OK.
To protect your site from DoS attacks and to ensure that your site responds promptly
when there are many visitors, you can limit the number of simultaneous connections
to the site and limit the amount of bandwidth that visitors to the site can consume:
1 Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the domain name you need.
3 Click Performance.
4 Select the Switch on bandwidth limiting check box, and in the Maximum
network use (KB/S) box, type the maximum speed in kilobytes per second
that a site can share among all its connections. For example: 128.
