The top 5 Host Winner 2002-Aplus.Net successfully launched a Web Panel

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Wednesday, September 4, 2002; 12:00 AM

September 4, 2002
Hostreview.com editorial

With the sudden growth of the web, Aplus.Net outlined itself as a web host with customer orientation. Aplus.Net is a division of Abacus America, Inc., which was founded in 1992. It boasts more than 250,000 web hosting and Internet customers who can also access products and services offered by other divisions under the Abacus America, Inc. umbrella. The launch of the Web Panel, Product and Facilities quick tours is the latest hit the mark. In April 2001 the company saw the launch of a state of the art data center. This carrier class facility provides collocation for businesses who want to take advantage of economical and reliable outsourcing.
Web hosts that have special offers, great deals, or offer specialized packages for say private, business or corporate customers evidently are the best solution. The visitors will still have to make the final decision. Because of the sheer size of the market, new developments occur almost daily. But it is advanced find to start building tradition with implementing tools for customer facilitation. Experts say there are many advantages Aplus.Net can offer. Dedicated hosting offers several key advantages, with the main one of these being that the user has sole access to the server.
The very Web Panel itself is a new step to the market position of the Top 5 Host Winner company for 2002.The web panel allows you to control every aspect of your web hosting plan. Info Boxes provide you with a quick plan summary. The tools are clearly explained in the frame of an elegant and appropriate design.

• The Account management tool provides administrative functions for registered user. It will allow you to edit plan details, view billing statements, view invoices, view net traffic, change your account settings, change your credit card information and your emails. It will also give you the opportunity to add, edit or remove services provided from the site (web hosting, domain registration, e-mail account etc.)
• The Plan Management feature changes the password of the registered user to something easily remembered. This control panel shows your status, billing period, FTP username and password, email addresses, activation date and domain transfer help.
• The Billing Statements displays date, service description and credit about the services utilized from the user.
• This takes you to the sign up form for domain registration where you can check the availability of your domain name, set your own username and password and purchase it.
• The help feature is the Webpanel Help System that directs you to the support features for each of our services.
• The file manager will allow you to create, delete, move and copy directories as well as upload files from your private disc space.
• Website file backup that zips your html files to store as a backup in case of damage, loss or overwriting errors.
• The MS Frontpage Installs/Uninstalls FrontPage server extension allows the use of a Frontpage server extension to administer a registered domain. You have to install Front Page extensions in order to use this Microsoft tool on your site.
• The MySQL Database is a tool for creating and managing your MySQL databases. The created databases are available for use from your registered domain.
• The Mime Types will allow new mime types to be added to your site.
• The Redirect URL will allow you to redirect pages from your site to other locations.
• The Network Troubleshooter checks the connection between your web site to your local computer.
• The SSH (secure socket shell) tool activates your script gives the Secure Shell access to the registered domain. Both ends of the client/server connection are authenticated using a digital certificate and passwords are protected by being encrypted.
• The Secure Server Manager will allow you to request a secure certificate on your site, install your private key and generate a dummy certificate. For instance, this certificate secures pages for credit card transactions. To setup a secure server you will have to purchase a secure certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA) like Verisign or Thawte.

  The Protect Directories allows you to set up a specific username and password to access into a limited number of directories or files. This applies to websites that use multiple admins and webmasters to manage a site.
• The HTML validation tool checks the validity of chosen from the user HTML page. It also checks the validity of a chosen in the page references. The result from the verification is displayed as an HTML code. In case of error presence it is generates a corrected exit of a chosen page. It is possible both the check-up of a page of a registered domain and random page from the inside server.
• The Image Manipulation Tool gives you quick options for easy simple online editing of your images. You can resize, crop, flip, change colors, brightness, saturation and more without any special design knowledge or software.
• The Thumbnail Generator helps you easily create thumbnails for any size of images.
• The Load time optimization optimizes images from the registered user space while trying to shorten the file's size. The images can be included in HTML page or be chosen independently.
• The Counter is a graphic that shows the number of hits to your website. We offer several different styles you can customize to your website.
• The Site Stress test tool executes a test for loading of a chosen from the user site. The test simulates a concurrent site's use from several users. It is simulated around 120 calls per minute to the site.
• The Site monitoring tool checks in an interval of 30 min. if the site, registered in the list works. It also shows statistics about the percent of the site's workability.
• The Site statistic shows the number of visitors and hits a website or domain receives. You can view these statistics monthly and daily.
• The Search engine optimization explores chosen web page for specific key words and gives suggestion for including of that words in the attributes of the page needed for starting the search machines.
• The Register site in search engines registers chosen URL in some popular search machines.
• The Check ranking checks out on which position is the registered through the
• Register site in search engines" site in the search machine list.
• The Formmail feature provides you with instructions on how to insert a form script into your HTML page so that you can create a form that will collect and email the results to a designated email address.
• The Web Based Email will allow you to receive, send and store e-mail. It also gives opportunity of organizing the mail in folders.