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19. Advanced Tools: Cron Jobs, Network Tools, Mime Types, PGP Keys and Mail Exchanger (MX Entry)
THIS FEATURE IS FOR ADVANCED USERS ONLY!
DO NOT TO ABUSE this feature. In the event that United Hosting .NET determines that you are abusing the system from your use of this feature, it will be disabled permanently for your account.
» Cron Jobs:
If you know how to use Crontab, then you are quite aware of the drain that this feature can cause on server resources.
Precautions that you should take are:
Limit the number of processes that you run.
Do not run processes every minute.
Schedule your processes to run between midnight and 5:00 A.M. US Central Time.
» Network Tools:
There are currently two tools available inside the Network Tools feature of the Control Panel:
DNS Lookup:
Allows you to search DNS entries for a particular domain.
Traceroute:
Allows you to trace the "connection hops" between your local computer and the server.
» Mime Types:
This feature does not work with FrontPage. FrontPage users will need to add Mime Types from the FrontPage program itself.
The MIME Types option in your Control Panel allows you to set certain programs to be used for specific extensions.
In easier-to-understand terms, MIME Types helps your web server to identify what type of file is being requested by the browsers. For instance, when the web server gets a request from a browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape for a file that ends in .html, the web server knows that it is an HTML document because that extension is stored as a Mime Type. If the web server gets a request from a browser for a file that ends in .gif, the web server knows that it is an image because that too is stored as a Mime Type. This applies to every file, image, application, etc. that may be requested by a web browser. If the extension is not stored as a Mime Type, the web server will not recognize it and will not be able to assist the browser and that particular file type will not be viewable by the user.
Mime types are identified by the server by the following format:
subtype/type extension
For example adding the following two Mime Types will allow users to view ipx images on your web pages:
application/x-ipscript .ips
application/x-ipix .ipx
application identifies the subtype, x-ipscript identifies the application, and .ips identifies the extension used for that application.
» PGP Keys:
THIS FEATURE IS FOR ADVANCED USERS ONLY!
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a military grade encryption program that is used to scramble (encrypt) and unscramble (decrypt) data so that it can only be read by those intended to read it. You can encrypt e-mail you send to others and decrypt mail sent to you. You can encrypt and decrypt files on your computer that you don’t want others to read. PGP is the best way to protect data that is available to the general public.
» Mail Exchanger: (MX Entry)
THIS FEATURE IS FOR ADVANCED USERS ONLY!
This option allows you to change the MX record on your DNS file. This is very useful if you have your own email server and would like to use our servers for web and your own server for email.
(Last Update : January 15, 2003)
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