Digital Daze® Virtual Server Extensions

V i r t u a l S e r v e r E x t e n s i o n s

As a Virtual Server Administrator, you have access to a large array of programs that extend the capability and functionality of your Server. These programs are called "extensions" and though some were developed by third parties, they are all supported by the Virtual Server System.

Each of the extensions is accompanied by a large amount of documentation which you should review and understand if you expect to fully utilize the power of these extensions. Some of the extensions have license agreements that you should make yourself familiar with and agree to. Some extensions require a small setup fee (which is indicated when appropriate).

Extension	Description
Apache	Apache is the most popular and powerful web server software available today. The Apache web server is completely configurable and Dynamic Apache Module support provides the ability to extend the features and capabilities of Apache.
Analog	Analog is a very popular web server logfile analysis program that can be installed directly on a Virtual Server. Analog will analyze your web server logfiles in-place and then create HTML, text, or even e-mail reports of your web site traffic.
Autoresponders	A common capability found on web sites is that of being able to offer clients automated responses to an e-mail message. Autoresponders return the contents of a file as the response to a mail message sent to an address on your Virtual Server. For example, you may want to set up an autoresponder to answer all "info@your-domain.name" requests by responding with a Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) document.
Daemon Auto-Reboot	We provide each of our Virtual Server Administrators with the ability to automatically start daemons (or programs) at system startup time. This service insures that important daemons that you rely on are restarted when a server is taken down and rebooted after scheduled maintenance.
Event Scheduler (cron)	The Virtual Server System includes access to a daemon which can execute scheduled commands. This daemon, commonly known as "cron", can in effect tell the system to 'run this command at this time on this date'.
Java Virtual Machine	There are several Java tools which are currently available on your Virtual Server. These include a Java Virtual Machine (kaffe or java_x) and a Java Bytecode Compiler (javac).
Mailman	Mailing list software that manages E-Mail discussion lists and provides simple list management on the Web.
Microsoft® FrontPage®	Microsoft FrontPage is a leading Web site management and creation tool that combines ease of use, innovative imaging tools and seamless integration with the Microsoft Office family of applications. Whether creating personal Web pages or professional Internet sites, FrontPage delivers a complete solution for creating and managing Web sites that get noticed.
MIME Types	The Virtual Web Service includes an entire web server with a complete set of configuration files. Not only does this include the httpd.conf, srm.conf, and access.conf configuration files, but includes the mime.types file as well. Be adding extension definitions to your Mime Types file, you can easily allow your Virtual Server to serve content such as Macromedia's Shockwave, etc.
Miva (HTMLscript)	By acting as a pre-processor and reading embedded tags and HTML syntax, Miva can dramatically reduce development time by providing canned applications without compromising custom development. Miva is a server based program that preprocesses its own markup language and outputs standard HTML output which is read by the browser.
mSQL Database	For those that require simple database functionality, we provide support for Mini SQL, or mSQL as it is often called. mSQL is a light weight relational database engine that implements a subset of the ANSI SQL specification. It has been designed to perform the operations that it supports quickly and with very little resource overhead.
MySQL Database	MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL relational database management system. It is specifically designed to be a fast, robust, and easy to use database solution.
Perl	Perl has become a language of choice for World Wide Web development, text processing, Internet services, mail filtering, systems administration, and most every other task requiring a portable and easily developed solution.
PGP	PGP uses public-key encryption to protect e-mail and data files. It is well featured and fast, with sophisticated key management, digital signatures, data compression, and good ergonomic design.
PHP	PHP is a popular, freely available web applications development tool. PHP includes an HTML-embedded scripting language and a server-side preprocessor that interprets the HTML-embedded code in order to create dynamically generated web pages. PHP includes support for various databases, including mSQL, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. PHP can be used as either a dynamically loaded Apache module or as a CGI.
poppassd Service	The Virtual Servers System supports "poppass" service, the Eudora change password server. This service allows users to change their passwords remotely from their Eudora mail clients.
PostgreSQL Database	PostgreSQL is a sophisticated Object-Relational database management system, supporting almost all SQL constructs, including subselects, transactions, and user-defined types and functions. It is one of the most advanced open-source database available today.
Procmail	Procmail is a powerful e-mail processing utility and language. It can be used to analyze and filter incoming e-mail and process it in various ways.
Python	Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language and is often compared to Tcl and Perl.
Real Audio Real Video (RealServer)	Because the Virtual Server System operates autonomously in its own environment (just like a dedicated server), configuring your Virtual Server to stream RealAudio and RealVideo is a simple matter. Our installation and configuration instructions are easy to follow. In fact, you will find it is extremely easy to add multimedia capability to your web site hosted by Digital Daze.
Rotating Log Files	Web Server Log Files will constantly grow, until they eventually take up all the available disk space on your server. To prevent that, you can rotate your log files on a regular basis, and then either archive or delete the old files to free up space.
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)	You can provide encrypted web server sessions for your clients by using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). With SSL, your customers will feel confident sending you their credit card information online because they know it will be a secure encrypted transaction.
Sendmail	The sendmail configuration controls how your server sends and receives e-mail. It uses options, rules, and other directives to modify the behavior of the sendmail program, including spam prevention, secondary MX, mail-on-demand and other featurs.
SpamAssassin	A powerful tool to help in reducing the amount of spam in your mailbox.
Urchin	The Urchin Web Log Analyzer is an efficient, fast, and easy to use web log analysis and reporting tool. Urchin installs directly on your virtual server and creates HTML-based graphical reports of your web server traffic.
User Information (finger)	The UNIX finger service can be used to provide a form of user directory service. After you have installed the finger service, remote users will have the ability to query user profiles on your Virtual Server.
Virtual Hosting	The Virtual Server System can be configured to house multiple Virtual Hosts. This feature, Virtual Hosting, allows you to subdivide your Virtual Server into multiple partitions, each of which responds to its own individual domain name.
Webalizer	Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser
Web Publishing Using PUT	Besides specifying the well-known GET and POST methods familiar to CGI programmers on the World Wide Web, the HTTP specification also describes the lesser-known PUT method, useful for uploading files to the web server from PUT-capable HTML editors.
Windows 95/NT File Sharing	The Windows 95/NT Drag and Drop feature The Virtual Server System allows you to map your Virtual Server home directory to your Windows 95 or NT desktop over the Internet. This feature, which we call Windows File Sharing, is a very convenient and handy interface for maintaining your Web site. After you map your Virtual Server to a network drive, you simply need to "drag-and-drop" files to your Virtual Server. This feature also allows you to delete, copy, and move files on your Virtual Server as if it were a local drive.