THE VIRTUAL SERVER HANDBOOK
Table of Contents
Document Conventions ................................................................... 7
Introduction ...................................................................................... 8
The Virtual Server System vs. Your Own Solution .............................. 9
The "do it yourself" approach ...................................................... 9
The ISP approach........................................................................ 10
Our approach .............................................................................. 11
How the Virtual Server System works................................................ 12
Virtual Servers vs. Virtual Hosting............................................. 12
Virtual Servers vs. Virtual Hosting  a technical perspective...... 13
Virtual Server Core Internet Services ................................................. 15
The Virtual Server HTTP (Web) Service.................................... 15
The Virtual Server FTP Service.................................................. 16
The Virtual Server POP Service ................................................. 16
The Virtual Server IMAP Service............................................... 16
The Virtual Server SMTP (e mail) Service ................................ 17
The Virtual Server Administrator ....................................................... 18
Getting Started ............................................................................... 19
Customer Service................................................................................ 20
Services....................................................................................... 20
Technical Support ............................................................................... 21
Understanding your E mail Configuration Letter ............................... 22
E mail Configuration Letter Terminology .................................. 23
Registering or Transferring your Domain........................................... 24
What is a Domain Name? ........................................................... 24
Registering or Transferring Domains ......................................... 25
Other Registration tools .............................................................. 25
Registering Domain Names with InterNIC................................. 25
Administering servers remotely .......................................................... 27
Telnet .......................................................................................... 27
FTP ............................................................................................. 29
Windows File Share.................................................................... 32
GUI Administration Tools .......................................................... 33
The Virtual Server Directory structure ............................................... 34
The UNIX file System ................................................................ 34
File Ownership and Permissions................................................. 35
Virtual Server Directories and Files............................................ 36
Directories outside of the Virtual Server .................................... 38
Basic UNIX commands ...................................................................... 39
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