Index

» General Account Inf...
» The Index Page
» SSL (Secure Pages)
» Web Stats and Acces...
» Checking Usage Numb...
» Manage Your Site
» Mail

BannerWeb offers storage space for web pages with global public access to those pages over the Internet.

We also offer a limited form of program execution known as "cgi-bin." Our computers are Pentium machines running Apache over Linux. Apache responds to web page requests from remote browsers while Linux is one of several variants of the Unix operating system. Our servers are connected to the Internet backbone over multiple T3 lines, which has a capacity of 45 Mbps (Million bits per second).

Every customer gets his own password protected userid under Linux. By logging in with his userid, the customer gains access to his web storage space. Every userid "owns" a structure of disk subdirectories in the Linux file system. The "root" of this structure is the "home" directory, found at path "/home/userid." Note that this is somewhat similar to the MS-DOS directory structure, except that there is no drive letter and forward slashes are used instead of backward slashes. The path referred to above, however is in relation to our own servers. When you FTP to your account using your domain name and userid, you don't need to put in "home/userid." You will automatically be taken there.

Inside the home directory are many files and other directories. The most important one is named "www". Every customer has his own separate "www" subdirectory (which actually points to the "public_html" subdirectory). Files placed in the "www" directory are visible to remote browsers over the Internet, so this is where you want to place all your html documents, graphics, sounds, files, etc. which you want people to be able to access from the world wide web. For example, when a browser asks for URL http://yourdomain.com/page.html, Apache looks for the file: /home/yourdomain/www/page.html and sends it out.