We've created this page to help answer some of the questions you may have regarding our Web Site Hosting accounts. We've included explanations of some terms you may not be familiar with, as well a few descriptions of the capabilities and features at your disposal. No, Netpanel does not provide dial-up service. You will need existing Internet access from a national provider or local ISP in order to access your e-mail and web site hosting account. With a POP e-mail account, you can both send and receive mail through your own domain name, or through Netpanel's server, depending on which hosting option you go with.
Virtual domains are the most common type of hosting solution in the industry.
This is as opposed to storing your web site on a physical server built specifically for the task, which is what a very large company might do if they wanted to host their own web site on-location. Secure server access is the ability for the server and the user's browser to communicate by encrypting the data. It allows data to be encrypted and securely transmitted to the server, reducing the risk of someone intercepting and reading the data. VeriSign , the leading provider of secure server certificates, has some excellent articles and explanations of the benefits on their site. A certificate is the key used to encrypt and decrypt the data.