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Simplifying Setup of Domains and Web Sites
If you are going to serve numerous users with a great number of domains, you may want to
create hosting configuration presets, referred to as domain templates, which will simplify
setting up hosting accounts for new domains and web sites. The templates cover all resource
usage allotments, permissions and limits that you can define for a hosting account, plus mail
bounce and Web statistics retention settings.
To create a domain template:
1 Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the Domain Templates icon in the Tools group.
3 Click Add Domain Template.
4 Specify the template properties:
a Template name. Specify a name for this template. During setup of a new hosting
account, you will be prompted to select the required template by its name. Therefore,
we recommend that you choose a meaningful name that corresponds to one of your
hosting plans or describes the amount of allotted resources. For example, Mail hosting,
1GB disk space, 500 mailboxes.
b Mail to nonexistent users. Specify the domain-wide mail bounce options: When
somebody sends an e-mail message to an e-mail address that does not exist under
your domain, the mail server on your domain accepts mails, processes it, and when it
finds out that there is no such a recipient under your domain, it returns the mail back
to sender with the ―this address no longer accepts mail‖ notice. You can choose to:
change the default notice if you do not like it (leave the Bounce with message option
selected and type another message into the input box),
forward undelivered mail to another e-mail address (select the Forward to address
option and specify the e-mail address you need), or
reject mail without accepting it (select the Reject option). This setting can decrease
mail server load caused by a large amount of spam, which is often directed at
randomly generated user names. However, for spammers this can somewhat
speed up scanning your mail server for valid e-mail addresses.
c WebMail. Specify whether the users of mailboxes in this domain should be able to read
their mail through a browser based WebMail application.
d Maximum number of subdomains. Specify the number of subdomains that can be hosted
under this domain.
e Maximum number of domain aliases. Specify the total number of additional alternative
domain names that the site owner will be able to use for his or her web site.
f Disk space. Specify the total amount of disk space allocated to a hosting account
associated with the domain. This amount is measured in megabytes. It includes disk
space occupied by all files related to this domain/web site: web site contents,
databases, applications, mailboxes, log files and backup files. This is the so-called
soft quota: when it is exceeded, domain names and web sites are not suspended
automatically, only the appropriate notices are sent to your and your client's e-mail
addresses and the resource overage is indicated by the icon shown in the control
panel to the left of the domain name (see the list of domain names by clicking the
Domains shortcut in the navigation pane).
