If you took advantage of our new offer for migrating to a Washington DC server then you’ll need to re-create email accounts on the new server, therefore your old email accounts will be closed, you can backup your existing mail in these mailboxes using Outlook, here’s a brief tutorial on how to do so:

1. Click ‘Account Settings’ from ‘Tools’ menu.

2. Create a new Account (per mailbox).

3. Select the 1st choice.

4. Check the checkbox at the bottom.

5. Select ‘Internet E-mail’.

6. Fill in the form as above then select ‘More Settings’.

7. Click on ‘Outgoing Server’.

8. Click the first checkbox.

9. POP: 110 and SMTP: 225

Then click OK, NEXT and FINISH, then repeat the above steps for each mailbox, finally click ‘Send/Receive button in Outlook to download all mail stored in your existing mailboxes before they got deleted, when you change your DNS you’ll be able to use your new email accounts with new setup that will be given in your new activation email.

Commonly, this choice to host your website depends upon the scripting language that is used in your website. If languages like PHP, MySQL, or Perl are used in your website, Linux server hosting is preferable. But if you are thinking for ASP.Net scripting language then your finest choice would the Windows server hosting.

If you need some interactive facilities like chat or searchable database, Linux may not be the best choice. Also, a Linux-based web server is not fully acquiescent with Windows technologies. If you are using any Windows-centric technologies like Visual Basic, then Windows-based servers would be the required choice for you.

Advantages of Linux server hosting

1. A Linux website can easily be converted to a Windows website without much hassle. Also, the website can easily be changed as the requirement of the user grows.

2. When the scripting language like PHP, MySQL, or Perl etc. are required for your website then Linux server hosting is the most reliable and cost effective solution for you. Unless heavy load of scripting language, this will not be traceable.

3. There are many kinds of databases that run on Linux hosting, but the most widespread most likely among web host providers are mSQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL. These databases are relational by nature, and permit vastly optimized communication with your website for rapid reclamation of data.

4. By lots of circles Linux hosting is supposed to be much securing than Windows hosting, and for that reason only Linux server hosting is also the more popular choice for web designers and programmers.

Advantages of windows server hosting

1. .NET technologies like ASP.net VB.net are available on this platform. If you have a website built with Microsoft .NET technologies then you will have to choose a Windows server hosting plan.

2. Access Databases are only obtainable with a Windows server hosting plan. Access can only run on a Microsoft Windows platform and thus it is unavailable on a Linux hosting. If your site needs particularly this feature then you will have to accept Windows web hosting.

3. If you are using some of the Microsoft’s Sharepoint services a Windows Hosting plan is only reliable choice for you.

4. Windows plans typically much costly because of the license costs compulsory by Microsoft.

Normally, Linux server hosting plans are at least 20% economical than windows server hosting plans. If you need not to have any unique features for your website, like cart, searchable database etc, Linux server hosting is a finest alternative for your needs.

espinda.com offers both a Linux hosting plan with capability to use php and MySQL as well as a Windows hosting plan that supports ASP and .NET.

Server Error in “/” ApplicationThis is a standard .net error message and is not enough information to diagnose what the error may actually be, however .NET has been designed to provide useful error messages. To diagnose a problem with a .NET website, the first step is to gather accurate information regarding the error. These informative error messages can be displayed, by simply turning off custom errors in your web.config file.
The easiest way of displaying complete error messages is to rename your existing web.config file, then upload a new web.config file with the following content.

This will show you the actual error message displayed, and should provide you with enough information to diagnose the fault. If you would like more information regarding the fault, you can edit the page that is generating the error.

The top line of the page should be similar to the following:

< %@ Page Language=”VB” %> or < %@ Page Language=”C#” %>

There may be additional content within your line of code, but by adding debug=”true” trace=”true” you will see as much error and debug information as possible.

For example: < %@Page Language=”VB” debug=”true” trace=”true” %>

P.S.: You will not need to recompile your application as the code itself is not being altered, this change just instructs ASP.NET to output more information.

From the information provided you should have enough information to locate the source of the error and resolve the issue. If the error appears to be server related please contact us, providing the full error messages and debug information you are receiving so that we can investigate the issue straight away.

My Custom/Third party DLL will not workI receive the following errors:

Security Exception Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy.
or Error: “The current trust level does not allow use of the attribute”.
To protect the integrity of our customers data and our network as a whole we have certain restrictions on our shared hosting environment. As such, certain third party DLL’s and DLL’s requiring full trust levels will not operate on our shared platform.
You should check whether your third party DLL has a version available that supports partial trusted callers. If you receive this error when running your own dll’s you should ensure that the AssemblyInfo (eg AssemblyInfo.cs for c#) file has the following before your project is compiled:

[assembly:AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers]

We are unable to provide additional services on our shared hosting platform, if you wish to use an unsupported DLL, or need to run a DLL with full trust level you should consider a dedicated server, where you have full control over the configuration of your hosted .NET platform.

My web.config file is not workingThe web.config file is a settings and configuration file for .NET web applications. This should be located within the htdocs folder of your webspace. While sub directories may also contain a web.config file to provide configuration specific to that particular directory, a master web.config file must also be placed directly in the htdocs folder of your webspace.
More information on the configuration of the web.config file can be found in the following Microsoft articles:

Web.config configuration: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa719558.aspx.
Hierarchical Configuration Architecture: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa720128(VS.71).aspx.
Format of ASP.NET Configuration Files: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ackhksh7(VS.71).aspx.
My scripts in the ‘bin’ directory do not executeWhile scripts will execute correctly in most folders within your webspace, the Bin folder in an exception. When you create a bin folder it is automatically configured with special permissions and behavior to store .NET assembly files (compiled DLL’s).
Quick Tip: This directory should not be confused with the cgi-bin directory which is set up by default within your htdocs folder.

All scripts placed in a directory called bin in htdocs will fail to execute. You should either move the files to another folder and remove the folder, or rename the folder.

Visual Studio has a Copy Project option, which requires FrontPage Extensions to be installed on the domain name. This option will not work because FrontPage Extensions require administrator permissions that are not suitable for shared servers. If you have installed FrontPage Extensions, you should uninstall them through the control panel, before FTPing your files.

If you want to upload .NET assembly files (compiled DLL’s), you will need to create a directory within htdocs called bin and upload your .DLL files to this directory.

Where to upload your files, Every domain has a home directory where the web files are kept. This directory contains the following sub-directories:

htdocs
This is where you must put all of your web files (i.e. your .html, .gif, .jpg files etc.). Your web.config file must also be placed directly within this folder. If you have created a bin directory for your .NET assembly files (compiled DLL’s) this must also be placed within this directory and referenced from the web.config file and/or scripts.

Cgi-bin
This should not be confused with the Bin folder you create to store your DLL’s. While .NET scripts will work in this directory, it is considered good practice to use this directory solely for perl or CGI scripts.

logfiles
This contains the raw log files for your domain. You should not upload any files to this directory.

private
This directory contains private files that are not accessible to anyone accessing your site from the Internet. You should use it to hold information that the site needs to run, but which is not displayed (e.g. files and databases containing the names of users and their passwords).

espinda.com provides ASP.NET web hosting with its Windows web hosting plan as an optional feature.

ActiveSockets
Active Socket Object is an ATL Component, fast and light weight object that will allow developers to connect to any TCP/IP port on any server, and then transfer data. Supports TCP, UDP, RAW, RDM, SEQPACKET protocol, for ASP, Visual Basic, Delphi, PHP, Perl, and any other component-aware environment.

AspJpeg
AspJpeg is a server component that will help your ASP or ASP.NET applications with all their image-management needs. With AspJpeg, you can create high-quality thumbnails, logo-stamp photographs, extract metadata information from images, crop, enhance, rotate, convert, and much more.

ASPUpload
AspUpload® is a server component that allows your web application to capture files uploaded with a browser in as little as 2 lines of ASP script. With AspUpload, files up to 2 GB can be uploaded while only consuming a tiny amount of RAM on the server. The files can be uploaded to disk, memory or the database of your choice. The user can monitor upload progress and time-remaining information via a built-in HTML-based progress bar, AspUpload’s remarkable robustness and extensive feature set has made it the upload solution of choice for tens of thousands of web sites around the world.

Jmail
Using JMail will enable you to easily send email from your web page through the web server – without having to use an email client such as Eudora, Exchange or Outlook. Key features include: Attachments, Return Receipt, Log files, Set Priority, MIME and BASE64 Encoding, Queued mailings without separate NT service, Unlimited redundant servers, Blind Carbon Copy (BCC), Carbon Copy (CC), Urgent flagging, US ASCII, UUEncoding, X-Headers and custom headers, MS Mail and Exchange priority headers, and Internal MX lookup with MX priority and redundancy.

CDO-NTS
CDO version 1.2 for NTS, also known as CDO for NTS, is an SMTP-specific lightweight version of CDO 1.2 for Exchange. This version of CDO was designed to allow server applications to send and receive messages without requiring Exchange server.

CDO-SYS
The CDOSYS library is an implementation of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). CDOSYS enables applications based on the Windows XP or Windows 2000 operating system to efficiently route e-mail and USENET-style news posts across multiple platforms.

Sendmail
It allows sending of messages from the command line, CGI script or batch file. It is a Windows version of the popular Unix Sendmail program. It allows easy migration of perl scripts from Unix to Windows since it uses the same simple interface as the Unix Sendmail. It provides support for sending text and binary attachments, It can be easily integrated with your Website, or Commercial Application. Sendmail is an ideal tool for Systems Administrators, Web Masters, Software Developers, and Integrators.

You may check our Windows hostingplan here:
http://www.espinda.com/web-hosting-plans/standard-windows-hosting.html

Standard mailboxes have increased in size from 20MB to 50MB and advanced mailboxes from 100MB to 1GB.

This upgrade is for Windows accounts, To apply the free upgrade please follow the following steps:

1. Login to your mailbox control panel at: http://mcp.espinda.co.uk/

2. Enter the mailbox you wish to upgrade and its password.

3. Click the ‘upgrade’ button.

4. Repeat the previous steps for each mailbox and enjoy the free upgrade.

Mailbox control panel demo:

http://mcp.espinda.co.uk

demo email: demo@espinda.dm
password: demodemo

Screenshots:

1. login to your mailbox control panel.

2. upgrade your mailbox size from 20MB to 50MB for free (unless you have done that before).

3. setup your auto-response (if needed)

4. setup your forwarding options (if needed)

5. change your mailbox control panel without having to contact account admin or webmaster.

http://cp.espinda.co.uk

username: demoCP
password: demoCP