Active Server Pages (ASP) technology allows HTML pages to contain complex scripts that are executed at the server. This allows for dynamic pages to be created from data retrieved from databases or any other resources available to the server. You can write your own ASP scripts and execute them from your cgi-bin directory.

Feature rich AceFlex® software will help your company meet needs with B2C or B2B e-commerce, strengthen business relationships with your customers and suppliers, reduce operational cost by using secure Web, increase revenue and improve profitability faster and at lower cost
Web-based back office sales management software to sell directly to consumers with sales processing/tracking, CRM, opt-in bulk marketing, schedule, merchandising, advanced promotions, reports for analysis, price levels, easy customizable storefront, advanced catalog, shopping cart, drop shipping option, pre-integrated online payment processors. Ref www.aceflex.co.nz

ASP.NET (originally called ASP+) is the next generation of Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP), a feature of their Internet Information Server (IIS). Both ASP and ASP.NET allow a web site builder to dynamically build web pages on the fly by inserting queries to a relational database in the web page. ASP.NET is different than its predecessor in two major ways: it supports code written in compiled languages such as Visual Basic, C++, C#, and Perl, and it features server controls that can separate the code from the content, allowing WYSIWYG editing of pages. Although ASP.NET is not backwards compatible with ASP, it is able to run side by side with ASP applications. ASP.NET files can be recognized by their .aspx extension.

Audio/Video HTTP Streaming

Audio/Video enables your web site to play prerecorded sound, video & animated files over the Internet using http protocol.

Autoresponder

An autoresponder is a feature that allows you to generate automatic customized responses whenever a specific email address receives an email. Typically, this feature is used by people when they are away, notifying the sender of an email that the recipient is away and will be back on a specified date. Alternatively, it can be used as a business tool to send specific responses with information, such as pricing information if a customer sends an email to a specific address, i.e. sales@yourdomain.com.

CGI-BIN Access

All zipzap.net.nz™ web accounts come with full access to their own cgi-bin directory. Your web site can be fully interactive by using the power of custom programs executed from your cgi-bin directory.

Data Source Name (DSN)

DSN stands for Data Source Name. Data Source can be a database, spreadsheet, text file etc. We assign DSN to a data source so that irrespective of the data source details and location, we can use that data source; add, modify or delete records, just by knowing its DSN.

Data Transfer (Bandwidth)

All activity served from your website constitutes data transfer. For example, every time a web page, image, midi file, mpeg video, email, etc. is loaded or transferred from or to a server, data transfer is generated. All Shared and Dedicated hosting plans include a specific amount of data transfer according to each individual plan.

Domain Aliasing

This feature allows you to have multiple domain names pointed to a different domain, i.e. www.newdomain.com can redirect customers to www.primary.com. This redirection is entirely performed at the DNS-level, and does not involve any kind of CGI script. It's fast, reliable and will work with any type of web browser. And, because this feature is implemented at the DNS-level, all FTP and email addresses associated with your alias will also be redirected as well.

Domain Name Registration

If you would like to have your own unique web address, we can register your domain name (e.g. www.mycompany.com) with OpenSRS or Network Solutions. If you are transferring a domain name, you will be responsible for contacting the appropriate registrar to coordinate the transfer. All new Domain Name registration fees will be billed to you separately by zipzap.net.nz™. Domain registration fees start from US $9.95 for a one year term (.com, .net, .org, .biz), while other TLDs (.ca, .us, .info, .co.uk, .co.org, .cc, .cn and .de) are priced individually. Registration does not confer immunity from any third-party concerns regarding the use or registration of the domain name.

Directory Aliasing

If you want different domain names to point to different directories of your web site, then you need DIR Aliasing. For DIR aliases, we assign a unique IP address and create a folder in your root directory, as the home directory of the DIR Alias. FTP connections and emails are routed to your main domain.

Example: http://www.newdomain.com points to http://www.primary.com/newdomain
Emails sent to anyone@newdomain.com is routed to anyone@primary.com

Email Alias

With a virtual domain comes email aliasing. All email addressed to anything@yourdomain.com will be delivered to your email box. You can use this feature to provide your customers with a variety of addresses to send their email to, which in turn could help you sort out your incoming messages. You could have info@yourdomain.com for general questions, sales@yourdomain.com for orders and more.

Email Forwarding

The email forwarding feature enables you to forward emails sent from various addresses to one specific email box.

QuickSSL Certificates

QuickSSL are 128 bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Certificates designed for securing communication between your customer and your web site. QuickSSL Certificates are the most cost-effective fully validated and fully supported 128 bit SSL Certificates you can buy today. You can also feel safe in the knowledge that Geotrust will validate your application in accordance with the latest digital signature legislation pertaining to Qualified Certificates. This validation is done effectively and quickly, ensuring you need not wait the traditional 3 working days normally associated with a fully validated SSL Certificate.

Mailing List

Mailing lists provide users with an effective and efficient method of communicating with a number of people in an email environment. Whenever an email is sent to a mailing list address, it is immediately forwarded to all members of that list. The member list is maintained by the moderator of the list. A mailing list is a great way for turning email into a public forum or business tool.

Microsoft® FrontPage® 2002:

Microsoft® FrontPage® helps you easily create and manage professional-quality websites without programming. Both new users and web development professionals will enjoy the ease in building and maintaining high-quality web sites in very little time. zipzap.net.nz™ provides FrontPage® extensions free of charge in its Basic, Professional, Corporate and Enterprise Shared Hosting plans.*

*FrontPage® Extensions are not available on Email and File Hosting plans.

Microsoft® FrontPage® Extensions

Microsoft® FrontPage® extensions allow you to connect to your Server directly with your FrontPage® client and make the creation and maintenance of your Server much easier. They also allow you to use special FrontPage® Bots, which can greatly enhance the functionality of your Web pages.

When signing up for your account, Microsoft® FrontPage® 2002 extensions are included and enabled free of charge in our Basic, Professional, Corporate and Enterprise Shared Hosting plans.*

*FrontPage® Extensions are not available on Email and File Hosting plans.

Microsoft® SQL Server

SQL Server, also known as Microsoft (MS) SQL, is a relational database management system (RDBMS) used to manage transactions between a client and a database. It receives SQL queries from a client, executes those queries against the database, and then returns the requested information back to the client. MS SQL allows you to create dynamic and interactive web sites. zipzap.net.nz™ offers 3 different SQL hosting plans starting from $25.00/month.

MySQL

MySQL (pronounced "my ess cue el,") is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL), the most popular language for adding, accessing, and processing data in a database. Because it is open source, anyone can download mySQL and tailor it to their needs in accordance with the general public license. MySQL is noted mainly for its speed, reliability, and flexibility.

osCommerce

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved.

osCommerce combines open source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language, the stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL database server.
Ref www.oscommerce.com

Perl

Perl is a script programming language that is similar in syntax to the C language and that includes a number of popular Unix facilities such as SED, awk, and tr. Perl is an interpreted language that can optionally be compiled just before execution into either C code or cross-platform bytecode. Both can be run on the Linux account that comes with most of our regular hosting accounts.

PHP

PHP is a script language and interpreter that is freely available and used primarily on Linux Web servers.

POP3 Email Account

With POP3 email accounts, you can retrieve all emails addressed to your domain on our server. With multiple POP3 email boxes, you can have multiple addresses, such as yourname@yourdomain.com and yourfriendsname@yourdomain.com. You may also set up addresses for members of your staff, or divisions within your company, such as accounting@yourdomain.com or support@yourdomain.com.

Redundant Internet Connection

zipzap.net.nz™ has fully redundant high-speed fiber optic connections (multiple OC3’s) to the Internet backbone with carriers UUNET and Big Pipe Inc. Network connectivity to your web site will never be an issue.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

For security and privacy, all of our customers can take advantage of our Shared Secure Socket Layer (SSL) service. By using this service, personal data such as credit card information transmitted through a secure (SSL) form will be fully encrypted en route to our secure server. For enhanced security, zipzap.net.nz™ offers InstantSSL 128-bit certificates. InstantSSL Certificates are the most cost-effective fully validated and fully supported 128-bit SSL Certificates you can buy today

SMTP Service

Email is sent using an SMTP mail server. zipzap.net.nz™ provides a free Outgoing SMTP service that allows you to send email through 'smtp.yourdomain.com'. In order for SMTP to function, each user account will need to activate Outgoing SMTP. This can be done from the Email Management section in the Control Panel. You can log into your Control Panel at http://webmail.zipzap.net.nz/cp.htm

Sub Domain

A sub-domain is very similar to Directory Aliasing (DIR Aliasing), except that instead of www.newdomain.com pointing to www.primary.com/newdomain, www.newdomain.primary.com will point to www.primary.com/newdomain. The difference is that you do not need another domain name. This allows you to select a sub-domain that will act as a prefix on your existing domain. For all sub-domains we will assign another IP address and directory in your domain to be used as the home directory of your sub-domain's web site.

NOTE: Sub-domains are very popular in situations where a customer is hosting multiple applications under one domain, i.e. Web Hosting, Microsoft® SharePoint™, SQL, Microsoft® Exchange Server, etc. In this example, it would be advisable for the customer to have multiple sub-domains, i.e. www.mydomainname.com, spt.mydomainname.com, exchange.mydomainname.com, sql.mydomainname.com, etc.

Web Album

The Web Album is a web-based tool that allows you to create, manage, view and share your photos online. Simple and easy to use, the Web Album is available FREE on all our hosting plans.

Web Site Statistics

A number of commercially available web statistic analyzers exist in the market that will allow you to take standard web server log files and produce graphical reports. zipzap.net.nz™ provides customers with the option of using one which is provided, or one of their own.

Web Page Password Protection

Password protection add-on for Microsoft® Internet Information Server (IIS) allows you to protect directories by asking browsers for their username and password using HTTP-standard Basic Authentication. The general procedure for setting up access authorization for your users is the following:

1. Create one or more groups
2. Set up access authorizations to directories for each group
3. Add users to the groups.  We have a web based administration utility which allows you to create users, groups and set up access authorization.

Web-Based File Manager

The powerful File Manager allows you to create, delete, and move all the files in your web site. You can also use it to upload files from your local PC to the server. The File Manager is easily accessed through your Control Panel, this feature provides everything you need to manage your site, minimizing your time and maximizing your productivity. The File Manager offers the following functions:

1. Delete Files
2. Rename Files
3. Create / Delete Directories
4. Upload / Download Files