Bhutan Web Solutions

We are happy to inform our customers that new unique software tool is available in the Bhutan Web Hosting Control Panel’s Domain Manager, Subdomain Manager and File manager sections as of today. The new tool is named Elefante Toolbar and has fully automated functionality allowing one-click installation of any chosen PHP script from the Elefante Installer package (nearly 40 scripts currently available).

And that’s not even slightly exaggerated. Using the new tool, customers need to only choose a desired script, pick a host location to install the script and simply hit the ‘Install’ button! Now that’s exceptionally easy, isn’t it?

This handy functionality is for everyone who desire quick and easy installation of their scripts, without any complicated additional configurations, such as choosing a database, path, password, username, etc. The Elefante Toolbar generates all this information itself and installs the script in the main directory of the chosen host. For customers who wish, however, to specify all these configuration settings themselves, the Elefante Toolbar provides a quick shortcut – Advanced Installation link – to the main interface of the Elefante Installer control panel section where all parameters can be “hand” filled in.

One important issue needing your attention is that, if you try to install a chosen script in a folder where there exists a currently installed script, the Elefante Toolbar will give you two opportunities to choose from – ‘Overwrite’ of the currently installed in the folder script, or ‘Advanced’ installation. The ‘Overwrite’ option will install your chosen script in the folder, but will overwrite all existing files with duplicate names. The ‘Advanced’ installation option will allow you to specify a different folder path for the script installation, while most of the other settings will remain automatically filled in.

With compliments, from our Bhutan Web Hosting team

New service is available in our customers’ Web Hosing Control Panel – URL Redirection, as of today! It allows customers to set up a redirection of any desired URL hosted on our servers to another URL – hosted with us or on a remote server. The new functionality has been incorporated in the former ‘Password Protected Areas’ section of the Control Panel, presently named – URL Protect & Redirect.

Both beginners and advanced users can take advantage of the new functionality. The ‘URL Redirect’ tool has a regular redirection option and a more advanced one (allowing redirection of chosen items only – from a given URL – matching defined criteria).

The service is very easy to set up. Customers need to choose first the type of redirection: regular – Redirect Directive, or defined – RedirectMatch Directive, then select a domain or a sub domain hosted with us from the dropdown available and enter the correct directory path (URL) of the web folder that is to be redirected. Very important part of the service is choosing a HTTP Status code – more information about the different codes follows below and is also included in the ‘Help’ section. After the customer has selected the desired URL path to be redirected and its HTTP status code, he/or she needs to type in the URL which the web folder will be redirected to and submit the form. If the customer has chosen to use the ‘RedirectMatch’ service, he/or she will need to fill in one more field – ‘Regular Expression’. This is exactly the place where the customer will have to define the specific conditions that must be matched for the redirection to be performed – the so called ‘regular expressions’. For example, the customer can specify that only files with .gif extension from the selected URL (web folder) should be redirected to the new URL. More details on how to enter the specifications can be found in the attached tooltip.

HTTP Status Codes

Customers should be very precise when selecting an HTTP status code for their URL redirection. Status codes explain the type and purpose of the URL redirection and also perform SEO function, that is – optimize the redirected URL for all search engines. The possible to set HTTP response status codes are – 301, 302, 303, 410:

Permanent redirection: 301 – The requested URL has been assigned a new permanent URL and any future references to this resource should use one of the returned URLs. When a URL returns a 301 redirect, it means that the owner of the link asks users to use the new address, which they’ve been redirected to.

Temporary redirection: 302 – The requested URL resides temporarily under a different URL. When a URL returns a 302 redirect, it means that the owner of the link asks users to continue to use the original address as the redirect might be modified at some time later.

See Other redirection: 303 – The response to the requested URL can be found under a different URL and SHOULD be retrieved using a GET method on that resource. When a URL returns a 303 redirect, it means that the owner of this link redirects the user to another page which is not a substitute of the originally requested page. This method is very popular when you redirect a visitor to a ‘Thank you’ page after filling in a page.

Gone status code: 410 – The requested URL is no longer available on the server and no forwarding address is known. When a URL returns a 410 redirect, it means that the requested page does not exist anymore.

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We hope that the new functionality will be of good use to all our existing and future customers. Best Regards from our Bhutan Web Hosting team! We’ll be back soon with more introductions!

To the attention of all our present and prospective customers! The SiteStudio website design tool, included as a FREE bonus in all our web hosting packages, has been updated to its latest version released – SiteStudio 1.8. The update will come into effect on all our servers in the next two days. The transit to the new version for all our existing customers, using this site building software, will be hassle-free, preserving all their current settings. Updates to customer websites, created with SiteStudio, will be possible by switching to any of the new 80 website templates available in SiteStudio v.1.8.

The basic set of features in SiteStudio v.1.8 includes the following:

• Easy to use: You do not need to know anything about web design or programming, or how to cope with programs such as FTP or Telnet.
• Content and Layout Files – Stored Separately: Very flexible feature! The content is stored separately from the web design files. This way, you can change whenever you want any detail of your layout, without having to re-enter any part of the content.
• Customizable color schemes: You have a number of beautiful ready-to-use color themes available. However, if you feel like having a more personally customized layout, you can change all colors up to your preferences using a point-and-click color picker or typing in the colors as hex numbers.
• Layout templates: SiteStudio currently offers to the users 21 personal website templates and 69 Small Business website templates.
• On-the-fly image generation: Now you can have also professional-looking graphics! Each time you decide to change some color combination, the necessary image is automatically created. No need to bother any more with complex programs, such as Photoshop.
• Uploading Images: With the Image Uploader included in SiteStudio, you can upload images from your online account without ever having to leave your browser. Create now online photo albums, insert images into the page logo, or incorporate images anywhere in the page content or layout!
• A variety of different pages: In a simple step-by-step process you can develop a variety of template-driven pages.
• One-click Publishing Button: You can publish your website with one easy mouse-click! Later on, after making any updates to the website, again one easy click on the ‘Publish’ button will make all your website changes go live again.
• Saving of Information: All your information is saved the moment you enter it. You can log out whenever you need, then come back again later on to continue your work on the website and start from the point where you left previously.
• Flexible setup: SiteStudio can be easily configured to operate with all your current software programs. You can set it up also to utilize user information from your current user base.
• Advanced control: For advanced users, SiteStudio allows changing of the buttons on the website.
• Advanced full screen text/HTML Rich Editor: Windows users only – rich browser-based text editor for Internet Explorer included. You can easily use formatting, styles, tables, bullets and more in your work on the website, and/or copy and paste the most complex tables from a web browser or from any Office application.
• Easy integration of e-shops: For a personal website – you can incorporate an Amazon.com web store. For a business website – you can easily integrate a shopping cart functionality that includes everything – from secure payment gateway to a merchant account issued by One-Stop Merchant Services.
• SiteStudio Admin Panel: SiteStudio comes with its own admin control panel.

SiteStudio is also provided now with a new address (URL), which changes the login procedure for all existing users. To log in SiteStudio, customers will need to go to the ‘SiteStudio’ section in their Web Hosting Control Panels.

We hope that many clients of ours, who want to create websites themselves, but do not possess the necessary technical skills, will take advantage of our FREE newly updated user-friendly site building software- SiteStudio v.1.8.

With Best Regards,

From our web hosting company

To the attention of all our present and prospective customers,

Our Elefante One-Click Scripts Installer tool included in all our Bhutan Web Hosting packages has been newly updated to the latest stable releases of the following open-source PHP scripts:

We hope that these script versions will provide for our customers better opportunities for developing interactive websites, featuring rich content and utilities such as: galleries, photo albums, blogs, forums, e-shops, and more.

To slightly uplift the curtain for our future projects – our developers team is currently working also on the integration of several other popular PHP scripts in the Free Elefante One-Click Installer package. Also under development is the future incorporation of the package in the Domain Manager and the File Manager of your Bhutan Web Hosting control panels, which will reveal new possibilities for scripts administration and quick and easy script installation into your Bhutan Web Hosting accounts.

With best regards, from our Bhutan Web Hosting company!

We are happy to inform all our customers that the File Manager software tool available in your Bhutan Web Hosting Control Panels has been generally updated. The new version 2.01 contains more features and improved functionality. Since the very launch of the File Manager version 2.0, we’ve been carefully reading the feedback and comments you’ve been sending us, and since it is our own in-house developed product, we again put all our efforts to respond to all your requirements and suggestions.

The new update includes the following functionalities:

1. On the tooltips that you can open clicking on a file name/or a folder type icon, the ‘Download option is featuring separately. (So far it was offered together with the ‘Open’ one – Open/Download).

2. ‘Download’ action is available for selection also from the up and down Actions toolbars. The new buttons enable you to select multiple files for download. The chosen items are automatically generated in a .ZIP archive and downloaded to your PC.

3. Folders are also possible for download. The feature will be working on the same principle as the multiple files download.

4. Archive/ZIP option is also available for folders from now on. It creates a .ZIP file from a chosen directory, and saves the archive on the server.

5. Each file/folder information field is featuring a new type icon now. It gives access to the permissions set for each directory location, and allows changes to be made by simply clicking on it.

6. ‘Enter Custom Path’ – this new field allows users to enter the name of a directory that they wish to open. This option is especially useful for often visited host destinations, the name of which you know well. It saves you the time-consuming process of browsing through files and folders along to the desired directory path.

7. ‘Quick Links Path’ – if the name of the current directory is not fully displayed in this field, you need to only mouse over the name and a tooltip will appear showing the full directory path of the current host location.

8. This function will be also available for the file/folder names not fully displayed in the information fields of the File Listing Panel -mousing over a file/folder you can view in the tooltip appearing its full name.

9. Another new option has been added to the File Listing Panel’s functionality, giving you the possibility to view your files listed by Name and Size. NOTE: By Name can be sorted all files and directories, while the Size option will be available only for the files list.

10. Most substantially upgraded is the Plain text editor of the File Manager. Many fixes have been performed to be improved its functioning. Few new features have been added, as well:

• ‘Go to line’ field – this is a new input field where users can enter a number of a line and then, by pressing the ‘Enter’ key, move directly to the desired line in the document. This option is especially useful in cases when you need to edit something in a particular line, e.g. “syntax/fatal error on line 54″.
• The Save and Close functions have been slightly altered, as well. Up until now, there was one button – ‘Save’, that was performing the whole action of saving the last changes and closing the window. With this update, a new button was added – ‘Apply Changes’, which will perform only the saving/applying the last changes function, while another one – ‘Save And Close’, will be confirming the saving process and closing the window.
• Saving with Ctrl+S key combination is also possible in the new File Manager version.
• Support for syntax check of the PHP code has been added, as well.

We are really looking forward to hear your comments and suggestions. We hope that the new 2.01 File Manager version will meet your expectations and facilitate your account administration and file management through our Bhutan Web Hosting Control Panel.

With compliments, from our Bhutan Web Hosting company

To further facilitate our customers in the management of their web hosting accounts we run regular updates to the customers’ Web Hosting Control Panel. The newest update we’ve made concerns the Domain Manager, and in particular – the display field of the domains’ status. This section will now contain up-to-date information about the current status of each domain name, as well as extended administration options.

Four new domain statuses have been added and will be displayed accordingly when a particular domain name has reached the respective status. The statuses will be notified with type icons, opening tooltips with detailed explanation about each of them. From the Expiration/Renewal column of the Domain Manager our customers will be also able to open other tooltips providing options for according domain action.

Domain statuses overview:

Redemption period – a period of up to 30 days after a domain name’s expiration. During this period the domain name owner can retrieve the domain name from deletion and renew it against a small redemption fee. Automatic renewal option will be displayed in the Domain Manager in such cases. The redemption fee will be added to the renewal price of the domain name. The customer needs to open a tooltip from the Expiration/Renewal column of the domain name in RGP (Redemption Grace Period). There he/or she will be given the option to retrieve the domain name and renew it.

Extended redemption period – a grace period of another 7 – 30 days when the domain name can be retrieved from deletion and renewed. The renewal however cannot be automatic in this period and the domain name owner needs to contact our supports team with renewal request. ‘Open support ticket’ option will be displayed in the domain tooltip opened from the Expiration/Renewal column of the Domain Manager.

Pending delete period – this is rather informative than requiring any action, since during this period the domain name can be neither retrieved, nor renewed. It only shows that the domain has been blocked by its Registry and will be returned in 3 – 5 days back into the public pool of domain names.

Released from registry – this status shows that the domain name is now publicly available for registration. An option will be provided in the respective Expiration/Renewal Domain Manager field with registration of the domain name preserving its old WHOIS information. The previous domain name owner can take advantage of this opportunity and newly register the domain name. If the domain name has been already taken, an option with new domain name registration will be offered.

We hope that this update will be useful for our clients and will help them to better and easier manage their domain names.

Our Marketing Department has the pleasure to inform you that a new bonus feature has been added to the Bhutan web hosting services order page of our company’s website. Elefante PHP script FREE automatic installation is now included in the packages! This means that, with each web hosting plan you order through our website’s order form, you can have one Elefante PHP script of your choice professionally configured and fully automatically installed for you on your website absolutely free of charge.

NOTE: Once you have purchased your web hosting account, you can download and install any of the rest of over 30 PHP scripts available for free installation through our Elefante Installer from your Bhutan Web Hosting Control Panel (as it’s been so far), more advanced computer configuration skills however might be required from you during the installation process.

Take now the exceptional opportunity to easily run any of the open-source Elefante PHP scripts available (Blog, Forum, CMS, Gallery, etc.) with the free PHP script installation you get with any newly ordered web hosting account.

Dear present and prospective customers! The Software Developers Department of our Bhutan web hosting company is happy to announce that a new File Manager version has been developed and launched online! This advanced software tool was created by our professionals to suit our clients’ highest demands in terms of facilitation, easy administration, better navigation and advanced functionality, all bundled within an exceptionally user-friendly interface!

The following features and functions are comprised:

Create New File/Folder – In this field you can create new empty files and folders. You can choose either option by selecting the corresponding radio button.

Disk Usage – This field provides for you up-to-date graphic and numerical information of how much disk space you have utilized and how much remains free.

Quick Links Path – In the previous File Manager version, the history path name, displayed above the panel with your listed files, was static. Here, it is replaced by a dynamic ‘quick links’ path name, providing for you easy access to each sub-level of your current directory. The ‘Quick Links Path’ field actually displays the name of the current directory, you have selected by browsing through the folders in the File Listing Panel, in the form of dynamic history path name links.

Quick Host Shortcuts – This dropdown enables you to directly select a host from a list containing all your hosted domains and sub domains.

File Listing Panel:

• Check boxes – Using the check boxes in the first column of the File Manager’s File Listing Panel, you can select multiple files/folders in order to perform certain actions (Copy, Delete, etc.).
• Type Icons – By means of type icons, this column gives you easy orientation and quick information about the type (folder/file – text, image, archive etc.) of the documents related to the icons.
• File/Folder names – Our new File Manager introduces a new approach to the management of your files and folders in the form of intelligent tooltips, providing you with an easy access to all actions that can be performed per selected file/folder.
  • File tooltip – is activated upon left-click of the mouse on the name of the file. It opens an Info panel containing details about the file’s name, type and size, and two dropdowns. The Permissions dropdown allows you to reset the permissions for the selected file. The Actions dropdown lists all actions (Edit, Copy, Delete, Open in web, View image, Open in WYSIWYG Editor, etc.) that can be performed per selected file.
  • Folder Tooltip – is activated upon left-click of the mouse on the type icon of the folder and opens an Info panel containing details about the name of the folder, and two dropdowns. The Permissions dropdown allows you to reset the permissions for the selected folder. The Actions dropdown lists all actions (edit, copy, delete, download folder as Zip archive, etc.) that can be performed per selected folder. *Note that, if you click on the name of the folder, instead of the folder type icon, the folder file content will be listed.
• Actions icons – next to the file/folder names are displayed all action icons available per file/folder – for quick selection of a desired action to be performed for the corresponding file/folder. Each button opens a smart tooltip, showing details about the action that is going to be performed.
• File Size – presents information of the size of each file.
• Permissions – presents information of the current permissions set for each file/folder.
• Last Accessed/Last Changed dropdown menu – allows you to switch between both options – ‘Last Accessed’ and ‘Last Changed’, upon your desire or need to view the corresponding class of information displayed in the last column of the File Manager’s File Listing Panel.

Actions Toolbar – The actions toolbar contains a convenient set of tools for multiple files/folders editing. You can select a number of files/folders and press any of the buttons available – Move, Copy, Delete, Change Permissions, to perform the according action for the selected files. If you use the option ‘Select All’ files/folders, the changes you make will be applicable to all files/folders in the current directory. With the newly added ‘Reload’ button you can reload the File Manager’s File Listing Panel without needing to refresh the whole web page.

File Upload Field – With the new File Manager you can upload an unlimited number of files, without exceeding however a total size of 20 MB at once. For your convenience, the file upload boxes have been organized to appear in a cohesive order – right after you have filled in an upload box, a new one will show up. The new file upload functionality also supports an option to upload .ZIP, .RAR, .TAR.GZ and .GZ archives with automatic unpack of the files/folders in the current directory. In order to upload archived files/folders, you have to browse and select a desired archive, then check the box that will appear – ‘Unpack archive after upload’.

Key basis for the development of this File Manager version was the need to provide for our customers better navigation, time-saving and visualization tools. We sincerely hope that your file management work will be much easier now and pleasurable to do. We will ardently continue to put efforts in the improvement and development of an advanced web hosting environment and a handy administration system for our clients’ Bhutan Web Hosting Control Panel.

It us our pleasure to inform you that, as of today, support of PHP v6 is available on all servers in our Bhutan web hosting network.

This is a brand new version of PHP that still needs to be stabilized online. Therefore, the version is still recommended utterly for test purposes and experimental use. We are introducing the new version in our system earlier in advance, as there are already lots of users interested in developing and maintaining dynamic web sites through PHP v6 enabled software. We would like to advice you, however, to restrain from relying fully only on this version until PHP v6 is officially confirmed as a stable release.

Considering the global software world’s trend of moving towards language and cultural sensitivity, the most outstanding feature in PHP v6 – the Unicode support – comes as a timely response! For all of you interested in implementing the new PHP support, please, switch to the new version from the ‘PHP settings’ section in your Bhutan Web Hosting Control Panel, or simply by running your files with the extension of “.php6″.

With compliments, from our company