Bhutan Web Solutions

We are happy to announce that new software, called .htaccess Generator, has been made available in the Bhutan Web Hosting Control Panel. Its purpose is to allow you to create many widely used .htaccess file features.

Where is the .htaccess Generator?
You can find the .htaccess Generator in the new Elefante Administration Tools section in the Web Tools menu. The new section includes also the Hotlink Protection and IP Blocking tools that have been taken from the Elefante Marketing Tools section. If you want to create .htaccess files you can also go to the desired location using the Control panel’s File Manager and click the .htaccess button that is available there.

Where is the .htaccess Generator located?
We have developed this tool taking into account your need to create .htaccess files and the fact that these files are sometimes not functioning properly due to incorrect parameters. The new generator will create the files properly so that there will be no need for you to contact our Technical Support team with regard to problems of such kind. Of course, we are always ready to help if problems with malfunctioning .htaccess files hosted on our servers appear.

What features have been made available in the .htaccess Generator?
The features have been grouped in the following six sections depending on their purpose:

• default index page
• additional MIME types
• authentication – allows IP and password authentication
• mod_rewrite – allows host authentication, wrong URLs redirection to another web server, language-based redirection and blocking sites by referrer
• custom error documents – allows the setting up of custom Error 400, 401, 403, 404 and 500 pages, as well as document redirection to a new URL
• other options – allows the enabling of Server Side Includes (SSI), hotlinking protection and PHP inclusion in HTML files

How can you apply the generated .htaccess code?
As soon as the form has been completed and submitted, the .htaccess code is generated. For your convenience, the code is being displayed in a text box so that you may choose whether to add it to an existing .htaccess file, or to have the file created in the selected location.

We trust you will like the new tool, as we are always happy to make our services easier for you to use.

A new feature has been made available in the Bhutan Web Hosting Control panel. It enables you to sign up quickly for a completely new hosting account when the current hosting account has insufficient resources or in case a new project is about to be started. That’s not all – a new interface has been developed for the signup process. It has the features of a Shopping Cart with its main advantage – allows management of the items that are being ordered without losing sight of them.

Let’s choose the Setup New Account link in the Bhutan Web Hosting control panel and take a short tour through the steps of the signup process using the new interface.

Step 1: Select a hosting plan
In the first step of the wizard you will get acquainted with the hosting plans that are currently on offer. To review the plan features and compare the hosting plans that are available for purchase, choose the Compare plans tab. To proceed to the next step, click the Order button that corresponds to the plan that suits your needs. Note that in the Cart table you can use the Change plan link to switch to another hosting plan at any time during the signup process.

Step 2: Select domain
In this step you must choose the domain name that you want to host in the new hosting account. You can register a domain name, or transfer an existing one, registered with another registrar. There is an option also to host your existing domain name without transferring it. Once you enter a domain name for registration / transfer and click the Add domain for hosting button, you must add to cart the domain that you’ve chosen in the results’ list. Of course, you can use the Change domain link to change the domain name whenever you want.

Step 3: Account info
Here we come to the place where you must submit the information needed in order to create the new hosting account. It is very important to enter the username of the new Hosting account and make sure that the contact e-mail address is correct because the new account information will be sent there. The same information will appear in the WHOIS of the domain that is ordered for registration or transfer.

Step 4: Select payment
Finally, we come to the last step of the wizard where you must select the preferred payment method (credit card or PayPal). Make your final decision whether you would like to have the web hosting account created and, if everything is in order, use the Next button to complete the signup process and submit the payment.

We aim at making our services a real pleasure for you. Our desire is to enable you to do more with fewer efforts. After the several Control panel upgrades that we have made recently, we are presenting to your attention now the new version of the Elefante FREE Scripts installer.

Considering your feedback, we’ve tried to improve this useful tool and the result is a more intuitive and less time-consuming scripts installer, which now offers you more scripts. We hope that you will like it. We’ll give you an idea of what you should expect to see:

New Interface
The new interface will allow having all the scripts displayed at once. One look at the Bhutan Web Hosting Control Panel will be sufficient to see the various categories and the corresponding scripts.

More information
Why going to each script’s page to see what its purpose is? Placing the mouse on the script’s name will show you a short description, which will give you an idea whether this is the software that you are looking for. If it isn’t – no problem, you will have some other scripts in the list to choose from.

One click for complete management
A single click on the chosen script will give you the complete information needed for its management: software name, version and description, the option of installing the given script as well as the current number of the installations with the corresponding administrator URL.

Script administration
The new administration panel is available in the Installed Applications section. A single click on the link in the Admin URL column will give you full information about the script – date of the installation, the database that was used, as well as the administrative login information.

Script versions
We will do our best to keep the versions of the scripts that will be available in the Elefante FREE Scripts installer up-to-date. Every time there is a newer version, we will make it available for installation. You should bear in mind also the following:

• It is your obligation to install new software versions and updates of the versions that you have already installed. Some programs don’t have updates and thus they may cause security issues. We are not responsible for any security issues that may arise as a result of non-updated versions of the scripts.
• We do not provide support for these scripts. Contact the development companies or check the support forums in case you experience any problems with the installed applications.

Thank you for being with us and for helping us improve our Bhutan Web Hosting services.

New options are available in the Subdomain Manager in the Bhutan Web Hosting Control panel. Until now, one of the features in this section was allowing to set up the ERROR 404 page for each virtual host (domain or subdomain) and the options were: to use the system Apache error page, or to set a website URL that will open in case someone mistypes the host URL.

Now, in the Subdomain Manager, besides the ERROR 404 page, there are options to manage also 400, 401 and 403 error pages. Thus you will have control on the error pages that appear when there are problems with your hosts or with the server.

Please note that the new feature is available for the hosting accounts located on some servers only for now. If you have any questions or meet any difficulties while setting up the error pages, feel free to send your inquiry in a trouble ticket that can be opened from the Help Center section of the Bhutan Web Hosting Control panel.

New top-level-domains (TLD) have been made available for registration and transfer through the Domain Manager of your Control panel at Bhutan Web Hosting. More TLDs give you a chance to get a domain name that will fit better to the purpose and the target-group of your website.

The new TLDs that you can order now are:
.cc .tv .name .cn .com.cn .net.cn .org.cn .tw .com.tw .idv.tw .org.tw

The TLDs that we have been offering for registration so far are:
.com .net .org .biz .us .info

To see the new TLDs, select the Register / Transfer tab in your Domain Manager of Bhutan Web Hosting Control Panel, or click the Register / Transfer button in the Upgrades menu.

In the Register / Transfer page you can select the box under the domain search bar for the TLDs that you would like to be included in the search. Please note that the pricing varies for the various TLDs and you can check it in the table that is on the right hand-side in the same page.

In order to see what the features of the TLDs are, (which can have ID Protect, which you can lock, etc.) just click the TLD Info link and all the information will be displayed in a table.

NOTE: If you can’t find those TLDs in the Domain Manager of your web hosting Control panel, please submit a trouble ticket to our support in order to receive instructions on how to order such domain names.

The Change Plan section in the Bhutan Web Hosting Control panel has been re-designed. We have applied a shopping-cart interface in order to present the web hosting plans in a more informative way and let you choose easily the plan that you need.

The link to the Change Plan section is located in the Upgrades menu, on the left hand-side of your web Control panel. The purpose of this section is to allow you to upgrade your current hosting plan to a more resourceful one.

If you compare the new design with the old one, you will find out that it is only the purpose of this section that is still the same. The new shopping-cart interface allows you to change your plan in 2 steps, providing with complete information for the hosting plan features. In the section for each plan, there is a short description of the hosting plan features and the price of the upgrade. To get more detailed information for the hosting plans you must click on the name of the hosting plan.

Today we are launching a new service that concerns the security of your domain names. The service is called ID Protect (also known as WHOIS / ID Protect) and is purposed to protect your personal or business information displayed in the WHOIS from spammers, fraudsters and solicitors who use the WHOIS data (e-mail addresses, phone numbers, etc.) illegally. In other words, once the service is activated, the registrar will display fictitious details in the WHOIS, so that the real information will stay hidden, but all the e-mails that are sent to the fictitious e-mail address will be filtered and forwarded to the actual e-mail address set in the WHOIS.

The ID Protect service can be ordered only for domain names registered with Bhutan Web Hosting, and has its own expiration date that is not related to the expiration date of the domain name. Another important thing is that this service is available for the .com / .net / .org / .biz / .info TLDs, but is not supported by country domain names like the .us TLD.

Let’s see how to activate WHOIS protection for your domains.

ID Protect for new domain(s)

Just start the domain registration process from the Register / Transfer tab in the Domain Manager of the Bhutan Web Hosting control panel. At the top of the page, where you must setup the WHOIS information and order the service, you will see the domain name(s) that you have selected with the option to choose whether you want to activate ID Protect service and for how many years. When a domain is registered and the ID Protect service is activated, a green-shield-icon will be displayed in the Domain Manager. A single click on the icon will allow you to enable or disable the service.

ID Protect for already registered domain(s)

There are three ways to order ID Protect for domain(s) that have been registered with Bhutan Web Hosting.

The easiest way is to get into the Domain Manager and there click the Add link in the ID Protect column for the domain that you want to protect.

The other way is to use the Quick Controls option in the upper-left corner of the web Control panel. In the panel with the information for the domain that you have selected, you will find a WHOIS section with an Order ID Protect link. If you have activated the service for that domain, in place of this link there will be a Manage ID Protect link that will allow you to enable or disable the protection.

The third way to order the ID Protect service is to choose the Edit WHOIS option in the Domain Manager and to choose the green Order WHOIS / ID Protection link that is available there.

Management of ID Protect service

ID Protect service that is already active can be enabled or disabled at any time. This can be done using the Manage ID Protect link located in the Quick Controls panel of the domain names, or with a single click on the green shield for the selected domain name in the Domain Manager. It is recommendable that you disable the ID Protect service, when you are attempting to transfer a domain name away to another registrar, in order to approve the transfer request that is usually sent via e-mail.

The Bhutan Web Hosting Control Panel has been equipped with another tool, designed to give you more control over your domain’s sender policy.

SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework, and is an extension of SMTP that stops e-mail spammers from forging the “From” fields in an e-mail. As SMTP itself does not carry an authenticating mechanism, the SPF extension provides the authentication scheme by specifying which computers are authorized to send email from a specific domain. In order to use SPF, the domain sending e-mails must establish an SPF record that is published in the DNS records.

When the e-mail passes through the DNS server, it is compared to the SPF record for that domain to determine if the sender is indeed authorized to transmit e-mails from that sender’s address. If the e-mail comes from a domain that is not authorized, the DNS server will not forward the e-mail to the expected destination.

Please note that these settings are for advanced users only!

For more detailed information, you may check the Show/Hide Help in the SPF section itself.

Our constant efforts continue with the improvements of the Bhutan Web Hosting services that we offer. The allowed CPU usage of each and every hosting account has been vastly increased.

The CPU usage stands for the average server load generated by your scripts during a specific time period – an hour, an entire day or a whole month, and is estimated by comparing your CPU time to the total CPU time (100%), which is assumed to be 34560 seconds.

You should often check this value in order to comply with the maximum allowed CPU usage for your particular account type.

The allowed CPU usage has been increased from 3% to 4.5%. We believe that the new value will give you more freedom when you host high CPU consuming applications such as blogs, forums, cms etc. However, you should always check if there are any new versions or security updates for your applications. Usually, the new versions are more optimized than the old ones in terms of resource usage.

We are proud to announce that today we launched the latest version of our well-known Bhutan Web Hosting Control Panel.

The new Control Panel v1.2 now features the following major improvements:

1. Modified titles and descriptions of the main sections;
   
2. Quick domain registration and transfer;
   
3. Multi-year bulk domain registrations and transfers available in the Domain Manager;
   
4. Detailed Context Help in each and every main section under the Show/Hide Help link;
   
5. Advanced Load Stats with additional resource reports allowing you to examine the exact running processes;
   

If you have any questions or feedback, please contact our support team.

Enjoy the new ultimate userfriendliness!