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Frequently Asked Questions

Your questions and concerns are very important to us. We have created a list of FAQ's and helpful information that you may need to know when working with your site.

We have two sets of FAQ's. The Common FAQ's are questions mainly for new members or customers. The Technical FAQ's involve less common issues that you might want to know if your web site has any special needs such as web based software, extra bandwidth or disk space.

Common FAQ's

1. What is Super Cert Hosting?
SuperCertHosting.com provides you with very cheap access to a high quality server with the strongest possible security certificate. With our service, you may save hundreds of dollars by not having to go through the haste of buying, installing, and renewing, your own certificate. If you are not completely satisfied with our service after 30 days, you may cancel your account for a full refund. You may also earn free service each month by referring at least one other person to Super Cert Hosting per month.
 
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2. Why should I use Super Cert Hosting?

There are many reasons why you should use Super Cert Hosting; here are a few of them:

No need to have your own domain to use our service. One good feature about Super Cert Hosting is that you can keep your existing web site whether it is hosted by a free web site provider such as Yahoo, AOL, or Lycos, or your own domain such as yahoo.com or even a sub domain and still have access to use our secure servers. If it was not for Super Cert Hosting, you would have to either own your own domain name or pay another company to accept credit cards or host web based programs.

Instant and automatic access upon signup. Within seconds of signing up for an account at Super Cert Hosting, your account will be created and you will receive an E-mail with your account information and instructions of how to use your Super Cert Hosting account. Most web hosting companies take much longer to do this. Other companies that sell security certificates usually take 3-5 days before they approve your personal, business, domain, and billing information. When you finally get your certificate from one of these companies, you have to have special software on your server in order to install your certificate, which costs extra money, or you have to pay someone else to install the certificate if you don't own your own server. You don't have to do any of that with Super Cert Hosting, everything is fast and automatic.

Increase your web traffic, sales, and customer confidence. If you accept credit cards for your business or people send other sensitive information across your web site, it is critical that you use a secure server to process this information. When people connect to your secure web pages located on our secure servers, they will see a small icon of a lock at the bottom of their browser indicating that the page they are currently viewing is secure. More people will feel confident sending their information across your web site if they know the data is being sent across a secure connection.

No hassle with buying, installing, renewing, or waiting for your certificate. Buying a certificate from all other certificate vendors is a long and complicated process that involves faxing your personal, business, domain, and billing information to the certificate vendor and waiting a few days before they approve or reject your information. Once you have your certificate, you must be sure that the server you are about to have your certificate installed onto has all the proper software to allow browsers to recognize the certificate. This process may take a few more days. Then comes renewing your certificate. At the end of each year you have to remember to renew your certificate from the company you bought it from, otherwise they will cancel your certificate usually without warning. When you get your certificate from Super Cert Hosting, the only thing you will have to do is sign up for an account, which will give you full access to our secure server.

 
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3. Do you really offer free service?
Yes, you may even make money by referring other people to SuperCertHosting.com. We have an aggressive referral program. Simply get one other person to sign up at SuperCertHosting.com, and you get one month of free service! Refer twelve people and get one year free! There is no need to sign up for our referral program, all Super Cert Hosting members automatically qualify for referring other people to our service.
 
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4. What is a security certificate?
A security certificate is information that is used by the SSL protocol to establish a secure connection. Security certificates contain information about who it belongs to, who it was issued by, some form of unique identification, valid dates, and an encrypted fingerprint that can be used to verify the contents of the certificate. In order for an SSL connection to be created, both sides must have a valid security certificate.
 
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5. How long will it take to set up my account?
All accounts are automatically created within a few seconds of your credit card being approved.
 
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6. Do you allow adult content on your servers?
Yes, there is no extra charge for this.
 
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7. Do you support Perl and PHP?
Support for Perl and PHP is provided on our servers.
 
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8. Do you support Microsoft FrontPage?
Support for Microsoft FrontPage is provided on our servers. Microsoft FrontPage customers to easily create and publish professional Websites with little knowledge of HTML.
 
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9. Do you support SSI (Server Side Includes)?
Yes, Server Side Includes (SSI) is a method of calling or including code into a web page. To utilize SSI, your web server must be set to check for and respond to these codes called in HTML pages. The SSI calls are embedded in HTML comments, so if they are called from a server that doesn't support SSI, or is not actively looking for them, they are ignored. You can use SSI to easily include a particular bit of HTML code on a group of HTML pages. This can be used to create a single look and feel across multiple HTML pages. You can also use SSI to call CGI programs.
 
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10. Can I resell space within my Web site?
Yes.
 
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11. Do you provide password-protected directories?
Yes.
 
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12. Do you have a Privacy Policy?
Yes, you can find it at
http://www.supercerthosting.com/privacy.shtml.
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13. Where can I find your Terms and Conditions?
Visit
http://www.supercerthosting.com/agreement.shtml to review our terms and conditions. You must agree to them before you sign up with Super Cert Hosting.
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Technical FAQ's


1. I lost my password, what do I do now?
E-mail
support@supercerthosting.com with your account name and the E-mail address you used to sign up for Super Cert Hosting and we will reset your password for you.
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2. What happens if I go over my allotted bandwidth?

If your site consumes over 80% of the system resources, we will charge you an extra $10 per month. A typical web page or file on our server would have to be downloaded a few hundred thousand times per day in order to consume over 80% of the system resources.
 
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3. What is the path to my root directory?
The path to your root directory is /home/cust2/usr2116/yourfolder.
 
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4. Do you support custom 404 pages?
Yes.
 
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5. Is there an additional charge to install a merchant account?
No.
 
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6. How do I cancel my account?
E-mail
support@supercerthosting.com with your account name and password, and we will cancel your account.
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7. How do I change my password and/or other account information?
Please E-mail
support@supercerthosting.com as soon as possible if you need to change any billing or other account information.
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8. How do I clear my browser cache?

There are several reasons you should clear your cache. You accumulate many small files in your temporary folder that should be periodically cleaned out. Caching often causes you to see older versions of Web sites, because the browser will often retrieve the old information, including sites that you have previously visited, stored in your hard drive.

When you make updates on your Web site and you do not see the changes, click Refresh at the top of the page. If you still do not see the updates, clean out your cache.

To clean out your cache:

If you are not sure what version of the browser you have, for Internet Explorer, look under the Help tab and click About Internet Explorer. In Netscape, just type in “about” in the Address line and it will tell you what version you have. Also, you see what version of the browser you have when you initially open the browser. If you do not have these most recent versions of browsers (IE 5.0 and Netscape 4.7), you can download browser updates for free at http://www.download.com.

To clear the cache in Internet Explorer 5.0:

  1. Go to Tools and click Internet Options
  2. Click General tab
  3. Under Temporary Internet Files, click Delete Files, then under History, click Clear history
  4. Click Apply
  5. Click OK.

To clear your cache in Netscape 4.7:

  1. Click Communicator at top of browser
  2. Click Tools
  3. Click History
  4. Click Edit
  5. Click Preferences
  6. Under History (right hand lower corner), click Clear History
  7. Click OK

 
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9. Do all of my web pages have to be on the secure server?
No. People can access your secure site by going to "https://supercertosting.com/youraccount". To access files not on the secure server use "http://supercerthosting.com/youraccount" or "http://www.supercerthosting.com/youraccount".
 
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10. How do I transfer my files to my web site?
You can use an FTP or Telnet program. If you are using WS_FTP, which is free, you can learn about uploading files from the
Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro Tutorial that walks you through Getting Started to Transferring Files.
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11. What do I do if I have an issue with my account or billing information?
E-mail
support@supercerthosting.com with any billing, tech support, or any other questions, and we will answer them ASAP.
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support@supercerthosting.com with any billing, tech support, or any other questions, and we will answer them ASAP.
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12. How do I view my error and transfer log files?
You may view your error log file at http://www.supercerthosting.com/getelog.cgi?yourfolder and your transfer log file at http://www.supercerthosting.com/gettlog.cgi?yourfolder.
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13. How do I install my shopping cart software?
Go to http://www.supercerthosting.com/installcart.shtml and enter in your username and password. Your shopping cart software will then be installed for you.
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14. Do you have a manual for your shopping cart software?
Yes, you can find it at http://www.supercerthosting.com/manual.shtml.
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If you still have a question that was not answered on this page, E-mail your question to faq@supercerthosting.com. We will respond to the question and might even post the question and answer on this page.

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