Windows Server 2008 Hosting (Enkompass Reseller)
Each Windows reseller plan comes with the first stable release of the Enkompass control panel, as well as Windows Server 2008 which ultilizes IIS7. This popular new control panel makes shared web hosting on a Windows machine as user friendly as cPanel on Linux. Easily addon domains, create emails, view statistics, and manage databases from the Web Site Owner control panel also known as Enkompass. You will have the ability to use both MySQL and MSSQL for your database needs. The Enkompass web hosting environment also runs on a multi server farm, so if the mail server should ever go down all of your other services will still remain online and available. Enkompass reseller hosting also gives you the ability to individually restart your website at any given time.
Enkompass is designed to be used in a distributed server environment. This means that one or more Enkompass server(s) will be able to manage many web servers across a Windows domain, allowing for easy automation and maintenance of a set of servers — up to an entire data center. Developers enjoy the ability to script in .NET, ASP, PHP, Perl, AJAX, XML, and Silverlight. Plus, you get native support for Visual Studio. Integrate applications with either MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server® 2008.
Enkompass provides you, as a web host, plenty of handy features for creating, managing, and limiting reseller accounts. These helpful functions are also available to resellers themselves, if you decide to allow access to them.
Offer both website hosting and reseller hosting
Use Enkompass to create accounts for both website owners and resellers. This flexibility provides unlimited options for selling hosting plans.
Communicate via Website Owner (WSO) News
The Modify WSO News feature lets you broadcast important updates to all website owners on your server. These messages will appear inside customers' Web Site Owner interfaces. This lets you share information about system updates, marketing messages, or maintenance bulletins.
Resellers can also send messages to their own customers.
Monitor bandwidth usage
With Enkompass, you can generate useful, easy-to-read bandwidth reports, so you can accurately analyze the bandwidth used by your customers. The reports are separated by the type of service used (such as mail, FTP, web, etc.).
Install SSL certificates
You and your resellers can set up your customers' Web Site Owner accounts to allow them to generate their own certificate signing requests (CSRs) and keys for purchasing SSL certificates. Then, they can order them from their favorite SSL provider.
Alternatively, customers can generate self-signed requests.
Easily manage reseller accounts
The Enkompass Reseller Center offers easy control of all your reseller accounts. You can:
- Set roles for resellers. This includes exhaustive control over the Enkompass features that resellers will be allowed to access.
- Set account creation limits. You can limit resellers by the number of accounts they can create, or by resource usage.
- Configure resources. Assign database servers, mail servers, IP addresses, and web servers, or set privileges (roles).
- Suspend and unsuspend reseller accounts.
- Email resellers. Keep your resellers informed by sending an email to an individual reseller using the Email icon for that reseller. Or, you can email all resellers by clicking the Email All button.
In addition, this interface provides a handy search option, which makes it easier to find the account you wish to manage.
In previous versions of Internet Information Services (IIS), administrators had to contend with time-consuming, advanced configurations, replication of content and COM components, and server configuration synchronization.
Specific problems with previous IIS versions included the following:
Metabase was machine-specific; paths were hard-coded.
Metabase ACLs had to be fixed because of machine-specific SIDs.
There were no built-in synchronization or replication tools.
Enkompass has simplified the setup procedure and, in conjunction with Windows Server® 2008, provides the solution to these problems. By using shared storage and the IIS Shared Configuration, web farms can provide both single and multiple website hosting. The hassles of configuration and advanced setups have been removed and, when deploying a multi-server Enkompass solution with shared storage, accomplishing high availability becomes easy.
Top features of Enkompass failover hosting
1. Zero file replication requirements
Centrally located files and configuration files allow Enkompass to re-route IPs and configurations, and utilize files through the SAN device.
2. Zero merging of advanced configuration files
Configuration files needed to operate IIS are also centrally located, meaning that if a failure does occur, websites can be brought back online in a matter of seconds.
3. Ability to take servers offline anytime
Software updates and hardware upgrades can happen without the need for website downtime. Enkompass allows administrators to manually shift websites to another server, perform the updates, and then move them back, with little to no downtime.
4. Simple setup and management
In the past, advanced Windows hosting clusters have required a team of experts to configure, maintain, and tweak to perfection. Enkompass considers high availability a "default" feature, and as such, enabling it is easy and simple.
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