Pre-Signup Questions

**tracdoor** · #1 (**permalink**) 19-10-2008, 17:13

Hello,

I'm about to sign up for the 'Gold Plan', but I have a few questions before I sign up.

I was looking at a review of your hosting, and someone wrote that their account got suspended for 'Over Activity', does this mean that he was using his account too much, or he went over his bandwidth limit?

Do you disallow any PHP functions?

Do you allow custom php.ini files?

How many MySQL databases do you allow for the 'Gold Plan'

Can I host a domain brought through another registrar?

Do you have catch-all email?

How many email accounts do you allow for the 'Gold Plan'?

Can you quickly explain the differences between 'Shared SSL' and 'Dedicated SSL'?

There are a lot of questions there I know, but I would get paranoid after reading one negative review

What happens if I do run out of my monthly bandwidth quota? The quota is per month right?

Can I have my own advertisements?

Where in the UK are your servers?

How fast will my website load (would prefer if a non-employee answers this)

If I have 3 domain names, will I be able make all 3 of them a separate website using one hosting package? Basically can I host multiple websites with the 'Gold Plan'?

Thanks!

**baillie79** · #2 (**permalink**) 19-10-2008, 17:25

I can answer a couple of these as a new customer, using CPanel Hosting Silver started on Tuesday.

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Can I host a domain brought through another registrar?

Thats what I'm doing so yes. You have a primary domain, which you fill in when you sign up, you then just need to point your domain.

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How fast will my website load (would prefer if a non-employee answers this)

Website loads much quicker than on my old host, and emails are sent/received very quickly as well so I'm very happy, and wouldn't have any problems recommending eUK.

**tracdoor** · #3 (**permalink**) 19-10-2008, 17:56

Thanks for the answers

**Ryan** · #4 (**permalink**) 19-10-2008, 18:47

Hello,

Welcome to the forum

I have answered all your questions as follows :-

With regards to the review you came across, I am not sure what it meant when it was mentioned 'over activity' as this is not the term we use in case bandwidth usage of an account exceeds the limit.

You can have PHP functions of your choice enabled/disabled on your account as per your requirements.

We do allow custom php.ini files.

We do not have a set limit on the number of MySQL databases for each account. You can create as many databases as you wish to within the allocated space to your account.

You can host domain name brought through another registrar with our hosting. All you need to do is update the nameservers of your domain name with the nameservers information we will send in the Welcome Email after your account is setup.

Catch all email is supported on our servers.

You can have unlimited email accounts.

Both Shared as well as Dedicated SSL fulfill the main aim of SSL; i.e. transmitting data in encrypted form over the networks. One of the main considerations in using a shared or dedicated SSL is the URL and how it will appear to your customers. Shared SSL is installed on our servers' hostname which means a shared SSL URL would look like https://ourserver.eukhost.com/~username/

Whilst with dedicated SSL, the URL is determined by you either as another registered domain or as a sub domain of your website domain name. You can have your private secure url such as https://secure.yourdomain.com/

Bandwidth quota on all our plans is monthly. Once your bandwidth usage touches 80%, you will be notified by us via email. Depending upon your daily average usage, you can upgrade your plan. Your website will be suspended once the bandwidth usage reaches 100%.

I assume you mean placing advertisements on your website, you can do so. Correct me if I am wrong.

Our servers are housed in BlueSquare data center in Maidenhead, County Berkshire.

I will leave this question for our customers on this forum to answer.

You can host multiple domain names on Gold plan using the addon domains function in cPanel control panel. An addon domain is a new domain that is added on top of your main domain. It creates a sub directory within your main web hosting directory but can show a different website.

**tracdoor** · #5 (**permalink**) 19-10-2008, 19:01

wow, I only live a few miles from there =P

Thanks a lot, you've got yourself a customer!

**maxxed** · #6 (**permalink**) 20-10-2008, 05:34

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How do you setup a catchall email?

**Ryan** · #7 (**permalink**) 20-10-2008, 13:48

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Originally Posted by maxxed

How do you setup a catchall email?

Catch all email account can be setup from cPanel control panel. To create a default email address that will catch all email that is unrouted, follow the steps mentioned below :

1) Login to cPanel
2) Click 'Mail'
3) Click 'Default Address'
4) Click 'Set Default Address'
5) Enter the default mailbox address you would like to use.

This will be the address that all mail with no destination mailbox will be delivered to.

e.g. If you have only one mailbox on your account (for instance info@mydomain.com) - if you receive an email to info@mydomain.com it will be delivered as normal.

However if you receive an email to [anything]@mydomain.com it will be delivered to the default address you created above.

**eUKhost.com** · #8 (**permalink**) 20-10-2008, 14:52

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Originally Posted by maxxed

How do you setup a catchall email?

catchall can be setup from your cpanel control panel. Please check the forwarders section in your cpanel control panel and you will see an option to setup catchall.