Domains and Hosting

Thursday, 19 August 2004 20:11

Features / FREE Domain Services

DNS Service

Any product you buy from us, comes with complete control to manage the DNS records for the associated domain, absolutely FREE of cost! Plus, our FREE DNS service is hosted on globally distributed and highly redundant infrastructure making it one of the most reliable in the industry. Manage SOA, A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, SRV and NS records - with all updates reflecting instantaneously.
Domain Forwarding

    * Blazing fast performance - Nothing beats the request serving speed of our domain forwarding service.
    * Hide the destination URL - You can hide the destination URL in any domain forwarding order by enabling URL Masking. That way any long destination URLs remain hidden from the surfer and your brand identity remains consistent.
    * Wild carded Sub-domain Forwarding and Path Forwarding - You can setup wild carded forwarding such that each sub domain (eg http://jobs.yourdomain.com) forwards to independent destinations automatically. Also you can enable path information to be replicated in the destination URL such that http://www.yourdomain.com/path1/path2 gets forwarded to http://destinationURL/path1/path2
    * Search Engine Optimization and backward compatibility - You can set the <HEAD> tag content, in order to provide <META> tags and <TITLES> for search engine optimization. You can also set the <NOFRAMES> tag content for compatibility with browsers that do not support frames.

Mail Forwarding

Make your Email Addresses look professional with mail@yourdomain. Accept and forward mails sent to your Domain Name to a free email service like gmail/hotmail using this handy Free Service.

    * Unlimited Mail Forwards: You can add unlimited mail forwards each forwarding to a different address
    * Catch-All Accounts: Create a catch-all account and forward all mails sent to your Domain Name to a single email address

Free Privacy Protection

Protect the information that you display in the WHOIS details of your Domain Name with Privacy Protection. Although most providers charge anywhere between $6 - $14 for this service, we offer you Privacy Protection absolutely FREE of cost! You can safeguard your personal information from spammers, data harvesters, etc. ensuring that your WHOIS information is never misused.

Please Note: As per the Registries' mandate, Privacy Protection cannot be used for certain Domains. Click here to learn more.

Domain Theft Protection

Domain Theft Protection is a security service offered to provide an additional layer of security to Domains. This FREE service allows you to lock your Domain Names, guarding them against unauthorized Transfers.
Easy-to-use Control Panel

Any Domain owner knows that Domain Names need to be managed on a continuous basis, which makes a simple and effective Control Panel absolutely essential. The Control Panel that we offer Free of cost, make changing contact information, modifying nameservers, renewing the Domain Name, etc. extremely easy.

Bulk Tools

The Bulk Tools make managing your entire Domain Name portfolio as easy as possible. Using the Bulk Tools you can Register, Renew, Transfer and make other modifications to multiple Domain Names in a single step. What's more, we offer you these tools with every Domain Name for no extra cost!

Hosting Service.

Every clients one DGS will be hosted on DGS server, with high security, and fast connection.

Features / 24 X 7 Server Monitoring

Our infrastructure comprises of high availability clusters of different machines, with varied operating systems and applications, spread across multiple continents. Click here to read more about the our Virtual Datacenter

An effective monitoring system is extremely crucial for ensuring maximum uptime. Today, any web services company manages hundreds of servers with a large number of services running on each server. Manually checking each service on just one server 24 x 7 is extremely difficult - across a number of servers - is humanly impossible. Companies that do not have a good monitoring system, or worse, don't have one at all, have larger downtimes and are increasing the risk of potential damage caused due to service disruptions. An undetected minor issue can change into a major issue rapidly, increasing the amount of damage caused.

Our monitoring systems and tools provide our system administrators with an all-encompassing view into the health of our globally distributed infrastructure. We monitor a large number of parameters related to the health of our servers and individual services that reside on them.

Services monitored include -

Network Connectivity
Server Disk Space
Server CPU Usage
Server Memory Usage
Web Services - HTTP, HTTPS & FTP
Email Services - SMTP, POP & IMAP
Database Services - MySQL, MSSQL
DNS Services
All Log Files

and More...

If any server or service fails, or any resource utilization exceeds specified limits, then a notification pops-up immediately on the screen of all our Infrastructure Monitoring Staff. The notification system also handles escalation of issues i.e. if the issue is not resolved within 'x' minutes, SMS alerts are sent out to higher level system administrators, and subsequently to Management.

All of this allows us to detect and resolve any issue within minutes of it happening and ensures maximum uptime for your customers.

Features / Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Plans

We understand that data is the lifeblood of most companies today and organizations increasingly require 100% uptime, where data is constantly online and accessible. We have therefore implemented solid solutions that allows you to protect your data in the unfortunate event of software malfunction, system failure, events of loss of data due to hacking or viruses etc.

Live Backup (RAID Technology)

We use cutting-edge RAID Hardware to protect all data on the server against harddisk failures. This technology works by creating a mirror of all data on more than one harddisk automatically, without any delay i.e. all data is written to multiple harddisks simultanously so that if any harddisk fails, that harddisk will be marked as deactivated and the system will still continue to function as though nothing has happened by using the copy of the data on the other harddisk(s). The best part is that you do not require to make any changes or special code modifications in your website/web application for this technolgy to function.

RAID systems offer a significant advantage over non-RAID systems, both in terms of data protection and ability to maintain 100% uptime, as the system continues to function perfectly in case of disk failures. RAID technology also marginally improves the performance of the various services on the server.

As soon as a harddisk fails, notification alerts are sent out, so that the failed harddisk can be replaced by the system administrators. As such, the system continues to perform normally despite disk failures, using the mirror of the data on the additional harddisk(s).

Daily & Weekly Server Backups

Important data exists across various locations on a server. Our subject-matter experts have conducted comprehensive research and have prepared complex backup scripts that automatically maintain copies of all important files and folders, in a secure manner, on a regular pre-defined interval, such that we can restore a server in the shortest possible time, in the event of a total failure.

Your Own Backup Policy Manager (Only Applicable for Web Hosting Packages)

All our services involve your crtitical data. Most of our Products have a built-in Backup Manager that provides comprehensive and cost effective protection by allowing you to define highly flexible backup policies that will protect your critical data. A web-based backup policy manager provides an easy-to-use one-step wizard to define the backup scope, backup frequency and backlogs