Certain aspects of system setup vary from provider to provider. Here are a few things that may be different:
Our Web server is Apache, a descendant of NCSA. Other providers may be using CERN, NCSA itself, Netscape, or others. The most obvious differences are usually in .htaccess (the access control and configuration file) and how imagemaps are handled. Our servers run Linux. Other providers may be using Sun's Solaris, SGI's Irix, Microsoft's Windows NT, or many others.
Although most commands and system features are essentially the same between Unix variants, many things are radically different in, for example, Windows NT. Our mail redirection is accomplished with PlusMail. Other providers have more limited functions, or use their own custom systems. Other things... who knows? |
