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Licensing
Your Web Crossing Server
(for
non-Hosting Customers)
Overview
Page
Views
Usage
Counter
Other
Features
License
Packages
Purchasing
and Installing Licenses
Upgrading
a Server with an Older License
Resources
An
Overview of Licensing
Web
Crossing server licenses are designed with the following purposes
in mind:
- To
universally disseminate Web Crossing and promote its use as
the premier web conferencing, chat and online community development
system in the world.
- To
provide an inexpensive way for small groups and organizations
to use Web Crossing services.
- To
fairly distribute the costs of developing and supporting Web
Crossing between small sites and larger sites with greater activity
and membership.
With
that in mind, Web Crossing is licensed by the amount of activity
that a site generates, in units of daily page views.
Page
Views
Basically,
a page view is a single page served by Web Crossing. Mail and
NNTP messages are counted as 1/10th of a page view for each message
transferred. And chat messages are counted as 1/100th of a page
for each chat message transferred.
For
example, if you have a 5T Web Crossing server, licensed for 5,000
page views per day, this is equivalent to either 5,000 web conference
page views, or 50,000 email messages or 500,000 chat messages
sent to or from the server, per day.
It works
out like this: If you have a chat with 10 people in the room,
one message sent out to those 10 people counts as 11/100ths of
a page view total. The message from the user coming IN to the
server is 1/100th; the ten messages going OUT add up to 10/100ths
more. Email and newsgroup traffic is figured similarly (but as
1/10th pageview).
These
numbers are tracked in the Usage
Counter
in the Control
Panel.
See
the Sysop
Docs
for information on the grace period for page view overruns. You
will be notified by the Web Crossing server if your page views
exceed the license limits.
Usage
Counters
To track
your page views and calculate partial page view contributions
from email, news group, and chat activity, look at the Control
Panel > Usage Counter.
The
Usage Counter is nested - when you click on the Guided Tour, hotlinked
in Figure 1, you are shown a list of the subfolders in the Guided
Tour and their count. (See Figure 2). Clicking
on the hotlinked subfolders gives you access to counts for the
individual discussions inside.
The
Usage
by service
section tracks only daily and monthly stats; the usage
by location
tracks continuously until the numbers are reset manually with
the link at the bottom of the page.
Figure
1 - Usage Counter
Figure
2 - Guided Tour Page Views
Other
Features
All
Web Crossing servers (except for the free 1T version) can run
as mirrored servers in a master/slave configuration, with Web
Crossing providing round-robin routing for load balances. A single
license allows you to run unlimited numbers of mirrored servers
for a single cluster.
All
Web Crossing servers allow for unlimited numbers of users and
database content, within the limits imposed by the server's operating
system.
All
Web Crossing servers allow for unlimited numbers of simultaneous
conferencing, chat and other TCP/IP sessions, within the limits
imposed by the server's operating system. A single license allows
you to run unlimited numbers of fanout servers for load balancing
your chat users and to achieve efficient handling of huge numbers
of participants.
All
Web Crossing servers allow full use of Web Crossing Template Language
and Server-side JavaScript for all your Internet development projects.
License
Packages
The
following Web Crossing licenses are available:
| License
Name |
Limits
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| WebCrossing/1T
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This
is the evaluation version of Web Crossing. It may be used
for an 30 days. This server is restricted to 1,000 page
views
per day. The only other restrictions are (1) This version
does not support mirrored servers in a master/slave configuration
and (2) Each web page served carries a promotional Web Crossing
image at the very bottom of the page (after any footer customization
that you might add), (3) free technical support is only
available for the first 30 days after downloading the software, (unless a license or hosting contract is then purchased)
(4) SSL (Secure Socket Layer) service may not be used.
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| WebCrossing
/5T |
This
license is restricted to 5,000 page
views
per day. You may add additional WebCrossing/5T licenses
as needed to other licenses as your system grows in activity.
|
| WebCrossing
/50T |
This
license is restricted to 50,000 page
views
per day
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| WebCrossing/200T
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This
license is restricted to 200,000 page
views
per day
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| WebCrossing/Enterprise
|
This
license allows for unlimited numbers of page
views
per day.
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Each server is allowed to exceed its license limits a maximum
of 10 days. After exceeding license limits 10 times, the license
limits are enforced. The sysop is sent warnings when license limits
are exceeded, giving ample time to upgrade the license.
A
note for Web Crossing hosting customers: All WCI hosted sites
run on Enterprise servers. Separate licenses
are not required for hosting customers. For hosted sites,
page views are calculated a bit differently, to take into account
bandwidth usage:
Page
View Equivalents for Hosted Sites are calculated as follows:
- Each
dynamic page served*:1 page view
- Each
static page or graphic served**: 1/10th page view plus 1 page
view per 50K
- Each
mail or NNTP message served: 1/10th page view * Each enclosure
served: 1 page view per 50K
- Each
chat message served: 1/100th page view
*
a dynamic page is a page served from Web Crossing's database (forum
message pages) or a page served from Web Crossing's scripting
languages (custom application).
** a static page is a page served from files outside the Web Crossing
database (files in your html folder). Graphic images are cached
and are typically served just one time per browser session.
Purchasing
and Installing Licenses
You
can purchase additional licenses for your Web Crossing server
from your Web Crossing authorized dealer or directly from the
main Web Crossing site in your region: http://www.webcrossing.com
(main site) or http://www.webxjapan.com
(in Japan).
You
will be issued your license upgrade by email. To install your
license upgrade, simply paste the special license number for your
site in Control
Panel > Install a Server License.
(If you're upgrading, it will say "Install a New Certificate"
at the bottom of the page, in the Site Management section, instead.)
Upgrading
does not affect your current content in any way. You can try out
and develop your site using the free webx/1T server and then upgrade
to a larger license and continue to use your current contents.
Upgrading
a Server with an Older License
Users
with old licensing arrangements can stay with their old system,
or switch to the new, when upgrading to a newer version of Web
Crossing. Email sales
(outside of Japan) or sales@heartland.co.jp
(in Japan) for more specific information.
Current
users can also switch over the new licensing system and take advantage
of unlimited users, messages, chat licenses and distributed serving
by just paying the difference in cost between their current licenses
and the new licenses (receiving 100% credit for their old licenses).
Resources
Sysop
docs
Sysop
Control Panel
- Usage
Counter
- Install
a Server License/Install New Certificate
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