Customers commonly want to create sections of their web sites that are password protected — so only authorized users can access specific pages, downloads, or other content.  In most cases, setting this up requires some technical know-how and messing with “htaccess” and “htpasswd” files — in general, it can be a pain to do it “manually”.

LuxSci has a web site password protection tool integrated into its web site management console.  Use of this tool makes password protection and management of the users (and user groups) very simple.

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LuxSci supports a plethora of modern email programs like Microsoft Outlook and Eudora (our blog posting “Head To Head Battle of Email Clients” discuss several of these) and works with any email program and device that properly supports POP, IMAP, or SMTP.  However, we do recommend Mozilla Thunderbird in the absence of any personal preferences or specific requirements for things that may only be supported in Outlook or other specific programs.  LuxSci’s staff uses Thunderbird with IMAP (or WebMail) uniformly for all email sending and receiving.  We discuss the reasons why in the “Battle” blog article.  Here, we will give some configuration tips and tricks and recommended add-ons.

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LuxSci’s web hosting now supports "WebDAV" (aka DAV)  which, combined with our easy-to-use access controls, allow for the use of your web space for access-controled file sharing and access-controlled calendar sharing.