ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered)"> <title>The UMG Hosting Platform (umg)</title> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:"\@Arial Unicode MS"; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black;} h2 {mso-style-link:"Heading 2 Char"; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black; font-weight:bold;} h3 {mso-style-link:"Heading 3 Char"; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black; font-weight:bold;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} p {margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black;} p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate {mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char"; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black;} span.Heading2Char {mso-style-name:"Heading 2 Char"; mso-style-link:"Heading 2"; font-family:"Cambria","serif"; color:#4F81BD; font-weight:bold;} span.Heading3Char {mso-style-name:"Heading 3 Char"; mso-style-link:"Heading 3"; font-family:"Cambria","serif"; color:#4F81BD; font-weight:bold;} span.BalloonTextChar {mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char"; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text"; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"; color:black;} p.msochpdefault, li.msochpdefault, div.msochpdefault {mso-style-name:msochpdefault; margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; color:black;} .MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} /* List Definitions */ ol {margin-bottom:0cm;} ul {margin-bottom:0cm;} --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'> <tr> <td style='background:#004080;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'> <h2><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:white'>The UMG hosting platform (UMG)</span></h2> </td> </tr> </table> <div> <h3><span lang=EN-US><br> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hosting of legacy / design agency websites</span></h3> <h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Contacts and support</span></h3> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Your Universal Music Group UK (UMGUK) contact is the first person to speak to with respect to hosting a website. Your UMGUK contact will provide you with the contact details of the relevant vice versa personnel. These details may vary depending on the nature and final hosting point of your website.</span></p> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hosting Questionnarire is here. <a href="http://www01.mer.uk.vvhp.net/UMG_hosting_questionnaire.doc">UMG_hosting_questionnaire.doc </a></span></p> <h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Server details</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></h3> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The following servers are provided as access points for hosting existing and future bespoke Universal Music Group UK websites running under both Linux and Microsoft Windows:</span></p> </div> <div> <ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Base name: webbeta.sov.uk.vvhp.net<br> IP address external:- 83.245.79.73<br> Operating system: RedHat Enterprise Linux Release 4<br> Server software: Apache 2.0.52, PHP 5.1.2<br> This is a cluster server comprising of several servers having different IP's respectively.</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ol> </div> <div> <ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=2 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Base name: VV44DB01.mer.uk.vvhp.net<br> Operating system: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Release 4<br> Server software: Apache 2.0.52, MySql 4.1.12, PHP 4.3.9</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ol> </div> <div> <ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=3 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Base name: vv44db04.sov.uk.vvhp.net<br> Operating system: RedHat Enterprise Linux Release 4<br> Server software: Apache 2.0.52, MySql 4.1.7, PHP 4.3.9 </span></li> </ol> </div> <div> <ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=4 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Base name: VV44BB01.sov.uk.vvhp.net(PHP Forum Server)<br> Operating system: RedHat Enterprise Linux Release 4<br> Server Software: Apache 2.0.55, PHP 5.1.2 </span></li> </ol> </div> <div> <ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=5 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Base name: vv44bb02.sov.uk.vvhp.net(YaBB Forum Server)<br> Operating system: RedHat Enterprise Linux Release 4<br> Server Software: Apache 2.0.52, PHP 4.3.9, Perl 5.8.5</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ol> </div> <div> <ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=6 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Base name: vv44dbcl03.sov.uk.vvhp.net<br> Operating system: RedHat Enterprise Linux Release 4<br> Server Software: Apache 1.3.33,MySql 5.1.17-0, Perl 5.8.5</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ol> </div> <div> <ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=7 type=1> <li class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Base name: www-ms01.mer.uk.vvhp.net<br> Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server<br> Server Software: IIS, ASP.NET, PHP</span></li> </ol> </div> <div> <div> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>These are physical servers within a transparent server matrix.</span></p> <h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Access to the systems</span></h3> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On request (through your appointed contact) we will arrange blinkered and time-limited ftp access to the above servers for the sole purpose of uploading new versions of site content. Under no circumstances will shell or remote desktop access to be granted. Any database or other administration work to be carried out needs to be flagged up with us through your contact. Access is limited for security and stability. From time to time we will contact you with updated access details.</span></p> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If you need to upload large amounts (e.g. hundreds of megabytes) of content, please do so during off-peak times (weekdays up to 3pm). This will avoid impacting on visitors to existing sites. If you have an extremely large amount of content to upload, please contact us as we may be able to arrange to install your content directly from CD.</span></p> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We require a list of names and email addresses of each person given access to any system. Do not allow login credentials to be passed to any person without informing us first via </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><a href="mailto:support@vnetrix.com" title="blocked::mailto:support@vnetrix.com">support@vnetrix.com</a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>. If at any time you suspect that your login credentials may have been compromised, please inform us (at the above email address) immediately. </span></p> <h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Databases</span></h3> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Direct access to the platform s database servers is not possible. We provide a web based front end to your database: phpMyAdmin. This is available at: <a href="http://webbeta.sov.uk.vvhp.net/accessdb">http://webbeta.sov.uk.vvhp.net/accessdb</a></span></p> <h3><a name=forum></a><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Forums</span></h3> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><a name=F><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>1.</span></b></a><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.0pt;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></b><b><u><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Communities / forums (message boards)</span></u></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>NOTE: UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES CAN A MESSAGE BOARD BE HOSTED IN THE ARTIST SERVER ENVIRONMENT ITSELF!&nbsp; CHOOSE ONE OF THE ALTERNATIVES BELOW.</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Universal s standard forum facility is CommunityServer by Telligent Systems.</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp; We have a cluster system set up to accommodate a single sign-on for members across all forums.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>We have an in-house capability to provide you with a forum within the cluster  to set up a forum please email <a href="mailto:support@vnetrix.com" title="blocked::mailto:support@vnetrix.com&#10;mailto:support@vnetrix.com&#10;blocked::mailto:support@vnetrix.com&#10;mailto:support@vnetrix.com&#10;blocked::mailto:support@vnetrix.com">support@vnetrix.com</a> and CC your label contact and request  you will then be provided a forum link.&nbsp; Forum web addresses are of the form: <a href="http://artisttitle.forums.umusic.co.uk" title="blocked::http://artisttitle.forums.umusic.co.uk/">http://artisttitle.forums.umusic.co.uk</a></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>Therefore you and your label contact need to agree on what  artist title should be (as you may or may not want it to match the domain name chosen for the artist site itself), and ensure that Vnetrix are informed of this when you contact them.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Design skin of the forum:</span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>This is handled by a trusted agency that is experienced with the .NET platform.&nbsp; They provide a &quot;master.Master&quot; file which is a kind of html page template used within Microsoft's &quot;ASP.NET&quot; (more commonly referred to as &quot;dot net&quot;) web programming platform.&nbsp; </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>It defines where various elements of the eventually-served page will go, and how they will look. These are used by Community Server, our centralised forum platform.&nbsp; The agency have made modifications to the default file (on a per-forum basis) to include the artist and advert content at the top of the page.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>Other elements, such as the colour scheme and wallpaper, are done separately through the forum's control panel.&nbsp; Due to the cutting-edge nature of the system there is little official documentation other than can be gleaned by searching their well-stocked forums (<a href="http://communityserver.org/forums" title="blocked::http://communityserver.org/forums">http://communityserver.org/forums</a>).&nbsp; Our single designated agency will handle this design work because this makes it possible for our administrators to supervise and to have a single point of contact.&nbsp; But please see below.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>RSS feeds from the Community Server</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'> <b>Forums:</b></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>These feeds mean agencies can make the artist site look more alive/dynamic by taking an RSS feed (of the threads / posts) programmatically and put it into the site.&nbsp; Agencies can simply go to the forum, make a note of the RSS link (usually at the very bottom of the page), and then use the appropriate RSS library calls in the language you are coding the site in.&nbsp; So for PHP for example, a library called Magpie RSS can be used (<a href="http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/" title="blocked::http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/">http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/</a>), and then the feed section could be created with something along the following lines:</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&lt;?php</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $rss = fetch_rss ('artistx.forums.umusic.co.uk/aggregaterss.aspx');</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // The above URL needs to be the forum RSS address</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $item = reset ($rss-&gt;items); // Take just the first item</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // Now generate a hyperlink to the item:</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; echo &quot;&lt;a target=_blank href=\&quot;&quot; . $item['link'] . &quot;\&quot;&gt;&quot;;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; echo $item['title']; // Show the title of the post</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; echo $item['author']; // Show the forum member's name</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; echo &quot;&lt;/a&gt;&quot;;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>?&gt;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>YABB:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>If however you wish to provide your own forum, the other type we support is YABB (this does not deliver an RSS feed).&nbsp;&nbsp; YABB boards are also hosted on servers separate from the artist site servers themselves.</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>For configuration of a YABB board, access and upload details please contact <a href="mailto:support@vnetrix.com" title="blocked::mailto:support@vnetrix.com">support@vnetrix.com</a></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The forums, whenever desired are set up on our BBS servers- specially configured forum servers. These servers use YaBB software (<a href="http://www.yabbforum.com" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://www.yabbforum.com/">http://www.yabbforum.com</a>) &nbsp;If requested, this forum is automatically created when your website is first created. You will need to change the url on the website to point to the new url provided by our support contact. When the forum is created, you are also provided with administrative account of the same. </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You may need to customise your forum before getting live with the same. The customization for YaBB forums is done by logging as &quot;admin&quot; and following the <b>Admin --&gt; Admin Center</b> link. </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Help site for configuring YaBB forums is as follows : </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.yabbforum.com/" title="blocked::http://www.yabbforum.com/">http://www.yabbforum.com/</a></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:windowtext'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:windowtext'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Safe Surf Link</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>This should appear on all forums / especially  younger consumer based sites: <a href="http://umusic.co.uk/home/safe.php" title="blocked::http://umusic.co.uk/home/safe.php&#10;http://umusic.co.uk/home/safe.php">http://umusic.co.uk/home/safe.php</a></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>All message boards to include:</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>468 x 60 and 12 0 x 60 ad tags (please request from <a href="mailto:emma.trant@umusic.com" title="blocked::mailto:emma.trant@umusic.com">emma.trant@umusic.com</a>)</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>Skin to match new site design</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>Link to mailing list and VIP areas</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>Cookie so members are not asked to enter details on each visit</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>Buy Button</span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:18.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:windowtext'>Link back to main site</span></p> <h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>DNS details for the website s address</span></h3> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The IP address you need is listed in the server details section above. Your website s DNS record needs to  point to either the IP address for the Linux (83.245.79.70) or the Microsoft Windows server (83.245.79.92) depending on which operating system your website will reside. These are the only IP addresses you need from the platform  from time to time you may encounter others but they should never be used for any website s DNS record.</span></p> <h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Stability and efficiency</span></h3> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The resources of the platform are shared among many UMGUK websites. Very popular sites will naturally take up more resources than those receiving less consumer traffic. However attention must be paid to the efficiency of and security of each website (including very popular ones). As the developer agency it is your responsibility to ensure that the assets and program code you upload will not pose a risk to the system and other websites. The following points must be adhered to:</span></p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Do not use the platform as a development environment  always test and validate sites before uploading</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Consider uploading flat content rather than infrequently updated dynamic content (i.e. do not pass unnecessary site elements through calls to PHP or other scripts)</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Do not install binary libraries on to the system. Contact us first with details of any functionality you are missing</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Do not force browsers to reload content which changes infrequently (i.e. give browsers the maximum opportunity to use a local or ISP cache over making a full http request)</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Avoid unnecessary code being passed through interpreters or compilers. Reduce bloated PHP and other scripts to the minimum required functionality</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All code must have all the security options (specific to the coding language) activated</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Always validate / untaint data passed to your code before processing it further. Include validation code both in your web pages and in the script that processes this data</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ensure that database access is as efficient as possible. For example avoid queries that require large amounts of memory to run</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc> <li class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Put your demonstration site through <a href="http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/">http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/</a> and take notice of any suggestions as to improving the efficiency of your site</span><span lang=EN-US> </span></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dealing with  misbehaving websites</span></h3> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Websites which misbehave can pose stability and security risks to the platform. Misbehaviour is defined as an extreme over-use of system resources or the use of insecure / poor coding. The platform is monitored continuously and any issues are brought quickly to the attention of system administrators. In the first instance, the offending site will have its access to resources greatly reduced, and your primary technical contact will be alerted to the issue at hand. In extreme circumstances the offending site may have to be brought down while the problem is investigated. It is in everyone s best interests to ensure that sites are well constructed and pose no threat to the security or availability of other sites or data.</span></p> <h3><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Backups</span></h3> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It is extremely important that you keep full backups of your website assets. The platform is regularly backed up; however this is a disaster recovery service only. We cannot retrieve assets (for example something that has been deleted or overwritten by accident) on an ad-hoc basis.</span></p> </div> <div> <div> <div> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'> <tr> <td style='background:#004080;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:white'>This webpage is served by and is the property of the Universal Music Group UK </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; color:white'>ýÿ</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:white'> for enquiries contact <a href="mailto:info@umusic.com"><span style='color:#FCFCFC'>info@umusic.com.</span> </a></span></p> </td> </tr> <!--This website is served by the <a href="http://www.vice-versa.info/" target="_blank"><font color="#FCFCFC"> UMG hosting platform</font></a><font color="#CCCCCC"> </font>for Universal Music UK.--> </table> <p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Powered by:</span></p> <p><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=88 height=31 src="icons/images.jpg" alt="[ Powered by Redhat Enterprise Linux ]"></span></a><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=259 height=32 src="icons/apache_pb2.gif" alt="[ Powered by Apache ]"></span></a><a href="http://www.php.net/"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=75 height=40 src="icons/php.gif" alt="[ PHP ]"></span></a><a href="http://www.perl.com/"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=75 height=33 src="icons/perl.jpg" alt="[ PERL ]"></span></a><a href="http://www.mysql.org/"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=94 height=50 src="icons/mysql.png" alt="[ MYSQL ]"></span></a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>