Doug G

Apache has a module home_directories which does the URL to home directory mapping you showed. I don't know if IIS has anything similar.

Another reason to use specific include files rather than one big file is the way interpreted code works on the web server. When a php file is first loaded by the server, the entire script is "pre-processed" by the interpreter which builds a global list of functions, variables, etc so the code can execute properly. Only after this entire file scan completes does the code start executing. The time to load the file from the filesystem is much less than the time to do the initial file scan. As far as I know, anyway

ispconfig is an open-source alternative to cpanel.

Why? www.example.tld and example.tld are two different url's. If you want both to work for the same website you'll need some kind of rewrite or redirect, in apache you'd probably use mod_rewrite.

I read in the news last week there was some kind of hack attack going on against osCommerce sites. Perhaps something more for you to research. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2011-08-11-mass-website-hacking_n.htm

If you have IIS7.5 perhaps this will be interesting to you (google turned up this page): http://www.servicefirstsupport.com/KB/a538/how-do-i-import-an-htaccess-file-into-iis-75.aspx