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Web Hosting Features
Hard
Disk Storage
This is the space you have to store your site. Every website is
stored on a web server which is the computer that broadcasts your site
to your visitors. Your hard disk storage is how much space you
are allocated on that computer's hard drive. Even most robust
websites don't require more than 5 megs of space, but having more is a
nice luxury.
Monthly
Transfer (also called bandwidth)
This is the total amount of data (including graphics and HTML web
pages) which can be uploaded and downloaded from your site each
month. It is a rough estimator of how many visitors your hosting
plan can accommodate. For example, on an average size website
with a moderate amount of graphics, it has been our experience that
750 megs of transfer can accommodate well over 4,000 visitors per
month. Some web hosts claim to offer "unlimited
bandwidth" which is generally a bad thing. Not only are
they likely to pack your site on an overloaded server and connection
(bandwidth costs us money), but if you read the fine print there are
always "excessive use penalties" which are arbitrary and
costly. In contrast, we monitor bandwidth and insure your site
is always fast and reliable with no hidden charges.
100 POP3 Email Accounts
These are email accounts which can be used with your domain
name. They allow you to receive, send and read email via our easy
web interface or with a number of popular mail clients. You
benefit from a 100 number of POP E-Mail accounts, 100 Auto Responders, and
100 E-mail Forwarding. Our email addresses
are very flexible. You can set them up as POP boxes which store mail,
email aliases which redirect mail to another box, or as auto
responders. It really is very easy to set them up and administrate
them from your online control panel.
SMTP
Server
Our
servers allow you to send and receive from your own SMTP server
(mail.yourdomain.com). With this capability, you can send email FROM you@yourdomain.com
etc.
Unlimited
updates via FTP
We allow you to update your site 24/7 using an FTP (File Transfer
Protocol) Client. This is a program which allows you to connect
to our server and upload your files. We recommend
CuteFTP and WS_FTP which is both powerful
and simple to use.
If you are transferring a site from another host, you can easily
transfer your files to your new account with us via FTP. In addition,
FTP is one of the easiest things to learn... so, if you are just
starting out... you should be able to learn it fairly fast.
Furthermore, our Online Manual has detailed instructions on how to use
FTP to transfer your files. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, and
is the preferred method of webmasters around the world to upload and
download files from local computers to our web servers.
CGI
script support and your own CGI-BIN directory
CGI (common gateway interface) allows you to run scripts and programs on our server to enhance your web pages.
Most of these
scripts are written in a language called Perl, although C and C++ are
also used frequently. Unlike with HTML, CGI's are executed on the
server. You can use CGI to add advanced forms, shopping carts,
counters, and many other features to your website. The CGI-BIN is
a special directory which allows scripts and programs to be executed
on the server. We encourage development of highly interactive,
successful sites. For your site to be truly interactive you need to be
able to run computer programs in your own cgi-bin. You can also run
cgi scripts outside of your cgi-bin, but you would have to name them
with the .cgi extension for security reasons. Cgi scripts placed
inside the cgi-bin can have any valid extension, .cgi, .pl, etc.
Online
Control Panel
You benefit from online control panel, that is now a standard feature
of every new account. It gives you the capability to manage all
aspects of your account right online via an easy-to-use... User
Friendly... Online Control Panel, in order to make the best use of
your options. With the click of a mouse, you can administer your web
space, email accounts, directories, cgi-bin, and all of the special
features that we offer, such as site statistics and the easy to use
web wizard. You can even add additional features to your account
whenever you need them. With this extraordinary tool, you not only
gain control, but also the flexibility to make changes within your
time frame and according to your particular needs.
Windows 2000/2003 Advanced Server
Based
Our
Server Operating Systems are powered by Windows 2000/2003 Server Based Software. This is a
widely used operating system.
Real
Audio/Video Available
We
allow you to post real audio/video files to be downloaded and listened
to by your sites visitors.
Active
Server Pages (ASP)
Our
experience in hosting high-traffic ASP sites has helped us build one
of the best ASP infrastructures on the net. From servers that are
tuned to spit out ASP pages without breaking a sweat to powerful SQL
Servers pumping out the data, ASP sites hosted with us are assured of
high availability.
Java,
PERL, C++, TCL, and Python, PHP3
We
have enjoyed being the clear choice for computer programmers building
web sites. For this reason, we always give programmers the most recent
versions of the hottest programs needed to build their web
applications. Not only do we provide you with PHP support, but the
majority of our system tools and design projects are done by our staff
in PHP. PHP is compiled as a module with MySQL, gdbm, and gd support.
Server
Side Includes (SSI)
Our
servers support Server Side Includes (SSI), a method of calling code
into a page. SSI makes it possible for you to include a snippet of
html code onto a page or a group of pages. When you want to change the
code, you simply change it in one place, and then all the other pages
update automatically.
Graphical
Hit Counter
Our
very slick looking access counters can be installed on as many pages
as you choose at no extra charge. Plus, the code is basically
generated for you automatically... for you to place on your web pages.
Site
Search Engine
The
site search engine is easy to use and can be installed with the push
of a button by logging on to your control panel. Your web site
documents will be searchable either publicly or privately, it's your
choice.
Can
host any domain - .us, .com, .net, .org, .etu, .info, .biz, .uk, .nu,
.au, .it, .gr, .to, etc.
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