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.