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| ADVANCED
HOSTING FEATURES |
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Description |
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| Macromedia Shockwave &
Flash Support |
Macromedia Shockwave is a form of animation created
using Macromedia Director. With the program you
can create complex and interesting animations. Flash
is a similar product that works across the web.
Your Macromedia Shockwave & Flash creations
are supported by your new hosting account. |
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| PHP with Caching |
PHP is an advanced server side scripting language
that can be embedded into HTML, eliminating the
need for a CGI-Bin directory and separate executable
files. PHP is similar in syntax to JavaScript, and
does not require optional components to perform
advanced tasks, as does ASP. PHP scripts can be
placed in any directory within your domain and can
connect to a database. We are running the latest
version of PHP4 and install the best caching engines
to speed up script execution and page loads across
all our servers. |
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| Perl |
Perl is an interpreted language optimized
for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information
from those text files, and printing reports based
on that information. It's a derivation from C programming
language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the
Unix shell, and at least a dozen other tools and
languages. Perl's process, file, and text manipulation
facilities make it particularly well-suited for
tasks involving quick prototyping, system utilities,
software tools, system management tasks, database
access, graphical programming, networking, and world
wide web programming.
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| Perl Modules & Installs |
Perl is arguably the most popular scripting language
for the web and consequently, there are hundreds
if not thousands of modules that have been written
to work with it. If you are using scripts that require
specific perl modules not included in the default
perl distribution, we will install it free of charge
for you. Our servers are always updated with the
most popular perl modules. |
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| Server Side Includes |
You can use server-side include (SSI) directives
to include text, graphics, or application information
into a Web page just before sending content to the
browser. SSI can be used to include, for example,
a time/date stamp, a copyright notice, or a form
for a customer to fill out and return. Including
a file is an easy way to incorporate text or graphics
that is repeated in many files. Rather than typing
the information into every file, you use a simple
statement that instructs the Web server to insert
the file. |
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| Pre-Installed CGI Scripts |
Adding interactivity to your website
is easy with your preinstalled cgi scripts that
allow you to add forms, counters and even a site
search engine without any previous programming experience.
Setup is easy through your control panel.
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| Free Java Chatroom |
All accounts come bundled with a Web-Based Java
Chatroom. The robust chat application is written
entirely in Java and allows you to setup an Internet
chatroom for your users. The program supports an
unlimited number of users in as many rooms as you
wish to create. Visitors in the room can create
chat rooms on the fly, and a scroll protection feature
prevents people from abusive usage. Private message
support and customizable login, logout messages,
and interface customization supported. |
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| MX Record Changes |
Your hosting account's MX record specifies how
mail addressed to your domain is to be handled.
By default, such mail is handled by our mail servers
and distributed according to your Email Settings.
Some users may wish to have mail handled by a remote
mail server (e.g. Everyone.net). In such instances,
the MX record can be changed such that all mail
addressed to your domain is redirected to the remote
server. This service is exclusive and free to all
customers. |
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| WWW and Non-WWW Access |
A non-WWW domain name means that your Web site
will appear in Web browsers whether someone types
"www.mydomain.com" or "just "mydomain.com".
In other words, users can omit "www" and
just type your domain name and they will get to
your site. This often increases traffic to your
site, by giving you a second (and more simplified)
domain name—with no extra InterNIC charges.
Your regular domain name - www.mydomain.com - will
not be changed and still functions normally. |
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| MySQL Database |
MySQL is a relational database management
system. The same statement is true of large systems
such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. If you
are looking to step up from using Microsoft Access
files, but aren't ready for the financial investment
of one of the big two databases, then MySQL offers
you a great middle ground. Many companies and individuals
have started using MySQL for the development of
their web projects and then never switched over
to one of the larger databases because MySQL performed
well enough that an upgrade was never needed. In
fact, benchmarks on the MySQL web site show that
MySQL outperforms SQL Server on just about every
possible test. |
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| phpMyAdmin |
This program is used to manage
your MySQL database over the web. It allows you
to create and drop databases, create, copy, drop
and alter tables, delete, edit and add fields,
execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries,
manage keys on fields, load text files into tables,
create and read dumps of tables, export data to
CSV values, administer multiple servers and single
databases. For more information, you may visit
the third party software home page: http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/.
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| Sendmail Support |
Sendmail is the most common SMTP
mail transfer agent on the thousands of mostly UNIX-based
Internet hosts that handle mail routing and serve
as post offices. Millions of e-mail messages are
handled by Sendmail every day. |
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| SPAM Filter System |
The SPAM filter system allows you
to set mail filters to keep mail with certain characteristics
from getting through to your mail accounts |
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| "Catch All"
Email |
A catch-all mailbox is a default
mailbox that receives all messages addressed to
nonexistent or discontinued mailboxes. For example,
if a message is sent to infocenter@myname.com instead
of info@myname.com, you would still receive that
message. This feature ensures that no incoming message
will be rejected by the mail server for your domain.
If there is only one person responsible for receiving
mail, this feature can also eliminate the need for
setting up different aliases, as this mailbox would
automatically receive mail for any nonexistent mailbox
within your domain. |
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| Your E-mail SMTP
Server (mail.yourdomain.com) |
Your outgoing email server, or SMTP
server, is designated as smtp.yourdomain.com. This
is compatible with Netscape's built-in email program,
as well as Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and
basically any other mail program. Each virtual server
has one outgoing mail server.
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| Mailing List
Manager |
The Mailing List Manager is an easy
to use interface to the Majordomo mailing list program.
Through the Mailing List Manager, you can perform
the following functions:
Create new mailing lists
Administer existing mailing lists
Allow people to subscribe and unsubscribe to your
mailing lists
Send messages to your mailing lists
Allow other users to send messages to your mailing
lists
Note: Mailing lists are restricted to text messages
only for up to 1000 subscribers.
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| PGP Encrypted
Email |
This feature allows users to encrypt
files and email messages for privacy and authentication.
With PGP, you can prove that you, and only you,
sent a certain mail message, or that only you can
read a certain message. |
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| Customizable
MIME types |
Advanced users can set MIME Type
settings for your domain. Multipurpose Internet
Mail Extensions (MIME) Types are a standard for
describing different types of information. Originally
meant to specify encoding for different types of
information into text to send as email. The standard
MIME is also used in other types of communication.
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| Custom 404 Error
Pages |
It's a known fact that someone is
going to run into an error on your site at one time
or another! Why not give them a way back to your
site instead of that boring 404 error page? Using
your advanced control panel system you can do just
that. The error page will be fully configurable
and should be setup just like any other page on
your Web Site. |
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| Password Protected
Directories |
Choose who can view parts of your
web site by password protecting your directories.
Any number of directories can be password protected
using .htaccess and .htpasswd files. Directories
can be password protected without hassle within
seconds from your control panel. |
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| Access to Raw
Log Files |
You can download raw logs of your
website activity to keep as a backup or analyze
with your favorite off-line statistics program.
Referrer, Agent and Raw Logs are accessible via
your control panel. |
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| Resource Meter |
The Resource Meter provides a detailed
view of your usage levels. It shows how much disk
space, data transfer, e-mail accounts, and mailing
lists you have used on your shared hosting account.
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| Crontabs/job |
Cron is the ability to run programs
based on the system clock. A crontab/job is a scheduled
task that you want to automatically run at a scheduled
time, e.g. run my backup at 8:30pm everyday. We
allow you to run one cronjob a day. You can easily
set them up via the control panel. |
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| SSH Telnet Access |
Telnet/SSH access allows clients
to take advantage of easy maintenance of their sites
in a UNIX shell. Clients are able to roam through
their sites, change permissions, move files, delete
files, and debug scripts. Compiling programs is
also possible. Telnet access also allows for manipulation
of mySQL databases. All accounts come with one shell
account. SSH, or Secure Shell, is very similar to
Telnet only that the login and password information
(authentication) is encrypted from client to sever,
making transmission of data more secure. |
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| Network Troubleshooter
& Tools |
Through your Virtual Control Panel,
you can use various network tools to diagnose network
problems. If you ever notice delays reaching your
virtual server, you can use this tool simply by
selecting the option from your Control Panel. This
provides you with details on the connection between
your local ISP and your virtual server and can help
troubleshoot where the problem may be. |
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| 24/7 Server and
Network Monitoring |
All servers on our network are monitored
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our automatic monitoring
software continuously tests all ports such as e-mail,
HTTP, Telnet, DNS, and FTP for failure, and instantly
notifies our techs in the event any problems are
discovered. Our techs are then immediately dispatched
to the troubled server to correct the problem. |
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| UPS and Generator
Backup |
Each server and piece of hardware
in our network is connected to a battery backup
unit to prevent servers from being rebooted or even
damaged in the likely case of a power surge or brown
out. In addition, we have emergency generators standing
by that could carry our network for days in an unlikely
case of a long term power failure. |
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| Daily tape back-ups |
While we always strongly recommend
our hosting clients to backup their Web site locally
using the self service tools, we archive and backup
your files at our data center "just in case".
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| Archive Manager/Self
Serve Backup/Restore tools |
Backing up your entire website including
mailboxes and databases is easy with our instant
online backup facility. Unlimited backups can be
taken and stored on the server or your local hard
drive and instantly restored at any time via your
Web Control Panel |
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| Web Server Software |
Apache is the king of Web servers
despite intense efforts by Microsoft and Netscape
to gain dominance in the market. In fact, the latest
Netcraft
surveys indicate that the freeware Apache is widening
its lead over the rest of the field. We choose Apache
because of the rock-solid reliability, outstanding
performance, and rich set of features it provides.
Each of our servers runs Apache Web Server 1.3x
(latest stable release). |
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| Server Specs
(Minimum) |
We use only Compaq and Dell brand
servers. Each of our servers are equipped with a
Pentium IV-1700 MHz or faster with at least 512Mb
of RAM. Our servers are custom built to our needs
and spare parts are kept in inventory in case of
hardware failure. |
