Hosted on Top-Quality Servers
Our servers are built from the ground up to be
reliable, super-fast, flexible, and fault-tolerant. We use Intel Pentium Pro CPUs, running
the Linux operating system. The web server software is the latest release of the Apache
web server software (see www.apache.org), the #1
choice of servers world-wide (see Survey
Results). Our connections to the Internet include multiple OC3 and OC12 lines to
eleven (11) major backbone providers. Our Network Operations Center (NOC) is monitored 24 hours a day,
7 days a week, to maintain near-zero down times.
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True Domain Name
A true domain is when you get your very own
unique IP address on the web server. Many places offer 'fake virtual' domain
accounts, which means they fool most browsers into redirecting themselves to the correct
directory on the server. This method works only if the browser supports some
technical stuff, which most of the newer ones do. However, we do not agree that this
type of domain hosting is in the best interests of the web site owner, because this
introduces many problems that can later affect the hosting of a site. Some of these
include not being able to ping your site directly to see if it's up, and you can't access
your site any way you like, i.e. 'http://www.yoursite.com/' or 'http://yoursite.com/' or
'http://207.25.126.174/'. With 'fake virtual' hosting, you cannot tell people to FTP
to your domain, as your domain doesn't exist except in the HTTP realm. This means
you would have to give out an FTP address of 'ftp.yourprovider.com/youraccount/'.
While this is not a big concern for most people, we think the belief of providing a true
virtual domain name is important to our overall goal of 100% satisfaction.
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Static IP Address
(applies only to WHP 250 plan)
A static IP address means the IP address (the
number of your site) never changes. Most ISP providers use dynamic IP addressing,
which means the IP number is different each and every time you connect to the ISP
server. A static IP address provides your site with a never-changing solid address,
which allows you to use it when FTPing files, pinging your site, etc. It goes
hand-in-hand with the principals behind having a true domain name, as discussed above.
There could be an additional one time charge for a static IP.
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Unlimited
Hits/Visitors
Most hosting providers give you a limit on how
many visitors can come to your site every month. If your visitors go above this limit, you
would be charged a fee for each visitor hit above this. We do not believe in
punishing our customers for their site's success, especially when it's not really within
their control. We keep our connections to the Internet wide enough to handle almost
any web site, no matter how popular. And we hope every customer has the 'problem' of
too many hits to their site, as this is usually the measure of success! If our pipe
to the Internet becomes near capacity because of successful busy sites, we just open it
wider, as needed. Bandwidth to your site will never be a concern you have to worry
about! We allow 6GB (6000MB) of data transfer (HTTP or FTP) per account per month.
Accounts that go over that usage level will be charged a rate of $1 per 100MB over the 6GB
allocation.
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Unlimited Email
Aliases, Forwarding
An Email alias means if you send mail to
webmaster@***.com, that address is aliased to whomever needs to receive it. It can
be one person or multiple people, however you need it structured. Email forwarding
is when you have an email account on another server, like your dial-up ISP. In this
case, an address like 'sales@yoursite.com' is directed out (forwarded) to another server,
so you receive it like your other email.
We give you direct control of your email
aliases, forwarding and auto responders. By editing your '.redirect' file, you can
specify what is aliased, forwarded, etc. And don't forget, you have unlimited
aliases and forwarding, unlike almost every other hosting provider. We don't charge
you anything, no matter how many you need! After all, it's just a text file that you
can edit!
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Unlimited
Autoresponders
An auto responder is similar to an alias, but
it also will send an automatic reply back to the sender. So, when you send email to
'sales@***.com', our email server will send an email back to you automatically, containing
the text I specified. It also sends the msg to me, so I can respond if it looks like
I need to. This is controlled via the '.redirect' file. And again, unlike most
of our competition, it's free, and unlimited.
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Unlimited CGI Access
CGI scripts (Common Gateway Interface) are used
to provide things like counters, form responses, guest books, and many other things.
The difference here is we give you full CGI access, you don't have to wait around for us
to 'approve' your scripts, and we don't charge you for installing them! You can
write your own, install someone else's, or use one of our pre installed CGI scripts.
And if you create a 'bad' script that tries to kill the server, don't worry, we have a
system monitor that will keep your CGI under control.
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Unlimited Real Audio
Serving
When Real Audio first came out, it required an
audio server to be installed on the web server. This was because Real Audio wanted
to charge for each 'stream', or visitor, that wanted to hear some cool music. Well,
the Internet community didn't like that too much, and people started writing competing
audio streaming technology that didn't require a server! Well, to compete, Real
Audio now does not require a server, and even you can use their tools to create streaming
audio over the Internet. It is now more resaonably priced than ever. This is an
Add-On feature.
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Unlimited Secure Server
Access
Encryption is very important when taking credit
card numbers, or posting personal or confidential information over the Internet.
Although it's way more likely for someone to steal your credit card number when you order
over the telephone, we still offer you full, unlimited access to our secure server.
By using our server's certificate, you save hundreds of dollars because you don't need a
certificate of your own. And, we don't charge extra for this, because we're not
getting charged for the transactions! We also offer the option to install you own
personalized SSL Certificate. Visit other hosting sites and see how much they charge if
you want full SSL secure server access! A lot!
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Telnet/FTP Account
Every web site has a telnet/FTP account
included, so you can log in with your user name and password, and update your site anytime
you like, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can even setupt additional FTP/telnet
accounts for your site if you have multiple people updating subdirectories and you need
control over who has access to what. You can telnet in to create and test CGI
scripts, or use FTP to transfer your web site files.
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Anonymous FTP Server
We setup an anonymous FTP server for your site,
so you can publish files or other information, and even accept incoming files
anonymously. While other providers may charge for this service, we provide it as a
standard feature! You may need to ask us to set this up for you.
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Account Stats
Some providers give you access to your raw log
files. Some providers create a text report that summarizes this information showing
how many people visited you site this week or month, and what the most popular pages were.
And some providers charge you for a graphical representation of these log files, which is
much easier to understand. We provide you with full graphical stats, for free!
The stats provide a weekly statistics in heavy detail of all the access to your site.
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Microsoft Frontpage
Support
We offer Microsoft Frontpage support, and have
had Microsoft visit our site to verify our Frontpage Extension support! We offer
Frontpage to you, with zero setup fees or monthly storage fees, as a service that helps
differentiate us from our competitors. While Frontpage does take up additional space
and we must configure Frontpage for you to use on our server, we believe it's worth the
trouble, because Frontpage makes designing a full-featured web site pretty easy compared
to hand-coding this stuff! Which means our customer's that want to use Frontpage
will probably value this feature a lot. 1997 & 1998 editions supported. Don't forget,
we offer Frontpage extensions at no extra charge!
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Password
Protection/Guardian Script
We again give you full control over setting up
password protected directories, and what kind of error messages it displays. You can
set up a password protected directory that only you or your family can view, like family
photos!
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Preinstalled CGIs and
Install Your Own Scripts
We offer the standard CGIs like counters, form
processors, and more. You can also install any other CGI script to do things like banner
rotators, mailing list managers and anything else you want. You have unlimited use of the
CGI bin and you can do as you wish on it.
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Perl and mSQL
We support various languages for CGI and
database development. Perl is the dominant language for writing CGI scripts (Version
5.04 installed), mSQL is a relational database system (Versions 1 & 2 & W3
supported).
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Server Side Includes
Server Side Includes are special HTML files
that get read and processed by the server before being transmitted to your browser.
They usually have an extension of .shtml instead of .html. When the file is read in,
the server searches for any commands it recognizes, and does things like
search-and-replace, file insertion, or execute a CGI. The output of any SSI command
is merged into the HTML page, and then delivered to your browser. It is similar to
including Javascript, but is not browser dependant, and can do many things that are
specific to server functions.
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Browser Control Panel
You have all the control over your website and
features right in front of you. You do not have to wait for our Support Team to set up an
email account or auto responder for you. Just log in to your Control Panel thru any
browser, with your current username and password, and manipulate your entire account.
Setup password protected directories, check your stats, create a user FTP login, utilize
the preinstalled CGI scripts, change your password, and even block out mail from another
place this is spamming you :)
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