By choosing the annual payment you receive our highest discount, and we'll even throw in a free domain registration!
By choosing the semi-annual payment you receive an overall discount on your hosting rate.
This payment option requires a monthly payment either charged to your credit card or paid via PayPal. Consider choosing a semi-annual or annual to receive a discount on your monthly rate!
We offer a very generous amount of space with our hosting plans. With any of our hosting plans, if you need more disk space you can upgrade your hosting plan or add additional disk space for an additional monthly charge.
This is the amount of data transfer that takes place to and from your website. It will include graphic and webpage downloads, file uploads and downloads, etc. The traffic allowance provided per domain should be adequate in most situations. If you find you are exceeding your monthly traffic limit, we will contact you about increasing your traffic allowance. If necessary you can upgrade your hosting plan or purchase additional data transfer allowance for an additional monthly charge.
No more do you need to have www.someoneelsessite.com/yourname. By registering your own domain name you can have www.yourname.com
This allows you to use <anything>.yourdomain.com and point it to a subdirectory inside your webspace. This is very useful if you want to subdivide your webspace, for example, into departments.
You can set up a domain name that you own to point to another domain name. This is known as 'parking' a domain. Parked domains point to the top level of your original domain. These domains are setup by us on request.
An addon domain is a domain name that that points to a subdirectory within your account. For example, you may want innovation.co.uk to point to maindomain.co.uk/innovation/. Addon domains must be registered domain names that you own and configured to point to your web site's servers. These domains are setup by us on request.
This is a private storage box for email. It can be accessed by a 3rd party email program like Microsoft Outlook Express, Outlook, Eudora, or Netscape Messenger.
Autoresponders are e-mail messages that are sent automatically when an e-mail arrives for a specific e-mail account. Autoresponders are most commonly used for an 'Out of Office' style message to inform your correspondents that you are not available, without you having to reply manually. You can have more than one autoresponder on one account. You can use plain text or include HTML code in the autoresponder, and choose from a wide variety of character sets. Forwards simply allow you to automatically forward e-mail sent to one account to another account. This is useful when you work at two separate locations, or have gone on holiday.
The email filters allow you to perform simple actions on emails based on word matches within, for example, the Subject line. You can discard email, pass it onto a perl script, or forward it to a different email address.
All hosting accounts provide the ability to upload files and manage your websites using any FTP client such as FTP Voyager, Cute FTP or Coffee Cup FTP. Your FTP accounts can be configured to login to anywhere in your web space so that you can have people administering different parts of your website.
This allows you to run Perl CGI scripts within your webspace from a special directory called cgi-bin. CGI scripts can perform dynamic taks, such as create a counter, guestbook or message board on your website. We do monitor for poorly written scripts that may become an excessive burden on the server resources or that otherwise violate our Terms and Conditions.
SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is an international standard in querying and retrieving information from databases. MySQL is essentially an SQL server - it responds to requests for information that are written in SQL. You can communicate with MySQL using a wide variety of programming languages (PHP being one of the most common). MySQL is Open Source software and free for use.
Utilizing MailMan, this is a very flexible tool for interacting with your customers, club members or clients. In simple terms it's an interactive style mailing list that allows all subscribers to distribute information. There are many configurable features including automatic subscribe and unsubscribe and much more.
All of our hosting accounts come with the cPanel web control panel which allows you to easily manage all aspects of your web hosting account.
The Disk Usage Viewer enables you to see exactly how much disk space is being taken up by various parts of your web site.
The File Manager allows you to manage your site through HTML, rather than an FTP tool or other third-party application. You can upload, create or delete files, organize files in folders, and change file permissions. While not as sophisticated as most FTP tools, File Manager is free and gives you all the basic functionality necessary to manage your site.
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. We have included the popular Zend Optimizer extensions which runs files encoded by the Zend Encoder and Zend SafeGuard Suite, while enhancing the running speed of PHP applications.
WebMail allows you to conveniently read and send your email from any web browser. It can access email currently stored in your email accounts.
The Awstats reporting tool combines a comprehensive coverage of web server statistics available for your web site with very attractive reporting pages.
The Bandwidth tool generates an overall summary of the amount of bandwidth that your site is using. This is generated from HTTP traffic (looking at your web site, downloading files, etc.) and possibly FTP traffic.
You can download the raw access logs that contain all the recorded hit information that your site has received. These logs are only really useful if you have a preferred reporting tool that you prefer to use, rather than the variety of reporting tools provided. The error log contains all HTTP errors that occur when visitors attempt to view your site, such as requested files not found, etc. The Error Log tool is a presentation of the last 300 entries in your error log. A central use of this tool is to locate suspicious server activity, such as attempted virus attacks. Please contact your hosting administrator if you have concerns about activity in your error logs.
Error pages are displayed to Internet users when any one of a variety of errors occur, such as when a user enters an incorrect URL or is not authorized to access a specific directory in your web site. Companies often customize error pages to brand them with a specific corporate image and a link to their home page. You do not have to customize these pages - the error page is always available, whether customized or not.
Hotlinking is when another web site owner links directly to one or more of your images or multimedia files and includes it on their web page. Not only is this theft of your intellectual property, you are paying for the bandwidth used by that site.
You can protect directories within your site from browsers by using a password to protect them. This allows you to restrict material to only authorized users or store sensitive material online.
Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your web site using Microsoft Frontpage. These extensions can occasionally become corrupted, so you can uninstall and then reinstall Frontpage Extensions whenever required.
For accounts with MySQL database(s), you can easily install a wide variety of pre-configured PHP scripts, provided by Fantastico. For more information, click on the Fantastico link.