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Web Hosting Features is script, programs and
other things that are included in your web hosting
and our own web hosting have the following
features available.
When
you consider a web host it's important to not only
look at the price, but also the available features
because many web hosts offer "good" and
low priced hosting plans, but only provide a few
features and let you pay extra for
"additional" features. (We offer
for example free mysql databases, while a big ISP
charge you between R59 - R188 for each
database)
SOME
of our Hosting Features
Professional Website
Builder
There is more than 315 website
templates and an image library with over 700
images to choose from but the BEST is that you see
and experience it yourself.
Fantastico
DeLuxe
Fantastico
DeLuxe will allow you to install all of the below
scripts instantly. To use fantastico you just login to
your control panel click fantastico, and then click one of the 44 scripts
to be installed. Bandwidth
In Web hosting, the total size of files
transferred by an account in a month. Sites
with a lots of graphics, downloads, or streaming
audio or video and a lot of visitors will require
plans with more available transfer. One 100kb
image downloaded (of viewed) 10 times use
therefore 1mb bandwidth.
Webspace
The amount of hard drive space on the server
that is available to your websites.
Daily backups
A snapshot is a record of your web site at a
particular point in time. Hourly, daily, and
weekly snapshots are taken of your web site.
Domain / FTP Features
Subdomains
Typically known as a "domain within a
domain", subdomains are individual Web
addresses built upon a pre-existing domain name
(such as clientname.yourhostingcompany.com). As a
reseller, you will have the option of assigning
subdomains to clients if they do not choose to
have a domain name.
FTP accounts
File Transfer Protocol - Primarily used for
uploading or downloading files to and from remote
computer systems on a network using TCP/IP, such
as the Internet. An FTP account consists of a
username and password, which is used to login to a
users FTP archive or to be able to access it with
a software program (FTP client or a HTML editor).
MySQL Databases
MySQL® is considered the most popular open
source database in the world. Fast and powerful,
it is perfect for high-traffic, heavy-load sites.
CGI
Short for Common Gateway Interface, a small script
that processes data taken from the user (such as
from a form application).
PERL
Open source CGI scripting programming language.
Written in 1987. Still one of the most popular web
programming languages mostly due to its powerful
text-manipulation facilities. A huge number of
Perl scripts are available for download.
Cron
Crontab is a Unix command for scheduling jobs
which will be executed sometime in the future. A
cron is usually used to schedule a task that is
executed periodically - for example, to send out
an e-mail message to specified people every month.
Being a daemon process, it runs continuously,
waiting for specific events to occur.
SSI
Commands that can be included in web pages that
are processed by the web server when a user
requests a file. The command takes the form
<!--#include
virtual="/path/to/file"-->. A common
use for SSI commands is to insert a universal menu
into all of the pages of the web site so that the
menu only has to be changed once and inserted with
SSI instead of changing the menu on every page.
Frontpage
A set of server add-ons scripts and programs that
enable the special functions of Microsoft
FrontPage.
Curl
Curl is a command line tool for transferring files
with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP,
HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.
Image Magick
ImageMagick is a set of command line programs that
allow manipulation of images from the command
line. It can be used from a script on your CGI
server as well.
Streaming video and music
Playing multimedia files (audio and video) without
requiring a full download. Audio and video are
compressed but they still may require a lot of
bandwidth. Most popular streaming media formats
are Real Audio/Video.
GD
The GD libraries are the principle PHP module used
for image manipulation
Python
Interpreted programming language, sometimes
offered by hosts for server-side scripting.
PHP
PHP is a widely used, general-purpose scripting
language that is especially suited for web
development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP
allows you to write many of the same functions as
C and Perl, such as connecting to a database or
reading and writing files.
E-mail
POP3 Accounts
You can send and receive your you@your-domain.co.za
email from your favorite email program (such as
Outlook or Eudora) via POP and SMTP. (POP) is a
protocol used to retrieve email from a mail server
Auto responders
An automated program that acknowledges receipt of
an e-mail message, and then sends back a
previously prepared email to the sender, letting
them know it was received. Once you configure your
autoresponder, it sends e-mail with no further
action required on your part, making your web site
interactive around the clock.
Mailing Lists
You can send one Email to a group of people,
called a "Mailing List," making it
convenient to Email the same group of people on a
regular basis. You can name the mailing list then
enter the many Email addresses that belong in the
list.
Mail Forward
Automatically sends email messages from one email
address to another email address. Web MailWeb
mail is a web site you can go to and access your
e-mail through your web browser instead of an
e-mail program or client.
Spam Assasin
SpamAssassin(tm) is a mail filter to identify
spam. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of
heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to
identify "spam", also known as
unsolicited commercial email.
SMTP
SMTP, or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is a
protocol for sending email messages between
servers over the Internet.
IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol. A method
allowing a client email program to access remote
messages stored on a mail server. The protocol
includes operations for creating, deleting, and
renaming mailboxes, checking for new messages,
message parsing, searching, and setting and
clearing flags. IMAP was originally developed in
1986 at Stanford.
Control Panel Features
Hotlink protection
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.
IP Deny manager
The IP Deny Manager enables you to block access to
your web site from specific IP addresses. This is
useful to remove nuisance surfers who use a large
amount of bandwidth or to prevent hotlinking to
your site
Search Engine Submittal
The program allows you submit your website (domain
name) to search engines within a few minutes
Custom Error Pages
You can create personalized error pages to end
visitor confusion and direct people to new pages.
A "404 not found" page is displayed when
a visitor tries to view a page that doesn't exist
or has been moved. Instead of a generic "page
not found" message, you can tell visitors
where an old page has moved and how to find the
new content.
Web Based FTP
Same as FTP but online via your web hosting
control panel.
Password protected folders
Enables a webmaster to protect specific
directories on his website with usernames and
passwords - so that only authorized persons can
view the web pages within the password protected
directories.
phpmyadmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended
specifically to handle the administration of MySQL
over the Internet. It can create and drop
databases, it can edit tables (create, drop,
modify) and fields, execute an SQL statement,
manage privileges and also export data into
various formats.
Statistics
Webalizer, Raw Log Access, Referrer Log, Analog
Site Statistics allows you to view reports on your
site traffic and performance. Available reports
include a summary of page views over the last week
or month; your total daily page views; profiles of
your site visitors, such as which browsers or
operating systems they use; and referrer
information. You can use this information to make
decisions about how to improve your site.
Ecommerce Features
SSL Certificates
Short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol
developed by Netscape to handle and protect
confidential/sensitive information required for
e-commerce transactions (like credit card
numbers). SSL address usually begin with 'https'
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