Local Web Hosting - Web Hosting Features

Web Hosting Features
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 Mweb charge you between R59 - R188 for each database)
Hosting Features
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
Multiple Domains	A web hosting plan option that allows multiple domain names to share the resources of the single hosting account.
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).
Supported Features
MySQL Databases	MySQLŽ 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-name.com 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 Mail	Web 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
Fantastico	Fantastico allows users to install open source scripts from their control panels without any programming knowledge. Fantastico can help add a number of functions to a Web site, including blogs, content management systems, customer support scripts, bulletin boards, shopping carts, images galleries, FAQ builders, survey tools, project management calendars and more with just the click of a button..
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	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.
Raw Log Access
Referrer Log
Analog
Eccomerce 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'