If you know what these are and how it all works please just click on the button below and that will take you straight to the Hosting page.
For those of you for whom it may be the first time there are some simple explanations below - you can get more detailed information by doing Internet searches for the term.
| Disk Space | The amount of room you have to store your work |
| Data Transfer per month | Bandwidth - each time you connect or someone else does to your site you use some of this |
| Domains hosted | The name by which your site is known |
| Parked Domains | You may have bought a name but not using it - it remains with us - parked |
| Sub Domains | If your domain is www.fred.com then you can set up a sub domain that would then be www.betty.fred.com |
| MySQL Databases | The database that is used to store your information |
| Free Templates | Designs to help you set your site up |
| Shopping Cart | As the name suggests a shop for your site |
| Pre-installed CGI scripts | Scripts already on our server which can be installed automatically |
| phpMySQL Admin | The way to administer the databases stored |
| PHP4 | A programming language |
| Perl ModPerl | A programming language |
| Cron Jobs | The ability to run regular routines ie back up once a week or however often you wish |
| cgi bin | The place you store your scripts |
| .htaccess allowed | The file that helps you control who gets to see what in your directories - for advanced users only ! |
| SSI - Server Side includes | Commands that can be included in web pages that are processed by the web server when a user requests a file |
| Custom error pages | A more personalised way of apologising to viewers that your site isnt quite working the way it should |
| Front Page extensions | Essential for those of you using Front Page |
| Graphical Web statistics | Pretty views of all thats going on with your visitors etc |
| Hot Link Protection | This allows you to block people linking to your site and using your bandwidth by linking to images for example |
| Index Manager | The Index Manager enables you to control how directories on your web site are displayed |
| IP Deny Manager | All web addresses have a unique number identification called an IP address. With this you can block any that you do not wish to have access |
| Web File Manager | Control what is on your part of the server via a web browser |
| Free SSL setup (NOT the cost of certificate itself) | You will need a secure site should you wish to be serious about buying and selling - a way for your customers to know you can be trusted |
| SMTP Server | A server that can be used for mailing lists for example |
| IMAP | Internet Message Access Protocol. A mail server type. |
| POP3 mailboxes | Set up a mailbox so you can get them from any PC |
| Autoresponders | Set a message for when you are away and people will get a message back letting them know |
| Email redirects | Divert email to another address |
| Email blocking | Stops the emails being delivered |
| FREE Spam Assassin | Helps to block mails you did not ask for |
| Mailing Lists | Set up lists so you can mail many at one time |
| Web Mail | You can access your mail via web browser |
| Catch all email accounts | Directs all mail with non specific addresses for example back to sender! |
| FTP Accounts | Allowing you to upload and download your files in different names and to different folders |
