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Unix Hosting Plan Details
Bandwidth / Transfer / Hits
Any outbound traffic from your web site is considered data transfer. FTP uploads do not count as data transfer. Each time a html file, graphic file or any other element on your web page is loaded, data transfer is generated.
Disk Storage
Disk storage refers to the amount of server disk storage your account is allocated. This space is used to store your html files, graphics, audio/video files and all other files that make up your web site. Your POP3 emails are not stored in this space. You are allotted an extra 10 MB of space for your mail spool per POP3 account. Should you require additional space for your content you will need to upgrade your account with the Storage Space Upgrade or upgrade to the next level package.
Static IP Address
Every hosting account is configured with a static IP address. This means that you are given a unique set of numbers (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) specifically assigned to your web space. This allows you to access your web site via a web browser or development tool regardless of the status of your domain name. Having your own IP address also gives you the opportunity of publishing your web site to your new web space before actually transferring your domain name to our DNS. This results in no down time when transferring your web site from a another hosting company.
Email Accounts
Each of our Unix Hosting Packages comes with a specific number of POP3 email accounts in addition to email forwards and aliases. You have the option to retrieve email directly from POP3 mailboxes on the mail server using an email program such as Eudora, Outlook or Outlook Express.
Email Aliases / Forwards
Using Email Aliases or forwarders gives you the ability to receive any email at anything@yourdomain.com. Specific email addresses that you want to forward out of your domain to another email account can be accomplished by simply requesting them. For example you may want to forward all email addressed to sales@youractualdomain.com to an AOL account such as Bob232@aol.com or another POP3 account on your domain bob@yourdomain.com. The best part about using aliases or forwards is that the person emailing you never knows the mail is being redirected.
Email Autoresponders
An autoresponder is a pre-determined message with information you want automatically sent to anyone who emails a designated email address/mailbox at your domain.
PGP
PGP is a program that adds privacy to your electronic mail that you send through our network. It encrypts your mail so that nobody but the intended person can read it. When encrypted, the message looks like a meaningless jumble of random characters. PGP has proven itself quite capable of resisting even the most sophisticated forms of analysis aimed at reading the encrypted text.
Mail Lists
You can create multiple mail lists based on your customer's interests. You provide customers an email address they can send an email to and be added to your personalized mailing list. As soon as customers sign on they are sent a friendly welcome message. This is a great way to cost effectively communicate with your customers through monthly newsletters, sales updates or just a friendly hello. Each list can hold 1000 names and a 75kb message can be emailed to all the lists you create.
Personal SMTP Server
You have a personal SMTP mail server on each domain you host with Host-U, Inc.. This mail server enables you to send mail out through your domain at mail.yourdomain.com
WMail
Lets you view, delete and manage all of your email accounts through the convenience of your web browser.
24 Hour Toll Free Support
No busy signals, no long distance calls for technical support. You have 24 hour access to our technicians for any support you may need with no limits or restrictions, through our toll free 800 number.
99% Uptime Guarantee
We guarantee that 99% of the time that your web site will be accessible via IP address to the world. The IP address is the numerical value equivalent to www.yourdomain.com. If your web site is not online 99% of the time we will refund the percentage of your monthly hosting fees equal to the downtime.
Shopping Cart System
This simple shopping cart solution lets you add all of your products into a 1 page HTML document that will sort your products with price, quantity and other attributes you set. It lets you create a custom receipt and order page and emails both you and the customer when an order is completed.
Secure Server (SSL)
All shared hosting accounts are provided with secure server access. Any sensitive information such as credit card information that can be encrypted before transmission through a web browser. SSL will light up the key in your customer's browser, greatly increasing customer trust when buying from your site.
SSH - Secure Shell
The industry standard for encrypting terminal connections and file transfer over the Internet.
Server Side Includes (SSI)
Lets you embed CGI scripts into your web pages. The scripts will execute automatically when the web page is opened.
Password Protected Pages
Protect directories within your web site so that only approved username and password combinations gain access.
PHP
A server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language.
FrontPage 2002
The Microsoft FrontPage 2002 web site creation and management tool gives users everything you need to easily create and manage great web sites. You are required to own and install the FrontPage 98 or 2000 software and on your home system.
Miva Empresa
Enables your server with XML based Miva Script, commerce processing and database. Miva Script applications running under Miva Empresa execute in a sandboxed data and runtime environment. Special virtual domain and shared server features let busy site administrators create per user and per domain runtime environments.
Support for Plugins
Support for Vream (Virtual Reality Authority Software), Voxware, Vivo Active, Midi and IPIX, Sizzler, Fractal, FutureSplash, Infinop's Wavelet Image Compression, VocalTec Internet Phone, TrueSpeech Digital Audio, VRML, Macromedia's Shockwave.
Wireless Application Protocol Ready (WAP)
Allow your clients and potential customers to view your web site on cellular phones, pages and other wireless devices with Internet access.
Redundant DNS Servers
Host-U, Inc. takes pride in its rock-solid DNS structure. DNS servers on diverse network segments ensuring that DoS and hacker attacks never damage, slow down or interrupt our DNS. We even cluster and cache our DNS so that even during network spikes and peak performance usage our DNS is responding with lightning fast times.
CGI-Bin
Directory setup with special permissions to auto-execute user-defined scripts. CGI is used to accomplish tasks which are not supported by basic HTML such as a hit counter or guest book. You may use this directory to execute any cgi-script you write or ones that are already pre-written for you. The directory is specially designed for scripts that end in *.pl as scripts that end in .cgi will execute from any directory within your web space.
Pre-Installed CGI-scripts
We offer several pre-written scripts available for your use. These include hit counters, a shopping cart system, guest book, bulletin board system, visitor links page, random quote displayer, and much more.
Unix Shells: bash, csh, tcsh
Each shared server has 3 different shells available letting you choose which you are most comfortable scripting in.
Perl 5.6.0, C, C++, java jdk 1.4, Python 1.5.2 and Python 2.1.1 & TCL 8.3 Compilers
Various types of scripting languages / shells that are installed on all Host-U, Inc. machines.
Emacs
An extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor that is used in a UNIX shell.
Pine, vi, elm, Joe, Pico & Cron Tab and .htaccess
Pine is an easy to use UNIX shell-based email client that organizes your emails complete with address book, sent items and inbox. VI, JOE and PICO are text editors that lets you create and edit files within telnet. ELM is very simple email program that lets you just send and receive emails from within your telnet shell. CRON TAB is similar to an alarm clock, it executes set commands at user-defined times. .HTACCESS lets you setup password protected directories within your web site.
Custom Error Documents
By placing a file in your main directory called missing.html, you will be able to provide a customized page to any viewer that requests a file with their browser that does not exist on your domain.
FTP
File Transfer Protocol or the method used to "upload" your web site files to storage space on our network. You have unlimited access to your domain via FTP 24 hours a day to setup, change and manipulate your web site. Host-U, Inc.'s network is compatible with any FTP client you choose to use.
Anonymous FTP
Capability of setting up a public area where anonymous users can upload and download files from your web server.
Daily Backups
We do daily backups of your sites data and your email spool file. In the event you lose or corrupt any of your data you may request a restore from our technical support department.
Raw Access Logs
These are the text logs showing every hit to your site and what the user downloaded, accessed or viewed. For statistical analysis you can download these to compile on your local machine in programs like MediaHouse LiveStats or other site analysis programs.
Wusage 8.0
This is a very powerful tool for graphically tracking visitors to your site. It provides you statistics on how long visitors stay at your site, what pages they visited and the order in which they were visited. It also provides the most popular entry/exit pages, what browsers your visitors use, which countries your site is most popular in and with referrer logs activated it will graphically capture how the user found your web site. Wusage can be configured to run nightly or weekly.
Off-Site Backup Tape Storage
Every 2 weeks Host-U, Inc. rotates the off-site backup tapes with new, current copies to ensure even in the most catastrophic events, your data remains safe and can be restored instantly.
Server Hardware
Each shared server is Dual Pentium III-933 MHz or faster with 1000 MB + of RAM. Our servers are custom built to our needs and spare parts are kept in inventory in case of hardware failure. We keep 10 pre-built machines in inventory at all times ensuring that if the entire server fails we can swap the hard disk into another server and have it back online within 5-10 minutes.
Server Operating System
Each of our shared servers runs a custom version of Red Hat Linux with Apache Web Server 1.3.x
Network Connectivity
Your web site will be hosted within our primary data center. This site is fully redundant from the power, air-conditioning and fiber connectivity. The data center has 5 T3 connections to the Internet, each capable of handing 45Mbits of traffic, 2 OC-3 connections each capable of 155Mbits, and 2 OC-12 connections each capable of 655Mbits of traffic. It also has 10 backup T1 connections used in case of emergency fiber cuts.
Uninterruptible power with UPS and backup generator
Every server is connected to a 3000W Compaq UPS device and our data center power is backed by a 245,000W Diesel-powered generator ensuring that even during the longest power outages your web server remains online.
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