Main Features

Add-On Domains

Add-On domains are fully functional domains hosted under your main account. Think of it as hosting unlimited amount of websites under your current account. It will act as its own website; can have e-mails, sub-domains, and its own FTP username/password.
Parked Domains

Parked domains are secondary domains that point to your main website / domain. They function exactly as your primary domain would.
Sub Domains

Every account comes with unlimited Sub domains. A sub domain allows you to create a unique address using your domain which can point to its own content and e-mail addresses. You can add sub domains through your control panel (http://www.yourdomain.com:2082).

Example Sub-Domain: http://subdomain.yourdomain.com
24×7 FTP Access

All our accounts come with the ability to use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) 24 hours a day 7 days a week. FTP allows you to actually put files on your web site and is a must have feature otherwise you would be unable to do anything with your account.
FTP Accounts

All our accounts come with the ability to create unlimited FTP accounts. FTP accounts allow you to limit an account to a specific directory which can be great for a web site with more than one person working on it.
MySQL 5 Databases

MySQL is the most popular open source database engine and is used by the majority of PHP and Perl scripts to store data.
PostgreSQL Databases

PostgreSQL is an object-relational database system that has the features of traditional commercial database systems with enhancements to be found in next-generation DBMS systems.
Cron Jobs

Cron (or Cron Jobs) is a time-based scheduling service in UNIX operating systems. It allows you to periodically run shell commands on a given schedule. You can easily manage Cron Jobs on your account by going to your control panel (http://www.yourdomain.com:2082) and clicking on the “Cron Jobs” button.
Password Directories

Password directories can be setup within cPanel which can give you the ability to lock out areas of your website without any real knowledge about how it works. Just set it in cPanel and nothing to worry about it from there. This feature is great for web sites who want to block their admin area with not just script based mechanisms but also through the password directories feature.

eMail Accounts

Auto Responders

All our accounts come with unlimited auto responders. What auto responders do is allow when you receive an email the user who sent you an email will automatically receive a response from you which you define in cPanel. Auto responders can be great for when you’re on vacation and want to leave a message to tell everyone you’ll be away and won’t be responding to their emails as fast as you usually do.
DomainKeys

DomainKeys is an e-mail authentication system designed to verify the DNS domain of an e-mail sender and the message integrity.
E-Mail Forwarders

All our accounts come with unlimited email forwarders. Email forwarders give you the ability to redirect all messages sent to an email address on your account to another email of your choice. For example you can have webmaster@yourdomain.com point to me@yourdomain.com
IMAP

IMAP allows you to directly read email from the mail server opposed to downloading all the messages that are unread. IMAP is great to use if you plan on checking your email from numerous computers, but keep in mind it does require an active internet connection while reading your email. Also note email stored on your account does count against your overall disk usage so if you are concerned about disk space this may also not be a good feature to use as POP3 will delete the emails by default once you’ve downloaded them to your email client.
Mailing Lists

All our accounts come with the ability to create email lists which your users can sign up for to receive monthly newsletters or whatever you feel you need to mail them.
POP3 Accounts

POP3 accounts are one of the ways you can access your email in your mail boxes hosted on our servers. All modern email clients such as Outlook and Thunderbird support the POP3 protocol. POP3 allows you to download your email messages to your computer which then you should no longer need access to the internet to read your email. Majority of email clients also give you the ability to leave the email on the server so that others or you could get the email again at a later time if you lose it. However by default most email clients delete email once it’s been downloaded so be aware of this if you’d like us to still store your emails on our servers.
SMTP

In order to send email from your email client you need a SMTP server in order to send out the emails. We offer SMTP in the case you do not want to use your ISP’s SMTP server or they have restrictions on it. Our SMTP servers require you to authenticate it which is usually a simple check box in your email client when setting up your email.
Spam Assassin

All our accounts come with Spam Assassin our current spam filtering software of choice. Spam assassin flags the probability of an email message being spam. With this data you can set the probability amount that spam assassin ignores the email in question rather than putting it in your mail box. Spam Assassin is not perfect (no spam filter anywhere is) but it’s a powerful spam filter which also will not block a lot of your legitimate mail.
SPF

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an extension to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). SPF allows software to identify and reject forged addresses in the SMTP MAIL FROM (Return-Path), a typical nuisance in e-mail spam.
Web Mail

We offer the ability to view your mail boxes from the web by accessing http://yourdomain.com:2095/ replacing yourdomain.com with your sites address. We offer both Horde and Squirrel Mail which each provide a different feel for your web based email.

Control Panel

CPanel

All our accounts come with cPanel the most popular web hosting control panel available today. It makes it possible for you to use many of our great features without the need for much knowledge about servers or anything of that nature. Just a few clicks and you have an email setup. Another few clicks you now have your first database setup and you can now access it and manipulate it through the control panel.
Fantastico

Fantastico De Luxe provides the ability to install numerous open source scripts with just a few clicks
RVSiteBuilder

RVSiteBuilder allows you to build a website within minutes using many of its pre-made templates.

X3 Skin

X3 skin is the web 2.0 inspired cPanel skin

Hotlink Protection

By enabling hotlink protection you can stop other websites from stealing your bandwidth. This feature enforces users to visit your site for downloads as opposed to other sites linking to your site and leeching your bandwidth.
IP Deny Manager

The IP Deny Manager allows you to quickly block IP’s from accessing your website without any coding knowledge needed. This can be great for blocking malicious users on your site or even users that you simply do not want visiting anymore maybe due to a ban from the web site or just about any other reason you see fit to block an IP from visiting your site.
PhpMyAdmin

PhpMyAdmin gives you the ability to manage your MySQL databases without the need for a console or knowing many MySQL based commands. phpMyAdmin provides an easy to use interface for viewing data and manipulating data from a web based interface opposed to a 3rd party application or from a console.

Account Features

SSH

SSH (Secure Shell) allows you to use the command line of the machine on your account. It’s exactly like Telnet only it’s encrypted so all of the data being transmitted will be secure. You will need to download a SSH client to use this feature, we recommend Putty for Windows users. (To have this enabled on your account you must talk with a representative for security purposes.)
PHP 5 Support

Every account has the ability to run the latest PHP scripts that require PHP5. PHP 5 and the integrated Zend Engine 2 have greatly improved PHP’s performance and capabilities. There is also a new Object Model which has been completely rewritten allowing for more functionality and performance.
PEAR Support

The PHP Extension and Application Repository, or PEAR, is a framework and distribution system for PHP code components. Stig S. Bakken founded the PEAR project in 1999 to promote the re-use of code that performs common functions. The project seeks to provide a structured library of code, maintain a system for distributing code and for managing code packages, and promote a standard coding style.
Zend Framework

Zend Framework is a powerful high quality PHP 5 based framework which is available on all our servers. You can find out more information by visiting the Zend Framework Overview on their web site.
Zend Optimizer

Zend Optimizer is a PHP accelerator that goes over code generated by the Zend run-time compiler and optimizes it for faster execution and performance. Zend Optimizer also allows you to run scripts encoded using Zend Guard.
Ioncube Loader

Ioncube Loader allows scripts encoded by Ioncube Encoder to be ran.
Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is a free web application framework. It aims to increase the speed and ease with which database-driven web sites can be created, and offers skeleton code frameworks (scaffolding) from the outset. Often shortened to Rails, or RoR, Ruby on Rails is an open source project written in the Ruby programming language, and applications using the Rails framework are developed using the Model-View-Controller design paradigm.
Perl

Perl is a CGI scripting language used primarily by many older scripts but is still widely used. It’s one of the most popular languages alongside Python and PHP.
CGI

CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is a protocol for interacting external application software with an information server. This enables the server to pass requests from a web browser to an external application. Examples of CGI would be Perl, Python, CGI, and Ruby.
Python

Python is an Object Oriented programming language that prioritizes readability over speed and expressiveness.
Server Side Includes

SSI (Server Side Includes) is segments of code you put in your HTML pages that is parsed when they’re being served by Apache. They allow you to dynamically generate content without having to rely on a CGI program or language.
cURL

cURL is a command line tool that allows you to transfer files with URL syntax. This is most widely used in CGI languages such as PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby.
GD2

GD2 is a code library that allows for dynamic manipulation and creation of images. It’s commonly used in many CGI scripts (PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby) for things such as galleries.
ImageMagick

ImageMagick is a software suite that allows you to create and manipulate images in many ways. It’s usually used by CGI scripts to create thumbnails, add watermarks, and create galleries.
Subversion Repositories

Subversion is a popular version control system. It is primarily used to maintain current and historical files such as source code. It allows you to maintain everything with the repositories including user creation and permissions.
Trac

Trac is a popular open source project management system and bug tracker.
Custom Error Pages

All our accounts allow the use of custom error pages which means a user no longer has to see a 404 page provided by their browser. You can provide a useful and unique 404,403 and many other error pages so you can help your users out if there is a problem rather than their browser giving them a generic message.
Redirects

Redirects give you the ability to redirect a folder to another location on your website or even another web site if you choose. It can be a great way to provide multiple entry points to a location on a website. For example it can be great to have /forum redirect to /forums on an account so no visitors get 404 messages by typing in the wrong address.

Web Report and Statistics

AW Stats

All our accounts come with Awstats which can be found in cPanel under the statistics area. Awstats provides a very clean interface to look at website statistics. It can provide information about search engine bots and just how many hits have they done and just how much bandwidth they consumed. It can provide you with search engine terms and which search engine they came from. It also comes with all the normal stat system statistics such as unique hits, page views and many other pieces of useful information.
Webalizer

All our accounts come with Webalizer another web site statistics program found in our cPanel statistics area. It provides another view for looking at various web site statistics. It can provide break downs of visitors by country, time of visit and many other useful pieces of information. It provides a tabular dataset of many things such as what pages get the most hits, the entry pages, the exit pages and many other pieces that are great for webmasters.
Analog

All our accounts come with Analog which provides a raw version of web sites stats and it can be found in the cPanel statistics area. Analog is great if you want more raw stats otherwise Awstats or Webalizer will provide a much easier to use interface to look at web site stats.
Access and Error Logs

All accounts have the ability to see their access and error logs from the cPanel statistics area. It can help you figure out where the users are getting errors or where the access points are. It’s not a very user friendly interface so unless it’s entirely needed Awstats or Webalizer may provide a much easier to understand interface.
Bandwidth Usage

Any time a visitor comes to your site and views a page or downloads a file they’re using bandwidth. All our packages come with different bandwidth limits so when you’re reaching you’re almost reaching your bandwidth limit every month we recommend you upgrade to the next package. Don’t worry though we will not automatically charge you for more bandwidth instead we’ll suspend your account just to make sure you’re not paying for bandwidth overages you do not want.

Server Software

Apache Web Server

All our servers run Apache 2.2 the most popular web server currently available. It transmits all files to a user’s browser and is where the majority of our server resources go and should go since we’re hosting web sites which require a web server to run.
Linux

All our servers run on Linux and specifically Centos an Enterprise-Level Linux operating system meant for servers.

Backups

Daily Backups

Our daily backup system utilizes R1Soft Enterprise backup system. The R1 Soft Enterprise System allows you to do daily backups with 7 days of Backup Retention (Archive). You also have the ability to restore even just one file through the R1Soft cPanel interface.

Security

Dedicated IP

Having a dedicated IP allows your site to have its own unique IP address that isn’t shared with any other website. There are several benefits to this, including if a site gets blacklisted from a search engine or spam list it won’t have an effect on your website. It’s also required for private SSL (used when processing credit cards, E-Commerce, etc)
Private SSL

SSL encrypts confidential data such as credit card numbers and passwords. You will need a Dedicated IP in order to enable private SSL. You may use a self signed certificate however browsers will require users to approve of this before they may view the site. This is why we recommend a 3rd-party signed certificate in order for there to be no warnings when the visitor views the SSL version of the website.