| Autoresponders |
Autoresponders reply to incoming e-mail automatically.
An autoresponder could be used to send a standard text file to persons
addressing, say, info@yourname.com. If you've ever received a response
to an e-mail which suggests that the recipient is away from the office,
you may have received such an automated response.
Mail options are easily setup by clicking on
the Mail Manager icon in the Control Panel.
This facility is unlimited with all plans.
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Archive Manager
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This option in your
control panel allows you to compress your directories and/or files
located in your account. This is an excellent way to backup your
own files. Once you've compressed your files, you can FTP
the saved file to your hard drive for safe keeping or leave it in
your account. If you ever need to restore the compressed file,
just return to this part of your Control Panel and select the file
that is compressed and click Extract.
Included with all plans.
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| CGI script support |
| All hosting customers have
access to a personal cgi-local directory in which you can place your
own custom CGI scripts. CGI scripts are often used to accomplish tasks
which are not supported by basic HTML such as a "hit" counter or guest
book. This directory can be used to set up scripts that you write
or find elsewhere on the web. We also offer several Free CGI Scripts such as formmail.pl,
hitcounter, discussion board, meta tag search, guestbook, and pgpmail.
Bourne, Shell, and Perl 5 are all supported
and available.
Included with all plans
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| Control Panel |
| This is a
most unique feature and it comes with all of our Unix Web
Hosting packages! Every hosting customer will have access to
a web-based Virtual Control Panel which allows you to set mail forwarding
options, view your statistics and change your contact information.
Users can also view billing information at anytime without having
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| Data Transfer |
In general, any outward bound
traffic from a web site, with the exception of e-mail, is considered
to be data transfer. For example, each time a web page, image, midi
file, quicktime video, etc. is loaded, data transfer is generated.
Generous allocation with all plans.
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| Disk Storage Space |
Disk storage space refers to
the amount of server disk storage specifically allocated to your account.
This space is used to store your html files, graphics, audio clips,
POP mail messages, pdfs, and other files that make up your web site.
Each of our plans includes a specified allotment of disk storage space.
Included with all plans.
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| Domain Name Parking |
| Parking a domain name is pointing
it to the already existing IP number of another domain. That way,
more than one domain name resolves at one location. For example, you
can resolve yourname.com and yourname.org at the same web site.
For example, if you have an on-line clothing
store you may wish to have the domain names clothes.com, shirts.com,
and jeans.com all point to your account. This is an excellent way
to increase your visibility and bring more visitors to your site!
Parked domains are not separate
accounts, they are merely pointers to an existing web site
rental account. Parked domains do not have their own IP address
or their own control panel.
Included with all Hosting Plans
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| Domain Name Pointers (URL Forwarding) |
| URL Forwarding
will allow you to redirect pages on your site to other locations.
Redirecting allows you to send the user to, for example, 'new.html'
when they attempt to access 'old.html'.
URL Forwarding allows you to set up a redirection
so that the user that types in one URL will automatically be sent
to another URL. Note that you cannot use this feature if you have
FrontPage Extensions installed.
Included with all Hosting Plans
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| Ecommerce Software
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| Dreamscape media provides its
web hosting customers with free ecommerce software. Miva
Order (a £99 value) is included for Free
with the Commerce Hosting account. Miva Merchant
(a £495 value!) is included for Free with the Professional
Hosting account.
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| File Manager
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The File Manager is a very
powerful feature. It allows you to manipulate all the files in your
web site. You are able to create, delete, and move your files. You
can also upload files from your local PC to the server in File Manager.
Plus, you can edit the HTML in any of your files from this option.
Everything you need to manage your site can be found in this feature.
Included with all plans.
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| Form Mail
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You can add a form to your
web site for your customers to fill-out. Then, the data will
be automatically emailed to you. This is easily setup in the
Control Panel.
Included with all plans.
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| Microsoft®
FrontPage® 2000 Extensions
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You can easily install Microsoft®
FrontPage® extensions for your account through your Control Panel.
This allows you to use the easy-to-use Microsoft® FrontPage® program
to create and maintain your web site. This is included with all plans.
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| FTP Access
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You will have unlimited access
to your account via FTP 24-hours a day to set up and maintain your
web site. You can work on HTML documents, graphics, and scripts locally
and then upload files to your web site when ready.
Included with all plans.
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| Mail Forwarding
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Once your domain name is active
worldwide, you can receive all e-mail addressed to your domain such
as webmaster@yourname.com, sales@yourname.com, etc. By default, all
e-mails addressed to your domain will forward to your real e-mail
address provided by your local internet provider. For convenience,
specific mail forwarding options are available if you need specific
addresses each to be forwarded to different addresses on the internet.
For example, e-mail addressed to webmaster@yourname.com could forward
to an account at AOL, but sales@yourname.com could forward to a Prodigy
account. Mail options are easily setup by clicking on the
Mail Manager icon in the Control Panel.
Unlimited with all plans
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| Mail Manager
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The Control Panel
comes with a powerful mail management tool. All your mail options
are setup by simply clicking on the Mail Manager icon and following
the on screen instructions.
Included with all plans
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| Mailing Lists
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Create mailing lists and no-maintenance
discussion groups (no more giant cc: lists).
Included with all plans
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| Miva Merchant
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| Miva Merchant is included for
Free (a £495 value!) with
the Professional Hosting account.
Miva Merchant makes building and
managing consumer and business e-catalogs as easy as point, click
and fill in the blanks. Browser based management lets you control
all aspects of your storefront from order and credit card processing
to product maintenance and category management.
Included with all the Professional hosting plan
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| mySQL Database
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Through your Control Panel,
you can setup a fully functional lightweight database engine designed
to provide fast access to stored data. We provide the tools
to create a searchable database. In most instances, custom programming
(commonly Perl or PHP) is needed to implement a fully functional web-to-database
interface.
Included with the Basic Plan and higher.
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| POP- 3 Email Accounts
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In addition to mail forwarding,
users have the option to retrieve e-mail directly from POP3 mailboxes
on the mail server using an email program such as Eudora or Outlook.
Each of our plans offers unlimited email accounts. POPs can
be assigned unique ids and passwords to ensure privacy. Mail
options are easily setup by clicking on the
Mail Manager icon in the Control Panel.
Unlimited with all plans
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| Perl 5.6.0
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The new features of 5.6.0 include
generation of C code and support for lightweight processes.
This latest version offers increased stability and security features.
This version is a stable, production release that compiles out of
the box for virtually any Unix, its native environment, plus VMS,
OS/2, and 32-bit Microsoft platforms as well. In standard terminology
a compiled program can be run multiple times, as opposed to a script
which must be translated by a program each time it's used. An
informative site describing the new features in Perl 5.6.0 is titled
"What's New in Perl 5.6.0" and located on the internet at the following
Url http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/04/whatsnew.html.
Perl programs, are neither strictly compiled nor strictly interpreted.
Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text
files, extracting information from those text files, and printing
reports based on that information. It's a derivation from C
programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the Unix
shell, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Perl's process,
file, and text manipulation facilities make it particularly well-suited
for tasks involving quick prototyping, system utilities, software
tools, system management tasks, database access, graphical programming,
networking, and world wide web programming. Information on debugging
compiled Perl scripts can be found at the Perlbug Database v2.23 http://bugs.perl.org/perlbug.cgi
To search on the Perlbug Database website, be sure to change
the Operating System drop down box from the default "any" to "Linux",
enter the latest version 5.6.0, and click the "Query" button to run
the search sequence.
Included with the Basic Plan and higher.
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| RealAudioTM / RealVideoTM
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Real Networks' RealAudio system
is a client-server based streaming media delivery system for the Internet.
Providers of news, entertainment, sports, and business content can
create and deliver audio-based streaming multimedia content through
the Internet to audiences worldwide.
Included with the Basic Plan and higher.
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| ServletManager
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The ServletManager is used
to install or remove support for Java Servlets. Our clients
have long had the capability of running Java servlets, so Java Servlets
are nothing new on our servers. What is new is the ease of use for
clients to enable Java Servlets for their Control Panel users. This
creates a new revenue generating stream for our clients, who can now
charge an additional fee for this service, since this is now done
through the Control Panel. Clients could not previously charge for
Java Servlets, and Control Panel users were unable to install Java
Servlet support for themselves; either clients or a technical support
analyst had to manually install a servlet zone, in response to requests
from a Control Panel user.
Included with Deluxe hosting plan or higher.
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| Site Creation Tool |
| Allows you to make
your web page right from your browser! No need to hire
an expensive web designer or buy expensive software.
This unique, intuitive tool
comes with every hosting account. Using this tool, you can build
your own professional-looking Web Site in minutes. Whether your
site is a business e-commerce site or a home hobby site, the site
creation tool will give you the functionality to design and maintain
your web presence all from within your browser.
Then using the Site, Page
and Field Editors, you detail your Site to perfection. Web Site
design has never been easier! Our browser-based design tools let
you customize all aspects of your Web Site, without requiring a
knowledge of HTML programming. You choose images and animations,
backgrounds and colors, lines and bullets, font styles and sizes
with a click of your mouse button. Type in the text, links, and
graphics.
The Site Creation Tool is a
technology that allows companies to build customized , easily updated
websites within minutes at a significant cost reduction. The
Site Creation Tool was designed to provide a complete, inexpensive
solution for all aspects of website design, maintenance, organization
and hosting. There's no need to hire a web designer every
time you need your web site updated. No programming skills are required.
Updating the site is easy...just point, type, click and it is updated.
Included with all plans.
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| Site Statistics
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Through your Control Panel
you can track your web usage statistics such as what domains are accessing
your web site, how many "hits" you are getting, how much data is being
transferred and more. In addition, we give you direct access to your
raw log files so you can analyze your statistics with other more full-featured
programs.
Included with all plans.
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| SSI
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SSI is on all of our servers.
You just need to be sure that you call your files with the .shtml
extension.
Included with all plans.
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| Sub
Domains (i.e. info.yourdomain.com)
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A Sub Domain does not have to
be registered! This makes Sub Domains an inexpensive option if you
want another domain name. You can also point your sub-domain to
your main account if you only want to have your web pages under
one account. You can have an unlimited amount of Sub Domains. The
only restriction is that you have the main domain name (ie yourdomain.com)
with us. And since you don't have to register your Sub Domain,
you can use it right away without waiting for your domain registration
or transfer to propagate throughout the net.
To order a sub-domain account,
you must have the main domain name (ie yourdomain.com) hosted with
us.
Sub-domain accounts cost £7 per month
with a one-time setup fee of £15. There are no pre-payment
discounts for sub-domain packages. Sub-domain Economy accounts
do not have email or control panel.
If you only want to edit one
web site, you can use the URL
Forwarding option in the Control Panel of your Sub Domain
Account. Using this option you can forward the Sub Domain website
to a sub-directory of your main account.
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| Web
Based Email
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| Web Mail Check
(Web Based Email) is an email access program that provides a convenient
way to manage email and works in conjunction with the Mail Manager
tool in the Control Panel. Clients can offer web email through
domains on their hosting accounts. Web Mail check has many different
user-friendly email options including the following: logout, delete
selected mail, check new mail, compose mail, options and addresses.
Clients can read and send mail from any computer that is connected
to a web browser (Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, AOL) and
a POP3-compliant mailbox.
The User Panel is accessed at the domain
name level, followed by a forward slash and the User Panel extension
"/up" (example - http://yourdomainName/up). Available in English, Deutsch,
Espanoles, and Francais.
Unlimited email accounts and Web Based
Email is included with all hosting plans.
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