Please feel free to utilize this learning center as your personal glossary of terms and descriptions of offerings found in our Hosting Plans
Plan Details
Disk Space- The more disk space you have the more files, pages, emails, etc., your account will be able to store on our server.
Bandwith - Bandwidth can be best described as gas for a car. If your website runs out of bandwidth nobody will be able to visit it. 1GB of bandwidth is equal to over 100,000 hits. The average account with us uses less than 2 GB of bandwidth a month. Your bandwidth number used will reset back to zero on the first of every month.
Monthly Price - All of our hosting plans come with the option to pay monthly or yearly. The price will never increase as long as you keep your account with us. Tax has already been included in the listed prices. The price you see is the TOTAL price you will pay.
Forms of Payment - We accept payments through Paypal.
Website Builder- SiteStudio website designer is easy to use for creating a complete website.
For more info on SiteStudio, a demo, and pictures of 500+ templates / color schemes click
here.
Support - We guarantee 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year phone support. We also provide e-mail, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and YIM.
Instant Backups - Every server in out fleet has a Raid1 setup that provides instant backups. We also have a weekly offsite backup.
No Contracts- We have no contracts and no hidden fees! You are free to cancel your web hosting at anytime with no cancellation fees.
Uptime Guarantee- We guarantee that your site will be up 99.9% of the time we host it. This guarantee includes both network and server failures. If your site isn't up 99.9% in any one month we will issue a full refund for the month.
30 Day Money Back Guarantee- We guarantee that if for any reason during your first month with us you decide to cancel we will issue a full refund within 24 hours.
Free Setup- All accounts have FREE setup, and will be created automatically as quickly as possible.
Domain/FTP Features
Domains Allowed - With the exception of our Gold Plan, our Silver, Platinum and Custom plans allow for multiple websites to run out of a single account.
Subdomains - A normal domain name looks like www.domain.com a sub domain looks like sub.domain.com. For example forum.solutionfoundations.com would be a sub domain name of our site www.solutionfoundations.com
.
FTP Accounts - FTP stands for File transfer protocol. Having multiple ftp accounts will allow you to give friends and employees their own FTP account. This will allow you to give them as little or as much access to your website as you choose.
Anonymous FTP - Anonymous ftp allows the public to upload, download, or view files in a specified directory. (no login required)
Supported Features
MySQL Databases - MySql is the world's most popular open source database. Many forums and other database driven programs require MySql to run. We use version 4.0.13.
CGI - Common Gateway Interface allows for your programs to be used with HTTP daemons. Most websites use multiple cgi scripts. You will get a cgi-bin; however your cgi scripts will work both inside and outside of it.
PHP - Php is a server side HTML embedded scripting language. We use version 4.3.1 Most websites use php.
Perl - Perl is a language that runs with CGI. We use version 5.006001.
Chilisoft ASP - We support Chilisoft ASP. Active server pages is an open , compile-free application environment that combines scripting, HTML, customer server components, and robust database publishing to create dynamic web based applications. If you require asp email us immediately after signing up.
Python - Python is a programming/scripting language that can be used on many different computers and operating systems.
SSI - Server Side includes, refers to Perl based HTML commands that direct a server to generate on-the-fly contact for web pages.
Cron - Crontab is a process in Unix systems that uses a Daemon called cron to execute commands for the user at a certain time.
FrontPage - We support all version of Microsoft FrontPage. Frontpage is a website creation tool that can be used to both create and upload your site when FP extensions are installed.
Curl - Curl is a command line tool for transfererring files with url syntax
GD - GD is an ANSI library dynamic creation of images. GD creates PNG and JPEG images, among
other formats. We stay up to date with the latest GD version.
Image Magick - ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and
manipulate an image in many formats. We stay up to date on the latest version.
Streaming Video & Music - We support Windows Media, Quicktime, and Real Media player allowing
you to run streaming audio and video.
Free Module Installation - Need a special module for your program to work? We will install it free of
charge within 24 hours.
E-Mail Features
Pop3 Accounts - This is the number of POP accounts you get. POP accounts are used to send and
receive emails through programs such as Outlook Express and Eudora.
Webmail - We use both Neomail and Horde. Web mail allows you to send and receive emails online
by going to yoursite.com/webmail.
E-Mail Alias - Mail box aliases will allow you to setup multiple email addresses to go to a single mail
box.
Auto Responders - You can setup your email addresses so when they receive mail they will
automatically reply back with your message.
Mailing Lists - Have a group of people you regularly mail ? Add them to a mailing list so you can
e-mail them faster and easier.
Catch All E-Mail Address - A catch all email address will receive all emails delivered to non existent
email addresses.
Spam Assassin - If you enable Spam Assasin it will block most spam from reaching your e-mail.
Mail Forward - You can setup a mail forwarder. Doing this will forward all your mail to any e-mail
address you wish.
IMAP - We support Internet Message Access Protocol. "IMAP permits a "client" e-mail program to
access remote message stores as if they were local."
SMTP - We allow you to use our servers to send outgoing mail.
Control Panel Features
Latest cPanel - cPanel will be your hosting control panel. cPanel allows you to monitor the amount of
bandwidth used, space used, create e-mail addresses, sub domains, MySql databases, and much
Fantastico - Fantastico DeLuxe will allow you and your customers to install all of the below scripts instantly. To use fantastico you or your client will just login to their control panel click fantastico, and
then click one of the 36 scripts to be installed.
Hotlink Protection - Hotlinking is when another site is linking to your images or files. Hotlink protection will stop them from stealing your bandwidth.
IP Deny Manager - IP deny manager allows you to block whoever you want from being able to visit your site.
Custome Error Pages - Allows you to make a custom error page for anyone who visits a not existing page of your site.
Instant Blogs - The below blogs (journals) can be installed with a click of the mouse.
b2 (visit site)
b2evolution (visit site)
Nucleus (visit site)
pMachine Free (visit site)
WordPress (visit site)
Instant Portals - Install the below portals intantly with a click of the mouse.
Customer Support:
Discussion Boards:
E-Commerce:
FAQ:
Image Galleries:
Mailing List:
Project Management:
WIKI
Other Scripts:
Instant PHP Nuke- With a click of the mouse you have the ability to create a php nuke site.
Instant Chatroom - Our chatroom creator will allow you to put a chatroom on your site instantly.
Instant Forums - You are welcome to install any forum you want with us. You will even be able to
install phpbb, Invision, and Yabbse instantly using our control panel.
Instant Guestbook - A guestbook that allows your friends to sign and leave messages.
Instant Counter - Put a hit counter on your site instantly.
Instant Formmail - Formmail is a form that will email you all the info when filled out.
Redirect URL - Lets you redirect pages of your site to any url you want.
Web Based FTP - You can upload your files directly from our control panel.
PW Protected Directories - Password protect a directory and nobody can view its contents without a
password.
PHPMyAdmin - All accounts come with phpMyAdmin preinstalled. PhpMyAdmin allows for easy
management of your databases.
Web/FTP Features
AWStats with Real Time Updates -
1. No more waiting 24 hours for your stats to update. You can update them to be real time!
2. Get the most accurate Unique Visitors and Click Paths information in the industry.
3. See where your traffic is coming from - search engines, banner ads, referrals, email campaigns
and more.
4. Analyze downloads, bandwidth usage, errors, and much more that is only possible with software-
based web analytics.
You can read more about AWStats
here.
Webalizer - Webalizer displays in depth traffic statistics for your site. You can read more on it
here.
Raw Log Access - You will have access to download your sites raw logs.
Referrer Log - The referrer log will tell you what sites your traffic is coming from.
Error Log - The error log will tell you if anyone is getting errors and where.
Analog - Analog is the most popular logfile analyzer in the world. You can read more
here.
E-Commerce Features
Shared SSL - We will provide your site with a self assigned shared SSL. SSL encrypts confidential data
such as credit card numbers and passwords. Either a shared SSL or a private SSL is required when
taking credit cards off your site.
Private SSL - SSL encrypts confidential data such as credit card numbers and passwords. Either a
shared SSL or a private SSL is required when taking credit cards off your site.
our control panel.