| Setup Fees |
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| This fee covers the technical resources necessary to correctly provision your web hosting account. Our automated system allows us to offer FREE setup by automating various aspect of account creation. |
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| Montly Transfer |
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| This is the total amount of data (including graphics and HTML web pages) which can be uploaded and downloaded from your site each month. For example, on an average size website with a moderate amount of graphics, it has been our experience that 750 megs of transfer can accommodate well over 4,000 visitors per month. Some web hosts claim to offer "unlimited bandwidth" which is generally a bad thing. Not only are they likely to pack your site on an overloaded server and connection (bandwidth costs us money). In contrast, we monitor bandwidth and insure your site is always fast and reliable with no hidden charges. |
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| Disk Space |
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| This is the space you have to store your site. Every website is stored on a webserver which is the computer that broadcasts your site to your visitors. Your hard disk storage is how much space you are allocated on that computer's hard drive. |
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| Web-based Control Panel |
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| An administration utility accessed via any Web browser for instant control and complete management of your Web site. Allows the easy setup of mailboxes, aliases, password protection, statistical reporting, FTP through your Web browser to your account, and much more! |
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| Daily Backups |
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| Comprehensive backups of your data. In the event of permanent data loss, a restoration may occur that will recover your lost files. |
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| Website Statistics |
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| Statistics will show you who visits your website, where in the world they come from, who is sending them to your site, and what pages are being viewed. Statistics provides you with the site usage reports you need to effectively manage your website and ensure smooth-sailing for your visitors. Know the peak hours and peak days for your website, detect bottlenecks, dead-ends and design errors. |
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| Password Protected Pages |
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| Protect your Web pages with groups of password and user ID combinations. |
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| Crontabs |
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| A crontab enables you to run php, cgi, etc scripts at specific dates and times. For example you could run a script at midnight every day of the month. |
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| FTP Accounts |
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| File Transfer Protocol; method used to upload our web site files to your shared server. You have unlimited access to your shared server via FTP 24-hours a day to set up and maintain your web site. You can work on HTML documents, graphics, and scripts locally, then upload files to your web site when ready. |
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| Custom 404 Pages |
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| 404 error pages are a very important feature, they allow you to customize the messages that appear in the event of errors on your website such as File Not Found. You can create custom error pages to make your site appear much more professional and much more friendly, they can have the exact look and feel of your website, ask the user to notify you of the error, and give the user other options for finding what they are looking for, instead of losing them altogether. |
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| Access to Raw Logs |
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| For statistical analysis, you may download for compiling on your local machine. |
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| 30 Day Guarantee |
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| 4d Web Hosting offers a full 30 day money back guarantee. This entitles you to get your money back if you are not happy with our product or service within the first 30 days. |
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| Domain Hosting |
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| Domain hosting simply means you can use a domain name instead of having unprofessional looking web site names (eg. http://www.host.com/~mycompany, or http://www.singnet.com.sg/~mycompany), you can have web site which your visitors can truly identify you from the rest. |
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| Domain Pointers |
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| Domain name pointers resolve to your shared server just like your original domain name. The greatest benefit is you can point it to any directory in your website giving the effect of having two websites while only paying for one. (please note that domain pointers do not work with email.) |
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| Sub Domains |
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| A subdomain is a domain specified under another domain name. For example, in news.bbc.co.uk, 'news' is a subdomain of 'bbc.co.uk'. Subdomains are controlled in the members area and can be configured to forward to anywhere that you want it to within your webspace. |
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| POP3 E-Mails |
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| These are email accounts which can be used with your domain name. They allow you to receive and read email via our easy web interface or with a number of popular mail clients. |
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| E-Mail Forwarding |
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| When you sign up for your hosting plan, you'll receive a domain email account (you@yourname.com). Mail forwarding gives you the ability to forward different email accounts (you@yourname.com) to specific addresses on the Internet. For example, email addressed to webmaster@yourname.com could forward to your "real" email address (provided by your ISP), while sales@yourname.com could forward to a different email address. |
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| E-Mail Auto Reply |
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| The auto reply tool allows users to set up an automated email reply notifying senders of his/her absence or simply to notify then that the email has arrived. |
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| Web-based Email |
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| A method used to access e-mail messages through a web browser using HTTP. You can conveniently access your emails from any browser around the world! |
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| SMTP Relay Server |
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| (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) The main protocol used to send electronic mail on the Internet. Most Internet email is sent and received using SMTP. |
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| Virus Protection |
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| We offer virus protection on all servers which will detect and destroy viruses without you having to lift a finger. Your systems are save with us! |
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| Flash / Shockwave |
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| Flash and Shockwave are web formats for displaying animations, interactive content and games. To view an website made with Flash and Shockwave the plugin must be downloaded. |
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| RealMedia Files |
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| We provide full support for RealMedia™ technology from RealNetworks™ to stream audio and video from your site. Streaming is beneficial for audio and video because it reduces wait times for viewing files. |
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| FrontPage Ext. 2000/2002 |
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| Microsoft FrontPage is an extremely popular web development tool. You can create your site and upload it to our servers using this extremely powerful product. Our servers support FrontPage "bots" which are easy-to-add bells and whistles for your website like counters, order forms, and more. Versions supported by 4d Web Hosting are 2000, 2002 and 2003. |
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| PHP |
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| PHP is an open-source, server-side HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic web pages. A dynamic web page is a page that interacts with the user, so that each user visiting the page sees customized information. PHP is freely available as an alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology. As with ASP, the PHP script is embedded within a Web page along with its HTML. Before the page resolves, the Web server calls PHP to interpret and perform the operations called for in the PHP script. An HTML page with PHP script is typically given a file name suffix of ".php," ".php4," or ".phtml." |
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| MySQL databases |
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| High-end performance database application for UNIX servers, for large and complicated back-end integration of database files. |
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| Custom CGI-Bin |
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| CGI (common gateway interface) allows you to run scripts and programs on our server to enhance your web pages. Most of these scripts are written in a language called Perl, although C and C++ are also used frequently. Unlike with HTML, CGI's are executed on the server. You can use CGI to add advanced forms, shopping carts, counters, and many other features to your website. The CGI-BIN is a special directory which allows scripts and programs to be executed on the server. |
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| Perl |
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| Perl is an acronym for "Practical Extraction and Report Language". It is an interpreted language (not compiled, like Java) which is ideally suited for CGI programming. It offers several features like regular expressions and file manipulation which make it extremely powerful. It is an effective way to create applications that provide much of the web's interactivity. |
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| Server Side Includes |
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| Commands that can be included in web pages that are processed by the web server when a user requests a file. A common use for SSI commands is to insert a universal menu into all of the pages of the web site so that the menu only has to be changed once and inserted with SSI instead of changing the menu on every page. |
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| Python, C, C++ |
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| Python, C and C++ are server side languages that allow you to build robust applications within your web site. These languages are like CGI and PHP which give you the ability to develop dynamic content. |
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| SSL Enabled |
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| SSL is a turns a normal http request into a encrypted session that prevents any data to be intercepted. SSL enabled sites usually have sensitive data like personal or financial information that needs to be kept safe. |
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