Professional Web & Email Hosting: Features
LuxSci provides a comprehensive set of features with its web hosting
services; in fact, all our email hosting services are included in
all web hosting plans. These features are described below. Click on the "more..." links to
read more about the individual features.
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Featured Hosting Services
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Bandwidth & Speed: A multi-homed network with DS3 to OC12 connections through AT&T;, UUnet, Qwest, Time Warner Telecom, and SBC, provides fast, reliable connectivity.
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Backups: Daily on-site and
biweekly archived off-site backups.
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Unlimited web sites and domains. Free web site access statistics.
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FTP, Perl, PHP, MySQL, ...
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Complete Email Services
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Security: Secure web sites over
SSL, secure email services, and
a strict privacy policy.
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Xpress Portal: Alternate WebMail interface that doesn't
use cookies or JavaScript, and that works great with slow connections or on old browsers!
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Web Aides:
Versatile online calendar, task manager, address book,
journal, bulletin board, file storage, notes, password
management, and collaboration software.
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Service Level Guarantee:
Our service level agreement guarantees our service uptime and
robustness.
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General Features
| High Speed Internet |
A multi-homed network
with DS3 to OC12 connections through AT&T;,
Qwest, Sprint, Time Warner, UUNET, and WilTel
provides fast, reliable connectivity.
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| Conditioned Power |
Redundant N+1 UPS power supplies and an on-site diesel
generator can run indefinitely.
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| Technology |
We use: RedHat Enterprise Linux, Apache, MySQL, sendmail, UW IMAP (mbx folders),
Procmail, and PGP. WebMail and Infrastructure software developed by LuxSci.
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Service Level Agreement
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LuxSci guarantees 99.9%+ availability of shared web and email hosting
services. Any failure by LuxSci to provide this
level of availability can be remedied by credits to affected customers'
accounts.
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Daily Data Backups
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Daily and weekly backups. One free restore/month.
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User Disk Quotas |
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Impose optional per-user hard disk quotas to control user disk usage.
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Redundant Disk Subsystems |
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We use redundant disk subsystems (Hot Swappable SCSI RAID 5)
to protect your data
against the possibility of disk failure. In the case of disk hardware
failure, your servers will keep running as usual and we can replace the
affected disks with zero downtime and zero data loss.
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Secure Control Panel |
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Complete account management. 24/7 account upgrades. Delegate administrative
tasks to users on a per-domain basis. Account automation API for secure remote
account management. Much more.
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Web Aides
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Intranet and personal information
management tools enabling you to store and share information within the
universally-accessible LuxSci members' web portal.
Web Aides include: Calendars, Address Books, Tasks, eJournals, Document Managers, Notes, Password Managers,
Link Managers, User Groups, and more.
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Private Labeled Interface
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Customize our portal for your company or group. Various levels of branding
available. We even support use of your own SSL certificates and domain names.
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Web Hosting Features
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Scripting Languages
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Perl 5.6, Hardened PHP 4.X
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FTP Access
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Access your files 24/7 using FTP.
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SSH, SCP, SFTP Access
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SCP and SFTP access available to all accounts.
Secure Shell (SSH) access only available
upon request and management approval; if you think you may need SSH -
ask us.
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Other Standard Web Hosting Features
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- Password-protected directories
- Server-side includes
- SuEXEC
- Custom Error Documents
- Full .htaccess support
- CGI scripts in any directory
- Real cgi-bin directory
- Mirror websites across multiple domain names (d)
- Test web site before changing your DNS. (d)
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| Secure Web-based File Manager
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Secure web-based alternative to FTP.
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| Online Web Site Access Reports
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Reports generated twice daily agents, referrers, keywords, page access, and
many top-N lists.
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| Raw Web Site Access Logs
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Optionally choose to have your web site access logs delivered to your account
twice daily.
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| Raw Web Site Error Logs
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Optionally choose to access to an error log for web sites in your account.
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Secure Web Sites
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Secure web sites using SSL. Requires the purchase of a dedicated IP address
and an SSL certificate.
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MySQL Databases
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Use any number of MySQL v4.X databases with your web sites.
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| Unlimited Web Sites
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You can have any number of web sites on one account. You can also delegate
administrative access to your web sites on a per-user basis.
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Email Hosting Features
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Custom Email Filter Definitions
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Create any number of custom procmail-based email filtering rules using our
web-based interface.
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Import POP Email
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Automatically download email From other accounts to LuxSci via POP. Supports forwarding
downloaded messages through all of your email, anti-Spam, and anti-Virus filters.
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Inbound Email Proxy Servers
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Protection against email bombs, mass mailing viruses, and denial of service attacks.
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Email Auto-Responders
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Web configurable auto-responders support HTML-formatted responses. Configure
multiple responders for different email addresses.
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Email Forwarding
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Users can forward email to up to 5 recipient addresses. Users can also
choose to have copies if the forwarded email delivered locally.
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User Login Auditing and Tracking
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View your and your users' IMAP, POP, SMTP, and WebMail login histories.
Includes IP addresses, if the connections were secure, etc.
Login histories kept for 30 days.
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Email Folder Auto-Deletion
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Optionally configure email folders to auto-delete "old" email based on
message age, number of messages in the folder, or folder size. This keeps
folders "pruned".
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Email Folder Auto-Archival
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Optionally configure email folder contents to be moved to a new date-stamped
folder weekly, monthly, or when the folder exceeds a specified size. Keep
dated archives of all messages without having excessively large folders.
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Archive all Outbound/Inbound Email
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Optionally have copies of all inbound and/or outbound email for a domain
forwarded to an email address of your choice for backup, archival,
or auditing purposes.
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Download Email Folders as ZIP Files
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Download email folders of any size as a compressed ZIP archive. The messages
in this archive are stored in the simple and relatively universal "UNIX" format (though
we don't use this format for your live email storage).
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Compatible With Your Email Client
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LuxSci's email services are compatible with any email programs that support
POP, IMAP, or SMTP. We provide step-by-step setup instructions for many
popular clients such as: Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Mozilla, Netscape,
The Bat!, Mutt, Pine, Entourage, etc; we also provide general instructions
for configuring other email clients.
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Unlimited Domains
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You can include an unlimited number of domains in your account. There is
no charge for additional domains unless we manage their DNS settings.
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POP & Secure POP
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Access your email over POP3 and POP3 over SSL.
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IMAP & Secure IMAP
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Access your email over IMAP and IMAP over SSL.
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SMTP
& Secure SMTP
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LuxSci provides SMTP Relaying so that you can send email
from email programs.
We also provide secure SMTP via STARTTLS and SSL via several
alternate ports, including port 80, to use in case your
ISP or organization is restricting SMTP use.
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Anonymous SMTP
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Remove all information about your sending computer (its IP address) and email
client when sending messages. Available over TLS as well for security.
Available to all clients who subscribe to SMTP services.
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Email Defense: Virus & Spam Filter
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Stop over 98% of Spam; Virus definitions updated every 5 minutes; Incredibly low
false positive rate; Content and attachment
filtering; Quarantined email doesn't use up your disk space.
Includes Symantec Brightmail, Sophos, McAfee, and much more.
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Basic Spam/Virus Filtering
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Less expensive and simpler procmail-based Spam- and Virus-filtering solution.
Web-configurable. Based on SpamAssassin and Clam AntiVirus.
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Email Aliases
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Unlimited web-configurable aliases, catch-all aliases, delete aliases, and
bounce aliases with custom bounce messages. LuxSci also supports "domain
forwarding" catch-all aliases, i.e. *@domain1.com -> *@domain2.com,
to have one domain's addresses forward to the respective addresses at another domain.
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WebMail Features
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Secure over SSL
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We protect your username, password, and data by providing secure connections
to your WebMail.
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Xpress Interface
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Alternate WebMail interface is fast, secure, compatible with more browsers.
No JavaScript, cookies, or graphics required.
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Email Folders
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Hierarchical, searchable, IMAP-compatible. Concurrent user access supported.
Auto-archival, Auto-deletion, and folder downloading also supported.
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IMAP Compatibility
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View all IMAP folders. Also,
optionally enable IMAP-style "delete first then expunge later", or use the
default "delete and expunge at the same time" modes.
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Many Standard WebMail Features
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- Send any number of attachments
- Forward messages as attachments
- Spell checking
- View complete message source
- Save/resume compositions using a Drafts folder
- Request and respond to read receipts
- Set and view importance-level and flags on messages
- View images attached to your messages inline.
- View / download attachments.
- View complete email message headers.
- Sort messages by date, sender, subject, size, and more
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Signatures: Custom Reply-To/From
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Configure any number of signatures with custom signature text, reply-to and
from addresses.
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Address Books
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Extremely featureful personal and shared Address Books. Fully compatible with Outlook, Mozilla, Netscape, and most popular email clients. Advanced import and export wizards supporting CSV files.
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Calendars
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Extremely featureful personal and shared Calendars.
Compatible with Outlook and supporting reminders, recurrence, and more.
Advanced import and export wizards supporting CSV files.
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International Email Support
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Send and receive email in any language or character encoding. Support for
multiple character encodings in on message.
Automatically translate incoming or outgoing email into many different languages.
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Automatic Email Checking
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Have WebMail auto-refresh every 5 minutes to re-check your email. Pop-up mini-windows
alert you of new messages even if your WebMail window is minimized.
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Compose Email Using HTML
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Use your choice of plain text, basic HTML, or advanced HTML editors
when composing email messages in WebMail. HTML editors available to
users of Internet Explorer v5.5+. HTML editors permit easy visual
markup of messages as well as HTML source editing.
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Private Labeled Interface
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Customize our portal for your company or group. Various levels of branding
available. We even support use of your own SSL certificates and domain names.
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Feature or service requires a per-user, per-license, or other fee. |
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Feature requires that the account holder has one or more of his/her own domain names
at LuxSci.
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Client TestimonialFmagazine is all about integrating technology with the best contents and services... we needed a server and a back-end provider that was not only flexible but also in tune with our vision and needs. Luxsci provides just that... precision, reliability and a tailor-made hands-on approach. - Luca Bosurgi, President F magazine.com Ltd.
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