| Advanced
Hosting Features |
| Feature |
Description |
| Macromedia
Shockwave & Flash Support |
Macromedia
Shockwave is a form of animation created using Macromedia Director.
With the program you can create complex and interesting animations.
Flash is a similar product that works across the web. Your Macromedia
Shockwave & Flash creations are supported by your new hosting
account. |
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| PHP
with Caching |
PHP
is an advanced server side scripting language that can be embedded
into HTML, eliminating the need for a CGI-Bin directory and
separate executable files. PHP is similar in syntax to JavaScript,
and does not require optional components to perform advanced
tasks, as does ASP. PHP scripts can be placed in any directory
within your domain and can connect to a database. We run the
latest version of PHP and install Zend cache to speed up script
execution and page loads across all servers. |
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| Perl,
Tcl, C++ |
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.
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| Perl
Modules & Installs |
Perl
is arguably the most popular scripting language for the web
and consequently, there are hundreds if not thousands of modules
that have been written to work with it. If you are using scripts
that require specific perl modules not included in the default
perl distribution, we will install it free of charge for you.
Our servers are always updated with the most popular perl modules. |
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| Server
Side Includes |
You
can use server-side include (SSI) directives to include text,
graphics, or application information into a Web page just before
sending content to the browser. SSI can be used to include,
for example, a time/date stamp, a copyright notice, or a form
for a customer to fill out and return. Including a file is an
easy way to incorporate text or graphics that is repeated in
many files. Rather than typing the information into every file,
you use a simple statement that instructs the Web server to
insert the file. |
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| Pre-Installed
CGI Scripts |
Adding
interactivity to your website is easy with your preinstalled
cgi scripts that allow you to add forms, counters and even a
site search engine without any previous programming experience.
Setup is easy through your control panel. |
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| Free
Java Chatroom |
All
accounts come bundled with a Web-Based Java Chatroom. The robust
chat application is written entirely in Java and allows you
to setup an Internet chatroom for your users. The program supports
an unlimited number of users in as many rooms as you wish to
create. Visitors in the room can create chat rooms on the fly,
and a scroll protection feature prevents people from abusive
usage. Private message support and customizable login, logout
messages, and interface customization supported. |
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| MX
Record Changes |
Your
hosting account's MX record specifies how mail addressed to
your domain is to be handled. By default, such mail is handled
by our mail servers and distributed according to your Email
Settings. Some users may wish to have mail handled by a remote
mail server (e.g. Everyone.net). In such instances, the MX record
can be changed such that all mail addressed to your domain is
redirected to the remote server. This service is exclusive and
free to all customers. |
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| WWW
and Non-WWW Access |
A
non-WWW domain name means that your Web site will appear in
Web browsers whether someone types "www.mydomain.com" or "just
"mydomain.com". In other words, users can omit "www" and just
type your domain name and they will get to your site. This often
increases traffic to your site, by giving you a second (and
more simplified) domain name—with no extra InterNIC charges.
Your regular domain name - www.mydomain.com - will not be changed
and still functions normally. |
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| MySQL
Database |
MySQL
is a relational database management system. The same statement
is true of large systems such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
If you are looking to step up from using Microsoft Access files,
but aren't ready for the financial investment of one of the
big two databases, then MySQL offers you a great middle ground.
Many companies and individuals have started using MySQL for
the development of their web projects and then never switched
over to one of the larger databases because MySQL performed
well enough that an upgrade was never needed. In fact, benchmarks
on the MySQL web site show that MySQL outperforms SQL Server
on just about every possible test. |
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| phpMyAdmin |
This
program is used to manage your MySQL database over the web.
It allows you to create and drop databases, create, copy, drop
and alter tables, delete, edit and add fields, execute any SQL-statement,
even batch-queries, manage keys on fields, load text files into
tables, create and read dumps of tables, export data to CSV
values, administer multiple servers and single databases. For
more information, you may visit the phpMyAdmin home page.
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| Sendmail
Support |
Sendmail
is the most common SMTP mail transfer agent on the thousands
of mostly UNIX-based Internet hosts that handle mail routing
and serve as post offices. Millions of e-mail messages are handled
by Sendmail every day.
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| SPAM
Filter System |
The
SPAM filter system allows you to set mail filters to keep mail
with certain characteristics from getting through to your mail
accounts. |
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| "Catch
All" Email |
A
catch-all mailbox is a default mailbox that receives all messages
addressed to nonexistent or discontinued mailboxes. For example,
if a message is sent to infocenter@myname.com instead of info@myname.com,
you would still receive that message. This feature ensures that
no incoming message will be rejected by the mail server for
your domain. If there is only one person responsible for receiving
mail, this feature can also eliminate the need for setting up
different aliases, as this mailbox would automatically receive
mail for any nonexistent mailbox within your domain. |
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| Your
E-mail SMTP Server (mail.yourdomain.com) |
Your
outgoing email server, or SMTP server, is designated as mail.yourdomain.com.
This is compatible with Netscape's built-in email program, as
well as Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and basically any
other mail program. Each virtual server has one outgoing mail
server.
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|
| Mailing
List Manager |
The Mailing List Manager is an easy to use interface to the
Majordomo mailing list program. Through the Mailing List Manager,
you can perform the following functions:
- Create new mailing lists
- Administer existing mailing lists
- Allow people to subscribe and unsubscribe to your mailing
lists
- Send messages to your mailing lists
- Allow other users to send messages to your mailing lists
Note: Mailing lists are restricted to text messages only
for up to 1000 subscribers. |
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| PGP
Encrypted Email |
This
feature allows users to encrypt files and email messages for
privacy and authentication. With PGP, you can prove that you,
and only you, sent a certain mail message, or that only you
can read a certain message. |
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| Customizable
MIME types |
Advanced
users can set MIME Type settings for your domain. Multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Types are a standard for describing
different types of information. Originally meant to specify
encoding for different types of information into text to send
as email. The standard MIME is also used in other types of communication.
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|
| Custom
404 Error Pages |
It's
a known fact that someone is going to run into an error on your
site at one time or another! Why not give them a way back to
your site instead of that boring 404 error page? Using your
advanced control panel system you can do just that. The error
page will be fully configurable and should be setup just like
any other page on your Web Site. |
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| Password
Protected Directories |
Choose
who can view parts of your web site by password protecting your
directories. Any number of directories can be password protected
using .htaccess and .htpasswd files. Directories can be password
protected without hassle within seconds from your control panel. |
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| Access
to Raw Log Files |
You
can download raw logs of your website activity to keep as a
backup or analyze with your favorite off-line statistics program.
Referrer, Agent and Raw Logs are accessible via your control
panel. |
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| Resource
Meter |
The
Resource Meter provides a detailed view of your usage levels.
It shows how much disk space, data transfer, e-mail accounts,
and mailing lists you have used on your shared hosting account.
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| Crontabs/job |
Cron
is the ability to run programs based on the system clock. A
crontab/job is a scheduled task that you want to automatically
run at a scheduled time, e.g. run my backup at 8:30pm everyday.
We allow you to run one cronjob a day. You can easily set them
up via the control panel. |
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| SSH
Telnet Access |
Telnet/SSH
access allows clients to take advantage of easy maintenance
of their sites in a UNIX shell. Clients are able to roam through
their sites, change permissions, move files, delete files, and
debug scripts. Compiling programs is also possible. Telnet access
also allows for manipulation of mySQL databases. All accounts
come with one shell account. SSH, or Secure Shell, is very similar
to Telnet only that the login and password information (authentication)
is encrypted from client to sever, making transmission of data
more secure. |
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| Network
Troubleshooter & Tools |
Through
your Virtual Control Panel, you can use various network tools
to diagnose network problems. If you ever notice delays reaching
your virtual server, you can use this tool simply by selecting
the option from your Control Panel. This provides you with details
on the connection between your local ISP and your virtual server
and can help troubleshoot where the problem may be. |
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| 24/7
Server and Network Monitoring |
All
servers on our network are monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week. Our automatic monitoring software continuously tests
all ports such as e-mail, HTTP, Telnet, DNS, and FTP for failure,
and instantly notifies our techs in the event any problems are
discovered. Our techs are then immediately dispatched to the
troubled server to correct the problem. |
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| UPS
and Generator Backup |
Each
server and piece of hardware in our network is connected to
a battery backup unit to prevent servers from being rebooted
or even damaged in the likely case of a power surge or brown
out. In addition, we have emergency generators standing by that
could carry our network for days in an unlikely case of a long
term power failure. |
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| Daily
tape back-ups |
While
we always strongly recommend our hosting clients to backup their
Web site locally using the self service tools, we archive and
backup your files at our data center "just in case". |
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| Archive
Manager/Self Serve Backup/Restore tools |
Backing
up your entire website including mailboxes and databases is
easy with our instant online backup facility. Unlimited backups
can be taken and stored on the server or your local hard drive
and instantly restored at any time via your Web Control Panel.
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| Web
Server Software |
Apache
is the king of Web servers despite intense efforts by Microsoft
and Netscape to gain dominance in the market. In fact, the latest
Netcraft
surveys indicate that the freeware Apache is widening its lead
over the rest of the field. We choose Apache because of the
rock-solid reliability, outstanding performance, and rich set
of features it provides. Each of our servers runs the latest
stable Apache Web Server build. |
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| Server
Specs (Minimum) |
We
only use Dell and IBM brand servers. Each of our servers are
powerfully equipped with Dual Intel Xeon 3.06Ghz or faster
processors with at least 3GB of RAM and reliable SCSI hard
drives with RAID-1/5 arrays. |
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| Merchant
Processing |
The
Internet is rapidly becoming an online marketplace. If you are
not selling your merchandise online, you are missing out on
huge profits. ImHosted.com has developed systems to help get
your business online. We have recently setup a strategic partnership
with major merchant providers who allow us to offer credit card
merchant accounts to our customers at an extremely low rate,
with no setup fee. All merchant accounts come with a virtual
terminal. |
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The advanced features listed below are great assets to serious developers, programmers and those who demand power. All features listed below are free with an ImHosted.com™ account.
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