Silver

General

Diskspace

 10,000MB The amount of space available for website files and images.

Bandwidth

 500GB The quantity of data/information you can transfer per month, each visit to your site will download files/images which will contribute to the amount of transfer used. This can be tracked in your control panel, more can be purchased if required.

Hosted Domains

 1 The number of individual domains you can host on this package, extra hosted domains can be added separately.

Domain Aliases

 20 This is a domain that will mirror your existing website and email accounts.

Domain Registration

 Extra We can register domain names for you. This includes .com, .org, .net, .co.uk, .org.uk and many more.

Plesk

 Included Plesk is the control panel we use on Windows Shared Hosting. Plesk control panel helps you manage your domains, webspace, e-mail and databases.

Subdomains

 20 A subdomain is in the form sub.domain.com, so you may choose to have a separate subdomain for your forum or a subsection of your site.

30 day money back guarantee

 Guaranteed All our packages come with a 30 day money back guarantee. This means, if you are not 100% satisfied in the first 30 days, we will give you all your hosting fees back – no questions asked.

Files

File Manager

 Included The online file manager allows you to modify and create files on your website without using FTP, ideal for quick updates.

FTP

 20 FTP Accounts allow you to quickly and easily upload files to your webspace. You will need to use a FTP client such as FileZilla.

Raw Log Files

 Included The last 30 days logfiles for your site can be downloaded via FTP.

Stats

 Included Advanced website statistics using smarterstats , for a demo please contact us.

Security and Data

Dedicated SSL

 Extra A Dedicated SSL certificate tells users if the server they are connecting to belongs to the website they are trying to view. It also protects the data that is being transmitted using encryption. A dedicated SSL is specific to one domain only and is not shared.

Shared SSL

 Extra Shared SSL is a secure URL used to encrypt data between the client and server, for taking credit card details or other sensitive data.

Password Folders

 Included Password protected folders allow you to add authentication to particular folders in your site, this can be setup and managed from the control panel.

24/7 Monitoring

 Included Using some of the most advanced monitoring software available our servers are checked every 2 minutes for problems, should a problem be found the system will restart the affected component and should further investigation be required the system will alert a technician.

Weekly Backups

 Included We take weekly backups of all sites, and daily backups of MSSQL and MySQL databases, these backups are also mirrored offsite at a completely seperate location for disaster recover purposes.

E-mail

Webmail

 Included We offer a full webmail client for accessing your email from any internet connection, or even on your PDA.

E-mail Forwarders

 20 If you wish to forward an email account to another address. You may wish to forward sales@yourdomain.com to your ISPs email account.

MRA

 Extra Multi Recipient Addresses will forward an email sent to one address to several others that your define.

POP3 email accounts

 20 Each email account can be accessed through your email client, through any web browser and also on your phone.

Auto Responders

 Included This will respond with an email you define to the sender, so if you are on holiday you may set one up to let people know you are away.

Spam Filtering

 Advanced We offer two levels of spam filtering, our basic filtering offers protection from the most basic spam using well known blacklists. We can also offer a more advanced service based on complex filtering and content analysis, please click here for more information.

Virus Scanned E-mail

 Included We scan all email for viruses, these virus signatures are updated several times per day.

MX Backup

 Included With every domain hosted we have an offsite nameserver and backup mailserver ensuring you don’t loose any email should our mail mailserver or network have an issue.

Outgoing SMTP

 Included You can send email using our SMTP servers rather than your ISP’s, we also provide a facility to send on a non standard port if your ISP blocks email sent on port 25.

Database

MySQL 5

 Extra MySQL is the worlds most popular open source database, with powerful features MySQL provides a fast backend for your site.

ODBC DSN

 Included ODBC DSN allows you to connect to Access, MS SQL and mySQL databases.

Access

 Included Support for MS Access 2000 (and above) is included as standard.

Perfect for small, low trafiic websites that require dynamic content.

MS SQL 2008 with online database manager

 1 A 25MB database for your site and the tools to manage it.

MSSQL 2008 online backup tool

 Extra This tool makes it easy for you to administer your own backups of your MS SQL Database.

Scripting

PHP 5

 Included A popular open source scripting language, we provide support for v4 and v5.

Perl 5.8

 Included A popular open source scripting language, we provide support for v5.8 and below.

SSI

 Included Server Side Includes are supported.

ASP

 Included Active Server Pages (ASP) is a server-side scripting environment that you can use to create and run dynamic, interactive Web server applications.

ASP.net v1,2,3.5,4

 Included Microsoft ASP.NET is a server side technology that allows programmers to create dynamic web applications. ASP.NET can be used to create anything from small, personal websites through to large, enterprise-class web applications.

ASPJpeg

 Included AspJpeg is a server side component that will work with ASP or ASP.NET applications for image management. This includes, cropping, resizing and other modifications.

ASPUpload

 Included AspUpload is a server side component that allows your web app to capture files uploaded with an ASP script.

CDONTS

 Included (CDONTS) Collaboration Data Objects for Windows NT Server, is a component included with Windows 2000 server products. It facilitates creating and sending e-mail messages from within web application scripts, typically ASP pages.

MIME

 Included Easily add required MIME types to your site through the control panel.

Virtual Directories

 20 These are separate applications setup on the server for use with asp.NET applications.

Support

E-mail Support

 Included We provide fast support via email and our ticketing system, each request is tracked and recorded to allow easy access to any current or past requests.

Knowledgebase

 Included Our knowledgebase is constantly updated to include tutorials, hints and tips on how to get the most out of your account.

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