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WINDOWS 2000 FEATURE
DETAILS
Account Features
Bandwidth / Transfer / Hits
You have unlimited bandwidth on your shared hosting package. Any
outbound traffic from your web site is considered data transfer. FTP
uploads do not count as data transfer. Each time a html file, graphic
file or any other element on your web page is loaded, data transfer is
generated.
Disk Storage
Disk storage refers to the amount of server disk storage your account is
allocated. This space is used to store your html files, graphics,
audio/video files and all other files that make up your web site. Your
POP3 emails are not stored in this space. You are allotted an extra 10
MB of space for your mail spool. Should you require additional space for
your content you will need to upgrade your account to the next shared
package.
Number of Domains Per Server
We do not overload our web servers. We bind 1 class C (256) of IP's to
each machine. This ensure that your web site loads fast and is always
available to your visitors.
Static IP Address
Every shared hosting account is configured with a static IP address.
This means that you are given a unique set of numbers (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
specifically assigned to your web space. This allows you to access your
web site via a web browser or development tool regardless of the status
of your domain name. Having your own IP address also gives you the
opportunity of publishing your web site to your new web space before
actually transferring your domain name to our DNS. This results in no
down time when transferring your web site from a another hosting
company.
Nameservers
ns.propagation.net and ns2.propagation.net
Email Features
Email Accounts
Each of our shared hosting packages comes with unlimited POP3 email
accounts in addition to email forwards and aliases. You have the option
to retrieve email directly from POP3 mailboxes on the mail server using
an email program such as Eudora, Outlook or Outlook Express.
Email Autoresponders
An autoresponder is a pre-determined message with information you want
automatically sent to anyone who emails a designated email
address/mailbox at your domain.
IMail 7.0x
IMail is the industry leader in Windows-based mail systems allowing for
easy web-based administration of your POP3 accounts. In addition, each
user can change individual passwords, finger plans, and vacation
messages via the Web. This allows you to setup forwarding,
auto-responders, and other important e-mail options at any time.
Mail Lists
You can create multiple mail lists based on your customer's interests.
You provide customers an email address they can send an email to and be
added to your personalized mailing list. As soon as customers sign on
they are sent a friendly welcome message. This is a great way to cost
effectively communicate with your customers through monthly newsletters,
sales updates or just a friendly hello. Each list can hold 1000 names
and a 75kb message can be emailed to all the lists you create.
ASPQMail
AspQMail works just like AspMail except that messages are queued up for
delivery using the AspMail component. A companion Windows 2000 service
is notified when messages are added to the queue and attempts delivery
while your ASP script is freed from the delay of delivering the message.
E-Business
Cybercash
A service that connects a storefront or web site to the CyberCash
payment services, enabling businesses to accept secure, real-time credit
card payments at their web sites.
MS Transaction Server
Microsoft Transaction Server is a component-based transaction processing
system for developing, deploying, and managing high-performing,
scalable, and robust enterprise, Internet, and intranet server
applications.
Secure Server (SSL)
All shared hosting accounts are provided with secure server access. Any
sensitive information such as credit card information that can be
encrypted before transmission through a web browser. SSL will light up
the key in your customer's browser, greatly increasing customer trust
when buying from your site.
Password Protected Pages
Protect directories within your web site so that only approved username
and password combinations gain access.
Server Side Includes (SSI)
Lets you embed CGI scripts into your web pages. The scripts will execute
automatically when the web page is opened.
Databases
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL server is capable of supporting even the most demanding
web applications. Microsoft SQL Server is a robust enterprise-caliber
relational database server that is designed for enterprise databases. It
is similar to and competes with Oracle and Informix.
Microsoft Access / FoxPro
Microsoft Access comes bundled in Microsoft Office enabling you to
connect your database on your PC to update and manage your production
database on our servers. Powerful and fully compatible with ASP
scripting, this feature is available on Windows 2000 virtual servers
only. FoxPro is a popular database that can be deployed on any Windows
2000 server for high-end database functionality.
Database Imports
If you have a database that is in a format not supported by URTechNet our
technical support engineers will assist you in importing your database
into a format we support whether its Access, SQL or another of your
choice.
Miva Merchant
Miva Merchant is a browser based Storefront and Catalog development tool
that integrates cataloging, product maintenance, category management,
shopping basket, order and credit card processing.
Miva Empresa
Enables your server with XML based Miva Script, commerce processing and
database. Miva Script applications running under Miva Empresa execute in
a sandboxed data and runtime environment. Special virtual domain and
shared server features let busy site administrators create per user and
per domain runtime environments.
Data Source Names (DSN)
We setup an ODBC System DSN (data source name) which points to a
Microsoft Access database file within your site. The database file is
placed in a data directory outside of the content directory for security
purposes.
Chat Software
Java Chatroom
Chatroom that you can install on your domain that will let your users
login and converse about topics you set or random topics set by the
users.
Volano Chatroom
A more sophisticated chat room with the ability to have personal,
restricted chat rooms , auditoriums for moderated events, membership
database support, server-side event reporting and chat message logging.
Additional Software
Cold Fusion
Cold Fusion is a sophisticated scripting language for web developers
that want advanced site development and database interfacing. Cold
Fusion supports MS Access, dBASE, FoxPro, and Paradox databases.
Cold Fusion Express 4.5
ColdFusion Express supports more than 25 of the most popular CFML tags
and most of the standard functions.
Real Audio / Video 8.0
We provide full support for RealMedia technology from RealNetworks to
stream audio and video from your web site. Streaming allows your users
to see or hear your multimedia files without having to download them to
their local PCs first.
Windows Media Services
A multimedia application for streaming audio.
FrontPage 2002
The Microsoft FrontPage 2002 web site creation and management tool gives
users everything you need to easily create and manage great web sites.
You are required to own and install the FrontPage 98 or 2000 software
and on your home system.
FrontPage 2002 Subwebs
You are given administrator permissions to your web site allowing you to
create and delete sub-webs on your own. (ie: www.domain.com/company1)
Each sub-web can have its own home page. This is very useful if you
would like to organize your web site into different sections or you
would like to have multiple web sites within your main site. There is no
limit to how many sub-webs you can have as long as you stay within your
designated hosting plan's storage and bandwidth guidelines.
Custom MIME Types
Adds the ability for serving multiple content types such as midi files,
special audio formats and others.
MS Index Server
Microsoft Index Server is a full-text indexing and search engine for
Internet Information Server. It allows any Web browser to search
documents for key words, phrases, or properties.
Drumbeat 2000
Drumbeat 2000(tm) is the fastest, easiest way to build Web interfaces to
databases and applications using Active Server Pages (ASP) - without
manual coding.
Active Server Pages
ASP (Active Server Pages) is enabled on all of our shared Windows 2000
web servers. ASP can be used to create, complex, consumer oriented web
applications such as shopping carts and personnel oriented databases.
This is usually accomplished in conjunction with MS Access and MS SQL
Server.
ASP Components
We install the most commonly used ASP Components from ServerObjects.com
including:
ASPMail
Component
Used on 1000's of web sites around the world, this component
allows you to send SMTP mail directly from a web page with just
a few lines of code!
ASPPop3 Component
AspPop3 allows you to retrieve and delete mail from any standard
POP3 server via a Web page.
ASPHTTP Component
The AspHTTP component allows you to GET/POST/HEAD documents via
the HTTP protocol; Exposes HTTP response headers; Supports
transferring requests to a file (including binary transfers);
Password authentication support and more.
ASPDNS Component
AspDNS can do forward and reverse DNS lookups returning either
the IP address or the host name.
ASPIMAGE Component
AspImage allows you to create or modify images "on the
fly". Create new or modify PNG, JPG, GIF, & BMP images.
PHP
A server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language.
Support for Plugins
Support for Vream (Virtual Reality Authority Software), Voxware, Vivo
Active, Midi and IPIX, Sizzler, Fractal, FutureSplash, Infinop's Wavelet
Image Compression.
Pre-Installed CGI Scripts
We install 4 ready-to-use scripts in every Windows 2000 domain - a
countdown script, a sample order form, a form to mail processor to take
orders and other transactions online and a visitor guestbook. Any other
cgi-script can be installed in our cgi-bin should you so choose.
XML Parser 3.0
In XML you can define an unlimited set of tags. While HTML tags can be
used to display a word in bold or italic, XML provides a framework for
tagging structured data. An XML element can declare its associated data
to be a retail price, a sales tax, a book title, the amount of
precipitation, or any other desired data element. As XML tags are
adopted throughout an organization's intranet, and by others across the
Internet, there will be a corresponding ability to search for and
manipulate data regardless of the applications within which it is found.
Once data has been located, it can be delivered over the wire and
presented in a browser such as Internet Explorer 5 in any number of
ways, or it can be handed off to other applications for further
processing and viewing.
Website Management
FTP
File Transfer Protocol or the method used to "upload" your web
site files to storage space on our network. You have unlimited access to
your domain via FTP 24 hours a day to setup, change and manipulate your
web site. C I Host's network is compatible with any FTP client you
choose to use.
Anonymous FTP
Capability of setting up a public area where anonymous users can upload
and download files from your web server.
Website Monitoring
Daily Backups
We do daily backups of your sites data and your email spool file. In the
event you lose or corrupt any of your data you may request a restore
from our technical support department.
Raw Access Logs
These are the text logs showing every hit to your site and what the user
downloaded, accessed or viewed. For statistical analysis you can
download these to compile on your local machine in programs like
LiveStats or other site analysis programs.
LiveStats Site Statistics
All Windows-based shared hosting accounts come with LiveStats with
Referrer Logs. LiveStats will analyze the log file of a web server and
will create a comprehensive summary report from the information
gathered.
Graphical Referrer Logs
This is an extended logging feature that documents where each visitor to
your site came from. You will know if they found you through a search
engine or a web site link. It will show you the search engines users
queried and what keywords or sentences they typed in to find your web
site. This is invaluable information when trying to determine if
marketing campaigns are paying off.
Site List With 2500 Search Engines
We automatically list your site with the top 2500 search engines by your
sites keywords, title and meta tags.
Advanced Features
CGI-Bin / Perl
Directory setup with special permissions to auto-execute user-defined
scripts. CGI is used to accomplish tasks which are not supported by
basic HTML such as a hit counter or guest book. You may use this
directory to execute any cgi-script you write or ones that are already
pre-written for you. Perl for Win32 is ActiveState's port of most of the
functionality found in Perl, with the addition of extra Win32 API
specific calls that allow you to take advantage of Windows specific
functionality.
Java Servlets
Small, platform independent server-side programs that programmatically
extend the functionality of the web server.
Technical Support
MonsterChat
Lets you chat in real-time with our support technicians. This exclusive
software is available to every C I Host client 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week.
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
If for any reason you are not completely satisfied with C I Host's
services we will gladly refund all monthly fees you have paid if you
cancel within the first 30 days of signup.
Detailed Online Billing
View your past and current invoices, payments, account history and
services online 24 hours a day.
24 Hour Toll Free Support
No busy signals, no long distance calls for technical support, sales,
billing and customer service. You have 24 hour access to our technicians
for any support you may need with no limits or restrictions.
99.9% Uptime Guarantee
We guarantee that 99.9% of the time that your web site will be
accessible via IP address to the world. The IP address is the numerical
value equivalent to www.youractualdomain.com. If your web site is not
online 99.9% of the time we will refund the percentage of your monthly
hosting fees equal to the downtime.
Hardware and Network
Server Hardware
Each shared server is Dual Pentium III-850 MHz or faster with 512 MB +
of RAM. Our servers are custom built to our needs and spare parts are
kept in inventory in case of hardware failure. We keep 10 pre-built
machines in inventory at all times ensuring that if the entire server
fails we can swap the hard disk into another server and have it back
online within 5-10 minutes.
Server Operating System
Each of our shared servers runs NT 4.0 with IIS 4.0 or Windows 2000 with
IIS 5.0.
Network Connectivity
Your web site will be hosted within our primary data center - CDC-01 in
Bedford, Texas. This site is fully redundant from the power,
air-conditioning and fiber connectivity. CDC-01 has 5 T3 connections to
the Internet, each capable of handing 45Mbits of traffic. It also has 10
backup T1 connections used in case of emergency fiber cuts.
Uninterruptible power with UPS and backup generator
Every server is connected to a 3000W Compaq UPS device and our data
center power is backed by a 245,000W Diesel-powered generator ensuring
that even during the longest power outages your web server remains
online.
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