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Bandwidth / Transfer / Hits
You have bandwidth on your hosting package. Any outbound traffic from your web site is considered data transfer. FTP uploads do not count as data transfer. Each time an 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 package.
Number of Domains Per Server
We do not overload our web servers. We bind 1 class C (200) of IP's to each machine. This ensure that your web site loads fast and is always available to your visitors.
United States Web Host Domain Registration
United States Web Host an official domain name registrar (DNR). This gives us the ability to register your new domain name instantly upon receipt of your order.
Instant Setup
Your account will be setup within 60 minutes, usually less, of placing your order online.
Email Accounts
Each of our hosting packages comes with POP3 email accounts in addition to email forwards and autoresponders. 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 Forwards
Using forwarders gives you the ability to receive any email at *@yourdomain.com. Specific email addresses that you want to forward out of your domain to another email account can be accomplished through your control panel. For example you may want to forward all email addressed to sales11@yourdomain.com to an AOL account such as Bob232@aol.com, or another POP3 account on your domain at bob@yourdomain.com. The best part about using forwards is that the person emailing you never knows the mail is being redirected.
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.
24 Hour Support
No busy signals for technical support, sales, billing and customer service. You have access to our technicians for any support you may need with no limits or restrictions.
99.8% Uptime Guarantee
We guarantee that 99.8% 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.yourdomain.com.
Secure Server (SSL)
All hosting accounts are provided with the ability to install a secure server certificate. 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.
Server Side Includes (SSI)
Lets you embed CGI scripts into your web pages. The scripts will execute automatically when the web page is opened.
FrontPage 2000
The Microsoft FrontPage 2000 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.
Real Audio / Video 7.0
We provide 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.
Web Based Control Panel
This is our proprietary web administration system which allows you to perform all aspects of your web site administration. You can add/edit your forwards, setup and manage your autoresponders and add POP 3 email accounts in real-time.
Support for Plugins
Support for Vream (Virtual Reality Authority Software), Voxware, Vivo Active, Midi and IPIX, Sizzler, Fractal, FutureSplash, Infinop's Wavelet Image Compression, VocalTec Internet Phone, TrueSpeech Digital Audio, VRML, Macromedia's Shockwave.
Wireless Application Protocol Ready (WAP)
Allow your clients and potential customers to view your web site on cellular phones, pages and other wireless devices with Internet access.
CGI-Bin
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. The directory is specially designed for scripts that end in *.pl as scripts that end in .cgi will execute from any directory within your web space.
Perl 5.004, C, C++, Java JDK 1.1.7, Python 1.5 & TCL 7.6 Compilers
Various types of scripting languages / shells that are installed on all United States Web Host machines.
MySQL
MySql Database Connectivity.
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. United States Web Host's network is compatible with any FTP client you choose to use.
Server Hardware
Each shared server is Dual Pentium III-1 GHz 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 a custom version of Red Hat Linux with Apache Web Server 1.3.4.
Network Connectivity
A flagship data facility equipped with complete state-of-the-art Cisco systems including redundant Cisco 7513 routers, a Gigabit Ethernet network, and a 24x7 Network Operations Center
AT&T, UUnet, Level3, and Global Crossing Backbones
SONET Ring technology with dual OC-12 and multiple DS-3 fiber optic lines for backbone fail over. Bandwidth capacity kept at twice the peak usage rate. BGP-4 routing protocol provides stable, efficient and intelligent routing.
Uninterruptible power with UPS and backup generator
Customer-dedicated power backed-up by Un-interruptible Power Supply (UPS)
High-capacity Caterpillar generators
Servers-dedicated circuit breaker protection
Scalable customer power
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