Definitions of Terms Used To Describe Our Services
Access Log for Your Site
You can track your Web usage statistics, such as what domains are accessing your Website, how many 'hits' you are getting, how much data is being transferred, where your visitors are coming from, what keywords they are using and more. The popular stats tool WebAlizer is just one of the stats programs included in your account.
Anonymous FTP
Anonymous FTP allows clients to take advantage of the FTP protocol for visitors to their website wanting to download files without a login or password for each visitor. Users can download any files which you have placed in your designated subdirectories of your website. Anonymous FTP users do not have permission to create directories or upload files. All anonymous FTP users are restricted to the area where they login, and cannot move into any other area of your website.
Real Audio/Video Streaming & Multimedia
Hosting 4 Less offers support for the popular Real Audio/Video format. With this format you can stream audio over the Internet. This format allows a website to offer high quality, on-demand audio for Free! Hosting 4 Less also provides support for other sound/video formats including wav, midi, and many others. We have a wide variety of MIME types to support virtually any multimedia format including Macromedia Shockwave & Macromedia Flash.
Email us with any questions you may have about your individual audio/multimedia needs.
Customized Error Pages
Hosting 4 Less offers the ability to generate customized error pages for its client's visitors instead of the default server error messages. This means less lost visitors because you can redirect those visitors back to your home page. Such errors include File Not Found, Internal Server Error, Unauthorized Access, and more.
Customer Service
Hosting 4 Less was founded on the basis of excellent customer service. We strive to provide the most competent and helpful service possible. This includes both tech support, help with CGI scripts, and more. Our service includes 24hr Email Support 7 days a week. Moreover, we provide both ICQ support and AOL Instant Messenger support. Hosting 4 Less offers live phone support from 8:00am - 6:00pm Pacific Time, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays).
Cron Jobs
Hosting 4 Less offers the ability to run cron jobs that allow for automated tasks to run without the need for user intervention. These tasks run at scheduled times and can be used to perform basic operation such as backups, updates to cgi scripts, etc.
Daily Backup
Hosting 4 Less understands that your website is precious and you do not want to lose your data. We backup our server's daily in case of major problems or network failures. With that said, you as the customer are solely responsible for making back-up copies of your website and its content.
Dedicated Static IP#
All of our packages include a Dedicated Static IP# for your website. This means that your website can be accessed not only by your domain name but also via your IP# directly. Moreover, on transferring accounts to us from another provider you can still access your website. It also allows for visitors with older browsers such as Netscape 2.0 or Internet Explorer 2.0 to visit your website. This is not possible with IP-less hosting.
Free Online Backup Account
Hosting 4 Less offers all high volume hosting customers a Free online backup account from Backup 4 Less! This plan includes 5GB of space and allows for easy backing up of your most critical files on your local computer.
Instant Account Activation
Hosting 4 Less understands how eager you are to start using your website. This is why on confirmed credit card orders we can process your account immediately and email you the login information so that you can start uploading your website hours after you sign up not days.
Local CGI-BIN
CGI scripts are often used to accomplish tasks which are not supported by basic HTML, such as a "hit" counter or guest book. You have the ability to run your own CGI Scripts directly from your account!
Macromedia Shockwave/Flash
Macromedia Shockwave/Flash delivers interactive, compelling content and breaks through the monotony of static websites. Hosting 4 Less fully supports Shockwave/Flash content.
Mailing List for Your WebSite
Hosting 4 Less can provide you with your own mailing list for your website that you can administer very easily through your web browser. This mailing list can contain over 10,000+ email addresses. We also support Majordomo!
MX Mail Record Changes
Free MX Record Changes Are Provided! The Mail Exchange (MX) record is part of the zone file and is used to designate which mail server should process email for a specific domain. At Hosting 4 Less we make these changes for you free of charge. This allows you to use a 3rd party email service or host your own email internally!
Microsoft Front Page
Hosting 4 Less is a Registered WPP for Microsoft®FrontPage provider! This means we fully support all the features that Microsoft FrontPage encompasses. These extensions are compatible with FrontPage 97/98/2000/2002. You may request that FrontPage extensions be installed within your Website when placing your order, or you may request it installed at a later date. (Applies to Windows hosting packages only)
Miva Empresa
Miva Empresa, provides a platform for the Miva storefront and custom applications to run on the Web server. The Miva engine can be used to create dynamic websites that integrate scripting, database, and commerce features. A couple of examples would be guest-books, and feedback forms.
Multiple FTP Accounts
This feature allows you grant limited access to your web account under different user names. This could be beneficial for companies who wish to give employees access to update their website or upload documents.
MySQL
MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language in the world. SQL is a standardized language that makes it easy to store, update and access information. For example, you can use SQL to retrieve product information and store customer information for a website. MySQL is also fast and flexible enough to allow you to store logs and pictures in it. The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and easy to use. All plans come with 500MB (more available upon request) of MySQL storage space for your databases.
Online Control Panel
Hosting 4 Less proudly offers a control panel for your website that allows for REAL-TIME updates of your email and FTP accounts. This means when you want to change an email or add an FTP account simply point your browser to our panel and its all done right there in front of you without waiting or having to shuffle emails back and forth. The control panel also contains a sophisticated file manager to edit your view permissions and upload your files directly if you are not familiar with FTP. The control panel also supports testing of Perl scripts & many more features!!
Password Protected Directories
This feature allows you to password protect certain portions of your website from the public. They will be prompted for a username and password when entering sub sections of your website as you protect and unprotect via our online control panel. You can either have one username and password for the sub section or multiple ones that you give out to various members/viewers of your website.
Payment Processing Support
In order to transfer payment from your customer's credit card account to your bank account, you need some kind of online payment processing solution. Hosting 4 Less fully supports the following efficient and widely used payment processing solutions. The Miva Shopping cart has support for over 40 Differnet Payment Gateways.
Perl
Perl, or Practical Extraction Recursive Language, is one of the most popular server-side scripting languages available today. Perl is used in a wide variety of applications, and is commonly used for website applications. We have the latest version of Perl on our servers along with the most commonly requested Perl modules. Perl modules/extensions extend the scripting capabilities of Perl by providing specialized functions with the code. We have hundreds of Perl modules installed on our servers for your use.
PHP 5.3
PHP 5.3 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP 5.3 attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP 5.3 also offers built-in database integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled web page with PHP 5.3 is fairly simple. The most common use of PHP 5.3 coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.
Zend Optimizer
The Zend Optimizer is a free application that runs the files encoded by the Zend Encoder and Zend SafeGuard Suite, while enhancing the running speed of PHP applications. Many scripts require that you have Zend Optimizer installed so you are able to run them on your server while decrypting and running them on the fly while increasing runtime performance.
Python
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language very similar to Perl. Python like perl is another popular server-side scripting language.
Red Hat Ready Hosting Partner
Your website needs web servers that are reliable and provide the most up-to-date development tools. We are proud to be a RedHat Ready Hosting Partner. RedHat is the world's most trusted provider of Linux and open source technology.
SMTP Server
SMTP is what allows for you to send out email through your domain name. Many people want to both receive and send out email via their own SMTP server. Our service allows for you to do this and if you use AOL to access the internet you require this service to have a fully functional email address at your domain name.
Server Side Includes (SSI)
SSI can include information such as the current date, a file's last modification date, and the size or last modification of other files. This can be a very powerful tool for the advanced website developer.
SPAM Filtering On All Plans
We provide SPAM Filtering across our network to help prevent your inbox from receiving SPAM. Some techniques we use include blocking all domain names that do not resolve, and requiring reverse IP lookup. These two features combined with the lookup of blacklisted known SPAM havens reduces your SPAM significantly. If you are getting bombarded with SPAM at your current host you need to switch to a host that filters SPAM for you.
Sub Domains
Hosting 4 Less offers the ability to create subdomains. A subdomain is also known as a "third-level" domain, and is a great way to create memorable web addresses for various areas of your site. For example if your website is www.sports.com, and you created a subdomain for your easier navigation for the different sections of your site. You would create a subdomain for example baseball.sports.com. This would go to a different area of your site. You can create subdomains for co-workers, family members, build separate sub-sites, and ease navigation of your site.
Ultra Fast Unix Web Servers
Hosting 4 Less is committed to outstanding service for our clients. We have multiple high performance Unix servers to insure your page is fetched quickly. We implement UNIX machines running Apache for scalability, reliability and performance.
Ultra High Speed Dedicated Connection
Hosting 4 Less is not a reseller of a larger provider. Our Internet connection is used by us and only us. We do not share space off of someone else's server. We own all our equipment and we currently are connected through Our Own OC-48 Backbone. Bandwidth is not a problem for your website on our network. Come test us out and you will know after one day how fast your site can move!
Unique Domain Name
Hosting 4 Less offers Domain Name Web Hosting accounts. A virtual domain name would be (e.g.: www.yourname.com). We can handle U.S. domain name registration or transfers on your behalf. (i.e.: .com, .net, .org). We currently charge $25 per year for the domain name. You can register the domain name for a 1 - 10 year period.
We can also host any International domain names (ie .co.uk, etc) as well. You can also have additional domain names point to your account.
Unlimited Auto Responders
Email auto-responders automatically reply to all incoming messages to a specific email address with a pre-defined message you have placed in your home directory. You can change the response message on any auto-responder as frequently as you wish. Email auto-responders work on both POP3 email accounts and email forwarders.
Unlimited Email Forwarding
Once your domain name is active worldwide, you can receive all email addressed to your domain such as webmaster@yourname.com, sales@yourname.com, etc. You also have the ability to have different email addresses forward to different email accounts. For example, email addressed to support@yourname.com could forward to an account at AOL, while sales@yourname.com could forward to another ISP account.
Unlimited FTP Access
You will have unlimited access to your account via FTP 24-hours a day to set up and maintain your website. You can work on HTML documents, graphics, and scripts locally, then upload files to your website when ready.
Unlimited Products
Internet Merchants who need a complete Ecommerce system use Miva Merchant to build and manage their online stores. More than just a shopping cart solution, Miva Merchant is a robust storefront development and management tool that fully integrates many powerful features.
POP3 Email Accounts
In addition to email forwarding, you have the option to retrieve your email directly from POP3 mailbox on the mail server using an email program such as Eudora.
Storage Space
Disk storage space refers to the amount of server disk storage specifically allocated to your account. This space is used to store your html files, graphics, POP mail messages, pdf's, and other files that make up your Website.
Monthly Traffic
This is commonly referred to as bandwidth consumption. It includes the transfer of images, text, sound, etc. Therefore, we encourage all of our clients to develop a strong website both in design and popularity.
Web Based Email
This feature allows for you to check your email account while you are away from your computer. This makes it great for those users that travel abroad and do not have access to an email client.
Wireless Application Protocol(WAP)
Hosting 4 Less offers Wireless Application Protocol Ready (WAP) Support for the WAP protocol allowing for your pages to be viewed on Wireless Handheld Devices.
Price Freeze Guarantee
Hosting 4 Less offers on all of its plans and services a "price freeze" guarantee. The price you sign up for is the price you will pay for the given plan as long as you are a customer of ours. If we raise prices later on you will be "grandfathered" in on the old pricing. In addition, we also regularly increase the alloments of storage and bandwidth on the various plans. These increases in allotments will not raise your price.
Free Dial-Up Account
Hosting 4 Less offers on all of its high bandwidth hosting plans a Free Dial-Up Internet Account. This service is provided by our sister company Dialup 4 Less. Dialup 4 Less offers nationwide coverage. Lower your Internet & hosting bills and utilize our Free Internet access by hosting your high volume website with Hosting 4 Less.
