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  24/7 FTP Access
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is used for uploading files to your site.

Having FTP 24/7 access 365 days a year allows you to change anything on your website at any time night or day. Your account has it's own individual username and password so nobody else can change your site.

  No Hidden Charges
You've seen the other hosts, you've tried to get something for nothing (hasn't everybody?), and found out that what seemed like the deal of a lifetime, suddenly turns into an expensive package once registration, forwarding and a variety of miscellaneous fees are added.
What we provide is an honest pricing policy, we'll tell you what we we're going to charge you up front and it won't cost you anything else!

You can also upgrade/downgrade your account at any time.

  Free Secure Server
A Secure Server encrypts your webpages for security. This system is used internet-wide by companies that need to take online payments.
To have your own secure server would normally be a costly job. However, we provide a FREE shared secure server, saving you around £100 a year. You can collect sensitive information from your visitors with the same security as all of the other online retailers. Your free 128 bit (very high security) secure server is set up via our easy to use control panel.
Essential if you are selling over the internet.
  PHP
PHP is a Hypertext Preprocessor, a server-side scripting language, allowing scripts to be run on the server before the information is passed on to your audience, giving you truly dyanmic content.
When a visitor opens the page, the server processes the script and passes the results to the visitor's browser.
  CGI-BIN
A CGI-BIN is a folder on your website that can perform tasks. You place a script into the CGI-BIN for the script to work.
Many of our competitors only allow partial or no access to your CGI-BIN.
The advantages of having full, unlimited access to your CGI-BIN is that you can search the internet for free scripts and install them yourself, hassle free.

We also provide the most popular scripts free which are easily installed via your control panel.

 

CGI Scripts
Scripts are more complex pieces code which can be extremely useful.
We have provided the most popular scripts free via our easy to use control panel, such as:

  • Visitor counter
    Shows the number of visitors to your site. This updates every time you receive a new visitor. Place this counter on any webpage you choose, you have full control over where to place our scripts.
  • FormMail
    No need to ask your users to click on your email address and load up their normal email software, FormMail allows your visitor to type their message in user-defined areas (boxes) on the webpage. They then click on send and it is converted into an email and sent to the email address you requested.
    The visitor can then be sent, automatically, to a new webpage saying "thank you for contacting us" etc.
  • GuestBook
    Your visitors can leave a message in your free GuestBook.
  • Message board
    Your visitors can leave messages for you and other visitors. Great for discussion topics.

Via your control panel, you simply click on which script(s) you'd like to use and in realtime they appear on your website.

Unlike some of our competitors, we give you full access to your CGI BIN, a folder on your website that is required to run these types of scripts. With full access to your CGI BIN you can search the internet for free scripts (there are literally 1,000's) and add them hassle free as required

  Shopping Carts
If you're selling from your website, you'll probably need a shopping cart. A professional and reliable shopping cart system can cost anything from £100 to £1500.
Thankfully you wont need to spend anything as we include 2 free shopping cart systems with every account.
Our 2 free shopping cart systems are: Interchange Shopping Cart & Agora Shopping Cart and can be setup and administered via our easy to use control panel
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  Search engine submission tools
No longer do you have to visit the search engines every week to submit your website to them. Via our easy to use control panel, simply enter your website details and click submit and you're done. It's that simple.
  phpMyChat room
Via our easy to use control panel you can install your very own chat room so you're visitors can talk to each other in real time.
   
  Control Panel Features
  Web/POP3
Via our simple yet powerful control panel you can view all your emails and even send emails online.
This useful facility means you can access your email from any computer in the world.
Or should you prefer, you can use the POP3 standard to download your email to almost any email package.
  Hotlink Preventor
The hotlink preventor allows you to stop users "hotlinking" to parts of your site, stop people using images from your site as part of their own site and eating into your bandwidth
  Aliases & Autoresponders
Enjoy email aliases with full control over there actions, i.e., forward mails to sales@domain.com, support@domain.com and news@domain.com to just one account, or if you prefer you can set individual emails to go to other people. For example, you can easily set up your email preferences so that everything goes to you, apart from e.g., bob@domain.com, this can go to another mailbox or even forwarded to another email address.
You can even set up lists with your email address, e.g., a visitor sends an email to info@domain.com, this email is then sent to everyone on your list, e.g., bob@domain.com + joanne@workdomain.com + steve@mymobile.co.uk - and it's all set up with a few clicks in your control panel.

With autoresponders your site can reply instantly to any incoming emails, e.g., if someone sends an email to sales@domain.com, the site can respond no human intervention, with a thank you message, e.g., "thank you for contacting us, we will be in touch within 24 hours" etc.

Different reply messages can be set up for every email alias, e.g., one reply message for emails sent to sales@domain.com and a different one for bob@domain.com.

  File Manager
Your web based file manager, gives you full control and access to all of your files anytime, anywhere.
Just log in to your control panel and change, view, upload or delete a file whenever you need to.
  Password Protected Directories
Password protected directories means that you can place passwords on any areas of your website as you wish. For example, you may wish for anyone to look at your webpages, but only want family and friends to look at other information. This is simple to do via your easy to use control panel and you have full control over the passwords.
Password protected areas can be added, changed or deleted at any time via your control panel.

When a visitor tries to gain access to a password protected area, a box pops up asking for their password. No access will be granted unless this password is correct.

There is no limit on how many areas you can make password protected.

  Raw Access Logs
Via our easy to use control panel you have complete access to your raw access logs from your website.
These can be used in many programs to analyse the traffic to your website.
  Detailed Traffic Statistics
Via your control panel you can access your traffic statistics and see exactly what's happening. You can simply view month by month information, such as number of hits, number of visitors etc, or go into great depth and see who looked at which page on every day since your site was launched.
You can also see how your visitors found you, e.g., a link from another site, a search engines etc, what page they were on when they left your site, what people are typing into search engines to find your site, plus much more. Traffic information is supplied in graph form and numeric form allowing you to analyse your data in any way you prefer.

If you want to increase visitors to your website, then our traffic statistics are essential in showing you what marketing efforts are working well and those that are not

  CRON Jobs
A cron job is an automated process that operates at predefined time intervals.
Unlike many of our competitors, we allow full access to perform cron jobs which are administered via our easy to use control panel
  Custom Error Pages
Have you ever visited a website to find that the page wasn't there, only to be presented with a horrid black and white, windows default 404 error message ? Unfortunately, most visitors will look elsewhere when they see an error message like this.
This is where your easy to use control panel can help. You can create a single webpage, anything you like, then pop the html code into the control panel and whenever someone gets a 404 error message on your website they see your pre-designed error page and not the default error message.

The great benefit of this is that your error page could be your home page, thus taking the visitor back to your site and not forcing them away. An easy yet effective method to retain your visitors. For example, say the page the visitor wants to look at is www.domain.com/my_info.html and they type it in wrong, they will see your home page or whatever you want them to see.

Another brilliant feature of our control panel is our error logs. With these you can see where such 404 errors have occurred, which will allow you to easily find any bad links / code in your website and fix it ASAP.

   
  Optional Extras
  Frontpage Extensions
To upload your webpages using FrontPage, a website needs to have the correct extensions installed, something not all of our competitors offer.
Other supported web site editors: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe GoLive, 1st Page 2000, and just about any other website builder.

Using such website editors makes designing your site very gratifying, and very cost-effective, and don't forget if you run into problems, our design team are only an email away.

  MySQL Databases
MySQL, the most popular Open Source SQL database, is a fast, reliable database management system.
You can use MySQL as the database layer for your dynamically generated web pages. Like most Open Source programs and languages, MySQL has a very practical set of features developed with contribution from many users worldwide. The connectivity, speed, and security make MySQL highly suited for accessing databases on the Internet.

Your MySQL database can be fully managed via our easy to use control panel.

  Subdomains
Having free sub domains is like having free additional websites.
For example, if you had http://www.domain.com you could also have http://members.domain.com - http://email.domain.com etc etc.

A sub domain is just like having a separate website and you control them. Another great thing about sub domains is that search engines consider them to be a separate website. For example, if you had www.domain.com you could also submit sub1.domain.com - sub3.domain.com to the search engines as well, resulting in even more hits to your site.

  Mailing Lists
With an email list, visitors to your website can join / leave your list at any time.
For example, if you have a website about local news, people can join your email list and you can then email them all in one go. The email list is set up and controlled via our control panel which makes administration very easy.
   
   
 
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