The advanced features listed below are great assets to serious developers, programmers and those who demand power. All features listed below are free with an ImHosted.com™ account.
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Macromedia Shockwave & Flash Support Macromedia Shockwave is a form of animation created using Macromedia Director. With the program you can create complex and interesting animations. Flash is a similar product that works across the web. Your Macromedia Shockwave & Flash creations are supported by your new hosting account.
PHP with Caching PHP is an advanced server side scripting language that can be embedded into HTML, eliminating the need for a CGI-Bin directory and separate executable files. PHP is similar in syntax to JavaScript, and does not require optional components to perform advanced tasks, as does ASP. PHP scripts can be placed in any directory within your domain and can connect to a database. We run the latest version of PHP and install Zend cache to speed up script execution and page loads across all servers.
Perl, Tcl, C++ Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's a derivation from C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed, awk, the Unix shell, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Perl's process, file, and text manipulation facilities make it particularly well-suited for tasks involving quick prototyping, system utilities, software tools, system management tasks, database access, graphical programming, networking, and world wide web programming.
Perl Modules & Installs Perl is arguably the most popular scripting language for the web and consequently, there are hundreds if not thousands of modules that have been written to work with it. If you are using scripts that require specific perl modules not included in the default perl distribution, we will install it free of charge for you. Our servers are always updated with the most popular perl modules.
Server Side Includes You can use server-side include (SSI) directives to include text, graphics, or application information into a Web page just before sending content to the browser. SSI can be used to include, for example, a time/date stamp, a copyright notice, or a form for a customer to fill out and return. Including a file is an easy way to incorporate text or graphics that is repeated in many files. Rather than typing the information into every file, you use a simple statement that instructs the Web server to insert the file.
Pre-Installed CGI Scripts Adding interactivity to your website is easy with your preinstalled cgi scripts that allow you to add forms, counters and even a site search engine without any previous programming experience. Setup is easy through your control panel.
Free Java Chatroom All accounts come bundled with a Web-Based Java Chatroom. The robust chat application is written entirely in Java and allows you to setup an Internet chatroom for your users. The program supports an unlimited number of users in as many rooms as you wish to create. Visitors in the room can create chat rooms on the fly, and a scroll protection feature prevents people from abusive usage. Private message support and customizable login, logout messages, and interface customization supported.
MX Record Changes Your hosting account's MX record specifies how mail addressed to your domain is to be handled. By default, such mail is handled by our mail servers and distributed according to your Email Settings. Some users may wish to have mail handled by a remote mail server (e.g. Everyone.net). In such instances, the MX record can be changed such that all mail addressed to your domain is redirected to the remote server. This service is exclusive and free to all customers.
WWW and Non-WWW Access A non-WWW domain name means that your Web site will appear in Web browsers whether someone types "www.mydomain.com" or "just "mydomain.com". In other words, users can omit "www" and just type your domain name and they will get to your site. This often increases traffic to your site, by giving you a second (and more simplified) domain name—with no extra InterNIC charges. Your regular domain name - www.mydomain.com - will not be changed and still functions normally.
MySQL Database MySQL is a relational database management system. The same statement is true of large systems such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. If you are looking to step up from using Microsoft Access files, but aren't ready for the financial investment of one of the big two databases, then MySQL offers you a great middle ground. Many companies and individuals have started using MySQL for the development of their web projects and then never switched over to one of the larger databases because MySQL performed well enough that an upgrade was never needed. In fact, benchmarks on the MySQL web site show that MySQL outperforms SQL Server on just about every possible test.
phpMyAdmin This program is used to manage your MySQL database over the web. It allows you to create and drop databases, create, copy, drop and alter tables, delete, edit and add fields, execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries, manage keys on fields, load text files into tables, create and read dumps of tables, export data to CSV values, administer multiple servers and single databases. For more information, you may visit the phpMyAdmin home page.
Sendmail Support Sendmail is the most common SMTP mail transfer agent on the thousands of mostly UNIX-based Internet hosts that handle mail routing and serve as post offices. Millions of e-mail messages are handled by Sendmail every day.
SPAM Filter System The SPAM filter system allows you to set mail filters to keep mail with certain characteristics from getting through to your mail accounts.
"Catch All" Email A catch-all mailbox is a default mailbox that receives all messages addressed to nonexistent or discontinued mailboxes. For example, if a message is sent to infocenter@myname.com instead of info@myname.com, you would still receive that message. This feature ensures that no incoming message will be rejected by the mail server for your domain. If there is only one person responsible for receiving mail, this feature can also eliminate the need for setting up different aliases, as this mailbox would automatically receive mail for any nonexistent mailbox within your domain.
Your E-mail SMTP Server (mail.yourdomain.com) Your outgoing email server, or SMTP server, is designated as mail.yourdomain.com. This is compatible with Netscape's built-in email program, as well as Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and basically any other mail program. Each virtual server has one outgoing mail server.
Mailing List Manager The Mailing List Manager is an easy to use interface to the Majordomo mailing list program. Through the Mailing List Manager, you can perform the following functions:
  • Create new mailing lists
  • Administer existing mailing lists
  • Allow people to subscribe and unsubscribe to your mailing lists
  • Send messages to your mailing lists
  • Allow other users to send messages to your mailing lists
Note: Mailing lists are restricted to text messages only for up to 1000 subscribers.
PGP Encrypted Email This feature allows users to encrypt files and email messages for privacy and authentication. With PGP, you can prove that you, and only you, sent a certain mail message, or that only you can read a certain message.
Customizable MIME types Advanced users can set MIME Type settings for your domain. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Types are a standard for describing different types of information. Originally meant to specify encoding for different types of information into text to send as email. The standard MIME is also used in other types of communication.
Custom 404 Error Pages It's a known fact that someone is going to run into an error on your site at one time or another! Why not give them a way back to your site instead of that boring 404 error page? Using your advanced control panel system you can do just that. The error page will be fully configurable and should be setup just like any other page on your Web Site.
Password Protected Directories Choose who can view parts of your web site by password protecting your directories. Any number of directories can be password protected using .htaccess and .htpasswd files. Directories can be password protected without hassle within seconds from your control panel.
Access to Raw Log Files You can download raw logs of your website activity to keep as a backup or analyze with your favorite off-line statistics program. Referrer, Agent and Raw Logs are accessible via your control panel.
Resource Meter The Resource Meter provides a detailed view of your usage levels. It shows how much disk space, data transfer, e-mail accounts, and mailing lists you have used on your shared hosting account.
Crontabs/job Cron is the ability to run programs based on the system clock. A crontab/job is a scheduled task that you want to automatically run at a scheduled time, e.g. run my backup at 8:30pm everyday. We allow you to run one cronjob a day. You can easily set them up via the control panel.
SSH Telnet Access Telnet/SSH access allows clients to take advantage of easy maintenance of their sites in a UNIX shell. Clients are able to roam through their sites, change permissions, move files, delete files, and debug scripts. Telnet access also allows for manipulation of mySQL databases. All accounts come with one shell account. SSH, or Secure Shell, is very similar to Telnet only that the login and password information (authentication) is encrypted from client to sever, making transmission of data more secure.
Network Troubleshooter & Tools Through your Virtual Control Panel, you can use various network tools to diagnose network problems. If you ever notice delays reaching your virtual server, you can use this tool simply by selecting the option from your Control Panel. This provides you with details on the connection between your local ISP and your virtual server and can help troubleshoot where the problem may be.
24/7 Server and Network Monitoring All servers on our network are monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our automatic monitoring software continuously tests all ports such as e-mail, HTTP, Telnet, DNS, and FTP for failure, and instantly notifies our techs in the event any problems are discovered. Our techs are then immediately dispatched to the troubled server to correct the problem.
UPS and Generator Backup Each server and piece of hardware in our network is connected to a battery backup unit to prevent servers from being rebooted or even damaged in the likely case of a power surge or brown out. In addition, we have emergency generators standing by that could carry our network for days in an unlikely case of a long term power failure.
Daily tape back-ups While we always strongly recommend our hosting clients to backup their Web site locally using the self service tools, we archive and backup your files at our data center "just in case".
Archive Manager/Self Serve Backup/Restore tools Backing up your entire website including mailboxes and databases is easy with our instant online backup facility. Unlimited backups can be taken and stored on the server or your local hard drive and instantly restored at any time via your Web Control Panel.
Web Server Software Apache is the king of Web servers despite intense efforts by Microsoft and Netscape to gain dominance in the market. In fact, the latest Netcraft surveys indicate that the freeware Apache is widening its lead over the rest of the field. We choose Apache because of the rock-solid reliability, outstanding performance, and rich set of features it provides. Each of our servers runs the latest stable Apache Web Server build.
Server Specs (Minimum) We only use Dell and IBM brand servers. Each of our servers are powerfully equipped with Dual Intel® Quad-Core XEON processors (8 cpus) with at least 6GB of RAM and reliable enterprise hard drives with RAID-1/5 arrays.
Merchant Processing The Internet is rapidly becoming an online marketplace. If you are not selling your merchandise online, you are missing out on huge profits. ImHosted.com has developed systems to help get your business online. We have recently setup a strategic partnership with major merchant providers who allow us to offer credit card merchant accounts to our customers at an extremely low rate, with no setup fee. All merchant accounts come with a virtual terminal.
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