Shared Hosting plans come with the following features and a whole lot more besides:
Email Accounts
Create and manage your own email accounts add accounts for your colleagues friends etc. Both POP3 and IMAP are supported.
Web Mail
Check your email from anywhere in the world. You can use webmail instead of your usual desktop application (eg Outlook)
Box Trapper
Create a whitelist so that only people on it can send you email good protection against SPAM.
Forwarders
Setup email forwarders. Have your email delivered to a different address.
Auto Responders
When someone sends you a message the server will send out an automatic reply, good for if you're going out of the office for a few days, you can add details of an alternative contact for example.
Default Email
The default email address or "catch all" is disabled on our servers to prevent huge amounts of spam mail being saved. You must therefore ensure you have specific named email accounts setup on your account.
Mailing Lists
Mailing lists can simplify sending messages to a large group of people, ideal for news letters etc. Use with caution though as large volume email can be suspected as SPAMMING and could result in suspension of your account.
Email Filtering
Create account level filters or for each individual email account.
Spam/Virus Protection
You can use our MailFoundry Anti-Spam hardware as an option to combat spam.
Spam Assassin
Another layer of protection to help combat SPAM.
Backups
You can download a full backup of your website including email config and mySQL databases. You should do this as good housekeeping.
Backup Wizard
This feature allows you to restore parts of your cPanel by uploading your partial backup zip file(s) that you downloaded from the backup feature.
File Manager
Instead of using a FTP client to upload files you can use your File Manager with your web browser.
Web Disk
Easily drag and drop files to your hosting account with Web disk, once configured you can then drag and drop files to it just like they are part of your home computer A very handy feature for those unfamiliar with FTP etc.
Disk Space Usage
You can use the viewer to view all of the files in your site and find out how much space each file takes up.
FTP Accounts
Create FTP accounts to provide secure file access to other users. You can use FTP to upload your site to your hosting space (or the cPanel File Manager) FTP login details are provided in your sign up email.
FTP Sessions
See who is currently logged into your site through FTP, you can also terminate any FTP connections to your site that you feel should not be open.
Latest Visitors
View the recent visitors that have accessed your site.
Bandwidth Usage
Check the current month's bandwidth usage as well as your total bandwidth usage. You should keep a close eye on your useage.
Raw Access Logs
You can use the Raw Access Logs menu to download a zipped version of the server's access log for your site. There are some programs out there which will analyse your raw logs.
Error Log
This displays the last 300 errors for your site. This is useful for determining what links are broken on your site or what files do not exist that should. This is a great way of streamlining your site and getting rid of broken links etc.
Raw Stats
Awstats produces visual statistics (graphs etc) about visitors of your site. Includes such things as their probable location and the browser they used, see our screen shot of an Awstats screen
Directory Protection
You can secure folders against unauthorised access with a username/password. Good for membership based sites or sharing certain information with only trusted people.
IP Deny Manager
You can block a range of IP addresses from accessing your site
Hotlink Protection
Prevents other websites from directly linking to files on your website.
GnuPG Keys
GnuPG is a publicly available encryption scheme that uses the "public key" approach. Messages are encrypted using a "public key" however, they can only be decrypted by a "private key", which is retained by the intended recipient of the message.
mySQL Databases
Create mySQL databases/users.Many applications use mySQL to store information including many of those in your Fantastico suite of software.
phpMyAdmin
Manage the databases that you have created.
Remote mySQL
You can allow external web servers to access your MySQL databases by adding their domain name your access hosts list.
Sub Domains
Create sub-domains off your main domain name, i.e. gallery.yourdomain.com.
Parked Domains
You can "point" or "park" additional domain names to your existing hosting account, all parked domains will show the same website.
Redirects
Make a specific web page redirect to another page and display the contents of that page.
CGI Centre
A collection of CGI scripts pre-installed such as clock, counter and site search.
Perl Modules
Install perl modules for use with perl scripts.
PHP Pear
Install PEAR packages for use with PHP scripts.
Fantastico
Install scripts from a large selection within a few clicks of the mouse.
Apache Handlers
Apache handlers allow you to control what Apache will do with certain file types.
Image Manager
The Image Manager allows you to view and modify gfx in your account. You can change the size of your gfx, convert their file type, or just view them with the Image Manager.
Index Manager
Manage indexing options within your account. Useful for preventing the viewing of a directory structure within your site.
Error Pages
With this tool you can create custom error pages to display when a user enters a wrong URL, an outdated URL or when the user is not authorized to access a specific directory of your web space.
CRON Jobs
Cron jobs allow you to automate certain commands or scripts on your site.
MIME Types
Mime types tell browsers how to handle specific extensions. For example, the text/html mime type equates to .htm, .html, and .shtml extensions on most servers.
