Web Site Hosting Features |
SecureHost.Net's mission is to offer the best value in web hosting services and features available for at affordable prices. The following are all the features SecureHost.Net currently offers as part of its web site hosting services. Some of the features below are only offered in some packages, so please be sure to check all the details! Also, don't forget to take a look at the package add-ons we can offer. Your own domain name You can have your own unique address (www.yourdomainname.com) on the Internet that is yours forever. All of our sites offer this feature, because it is the most important of all. 
Free domain name registration We'll register your new site or transfer your existing one for you and save you the hassle of going through the ongoing INTERNIC process. However, you still have to pay InterNIC the yearly ownership fee of $35.
30 day money-back guarantee We are so confident that you'll love our services that we provide a 30 day, unconditional, money-back guarantee. However, since we have already setup your web site, the setup fee is non-refundable.
Microsoft® Frontpage® Allows you to use FrontPage to create your site and add all web-bots components. All of our web site hosting packages accomodate the FrontPage 2000 extensions.
Space Our packages offer generous amounts of hard-drive space you can use for your web site. To get an idea of how much space you need, you can compare it with our site. Our entire web site is smaller then 1 Mb (including programs, html pages and graphics). You can monitor how much space you are using in your control panel.
Traffic allowance Traffic is the amount of data sent from and to your domain, basically a measure of how popular your site is. This includes web site traffic (http & https), FTP, Real Media (if you are using it) and Email. It is a fact that 99% of our web sites do not exceed 2.5 GB of traffic per month, which is the amount we offer in our PersonalWeb package. You can monitor your traffic from the control panel.
POP3 email POP3 emails are real email addresses (anyname@yourdomainname.com) that are stored on the server in a mailbox. Emails sent to these email addresses can be retrieved via any email application and from any ISP anywhere in the world. POP3s may be added or edited instantly by using your control panel.
Alias email Alias emails are different from POP3 Emails. These are virtual email accounts (anyname@yourdomainname.com) that are actually forwarded to another email account (anyname@anydomainname.com). For example, sales@yourdomainname.com forwards to yourname@yourdomainname.com. Aliases may be added or edited instantly by using your control panel.
Default email In addition to POP3 and Alias email accounts, you can specify that all emails sent to users for which you don't have email accounts set-up for to get sent to a default email account that you specify. The default email may be added or edited instantly by using your control panel.
Web control panel for site administration The control panel is accessed through your browser and is installed on your web site. The control panel enables you to manage your site, files, features and emails, and provides you with tools such as a file manager, a site password protection interface, a script checker and a lot more... In addition, it provides comprehensive help and useful resources to site owners and administrators. It is password-protected for your security.
Autoresponders Autoresponders are automatic email messages that are immediately sent from the server to someone that emails an email account at your domain (anyname@yourdomainname.com). For example, you can set-up an autoresponder for sales@yourdomainname.com so that when someone sends a message to sales, they will automatically receive a message (telling them that, for example, someone will get back to them shortly).
Unlimited FTP (24 hrs./day) FTP is the process of transfering your pages and graphics from your computer (or any computer) to the server. You have the ability to do this at anytime and as many times as you want.
Full custom CGI execution capability CGIs are programs or scripts that add interactivity and enable dynamic capabilities for your site. You can install these anywhere and run them, even in the secure layer. In addition, you can use our web-based file manager (in the control panel) to set permissions on your files and directories.
Access to our CGI script library We currently have multiple scripts (small programs) that you can use at will. Our library currently contains a mailform, a counter and a random image displayer. In addition, we provide you with hundreds of trusted third party scripts (guestbooks, banner rotation, advanced mailforms, chat programs, etc..) that you can also use freely.
Perl 5.04, Python, C, C++, Java™, Javascript, ASP, VBscript, ActiveX™, SSI, PHP 3.0 You can use all of the above computer languages for scripts or programs. SecureHost.Net always supports the latest versions of these languages.
Shockwave, Quicktime, Flash, Vivo, Emblaze All our sites can use the new plug-ins and latest technology for audio, video, virtual reality, 3-D and animation.
Shopping Cart programs Our shopping cart program allows you to set-up shop on the internet and start selling your products and services, all securely. It even takes care of tax and shipping charges if applicable! This program is included free of charge in the ProWeb, BizWeb and MallWeb Unix hosting plans.
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificates SSL allows you to encrypt information such as credit card numbers or other confidential information so that it is impossible to intercept during transmissions. Having your own site's SSL certificate installed on your site greatly increases customer trust when buying from you.
Verisign's CyberCash™ live payment authorization & capture system CyberCash by Verisign™ is a program that allows you to authorize (or deny) credit cards online live and capture payment information for later "batch" processing. In addition, you can also configure CyberCash to immediately charge the credit card as opposed to charging all pending orders at your discretion. We provide a special password protected web interface to manage all your orders and batches right inside your control panel. For your convenience, it integrates fully with our shopping cart program by changing only one setting!
Dynamic content program The dynamic content program allows you to easily create dynamic pages where content comes from a database. You can use this for virtually any application, but common solutions built range from employment listings to publishing on-the-fly product catalogs.
Ad banner rotator program The ad banner rotator program not only randomly selects images and associated links, but also keeps track of impressions/click-throughs for you or your advertisers' use.
Lyris Mailing list program The Lyris mailing list program is used to manage email lists. Using the program, you can collect email adresses (from your site or through email), manage subscriptions, edit users and send off emails to the people on those lists. An interface is provided to you for list management. NOTE: This program can not be used to send off unsolicited junk or spam emails.
Volano Chat program Your access to our Volano chat server can be used to add interactive chat rooms to your web site. This is a very good way to spice up your web site, but can also be a real business solution for sales and support of your products.
Microsoft® SQL Server 7 SecureHost.Net offers the enterprise Microsoft® SQL Server 7 on our high-end NT solutions for people that require state-of-the-art database technology. We have dedicated a powerful quad Pentium 4 NT server for MS SQL in order to provide the fastest queries possible.
Microsoft® Access & FoxPro database support Microsoft Access is the best selling database in the world since it comes bundled in Microsoft Office. Nonetheless, it is powerful and fully compatible with ASP scripting, making it the most popular database tool in the world. This feature is available on all NT packages.
Microsoft® Active Server Pages Active Server Pages (or .ASP) is a scripting language developped to make dynamic web sites easier to build and manage. It is extremely fast and offers a lot of flexibility since scripts can be written in Visual Basic, ActiveX™ or Javascript.
Microsoft® Visual InterDev & Office 2000 support All of our NT sites can enjoy the office suite of applications as well as Visual InterDev, the latest site and database publishing tool from Microsoft.
RealAudio® and RealVideo® You can use the RealMedia™ technology from RealNetworks™ to stream audio and video from your site. Streaming is beneficial for audio and video because it reduces wait times for viewing files.
NetShow Microsoft's NetShow technology is available on our NT web site hosting packages to stream. NetShow is the most promising upcoming multimedia streaming solution and SecureHost.Net is one of the industry pioneers offering it.
mSQL & mySQL databases miniSQL (or mSQL) from Hughes Technologies and mySQL are fast unix databases that supports a simpler version of the standard SQL language. SecureHost.Net offers you your very own databases in which you can create as many tables as you wish. We have also created simple interfaces from which you can administer the database right from your control panel. MySQL is a SQL (Structured Query Language) database server a client-server SQL implementation that consists of a server different client programs/libraries with which you can create new databases, or can integrate existing from programs such as MS-Access, FoxPro and dBase. The database manager is a graphical interface that you can use to manage your tables, records, etc. It allows you to add, edit and delete data simply, without having to resort to scripting.
Excite™ search engine Excite for web servers from Excite Inc. is available on all packages. With Excite, you can give your viewers the ability to keyword search your entire web site, especially useful if you plan to have a big site with lots of information. We provide a web interface to manage the search engine, re-index the site and output search and search results pages, right from your control panel.
Microsoft® Index Server search engine Index Server is an advanced search engine only available on our high-end NT web hosting packages. Index Server allows for an efficient search of your web site since it is fully customizable and can be set not to require constant re-indexing. This feature can also be managed right from your control panel.
Daily statistical hit analysis using graphic MkStats or Analog statistics program for Unix hosting plans. SecureHost.Net provides daily traffic reports of your web site on the UNIX platform and its performance, right from your control panel. This includes traffic, hits, files, hosts, directories, all categorized by hour, day, week, etc...
Daily statistical hit analysis using WebTrends and Urchin SecureHost.Net provides advanced daily traffic analysis using WebTrends and Urchin software for our Unix NT web sites.
Access to raw log files In addition to stats, we provide you with your raw log files so that you may run them through your own hit anaysis software for more advanced reporting. These files may be downloaded through FTP.
Monthly search engine submission Using a custom made program, SecureHost.Net is able to submit your web site to 200 search engine including Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek, Altavista, HotBot and Lycos. The program is updated regularly to match submission policies of the engines.
Daily Tape Backup All our web sites are backed up to tape every night for your safety and security. These files may be retrieved from backup from our staff at your request (useful if, for example, you delete a file accidently).
Full-Time Battery Backup All our servers, including web, dns, ftp and mail are connected to uninterruptable power supplies for the extremely rare case of power outages. If it happens, you site stays up and running! A variety of add-ons are also available to complement our packages.  |