This page describes our default server setup. If you have a specific software or hardware requirements please get in touch to discuss a custom package.
Features: scripting and development |
email features |
Site management
Typical Server Hardware
- Latest server-grade rackmount servers from Dell or Supermicro.
- Intel Xeon Woodcrest or AMD Opteron Dual-Core Processors.
- Dual Opteron Servers.
- Minimum of 4GB ECC registered DDR memory.
- Hardware RAID redundant disk controller cards from 3ware.
- Western Digital Raid Edition SATA hot-swappable harddisks.
- Fully burstable 100Mbit Fast Ethernet connection to our network.
- APC power management and remote reboot management.
- Separately managed MailFoundry dedicated spam filtering servers.
Server Software
- CentOS 4 Enterprise Linux Operating System.
- LAMP Environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
- Apache 2 web servers
- MySQL 5.x
- Latest PHP version 5.2.x
- Zend Optimizer 3.2.x
- Pear 1.3.x
- Perl 5.8.x
- Parallels Pro Control Panel (Formerly Ensim Pro)
- Each hosting account is run within its own secure chroot jail environment.
Please see hosting for package details.
Email Features
- Web Based Email Access
Squirrelmail software is already installed to your web hosting. This provides simple, fast access to your email via regular web browser. Perfect if you dont like email software such as Outlook, or if you are away from your own PC.
- POP3 & IMAP Access
Our service fully supports POP3 and IMAP access to your mailboxes. This allows you to choose any popular email program to access your email such as MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and Eudora.
- SMTP Access
We allow you to use our SMTP server to send email from your hosting account with us. We also provide SMTP on alternative port 26 for those advanced users who may have ISP's blocking port 25.
- MailFoundry Spam & Virus Filter
We provide premium MailFoundry spam filtering for your email as standard. This industry-leading spam filtering removes 99% of all spam and viruses from your emails. You wont find better filtering!
- Email Aliases
Email aliases are similar to email forwarders, and allow you to setup email addresses @yoursite.com which will forward to mailboxes elsewhere, such as to your @hotmail, or to multiple other email recipients.
- Email Forwarding
Email forwarding simply means you can forward email for user@yoursite.com hosted with us to a mailbox elsewhere such as you@hotmail.com or any other email address.
- Auto Responders
Auto responders can be setup from your control panel and allow you to setup a pre-written reply which will be sent instantly to anyone emailing a set email address.
- Vacation / Out of Office Reply
When you leave your email for long periods of time you can enable vacation responders, to let people know you are away from your email and that you will reply as soon as possible.
- Mailing Lists
We pre-install "Majordomo" mailing list software to your hosting account, allowing you to easily maintain a mailing list. You can also install most other popular mailing list software.
- Procmail
Procmail can be used by more advanced users to manipulate, sort, and filter incoming email based on rules that you create within a text based procmail file.
- MailFoundry Anti Spam & Virus Email Filtering
We use dedicated spam filtering servers, with definitions updated by human spam editors every 5 minutes to ensure spam and virus email never makes it to your inbox.
MailFoundry spam filtering is included as standard with all web hosting accounts.
Scripting & Development Features
- MySQL Databases
MySQL databases are easily created, managed and deleted from your web hosting control panel.
- PHP5
We provide the latest PHP5. We run your own secure install of PHP, meaning you have full access to php.ini to make any necessary changes. Our PHP installation is far more secure than other traditional shared hosting.
- Perl 5
Perl 5 is provided for your site. We run your own secure install of Perl and a massive amount of modules. Additional perl modules can be installed for you upon request.
- CGI
CGI is provided for your site, with its own cgi-bin for running your scripts securely. We also provide a large amount of modules. Additional perl modules can be installed for you upon request.
- SSI
Server Side Includes (SSI) are fully supported and allow you to place includes in your web page templates, which are processed by the server when someone views your website.
- Pear
Pear is compiled with PHP for your site and allows you to use a whole library of pre-written Pear modules and tools for your website development.
- Apache mod_rewrite
Mod_rewrite is pre-installed to your webspace allowing you to "rewrite" URL's on-the-fly. Mod_rewrite is handy for moving and manipulating web pages for tasks such as Search Engine Optimisation.
- .htaccess
.htaccess is supported with your webspace. You can use it for many tasks including custom error documents, blocking users and IP's, redirects, MIME Types, preventing hotlinking and much more.
- MIME Types
MIME types are used to identify the type of information that a file on your hosting contains. Standard MIME Types include .html, .php and .pl but you can add custom MIME Types as required.
- Custom Error Pages
You can create custom Error pages to replace the default ones with, allowing you to remove the Ugly 404 Page Not Found messages and all other standard error pages.
Site Management Features
- Web Hosting Control Panel
The "Parallels Pro" control panel allows you to manage all aspects of your hosting account. From adding email accounts to managing your MySQL databases, you can do it all quickly and easily.
- FTP and SSH Access
You are provided full FTP and SSH access to your webspace. FTP allows for fast and easy file transfer and management. SSH allows you direct command line access to your webspace via shell.
- Web based File Manager
We recommend FTP for uploading your website files. However, when FTP is not practical you can use the web based file manager provided to upload and/or manage your website files directly from a regular web browser.
- Sub Domains
Sub domains allow you to setup separate sub sites within your main website, for example you can create http://blog.yoursite.com to start a blog separate to your main website.
- Park Additional Domain Names
You can park as many extra domains on top of your main website as you need. Handy if you wish to have website.com, website.co.uk, website.net etc etc all pointed to your main website!
- PHPMyAdmin MySQL Management
PHPMyAdmin is a popular, powerful web-based interface for administering MySQL databases. You can login and manage your databases from an easy to use control panel in your regular web browser.
- Scheduled Tasks / Cronjobs
You may have a script or task on your website or application that needs to run at a certain time each day or week. We allow you to use Cronjobs to accomplish this.
- Password Protection Tool
Your control panel allows you to password protect directories on your website. You can then manage users, passwords and groups who are allowed access to these protected areas.
