Belowis a description of a typical server setup. If you have a specific server or hardware requirement please get in touch.

Features: scripting and development | email features | Site management

Server Hardware

  • Latest server-grade rackmount servers from Dell or Supermicro.
  • Top of the line Intel Nehalem Processors.
  • 12GB ECC registered DDR memory.
  • Hardware RAID10 redundant mirroring disks.
  • Fully burstable 100Mbit Fast Ethernet connection to the network.
  • APC power management and remote reboot management.
  • Separately managed SpamExperts 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
  • Cpanel Control Panel
  • Each hosting account is run within its own secure chroot jail environment.

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
    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
    You can use the  SMTP server to send email from your hosting account.  SMTP on alternative port 26 for those advanced users who may have ISP’s blocking port 25.
  • Email Forwarding
    Email forwarding simply means you can forward email for user@yoursite.com  to a mailbox elsewhere such as you@hotmail.com or any other 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.
  • 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.

Scripting & Development Features

  • MySQL databases are easily created, managed and deleted from your web hosting control panel.
  • PHP5 is provided
  • Perl 5
    Perl 5 is provided for your site. You 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.  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 CPANEL 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
    FTP /SCP is recommended 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.
  • 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.