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Advanced Plan

The Advanced Plan offers the most any website could need including full e-commerce facilities and powerful databases making it the ideal choice for any data intensive site. We also include a wealth of free software to help make your website interactive

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Overview
Disk Space Tell me more 2000Mb (2Gb)
Data Transfer (per month) Tell me more 100Gb
Monthly Cost £12
(with Website Builder) £16
Quarterly Cost £30
(with Website Builder) £40
Yearly Cost £100
(with Website Builder) £125
Free Fast Setup
Free Online Advertising Tell me more
Support
UK Based Telephone Support Tell me more
Remote Control Support Tell me more
Live Online Support Tell me more
E-mail Support Tell me more
Searchable Knowledgebase Tell me more
Tutorial Videos Tell me more
Downloadable Documentation Tell me more
Domain names
Domain Name
Registration or Transfer Tell me more
Unlimited Subdomains Tell me more
Unlimited Parked Domains Tell me more
E-mail facilities
Mailboxes Tell me more Unlimited POP3 or IMAP Mailboxes
Autoresponders Tell me more Unlimited
Forwarders Tell me more Unlimited
Mailing Lists Tell me more Unlimited
Spam Protection Tell me more SpamAssassin
Webmail Tell me more Choice of three webmail programs
(Horde, SquirrelMail and RoundCube)
Other Features Unlimited E-mail Addresses Tell me more
SMTP Outgoing Mail Server Tell me more
IMAP Tell me more
Modify MX Records Tell me more
E-mail Filtering Tell me more
Antivirus Protection Tell me more
Free Software
EntropyChat Chatroom Tell me more
Melange Chat System Tell me more
phpMyChat Tell me more
phpBB Tell me more
Invision Power Board Tell me more
Advanced Guestbook Tell me more
PHP-Nuke Tell me more
PhpWiki Tell me more
Mambo Tell me more
XOOPS Tell me more
PostNuke Tell me more
e107 Tell me more
Coppermine Photo GalleryTell me more
osCommerce Shopping Cart Tell me more
Agora Shopping Cart Tell me more
Management Options
Web Based Control Panel Tell me more
Microsoft FrontPage
Server Extensions Tell me more
Website Statistics Graphical Website Statistics Tell me more
Raw Website Statistics Tell me more
FTP Access Statistics Tell me more
Latest Visitors Tell me more
Disk Usage Tell me more
Bandwidth Usage Tell me more
Error Log Tell me more
Server Backups Tell me more
Personal Backups Tell me more
Password Protected Directories Tell me more
FTP Access Unlimited Access Tell me more
Unlimited Accounts Tell me more
Anonymous FTP Tell me more
Customised Error Pages Tell me more
Page Redirects Tell me more Temporary/Permanent
Online File Manager Tell me more
Advanced features
Server-side Scripting CGI (Perl, C & Python) Tell me more
PHP 4.4.8 & Zend Optimizer Tell me more
XML Tell me more
Free Perl Module Installs Tell me more
Databases mySQL Database Server Tell me more
postgreSQL Database Server Tell me more
WAP/WML Tell me more
Server Side Includes Tell me more
128 Bit SSL Secure Server (https://) Tell me more
Server Side PGP Encryption Tell me more
Cron Jobs Tell me more Basic/Advanced Configuration
User Defined Mime Types Tell me more
User Defined Apache Handlers Tell me more
HotLink Protection Tell me more
Index Management Tell me more
IP Deny Managment Tell me more
SSL Management Tell me more
Online Network Tools Tell me more
CGI Scripts Tell me more CGI Wrapper
Random HTML
Simple/Advanced Guestbooks
Counter
Clock
Countdown
CGI Email/FormMail Clone
Entropy Search
Entropy Banner

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A comprehensive description of each feature included with the Advanced Plan can be found below. You may also wish to see our other hosting plans. If you have any queries or need advice deciding which option best suits your requirements, please do not hesitate to contact us.

2000Mb (2Gb) UNIX Disk Space
2000 megabytes of disk space on our Internet servers in which to place your website files and store your e-mails. This is usually more than sufficient to store thousands of web pages with graphical content and e-mail for 500+ people.

100Gb Monthly Data Transfer
Each time your site is accessed data is transferred across the Internet. Our transfer limits are high and less than 1% of our customers exceed them. 100Gb is enough to serve many thousands of visitors to your website each day! Data transfer can be monitored in real-time via your control panel.

Website Builder
Our acclaimed website builder software lets you choose a look and feel for your site and then by filling in the online forms you're done! You can then make as many changes to your site as you wish without getting overwhelmed with the technology. You manage everything through your web browser so there's no software to install on your computer.

Free Online Advertising
We've teamed up with Mirago, the UK’s largest independent search engine and provider of online advertising products to offer our customers £25 free Pay-Per-Click advertising. Find out more.

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UK Based Telephone Support
We're here when you need us. If you can't find the answer to your problem in our comprehensive support area, give us a call on 0870 286 2000 and talk to one of our highly trained and experienced technical support staff. We always talk in a language you understand and at a level suitable for your experience.

Remote Control Support
How often do you get frustrated when people are trying to help you over the phone or online? Well, you need be frustrated no longer! Our technicians can connect to your computer safely and securely to show you exactly what you need to see in order to fix your problem.

Live Online Support
No matter where you are in the world, you can get live online support from our technical staff using a variety of online chat tools You can click the 'LIVE SUPPORT' link at the top of each of our pages or use your favourite instant messenger.

E-mail Support
For your less urgent enquiries and for your convenience, you can e-mail our support staff 24 hours a day using our support ticketing system. Your message is always answered promptly, thoroughly and most importantly, politely.

Searchable Knowledgebase
Before getting in touch direcly with our support department, you might want to look and see if your question has already been answered in our online knowledgebase. Organised into categories and constantly updated, our knowledgebase is a fountain of information.

Tutorial Videos
Sometimes you just need things explained simply and clearly and that's exactly what our tutorial videos do covering topics such as how to setup your favourite e-mail program and how to upload your web pages.

Downloadable Documentation
We provide full and complete documentation for all our products including the cPanel control panel, WHM reseller control panel and our popular Website Builder tool. Documentation is available in a variety of formats to view online or offline.

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Domain Name Registration Or Transfer
We are an authorised registrar of the major gTLDs (.com, .org, .net), the new generic domains (.biz and .info) and the UK (.co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk) domain names. If you do not currently have a domain name, we can register a name of your choice. Alternatively, you can transfer an existing domain name on to your account.

Unlimited Subdomains
Subdomains are a way of creating separate accounts within your master account, which are accessed as separate URLs. For example, you could set up a "timber" subdomain on your master account "hardware.com", which would be accessed as "timber.hardware.com".

Unlimited Parked Domains
You can 'park' or 'point' any number of domain names at your hosting account. This is useful when you want to have more than one domain name showing the same website. Eg. "hardware.com" and "hardware.co.uk".

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Unlimited POP3 Mailboxes
A POP3 mailbox is a password protected area where mail is stored until you are ready to read it using a mail client such as Microsoft Outlook. You can create a mailbox for each person or department in your organisation.

Unlimited Autoresponders
Autoresponders reply to incoming e-mail instantly and automatically. You can set and change the text of the reply and the trigger address whenever you like. Autoresponders are ideal for customer service or informing people when you are away.

Unlimited Forwarders
You can automatically have your e-mail forwarded to another onsite or offsite e-mail address. You can also use this option to discard unsafe e-mail.

Unlimited Mailing Lists
A mailing list enables a single e-mail message to be delivered to multiple recipients. Mailing Lists are ideal for distributing staff bulletins and memos or sales information to your customer base.

SPAM Protection
Unsolicited commercial e-mail (commonly referred to as SPAM) is the Internet equivalent of junk mail. You can set your hosting account to consult with a world wide database of known spammers to refuse e-mail sent from them. This reduces the amount of junk mail in your inbox increasing your productivity.

Web Based E-mail Access (webmail)
You can read, reply and compose your e-mail from any computer anywhere in the world through a web browser. We offer three industry-leading webmail applications for you to choose from; Horde, SquirrelMail and RoundCube.

Unlimited E-mail Addresses
You can configure as many e-mail addresses at your domain name(s) as required. Mail to any address can be sent either to a POP3 mailbox on our server or forwarded to an existing e-mail address elsewhere. Mail sent to an address for which you have not configured a specific destination can be sent to a default location.

SMTP Outgoing Mail Server
You have access to your own SMTP mail server using mail.yourdomain.com. This means you will be able to send e-mail without having to dial-up to a particular ISP and from any location anywhere in the world.

IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is another method for collecting and reading your e-mail.

Modify MX Records
Mail Exchanger (MX records) control where your e-mail is delivered to. By default, this is set to your hosting server so you can download your e-mail from our server but you can change this if you want to have your mail sent to another server.

E-mail Filtering
You can have the server automatically filter your incoming e-mail. This could be useful for discarding unwanted messages.

Antivirus Protection
Computer viruses distributed through the e-mail system can cause untold harm to users unfortunate enough to receive them. Our mail servers scan your e-mails for known viruses alerting you to the danger before damage is done.

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EntropyChat Chatroom
A basic chatroom program that can be setup on your website in a matter of minutes.

Melange Chat System Java Chatroom
A Java-based chatroom that needs no installation. Simply type in the URL and start chatting!

phpMyChat
One of the best online chat tools available, phpMyChat allows multiple chatrooms, account management, private/public rooms and language selection.

phpBB
phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ and is the ideal community solution for all websites. You can view on online demo at the phpBB website.

Invision Power Board
Invision Power Board is an award-winning scaleable bulletin board system, allowing you to effortlessly build, manage and promote your online community. Advanced yet intuitive features like multi-moderation allow you to focus on developing your community, rather than wrestling with complex settings. You can try an online demo at the Invision Power Board website.

Advanced Guestbook
A PHP guestbook with many advanced features yet still simple to use.

PHP-Nuke
PHP-Nuke is a news automated system specially designed to be used in Intranets and Internet. The Administrator has total control of his website, registered users, and he will have in the hand a powerful assembly of tools to maintain an active and 100% interactive web site using databases.

phpWiki
A WikiWikiWeb is a website where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form providing a very unique way to collaborate on the Web. The addictive quality of a Wiki is that making pages is as simple as making a link to them. With this setup, you can update and create pages from anywhere there is a web browser handy.

Mambo
First and foremost, Mambo is a Content Management System (CMS). It is the engine behind your website that simplifies the creation, management, and sharing of content and is aimed at sites for small to medium businesses, families or personal sites. You can view a demo at the mamboserver website.

XOOPS
XOOPS is a program that allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.

PostNuke
PostNuke is a community, content, collaborative management system (C3MS)

e107
e107 is a portal or content management system powered by PHP and mySQL.

Coppermine Photo Gallery
Coppermine is an easily set-up, fast, feature-rich photo gallery with user management, private galleries, automatic thumbnail creation, ecard feature and a template system for easy customisation to match the rest of your site. You can see a demo at the Coppermine website here.

osCommerce Shopping Cart
osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved. You can see a dummy installation of osCommerce here.

Agora Shopping Cart
AgoraCart is a powerful online shopping / e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup in simple fashion for the beginner, yet it offers high power ecommerce, flexibility, and modular features that an experienced programmer or web designer will appreciate after seeing AgoraCart's full potential.

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Web Based Control Panel
Manage all aspects of your account via an easy to use online control panel, configure e-mail options, register and set up domain names, install cgi scripts, administer databases and more. Click here to find out more about the control panel.

Microsoft FrontPage FrontPage Server Extensions
FrontPage extensions are installed on our web servers. This allows you to take advantage of the dynamic features and publication wizard in Microsoft's web page authoring software.

Graphical Website Statistics
View real-time usage statistics for your website, see how many people are visiting your site, where they come from, what search keywords they use to find you and more.

Raw Website Statistics
Download raw statistics through your control panel for processing offline.

FTP Access Statistics
View real-time usage statistics for your FTP server, see how many people are using the server, where they come from, and what they're doing!

Latest Visitors
See the last 300 visitors to your website and find out lots of useful information about them.

Disk Usage
Keep an eye on how much disk space your website, e-mails or databases are using.

Bandwidth Usage
Comprehensive graphical statistics are available to show how and when your bandwidth is being used.

Error Log
This will show errors in your site, images not loading, missing files, etc and can be very useful for debugging CGI scripts.

Server Backups
Each one of our servers automatically backups ALL data to a separate hard drive. This happens every day and additionally at the end of each week and each month so there are always three complete backups of your website, e-mail and server settings.

Personal Backups
Your control panel also allows you to take your own personal backups. With just one click you can have a complete backup of your website, e-mail and server settings created for you to download and save on your local computer. This is also useful if you want to move your site from one server to another..

Password Protected Directories
Restrict access to certain areas of your web site through a simple interface in your control panel. You can configure as many usernames and passwords as required. Applications include sites where membership is required to view certain content or the creation of an extranet.

Unlimited FTP Access
Round the clock unlimited access to your account from any computer anywhere in the world to upload files and make changes to your pages.

Unlimited FTP Accounts
You can create any number of FTP accounts allowing different users to manage different areas of your website.

Anonymous FTP
If you have files you'd like to offer for download, you can setup an anonymous FTP server through your control panel. This provides a fast, open server to store files..

Customised Error Pages
Replace the standard uninformative error responses of your server with a customised page of your choice. Encourages surfers to stay on your site when an error occurs.

Page Redirects
Automatically refer your web visitors from one page to another using a page redirect. This can be useful if you've moved a webpage and users are still be sent to the old page from a bad link or a search engine.

Online File Manager
It's easy to make your web pages live with our simple, web-based online file manager. With just a few clicks, you can upload your website within a matter of minutes. Handy if you don't want to use third-party FTP software.

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CGI Scripting In Perl, C and Python
CGI scripts are small programs that run on the server to add interactivity to your site. Your account is equipped with its own CGI directory allowing you to install and develop your own CGI scripts. We support CGI scripts written in Perl, precompiled C and Python.

PHP4 Scripting
PHP is a powerful server side scripting language ideal for the creation of dynamic data driven web sites. The latest stable release is installed on our servers. The Zend Optimizer is an application that runs the files encoded by the Zend Encoder and Zend SafeGuard Suite, while enhancing the running speed of PHP applications.

Microsoft XML Scripting
XML allows developers to easily describe and deliver rich, structured data from any application in a standard, consistent way.

Free Perl Module Installs
Our servers come with many pre-installed Perl modules but should the one you need not be available, just get in touch and we install it for you.

mySQL Database Server
mySQL is a powerful database engine designed to provide fast access to stored data. Data from your database can be accessed via ODBC compliant software any of the supported scripting languages. You can administer your mySQL database using the control panel using the popular phpMyAdmin software.

postgreSQL Database Server
An alternative SQL-driven database server.

WAP/WML
The WAP protocol is the leading standard for information services on wireless terminals such as digital mobile phones. WML is the language used to create pages to be displayed in a WAP browser.

Server Side Includes
Server Side Includes enable the addition of dynamic elements to your HTML web pages. Automatically insert dates, file information and other HTML documents.

128 Bit SSL Secure Server
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) allows the collection of sensitive data such as credit card information from browsers via a strongly encrypted connection. You have access to a shared secure server under our domain name.

Server Side PGP Encryption
Store and handle sensitive data such as credit card information in an encrypted state. One use could be to encrypt e-mail such that only you can read it.

Cron Jobs
Automate scripts the need to run at set times of the day/week/month. We provide two methods of doing this to make it as simple as possible.

User Defined Mime Types
You can alter the MIME types that you want your website to recognise through your contorl panel.

User Defined Apache Handlers
You can change the way the web server handles certain files by altering the Apache Handlers through your control panel.

HotLink Protection
Prevent other websites from directly linking to files on your website by setting up HotLink Protection.

Index Management
The index manager will allow you to turn indexes on or off for a directory. If indexes are off, people will not be able to see what files are in a directory that lacks an index file (such as index.html).

IP Deny Management
This feature will allow you to block a range of IP addresses to prevent them from accessing your site. You can also enter a domain name and the IP Deny Manager will attempt to resolve it to an IP address for you.

SSL Management
SSL Manager will allow you to generate ssl certificates, signing requests, and keys should you wish to use your own secure certificate rather than our shared one.

Online Network Tools
Useful networking tools such as Trace Route are available in your control panel.

CGI Scripts
We have a variety of CGI scripts available for one-click installation to help you make your website more interactive.

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