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Hermanus
7200
South Africa
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Cellphone +27 72 90 50 522
Fax +27 86 512 6682
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    True Domain
    This is a domain using a name of your choice (yourname.com) This domain is assigned its own IP# and is not aliased of another ip.


    Disk Storage
    We give a very generous amount of space and designate 5000 files for each 100 megs you use. The website we provide can handle up to 15000 pages and graphic files.


    Daily Traffic Allowance
    The traffic allowance provided per domain is apprx 30 times what a normal user would need. Please refer to our policies for limitation on certain file protocols.


    Email Forwarding
    You will be able to specify upto 500 email addresses in a simple text file and have them each redirected to a location of your choice.


    Unlimited Email Alias
    Unlike many system, we have designed our network using our trade marked Powerplus mail system to automatically capture anyname that may be sent to your domain name. This means as long as the @yourdomain.com is proper even typos in the user name will still be captured and not refused.


    Telnet/FTP
    SSH is a program that enables you log into a remote host/terminal Securley (E.g.: Home PC) as though that terminal were attached directly to our server. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a simple method of uploading files from your computer to the server. Our online manual provides detailed instructions on how to use Telnet & FTP programs.


    POP accounts
    This is a private storage box for email. It would be accessed by a 3rd party email program like eudora, or netscape.


    Autoresponders
    These are simple text files you place in your domain in a folder called infobots. When email is sent to your domain with the name of one of these files, the file is automatically returned to the sender of the email.


    Wusage 6.0
    This is a very powerful tool for tracking vistiors to your site. It will tell you how long they were there, what pages they visited and the order they were visited in. With advanced logging activated it will even tell where they came from and what browser was being used. Click here to see in action


    Majordomo
    This is a very flexible tool for interacting with your customers or clients. In simple terms its a interactive style news letter that allows all subscribers to distribute information. There are many configurable features including automatic subscribe and unsubscribe and much more. Each list can email upto 1500 mails per day, if you would like to increase the limit email us for pricing.


    Referer Logs
    This is a extended logging features that will document where each vistor to your site came from. You will know if they found you from a search engine another website link ect..., invaluable information when planning your sites marketing.


    Error Logs
    Error logs will show you the time and date that someone experienced an error page when they visited your web site. If you have error logs enabled, you can access them through your home directory


    Raw Access Logs
    Access logs show you in text format where accesses to your pages are coming from. Each line will show the IP address the visitor was using while accessing your web site, the time and pages they visited.


    Access to Secure server
    Secure server access is provided on all accounts, we used the Power apache server to encrypt any information you desire that is read or transmited through a web browser.


    Customizable Missing Docs page
    By placing a file in your main directory called missing.html you will be able to give a customized page to any viewer that requests a file with there browser that does not exist on your domain.


    Server Side Includes
    SSI or Server side includes, allow the server to parse special page commands. As example if you had a footer you wanted on all your pages that may change from time to time, you can create a text file with the desired footer and place it in your domain. On each page you put a simple include to read that file and place it at the bottom of the desired pages.


    FrontPage® 2000
    The Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 web site creation and management tool gives users everything they need to easily create and manage great web sites. You are required to own and install the FrontPage® 98 or 2000 software and on your home system.


    Secure Shell
    This is a secure method of accessing your shell account. To use this feature you will need Telnet access and a proper SSH Telnet client with the ability to access this feature.


    Subscribable Maillists
    This will allow you to give your customers a email address that they can send to and be added to your personalized maillist. This is a great way to offer your customers a monthly newsletter, sales updates or just a freindly hello. The Plusmail system is capable of multiple lists so you can organize what information your customers may be looking for, a freindly welcome message will also be sent. The lists can be upto 1000 names and you can email a message upto 75k to the lists you create.


    Email Aliases
    Using our trade marked PlusMailTM System our network is designed to automatically capture any name that may be emailed to your domain name. This means that as long as the yourdomain.com is correct even typos in the user name will still be captured and not refused. We also provide the ability to turn this feature off.


    Email Redirects
    The WebControl System enables you to redirect email aliases to any POP box of your choice, allowing you access from anywhere in the world. An alias is a name@yourdomain.com. For example paul@yourdomain.com could be redirected to paul@aol.com, your ISP account for viewing. You can also provide friends similar aliases at your domain and point it to their ISP.


    CGI Script Installation
    Install any of the free and paid scripts we provide through our easy to use web-based interface.


    Password Protect Directories
    Want to limit access to certain directories/sections of your web site? With this feature you can set-up directories so a login name and password is required for access.


    Site Manager
    This is the main center of your WebControl System.
    Through your Site Manager, you can:
    Maintain your site
    Add/delete files/directories
    Upload/edit/add/delete web pages/files
    Move/copy/rename web pages/files
    Set permissions on files/directories


    View Site Stats
    Web Server: This will show you Wusage 7.0, a graphical statistics program. This displays how many people accessed your site and which pages they visited.


    Daily backups
    We backup your web directory daily on redundant hard drives installed on each of our hosting servers.


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    VisitorBook Pro
    Lets you set up as many individual guestbooks as you want! The Master Admin Program lets you (the administrator) easily add, modify, or delete VisitorBooks from your system.
    Administrator Options:
    Create New VisitorBooks
    Set password for each VisitorBook
    Edit VisitorBooks
    Delete VisitorBooks

    Web based Email
    All accounts now come with web-based email access from Squirrel Mail, accessible at the following address: http://www.your-domain.com/webmail (Important! PHP must be installed from your control panel for Squirrel mail to work.)

       

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