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Linux is a remarkably complete operating system, including a graphical user interface, an X Window System, TCP/IP, the Emacs editor, and other components usually found in a comprehensive UNIX system. Although copyrights are held by various creators of Linux's components, Linux is distributed using the Free Software Foundation's copyleft stipulations that mean any modified version that is redistributed must in turn be freely available. Unlike Windows and other proprietary systems, Linux is publicly open and extendible by contributors. Because it conforms to the Portable Operating System Interface standard user and programming interfaces, developers can write programs that can be ported to other operating systems. Linux comes in versions for all the major microprocessor platforms including the Intel, PowerPC, Sparc, and Alpha platforms. It's also available on IBM's S/390. Linux is distributed commercially by a number of companies. A magazine, Linux Journal, is published as well as a number of books and pocket references. Linux is sometimes suggested as a possible publicly-developed alternative to the desktop predominance of Microsoft Windows. Although Linux is popular among users already familiar with UNIX, it remains far behind Windows in numbers of users. {/slide} {slide=Apache Web Server} Every web site in the world requires a web server to enable its information to be accessed. A web server works behind the scenes to transport web pages from across the world to your computer, forming a critical part of the Internet. When you are using the web, your browser requests the text and images that your computer then displays. These requests are sent over the Internet to remote computers. The web server software that runs on these computers takes the request from the browser, and sends back the files and data that make up that page. Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The August 2002 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that 63% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache, thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined. Our servers are Unix based servers.{/slide} {slide=CPanel Web-Based Control Panel} Total Hosting offers you a graphical web-based system to administer your hosting account. We offer two levels of control. One for the administrator and one for the user. The admin can set up users, add/edit/delete files and view your statistics for your website 24/7.{/slide} {slide=Password Protect Directories} You have the ability to password protect any directories that you choose to limit access to only authorized users.{/slide} {slide=Parked Domains 2 Free, $15 for each additional} Parked domains are also known as domain “aliases” If your main domain is domain.com, you can also have domain2.com or domain.net go to the exact same spot when someone types it into their browser. This is a great way to increase brand recognition to your website. {/slide} {slide=IP Address available, $3 per month} Each web hosting account is set-up by default as a Name-Based Account. This means that the hosting account uses the root IP address for the server which allows the web account to be found while sharing a single IP address with other accounts. You can run SSL, SSH, eCommerce and any other service you can think of using a name-based account. Name-based accounts can not have their own SSL certificate (you can use our shared certificate) or more than one SSH log in. Some people like having their own IP address. If you feel that you need one, they are available at the time of sign-up for a nominal monthly fee.{/slide} {slide=CGI-BIN} Every web hosting account from Total Hosting allows you the ability to run scripts in your own CGI-BIN. We do not allow chat scripts as they are very server intensive. If you need a chat room, please contact us for information about our reasonably priced Java-based chat rooms.{/slide} {slide=Referrer Logs} This is an extended logging feature that documents where each visitor to your Site came from. You will know if they found you through a Search Engine or a Web Site link. This is invaluable information when planning and evaluating your site's marketing efforts. {/slide} {slide=Error Logs} This is an extended logging feature that documents any errors that occur on your domain. This is invaluable information when doing any type of programming or development. {/slide} {slide=Access to Raw Log Files} Raw logs show you the IP address of the computer that came to your website, the time, date, and files that they accessed. It is in a text-based form. Analog Stats also comes with your account, which will show information in a graphical form.{/slide} Email Features {slide=POP/IMAP Email} This is a private secure storage location for anyone sending email to your POP box. It can be accessed from just about anywhere by a 3rd party email program like Eudora or Netscape. Our online manual provides detailed instructions on how to use POP email.{/slide} {slide=Web-based email} Total Hosting offers you web-based access to your email from anywhere you can connect to the web. This option is perfect for mobile organizations or connecting to remote offices. Every POP account set up with your web hosting account is web accessible.{/slide} {slide=Unlimited Email Aliases} Our mail system will 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. {/slide} {slide=Unlimited Email Redirects} The WebControl System enables you to redirect e-mail to any POP box of your choice, allowing you the ability to forward e-mail to anywhere in the world. {/slide} {slide=Unlimited Auto Responders} An Autoresponder is a pre-determined message with information you want automatically sent to anyone who emails a designated email address/mailbox at your Domain. When an email is sent to a mailbox that you have assigned an autorespond message to the autoresponder automatically sends a reply. You can easily create an autoresponder with the WebControl System provided with your Domain. {/slide}Databases {slide=MySQL 4.1x} MySQL is a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server which is the most popular language for adding, accessing, and processing data in a database. MYSQL is noted mainly for its speed, reliability, and flexibility.{/slide} {slide=PHP MyAdmin} phpMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web. Currently it can: create and drop databases, create, copy, drop and alter tables, delete, edit and add fields, execute any SQL-statement, even batch-queries, manage keys on fields, load text files into tables, create and read dumps of tables, export data to CSV values, and administer multiple servers and single databases, check referential integrity. It supports about 40 different languages.{/slide}Advanced Features {slide=PHP 5.2.x} PHP is a tool that lets you create dynamic web pages. PHP-enabled web pages are treated just like regular HTML pages and you can create and edit them the same way you normally create regular HTML pages. {/slide} {slide=Server Side Includes} A server-side include is a variable value that a server can include in an HTML file before it sends it to the requester. For example, if you wanted a footer 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 on the desired pages. {/slide} {slide=Graphical Web Stats} This will filter your raw access logs and break them into an easy to read graphical form. This will help you understand, interpret, and evaluate your sites accesses. {/slide} {slide=Cron Jobs - Available upon Request} Cron is the ability to run programs based on the system clock. A cronjob is a scheduled task that you want to automatically run at a scheduled time, e.g. run my backup at 7:30pm everyday. You need to create a cron table or "crontab", a file of dates and commands that you want to run. A crontab file instructs the system to run specific commands at a given time. Run unlimited cronjobs a day. Please contact our support department to have a cron file enabled for your domain. {/slide} {slide=Customizable 404 Error Page} By placing a file in your main directory called missing.html, you will be able to provide a customized page to any viewer that requests a file with their browser that does not exist on your domain.{/slide} {slide=Miva Empressa} Miva Empressa is the engine that is loaded onto our servers that allow our clients to run Miva Scripts. This is also the engine that makes it possible to run the Miva Merchant Catalog and Shopping Software. {/slide}Support Features {slide=Online Manual} Get the answers you need about managing your web hosting account right from your control panel.{/slide} {slide=Daily Backups}We backup your web directory daily on redundant hard drives installed on each of our hosting servers. Providing the peace of mind that if the main drive should fail for any reason we can quickly and completely restore your site. You may also request backups for files you may have lost by accident for a one-time restoration fee. {/slide} {slide=24/7 Support Center - e-mail - Web Based} Our online Support Center provides more than just a fast personal response from one of our trained technicians. All submissions are tracked and monitored by our Quality Assurance team. Average response time to support requests are less than one hour.{/slide} {tab=Get Started Today}
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