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Either variation automatically works with any Total Hosting web hosting account. No need to waste space in your print adverising. Go ahead and make your URL bigger on all your materials.

This is how many files may be viewed or downloaded from your domain. Each 1 gig of transfer allowed equals approximately 85000 hits of traffic.

This is the amount of space allocated to your account, each 100 Megabytes represents approximately 5000 files. Additional disk space is available, or you can switch your account type to one with more disk space.

SSH is a program that enables you to log into a remote host/terminal securely (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 Total Hosting server using FTP software. Our online FAQ's provides detailed instructions on how to use SSH & FTP programs.

Linux (often pronounced LIH-nuhks with a short "i") is a UNIX-like operating system that was designed to provide personal computer users a free or very low-cost operating system comparable to traditional and usually more expensive UNIX systems. Linux has a reputation as a very efficient and fast-performing system. Linux's kernel (the central part of the operating system) was developed by Linus Torvalds at the University of Helsinki in Finland. To complete the operating system, Torvalds and other team members made use of system components developed by members of the Free Software Foundation for the GNU project.

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.

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.

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.

You have the ability to password protect any directories that you choose to limit access to only authorized users.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.