HostVentures
Testimonials
"I can't recommend HostVentures enough for hosting. We've been with them for several years and they're the only hosting company with whom we haven't grown frustrated after a few months. They're responsive, accommodating, and understanding of all our issues. The guys who run it are so dedicated to us it's crazy. HostVentures serves as a consultant to us on anything server or code-related we need help with."
Jakob
Virtual Hosting
Standard Hosting Features
| We host all top level domain names including .com, .net, .org, .tv, .us, .info, .biz, .ca, etc.. Each account includes a fully delegated primary and secondary DNS server. Our DNS setup is accepted by domain registries such as .au and .ru who check DNS configurations prior to processing any changes, so DNS transfers are accepted on the first try. There is no charge to transfer your existing domain from another host. | |
| Free Search Engine Submission: | We will submit your site to major search engines in a manner that almost guarantees your listing. Instead of services that use automated techniques, which do not work and are frowned upon by search engines, we will provide a link to your site on a page that is well ranked in major search engines. This usually results in a listing within 10 days. Note that your position for specific keywords is not guaranteed. |
| Unlimited Subdomains: | There is no limit on the number of subdomains (sub.domain.com) that can be set up. Subdomains can be created with our web based DNS management utility. The following subdomains are created automatically with each account: www and mail. By default, subdomains can be pointed to the root domain or any unique IP address. Domain Forwarding is required for pointing subdomains to specific files or directories within the main site. |
| 500 MB Of Disk Space: | Each account comes with 500 MB of disk space, which fits over 15,000
pages such as this one. E-mail messages and log files are not counted
as disk space. We do not place forced banners or links on customers' websites. |
| 50 POP3 Mailboxes: | Each account includes up to 50 unique POP3 mailboxes. For example,
info@yourname.com, john@yourname.com, sales@yourname.com, etc..
Each mailbox can have its own password for retrieving messages. POP3
mailboxes on our servers can be set up to receive mail and forward it
at the same time. All e-mail administration is done through our online
control panel.
There is no disk space limit on e-mail messages or mailboxes. |
| 10 GB Data Transfer: | This is the amount of data transferred to visitors of your website
each month (bandwidth usage). 10 GB of bandwidth should handle about
10,000 unique visitors per day. The average website uses less than 250
MB of bandwidth per month and receives 50 visitors per day. If you need
more bandwidth, it is fully burstable to any level you need, so your
website will never stop accepting traffic.
Additional bandwidth can be purchased. |
| Unmetered Hits: | We do not track or restrict the number of visitors accessing your website or the number of pages that are viewed. |
| Mail Forwarding: | The mail forwarding feature allows you to forward all incoming messages
to a specially configured mailbox (alias) to another e-mail address
within or outside of your domain. For example, suppose you are the only
person receiving mail for your website, but you would like 5 separate
e-mail addresses (info@domain.com, sales@domain.com, joe@domain.com,
etc.), you can set up one mailbox called "info" and set up
the other aliases to be forwarded to that mailbox automatically. This
way you would only need to check the main "info" mailbox for
messages.
There is no limit on the number of Mail Forwarding Aliases. |
| Mail Groups: | Setting up an mail group allows you to receive e-mail at one central
mailbox and then have it forwarded to a designated group of internal
or external mailboxes.
There is no limit on the number of Mail Groups. |
| Catch All Mailbox: | A Catch All Mailbox is a default mailbox that receives messages addressed to any non-existent mailbox and forwards them to a designated address. For example, if a message is sent to inf@yourname.com instead of info@yourname.com, you would still receive that message. A Catch All Mailbox ensures that no incoming message will be rejected by the mail server. If there is only one person who will be receiving mail, a Catch All Mailbox should be used instead of creating multiple mailboxes. |
| Mail Bouncer: | Any message to a non-existent mailbox can be bounced to its sender with a customized message. |
| Outgoing Mail Server: | All accounts include an unrestricted, password protected SMTP mail server to send outgoing mail to and from any domain or e-mail address. |
| Web Based E-Mail: | Web Based E-Mail allows you to send and receive e-mail from any POP3
mailbox anywhere (even those not hosted with us) using a web browser
on any computer without having to configure any software. Some of the
features include:
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| Unlimited FTP Access: | FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is used to transfer files and web pages to and from the web server. You can upload or download files to and from your website 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from anywhere in the world. |
| 100 FTP Accounts | Full FTP access can be given to up to 100 different users to have independent directories within your website. Their files would be accessed on the web as follows: http://www.yourname.com/~theirdirectory. These users will only have FTP access to their directory, not your main website. |
| Auto Resume FTP: | Our FTP servers are configured to automatically resume interrupted file uploads and downloads, so instead of transferring the entire file again after a session has been closed prematurely, only the unsent portion is transferred. |
| Anonymous FTP: | Anonymous FTP provides a separate folder that is shared by all users of a domain and does not require a password for logging in. We offer two types of Anonymous FTP Accounts, Basic Anonymous and True Anonymous. The difference between the two is the user name that is used for accessing the Anonymous directory. Under Basic Anonymous, the user name us the letter "a" followed by the main account user name (i.e. auser). Under True Anonymous, the user name is simply "anonymous". True Anonymous FTP requires a Unique IP address. |
| FrontPage Extensions: | We support Microsoft® FrontPage® versions 2002, 2000, 98, and 97 are fully supported on Linux Red Hat® systems. Functions such as publish, form submission and validation, site search, counter, discussion web, and most other FrontPage® features are supported on all servers. |
| Control Panel: | Our online control panel gives you complete, real time control of the administration of your website. You can add, edit, and delete mailboxes, e-mail aliases, and mail groups, set up mail forwarding, create secure directories, change your password, manage auto responders, view statistics, send and receive web based e-mail, administer your database, and update your contact information. |
| Web File Manager: | Our web file manager is another tool that can be used in addition to other FTP software to manage files on your site. This software will allow you to add, delete and modify files from any web browser, even through firewalls. |
| Data Backup Recovery: | Your pages and databases are backed up nightly. You can request the backup data at any time by sending an email to support@hostventures.com and specifying how you would like the data to be handled, whether you would like a full restore or some specific files. |
| Instant Access: | To avoid downtime, you can use FTP to upload your website immediately without waiting for your domain name to be pointed to our servers. You can also view your website using our alternative URL system prior to your domain name transfer in order to make sure it is set up properly. FTP host and alternate URL info is e-mailed at the time each account is activated. |
| CGI-Bin Directory: | The CGI-Bin (Common Gateway Interface) directory is used for executing
server side applications. Each website on our servers has its own cgi-bin
directory.
Supported CGI Languages: Perl, C++, Python. |
| Perl: | Perl is one of the first full featured server side scripting languages which can connect to a database. Our servers come with mod_perl for faster execution, and most common Perl modules such as LWP, DBI, DBD::mysql, CGI.pm and many others are pre-installed. Any unavailable module can be installed upon request. Our servers are configured to execute Perl scripts from any directory, not just cgi-bin. |
| PHP4: | PHP is an advanced server side scripting language that can be embedded into HTML, eliminating the need for a CGI-Bin directory and separate executable files. PHP is similar in syntax to JavaScript, and does not require optional components to perform advanced tasks, as does ASP. PHP scripts can be placed in any directory within your domain and can connect to a database. We are running the latest version of PHP4. |
| SSI: | SSI (Server Side Includes) enables the web server to execute commands placed into HTML documents. SSI works best for displaying date and time, merging documents, click counters, last modified date, and other simple server side functions. SSI is also used to include CGI scripts into HTML documents. SSI files must have a .shtml extension. |
| SSL: | SSL encryption allows the use of digital certificates to securely transmit encrypted data over the Internet. Secure web pages inspire confidence from visitors, especially when transmitting confidential financial information such as credit card numbers. A self signed certificate is included at no cost. A trusted certificate and a Unique IP address must be purchased separately to avoid the "untrusted certificate" warning displayed by most web browsers. Alternatively, our Secured Directories SSL provides a trusted digital certificate with IP for only $5/month. |
| Detailed Statistics: | Graphic statistics data for your website is available online at any time. Analyze traffic data such as the number of visitors to your site, referring sites and search engines, keywords used to find your site on search engines, originating domain of each visitor, number of visits to each page, historic trends, and more. This data can also be exported to a database. |
| Protected Directories: | Access to any directory under your domain can be password protected using our online control panel. Pages in password protected directories can only be accessed online by authorized users. You can set up as many user names and passwords as you need. You can also use a .htaccess file to manually protect any directory. |
| Custom Error Pages: | You can create your own custom error page that will be displayed when visitors try to access non-existent web pages within your domain. Custom error pages are activated by designating special error handling files through the control panel for common web server error messages, such as errors 400, 401, 403, 404, 500, 501 and 507. |
| Nightly Data Backup: | All data on our servers is backed up every night to avoid accidental loss or corruption. |
| DNS Management: | Our online control panel enables real time management of all DNS records such as NS, A, CNAME, and MX, as well as creating and managing subdomains. |
| Access To Raw Logs: | Raw log files for each account can be accessed anytime via FTP or a web browser for analysis and archiving. |
| MIME Types: | We support most MIME types by default. Additional MIME types can be set up. |
| Real Audio / Video: | We support Real audio and video streaming formats. You can place your audio/video files in any directory under your domain, and access them via http, rtsp, or pnm protocols. Real media files use the following extensions: .ram, .ra, .rm. |
| Windows Media: | We support Windows Media audio and video streaming formats. You can place your audio/video files in any directory under your domain, and access them via http protocol. Windows Media files use the following extensions: .asx, .asf. |
| Quicktime Video: | We support Quicktime video streaming formats. You can place your video files in any directory under your domain, and access them via http protocol. Quicktime video files use the following extension: .mov. |
| Flash Support: | We support all Macromedia Flash file formats and mime types. |
| IPIX Support: | We support all IPIX mime types. IPIX technology provides on demand interactive virtual tours. |
| Multi Client Support: | We support popular web development programs such as Dreamweaver, Adobe GoLive, Adobe PageMill, and NetObjects Fusion. |
| Unrestricted Content: | Customer websites can have any content, as long as it is legal. |
| 24 Hour Monitoring: | All servers on our network are monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our automatic monitoring software continuously tests all ports such as e-mail, HTTP, Telnet, DNS, and FTP for failure, and instantly notifies our techs in the event any problems are discovered. Our techs are then immediately dispatched to the troubled server and correct the problem. |
| Uptime Guarantee: | Our network uptime is usually 100%. If it ever falls below 99.9% for any given month, you can request a free month of hosting upon your next renewal date. |
| Support: | We offer unlimited toll free telephone or e-mail support. |
| Our servers are connected to the Internet via multiple Redundant OC-192 Connections which is 20 Gbit/s of capacity, many, many times faster than other hosting companies. Click here for a virtual tour of our world class data centers on two coasts. | |
| Instant Activation: | Most new hosting accounts are activated within 5 minutes, day or night. |
| 30 Day Guarantee: | All our hosting plans and options come with an unconditional 30 day 100% money back guarantee. You can cancel for any reason whatsoever. |
| Optional Features | |
| SecuredPages.net SSL: | This feature enables you to place pages requiring secure data transfer into your own SSL secured folder (128 Bit Encryption). When users access any document in a SecuredPages.net directory, all data is encrypted during transmission, and they are notified that the page they are viewing is secure and cannot be seen by others. Your SSL secured pages can be managed with FTP. Each directory also supports PHP4, Perl, Python, and SSI. Cost: $5.00 per month (includes digital
certificate) |
| Database Access: | For websites that require a database, we offer MySQL,
a fast, full featured SQL database designed specifically for web applications.
Our Database Administrator gives you complete control
over your database through a web browser with features including creating,
altering, renaming, and dropping tables, as well as selecting, inserting,
and updating records. The data file upload feature allows you to upload
your data directly into the database, as well as dumping (importing)
tables and data from SQL text files. MySQL can be accessed with PHP,
ASP, Perl, Python, or C++. For an example of how fast and efficient
MySQL is, please go to http://www.google.com
and do a search. Google uses MySQL as its primary database.
Cost: $5.00 per month |
| Shopping Cart Software: | The fastest way to begin selling your products and services is to use our free shopping cart software. You must add the database option
first since the cart relies on a database to maintain lists of products and shopping cart contents. When you select to install the shopping cart software,
the required PHP scripts are installed in your site. Once you have configured the cart and added product descriptions to your database using the control
panel you're ready for e-commerce! Furthermore, you are free to customize the look and feel of the cart. The cart is integrated with Authorize.net for credit card
processing.
Cost: None - however a database is required in order for the cart to function. |
| Dedicated IP Address: | An IP address is a numeric equivalent of a domain name which is used
to access websites (an example of an IP address http://192.126.111.255).
Although domain names are easier to remember than IP addresses, having
a unique IP address is useful when you have multiple domain names to
be forwarded to one website. Most domain registries do not charge to
forward domain names to an IP address, but they do charge for forwarding
to another domain name.
Cost: $5.00 per month for each unique
IP * Domain Forwarding option is not included free with an IP address. |
| Domain Forwarding: | Domain Forwarding is a useful tool for generating more traffic and increasing
search engine visibility, as it enables forwarding of additional domain
names to any page, directory or external URL without purchasing additional
hosting accounts.
Cost: $5.00 per month for up to 10 domains * Additional forwarding is sold in blocks of 10 domains |
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