• Bandwidth: The amount of data transferred to and from your website/server. Bandwidth charges are the monthly charges associated with those data transfers.
• Disk Space: How much space you get on the server for each plan.
• Domain Names: The number of website addresses included.
• Email Accounts: The number of individual email accounts that come with your plan.

This section lists the types of server access and control panels offered with each plan.

• Root Access: Allows you remote access to all the admin levels of your server.
• SSH Shell (also called Secure Shell): A common network protocol (method) for remote administration of Unix computers.
• Telnet: A common Internet protocol for connecting to a remote server.
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol): A common method for sharing files with other computers and users over the Internet.
• iManager and CPX: The two types of control panels that you can use to manage your server.

This section lists the types of web services offered with each plan.

• Full Configuration File Access: The ability to view and edit complete configuration files (like key Apache web configuration files) versus only a slice of the file.
• Raw Log File Access: The ability to view continuously updated, original log files on the server that track and report web and email server activity.
• Full CGI Bin (Common Gateway Interface Binary File) Access: The ability to access and configure how CGI scripts (programs) are executed by the server (i.e. e-commerce, message boards, databases or any content that responds to web user input).
• Dynamic Module: A framework used to generate Linux kernel modules whose sources do not generally reside in the Linux kernel source tree.
• Podcasting: The ability to offer audio or video media files for people to download onto their portable media players and personal computers.

This section lists the types of email services offered with each plan.

• POP and IMAP Mailboxes: The two most common Internet standard protocols (methods) for email retrieval.
• Email Quota: The amount of space you have on the server for email. (You are limited to the disk space for your plan.)
• Email Aliases: The names associated with each email address. For example, if your email address is kkirlin@kirlinconsulting.com, the email alias is "kkirlin".
• Auto-responder: A customizable, automatic response to an email.
• Mailing List: Lets you to create multiple mailing lists for distribution.
• Anti-spam and Anti-Virus: Plan service features that give your server added protection against spam and viruses.

This section lists the types of FTP services offered with each plan.

• FTP (File Transfer Protocol): A method for sharing files with other computers and users over the Internet.
• Anonymous FTP Accounts: Accounts that do not require a User ID or Password to download/upload a file (users just need to know the ftp url).
• Non-anonymous FTP Accounts: Accounts that require users to login with a User ID or Password to download/upload a file.
• Upload Quota Limits: The limit to the amount of data you can upload. (You are limited to the disk space offered by your plan.)
• Custom Welcome and Directory Messages: Custom messages you create that will display to FTP account users when they enter the FTP site or specific FTP directories (folders).

This section lists the types of web development tools (scripting languages and applications) you can use on your server.

• Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Extensions: Allows Microsoft FrontPage clients to communicate with web servers and provide additional functionality intended for websites.
• PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) 5: A scripting language used to create dynamic website pages that sometimes includes command line interface capabilities.
• Miva Empresa: A scripting language mainly used for ecommerce.
• Perl, mod_perl: A multi-purpose programming language used primarily for text files, graphic programming, system administration, network programming and applications that require database access.
• ZendOptizimer: A free software application that helps process PHP efficiently.

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This section lists what databases are compatible with each plan. MySQL (Sun Microsystems), PostgreSQL (free Open Source software), Oracle, and Oracle Connectivity are all databases.

This section lists what multi-media solutions are compatible with each plan.

• Adobe Shockwave/Flash: Multi-media applications commonly used to add animation and interactivity to web pages
• Podcasting: The ability to download audio or video media files onto portable media players and personal computers.
• Wordpress Blog Tools: An open source blog publishing application.

This section lists the web statistics packages offered with each plan.

• Urchin: A web analytics solution owned by Google that studies the online behavior of your website visitors so you can use the data to improve your site.
• The Webalizer: A public/free solution that does web log analysis - derives indicators about who, when, and how a web server is visited.