Web Hosting Details

We offer the leading features in the industry. They are explained in detail below. For the breakdown, look at our price table.

Payment of Account:
Payment of the virtual server can be paid either -

Monthly 1 Month
Bi-Monthly 2 Months
Quarterly 3 Months
Semi-Annually 6 Months 5% Discount
Annually 12 Months 10% Discount
Bi-Annually 24 Months 15% Discount

Please note: There are no setup fees on any accounts.

Domain Names:
Netvantage can take care of all your domain registrations at very competative prices. Go here to register your domain now. You can also have more than one domain name resolving at the same IP number and content holding site. For example, you can park yourname.net to yourname.com.

Storage Space:
We give a very generous amount of space which is substantially more than what most web hosting companies provide. One MB of disk space can hold several hundred text pages or images. Most sites use less than one MB of disk space.

Data Traffic:
This is the amount of network traffic related to your domain. A large number of sites have less than 1000MB of traffic per month, but popular sites could use three or four times that. Please refer to our policies for limitation on certain file protocols.

Email Accounts:
Our e-mail addresses are very flexible. You can set them up as POP boxes which store mail, e-mail aliases which redirect mail to another box, or as autoresponders. It would be accessed by a 3rd party email program like Eudora, or Netscape. This gives you a private secure storage location for anyone sending email to the pop box you are using. These can be setup through your mail manager.

Web Based Control Panel:
Gives you the capability to manage all aspects of your account in order to make the best use of your options. By the click of a mouse, you can administer your webspace, your e-mail accounts, your directories, your cgi-bin, and all the special features that we offer you, such as site statistics and shopping carts. You can even add additional features to your account right when you need them. Click here to see what the Control Panel looks like.

Static IP Address:
Each account comes with your own static IP address. A static IP address means the IP address (the number of your site) never changes. Some hosting companies use dynamic IP addressing, which means the IP number is different each and every time you connect to the server or they have several domains use 1 IP address. A static IP address provides your site with a never-changing solid address, which allows you to use it when FTPing files, or pinging your site, etc.

Search Engine Friendly :
A static IP allows you to have a true domain name and helps search engines determine that you are your own site and not to confuse you with other search engines. Click here to read more on search engine optimisation. Having your site hosted in Australia also means that search engines such as www.google.com.au will be able to determine that you are an Australian site and show you in their Australian index - don't be excluded.

Your own CGI-BIN:
We encourage development of highly interactive, successful sites. For your site to be truly interactive you need to be able to run computer programs in your own cgi-bin.

Frontpage 2002:
This is Microsofts HTML page creator, it requires, you own Microsoft Frontpage software and have it installed on your home system.

Http-Analyse Site Statistics:
Track your hits, pageviews, most popular pages and referral sites in an easy-to-use statistics program. 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. It will even tell where they came from and what browser was being used. Each day you'll receive an 8 page analysis of your web site's visitors.

Access to Raw Logs:
If you prefer to use your own statistic analysis program, access to your raw logs is very important.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL):
In order to perform secure transactions on the web using https://yourdomain.com you need a hosting company that will support ssl. We use Apache-SSL on all of our servers.

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.

PHP 4.2.4:
Not only do we provide you with PHP support, but the majority of our system tools and design projects are done by our staff in PHP. PHP is compiled as a module with MySQL, gdbm, and gd support.

MySQL Database Support:
MySQL is our GNU database of choice. We develop all of our own products with MySQL. We encourage all mSQL and postgresQL users to migrate to MySQL.

Real Audio:
We do not have a real audio/video server. However, we do support real audio/video streaming for no extra charge.When Real Audio/Video first came out, it required an audio/video server to be installed on the web server. This was because Real Audio/Video wanted to charge for each "stream'" or visitor. But soon people started writing competitive audio/video streaming technology that didn't require a special server. So, to compete, Real Audio/Video now does not require a server, and you can even use their free tools to create streaming audio over the Internet.

Real Video:
We support Video streaming with the Real Video Mime type as explained above.

Cybercash Support:
Cybercash is an online credit card processor. If you register with them, you can then install the local config for your domain on our servers with the Control Panel.

FTP:
FTP is used to upload and download files. Almost all site design programs like Adobe Pagemill, Macromedia Dreamweaver, GoLive HotDog, Allaire HomeSite, CyberStudio, HotMetal Pro, Netscape Communicator and NetObjects Fusion use FTP to maintain your site.

SSH (Secure version of Telnet):
Many users are not at all familiar with SSH and just as many do not need to use it. SSH allows you to get a shell on our Linux servers. To use SSH, email Netvantage for more information.

Anonymous FTP:
Anonymous FTP allows visitors to your site to download files via ftp without a password. It is disabled by default.

Password Protected Pages:
You can use the control panel to specify which users are allowed to access certain pages on your site. When visitors click on a certain URL, they are requested to enter a username and password which you manage through the control panel.

Shopping Cart Program:
Alacart is a highly configurable, database driven shopping cart program that can store up to 25 products.

Site Creation Tool:
With our powerful, user friendly Web Site Creation Tool, you can quickly build and maintain your own Web Site! This unique, intuitive tool comes with every YourWebHost account. Using the Design Wizard, you can build your own professional-looking Web Site, http://yoursitename.com, in minutes. Whether your site is a business e-commerce site or a home hobby site the site creation tool will give you the functionality to design and maintain your web presence all from within your browser.Then using the Site, Page and Field Editors, you detail your Site to perfection. Web Site design has never been easier! Our browser-based design tools let you customize all aspects of your Web Site, without requiring a knowledge of HTML programming. You choose images and animations, backgrounds and colors, lines and bullets, font styles and sizes with a click of your mouse button. Type in the text, links, and graphics you want and we put your Site together for you.

File Manager:
The File Manager is a very powerful feature. It allows you to manipulate all the files in your web site. You are able to create, delete, and move your files. You can also upload files from your local PC to the server in File Manager. Plus, you can edit the HTML in any of your files from this option. Everything you need to manage your site can be found in this feature.

Archive Manager:
The Archive Manager will allow the user to backup and compress their files. For example, if you have a number of files for which you wish to keep a backup, you can select all the files, then create a backup file that contains all of them in compressed format.

MIME Type Manager:
The ability to manage mime types gives you full control of which software programs will work with your site. Mime types are managed through the control panel.

Mail Manager:
Manage all your email accounts through this simple to use mail manger. It allows you to setup, maintain, redirect or modify any of your email accounts.

Unlimited Autoresponders:
You can easily create a autoresponder with the mail manager provided with your domain, its a simple file with information you want automatically sent to people who email a designated email address at your domain. When email is sent to your domain with the same name as one of your autoresponders , the autoresponder file is automatically returned to the sender of the email.

Unlimited Email Forwarding:
Using the mail manager provided with your account, you will be able to redirect email aliases to other pop box locations of your choice. An alias is a-name@yourdomain.com, Example paul@yourdomain.com could be redirected to paul@aol.com your isp account for viewing. You will also be able to provide friends similar aliases at your domain and point it to their isp.

Unlimited Email Aliases:
Unlike many systems, we have designed our network using our trade marked PlusMail 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. We also provide the ability to turn this feature off.

Mailing Lists:
Mailing lists allow you to send e-mail to a large number of contacts in a very efficient manner. You can manage the mailing list through the control panel.

Form to E-mail:
Our special form to e-mail program takes the contents of a form submission and e-mail's you the results to the address you specify.

Form to PGPmail:
This utility is very similar to Form to E-mail, except it uses your PGP key to encrypt the message before sending it to you. Your PGP key is installed with the control panel.

Search Engine:
In the control panel you can specify which directories you want searchable by our high powered WAIS index and search utility. You can then provide users with lightning fast content.

Page Access Counters:
Our very slick looking access counters can be installed on as many pages as you choose at no extra charge.

Web Design and Development:
Netvantage can also help you with all aspects of web design and development. Click here to find out more about our web design services.

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