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Web Hosting Features
Glossary
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- Anonymous
FTP
- Enabling anonymous FTP allows visitors to access
your web site to upload and/or download files
without a unique id and password. By controllable
anonymous FTP, we are referring to an
environment whereby anonymous access can be
limited to specific files and directories.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- Autoresponders
- "Autoresponders" reply to incoming
e-mail automatically. An autoresponder could be
used to send a standard text file to persons
addressing, say, info@yourname.com. If you've
ever received a response to an e-mail which
suggests that the recipient is away from the
office, you may have received such an automated
response.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- CGI
script support
- All customers have access to a personal cgi-local
directory in which you can place your own custom
CGI scripts. CGI scripts are often used to
accomplish tasks which are not supported by basic
HTML such as a "hit" counter or guest
book. This directory can be used to set up
scripts that you write or find elsewhere on the
web. Speedwave also offers several pre-written
scripts, available free for your use. These
include a hit counter, guest book, mail form,
shopping cart*, discussion forum, and more!
Available with plans: Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- Control
Panel
- All users have access to a web-based Control
Panel which allows you to set mail forwarding
options, enable/disable anonymous FTP access,
view your statistics, change your password and
more. It also allows access to other features
such as an HTML Form Generator, web-based HTML
editor and Perl script checker. Users can also
update account contact information at anytime
without having to contact customer support.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- CyberCash
- CyberCash
enables you to securely process credit card
transactions 24 hours a day, seven days a week to
a new global marketplace. CyberCash works with
all the popular browsers, as well as the majority
of Internet hardware, software, servers,
communication protocols, and web store
applications.
Available with plans: Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- Data
Transfer
- In general, any outward bound traffic from a web
site, with the exception of e-mail, is considered
to be data transfer. For example, each time a web
page, image, midi file, quicktime video, etc. is
loaded, data transfer is generated. Each of our
plans includes a generous amount of free data
transfer which should be more than enough for
most sites. In fact, 98% to 99% of our customers
operate within their free data transfer
allowance. Additional data transfer beyond the
threshold will incur a small charge.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- Disk
Storage Space
- Disk storage space refers to the amount of server
disk storage specifically allocated to your
account. This space is used to store your html
files, graphics, audio clips, POP mail messages,
pdfs, and other files that make up your web site.
Each of our plans includes a specified allotment
of disk storage space, but additional space can
be purchased for any account in 5MB blocks at a
cost of $1/MB per month.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- Domain
Name Registration
- Speedwave offers virtual domain Web hosting
accounts which means you can have your own Web
address or "domain name" (eg:
www.yourname.com). Speedwave can handle U.S.
domain name registration or transfers on your
behalf. (ie: .com, .net, .org, etc.). As a
Network Solutions Premier Gold partner, we have
our own personal InterNIC representative, giving
us an unparalleled level of service and response
time for InterNIC related issues. The InterNIC
charges $100 to register a domain name which
covers the first two years. They currently bill
at a rate of $50 per year thereafter.
Speedwave
can also serve non-U.S. domain names as well. Our
vast network of Authorized Dealers will be able
to assist you with non-U.S. domain registration
and transfers for just about any country. We can
also provide you with the appropriate nameserver
and technical contact information to
assist you in registering a domain name yourself.
You can also have additional domain names
point to your account for a small additional
charge.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- Excite
- Excite is a
new generation of web navigation. It gives your
web site the same advanced search capabilities
used by the Excite service, allowing visitors to
search your web site using keywords or concepts.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- FTP
Access
- You will have unlimited access to your account
via FTP 24-hours a day to set up and maintain
your web site. You can work on HTML documents,
graphics, and scripts locally and then upload
files to your web site when ready. An FTP
tutorial and client software is available in our
online support.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- FrontPage
- Speedwave can install Microsoft
FrontPage extensions for your account. This
allows you to use the easy-to-use Microsoft
FrontPage program to create and maintain your web
site. You may request that FrontPage extensions
be installed within your web site when placing an
order for domain web hosting services or contact
our support department directly. Microsoft
provides direct support for all FrontPage users.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- Mail
Forwarding
- Once your domain name is active worldwide, you
can receive all e-mail addressed to your domain
such as webmaster@yourname.com,
sales@yourname.com, etc. By default, all e-mail
addressed to your domain will forward to your real
e-mail address provided by your local internet
provider. For convenience, specific mail
forwarding options are available if you need
specific addresses each to be forwarded to
different addresses on the internet. For example,
e-mail addressed to webmaster@yourname.com could
forward to an account at AOL, but
sales@yourname.com could forward to a Prodigy
account.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- mSQL
Database Server*
- mSQL (mini SQL), is a lightweight database engine
designed to provide fast access to stored data.
We provide the tools to create a searchable
database. In most instances, custom programming
(commonly Perl or PHP) is needed to implement a
fully functional web-to-database interface.
Available with plans: Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- POP
Accounts
- In addition to mail forwarding, users have the
option to retrieve e-mail directly from POP3
mailboxes on the mail server using an email
program such as Eudora.
Each of our plans includes a Master POP account
which can receive all email and control the
settings for any optional configurable POP
accounts. Each of our plans also offers a
specified number of configurable POP accounts.
The additional POPs can be assigned unique ids
and passwords to ensure privacy. You can also
purchase additional POPs if needed.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- RealAudioTM
- Progressive Networks' RealAudio
system is a client-server based streaming media
delivery system for the Internet. Providers of
news, entertainment, sports, and business content
can create and deliver audio-based streaming
multimedia content through the Internet to
audiences worldwide. We not only provide the
server extensions but also include step by step
instructions to include RealAudio in your web
pages.
Available with plans: Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- Shopping
Cart
- A Shopping Cart program allows you to implement
your own on-line storefront. The shopping cart
keeps track of what visitors have ordered and
allows them to add or remove items from a
'virtual shopping cart'. When a visitor decides
to check-out, the order information including the
buyer's name, address and billing instruction is
e-mailed to the site webmaster and a receipt is
sent to the shopper. Our unix Plan 2 and above
include a pre-written Shopping Cart script that
you can customize for your use. A demonstration
and extensive documentation are available. For
those of you who may be interested in a more
comprehensive on-line commerce solution, Mercantec's
SoftCart is available as an additional
product.
Available with plans: Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- SSL
Secure Server
- SSL (Secure Socket Layer) allows users to collect
data such as credit card information in a secure
environment. Information submitted via a secure
form is sent to the server in an encrypted mode.
Users may choose to research methods such as
encrypted email (PGP), CyberCash, or other
solution for retrieving such information from
their web sites.
Available with plans: Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- Statistics
- We give you a choice of using MKStats1.0, MKStats
2.1, or Analog
to track your web usage statistics such as what
domains are accessing your web site, how many
"hits" you are getting, how much data
is being transferred and more. In addition,
Speedwave gives you direct access to your raw log
files so you can analyze your statistics with
other more full-featured programs.
Available with plans: Personal,
Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- TrueSpeechTM
- TrueSpeech
is a high quality speech compression software
which compresses speech down to as much as 1/40th
its original size. Since regular speech files are
normally large, compression using TrueSpeech
enables them to be transferred faster and more
easily. Support for TrueSpeech real-time audio is
available for use in your web pages.
Available with plans: Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
- Volano
Chat
- Volano Chat
is a real-time, live chat interface you can
quickly and easily add to your web site. It is
written in JAVA so it is compatible with the vast
majority of web browsers without the need for any
plug-ins.
Available with plans: Professional,
Corporate,
Commercial,
Enterprise,
High Volume
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