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All Hosting Plans support Ruby On Rails, PHP and Perl via FastCGI
You have a powerful set of features with your Crosswinds hosting account.
Build a personal site with a discussion forum, create a business and sell
products or services online! You have the choice.
We explain the key features in plain english so you know what you are getting.
Here are some quicklinks for you to skip to a particular section:
| Instant Activation: |
YES |
Your account is created immediately! No waiting to upload your web site.
The only thing you will have to wait for (which is true of all web hosts) is for the domain name to "point"
to our server so that you can access your site by name. |
| Monthly Cost: |
$11.49 |
In USD. This is your monthly cost for the hosting. Yearly payment is also
available - giving you 2 months free! |
| Setup Cost: |
$0.00 |
In USD. Some plans require a setup fee. |
| Disk Space: |
unlimited MB |
The amount of hard drive space for your web site, email
and other files. If you have a web site with many files or a lot of email users, this is important |
| Transfer: |
unlimited GB |
The amount of traffic for viewing your web site, email and
uploading/downloading files. If you have a very busy website, or lots of email/email users, you need
more transfer. 1GB = 1,000MB |
| Parked Domains: |
3 |
Sometimes you will want to have more than one domain name point to the same
site. This allows you to have similar domains that can be spelled differently. For example: mydomain.com and
my-domain.com |
| Add-On Domains: |
1 |
This is the number of other domains/sites that you
can have in this account. You can manage completely different sites and domains in the same account. |
| Databases: |
10 |
Databases are the "filing cabinets" of the web. Many
programs that you can add to your accounts require a database to run. For example, if you install the
phpBB2 discussion board, all of your forums and messages are stored in the database |
| Email Accounts: |
Unlimited |
You can set up as many email addresses as you need. Use them for
different purposes (support@domain.com, sales@domain.com) or give email to your friends and family. |
| POP3 Access: |
YES |
POP3 lets you get your email using your favorite email program from home -
like Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, etc. |
| Webmail: |
YES |
We include web based email for those that want to access their email from
anywhere - an internet cafe, a friend's house or from their laptop on the run! It is safe, secure and reliable. |
| Forwarding: |
Unlimited |
You can forward email sent to one address to another. This allows you
to protect an email address, or allow you to sort email with your email program. For example, you can have
email sent to sales@domain.com forwarded to your real account, say real@email.com |
| Autoresponders: |
YES |
Automatically send an email back to the sender to let them know you
have received it. You can also use this for letting people know you are on vacation or to update to a new email
address. |
| Custom Spam Filters: |
YES |
You can add or remove filters to your accounts to allow or prevent
spam from getting into your inbox or to sort it into a JUNK box. |
| Virus Protection: |
YES |
You are protected from viruses with virus scanning software. All email
that comes to you is first checked for viruses. If viruses are found, it is removed, keeping your mailbox clean
and your system safe. |
| SPAM Protection |
YES |
As with viruses, we scan all incoming email for spam. If we are
100% sure it is spam (for example, one system sends tons of advertisements for V14GR4!! to email accounts that
do not exist in your account), we block the spam. If the system is not 100% certain, it adds information which
allows you to set up the Custom Spam Filter. We always give you the choice. |
| cPanel: |
YES |
You manage your web sites, email and ftp accounts using this very
powerful, and easy to use control panel. |
| CGI-BIN/PERL: |
YES |
You have your own cgi-bin and can program in the very
popular Perl scripting language |
| PHP: |
YES |
We support the PHP5 script language so that you can run many
very useful and powerful programs from your site (see Softaculous below for examples) |
| Ruby on Rails: |
YES |
We support Ruby on Rails (Ruby 1.8) applications for those of
you who prefer Ruby |
| SSI: |
YES |
Server Side Includes - this older style of making sites dynamic
and come alive is supported. |
| Site Stats: |
YES |
With a click, you can check out your site statistics. Who visited,
where they went, and where they came from. You have the choice of different statistics programs, depending
on your style and taste. |
| Protected Folders: |
YES |
Protect folders with individual usernames and passwords. This allows you
to have "members-only" sections on your site. |
| FTP Access: |
YES |
24/7 FTP access allows you to upload your site when you need to. |
| Softaculous: |
YES |
You can launch your own store with one of the many Softaculous programs. Just click on Softaculous in your control panel, and with a click, you can install or uninstall an online store or product catalog. |
| SSL Certs: |
Available |
If you require your own SSL cert for security (usually for
ecommerce/shopping carts) we can add an SSL certificate and your own IP (internet address number) for $49/year.
Most places will charge you $49 or more for the SSL certificate alone, and don't tell you that you need to
buy an IP as well. We include both. |
We have added a system called Softaculous, and it is amazing!
With a single click, you can install/uninstall a library of 360+ PHP scripts.
These scripts are listed here |
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