Hosting Features
(Definitions)

• Virtual Web Site -- A virtual web site is a web site that is physically located on the same web server machine as other web sites. With this standard mechanism ISP's can host many web sites on the same machine allowing for significant cost reduction to the web site owner.
• Domain Name -- A domain name is a set of characters that is a easily remembered by people that allows users to easily navigate to a particular web site address. Every web site on the Internet is actually located at an IP address that is usually pointed to by an easy to remember domain name. An IP address is a series of numbers just like on a house street address. For example www.vcpinternet.net is actually located at the address 209.242.28.135. As you might imagine, it is much easier to remember vcpinternet.net than 209.242.28.135 if you wanted to return to this web site. All Internet domain names are registered in a centralized database at www.internic.org for specific periods of time. Domain names must be registered through authorized registrars.
• Red Hat w/ Apache Web Server -- A Linux-based web site server based on the Red Hat Linux operating system using Apache Web Server software. Integrated Perl and PHP scripting are among the features available on this type of server.
• Windows 2000 Server w/ IIS 5.0 -- A Microsoft^® Windows-based web site server using Internet Information Server 5.0. This server offers such features and Active Server Pages(ASP), Active Server Pages(ASP.Net) and an Indexing Server.
• E-Mail Addresses -- Allows clients to receive e-mail for their virtual web site in the form of 'client_name@client_web_site.com'.
• E-Mail Forwarding -- Allows incoming e-mail to a specific account on a web site to be redirected to a different email account anywhere on the Internet. This allows clients with an existing e-mail account to receive their web site's e-mail on that account.
• Web Space -- The amount of hard drive space allowed for the text, image, and other files for a client's web site.
• Unlimited Data Transfer -- No limit to the amount of traffic entering and leaving a web site. This does not include any form of multimedia streaming content.
• Front Page Extensions -- Server side processes that integrate with web pages created in MS Front Page to enhance the features of a client's web site.
• Front Page 2000 Extensions -- Front Page Extensions for the Windows 2000 Server.
• FTP Access -- Allows customers to update and maintain their web sites without interaction with our company provided that they understand the standard processes of web site development and updating web site content using an FTP capable program.
• PHP Scripting -- A Hypertext Preprocessor similar to VBScript and ASP pages. This is a Linux-based scripting language that is executed on the server when a page request is made, allowing dynamic content.
• Server Side Includes -- Also known as SSI, allows external static content to be embedded within a web page. This processing is done on the server prior to the end user sees the page.
• CGI/Perl -- Common Gateway Interface (or 'CGI') allows programs to interact with web requests. This is currently only offered via the Perl language on our servers.
• Active State Perl -- Perl is a language native to Linux/Unix operating systems. However Active State Perl is a Perl interpreter for the Windows 2000 Server that allows CGI/Perl scripts to be executed. Note: This feature is not as robust as the CGI/Perl feature mentioned above. Web sites requiring Perl as the exclusive server-side scripting language run more efficiently on a Linux web server.
• ASP -- Active Server Pages allow for dynamic content to be generated on the Windows 2000 Server using VBScript or JScript. These scripts are not compiled and are interpreted at the time of the end user request.
• ASP.Net -- Active Server Pages for the Microsoft^® .Net Framework. Unlike standard ASP pages, portions of these pages are compiled prior to page requests and executed at run time, which results in faster execution of server-side processing than in traditional ASP pages. These pages can be created in a variety of languages varying from C++.Net to VB.Net.
• Indexing Service -- A simple and manageable service that allows a search functionality to be incorporated on a client's web site. Only available on the Windows 2000 Server.