Hosting Package Comparison Chart

GENERAL:

Bronze

Silver

Gold

Plantium

Disk Space:The amount of storage space on the account for web pages, images, audio, video, email etc. The average web page is about 100K in size, so 1,000 MB of storage can hold approximately 10,000 complete web pages.

500 MB

1,200 MB

2,400 MB

4,800 MB

Monthly Traffic:The amount of network throughput your account includes for each service month. This is the amount of uploading and downloading of html, images, media, and email from your account. On average a normal web page is about 100K so 1GB of traffic would on average support about 10,000 complete page views including images.

4 GB

10 GB

20 GB

40 GB

Server:A server computer, sometimes called an enterprise server, is a computer system that provides essential services across a network, to private users inside a large organization or to public users in the internet.

HP Proliant DL-Series w/multi-core Intel Xeon processors

Hardware RAID:An umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives.

High-performance SCSI/SAS RAID-10 drives

OS/Platform:The hardware architecture and software framework (including application frameworks), that allows software to run.

64-bit CentOS 5.5 / Apache 2.2x

Site Access Reports:Graphical reports which turn raw access logs into manageable data, so webmasters can visually understand traffic trends related to their website.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Raw Log Files:Detailed server logs which detail access to the account with full details. These can grow very large very quickly and are mostly valuable for debugging or remote processing by thirst party logs report programs/services. All hosting accounts include log reporting software so the value of raw logs is quite specific.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

FTP Access:File Transfer Protocol is the industry standard for moving files to and from servers. Using a client application like WS_FTP, CuteFTP, Transmit,or Fetch you can easily upload the html, images etc which make up your site.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Plesk Control Panel:Parallels Plesk Panel allows a server administrator to set up new websites, reseller accounts, e-mail accounts, and DNS entries through a web-based interface. The administrator can create client and site templates, which predetermine resource allocation parameters for the domains and/or clients.

Plesk 10.2

Web Users:Personal sub-websites for individuals who do not need their own domain names. This service is popular with educational institutions that host non-commercial personal pages of their students and staff.

10

50

100

200

Subdomains:Subdomains are additional domain names that enable you to logically organize your site structure and/or host additional Web sites or parts of a Web site on the same server without the need to pay for registration of additional domain names. For example, if your main website is yourdomain.com, and the ‘staff’ section is normally located at yourdomain.com/staff, you could set up a subdomain for this section at staff.yourdomain.com.

10

50

100

200

Domain Aliases:A domain name that points to another domain. Domain aliases enable users to access the same Web site through a number of different addresses. For example, many companies register several similar domain names (such as common misspellings of their domain name) and then use domain aliases to have all of the domain names point to the same site.

10

50

100

200

EMAIL SERVICES:

Bronze

Silver

Gold

Platinum

POP3 Mailboxes:Email boxes which allow mail to be downloaded directly to your hard drive using an email software program such as Outlook, Eudora, Entourage or Thunderbird.

10

50

100

200

Catch-All Account:With an email catch-all any mail addressed to a non-existant address at your domain will go to this address. This is a great feature to help ensure clients trying to email you and possibly making a typo still get to you.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Web-Based E-Mail:A free web-based email system which allows you to access your mailbox from any computer with an internet connection worldwide. A great way to check email from remote locations without setting up an email client program.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

E-Mail Aliases:The easiest way to setup email to your domain, and have it forward to an existing address. A great way to offer the professional image of email at your domain without the technical overhead of another email account to check.

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Autoresponders:Allows the ability to have an instant reply message sent back when and email is sent to you. Clients appreciate confirmation their email was received, and you can include addition information in the email such as phone numbers, urls, etc. Commonly used for “out of office” messages.

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Spam Filter:An extensible email filter which is used to identify spam. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of advanced heuristic and statistical analysis tests on mail headers and body text to identify spam, also known as unsolicited bulk email.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Mail Groups:A mail group is a list of several email accounts that are grouped together under one email address, enabling sending one message to multiple recipients at once.

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

SCRIPTS / DATABASES:

Bronze

Silver

Gold

Plantium

Java Applets:Programs written in the Java programming language that can be included in an HTML page, much in the same way an image is included. When you use a Java technology-enabled browser to view a page that contains an applet, the applet's code is transferred to the visitors system and executed by the browser's Java Virtual Machine.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Directory Passwords:These allow you to restrict access to folders on your site. Commonly used for private areas on a site like members-only, or staff specific content.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

htaccess Support:A Web server configuration file that contains commands known by the server that tell the server how to behave in certain instances. Some of the most common uses of an htaccess file include the capability to restrict access to certain files or directories on the Internet through password protection.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

CGI Support:Gives the ability to run scripts developed in various programming languages to allow your account to have dynamic content such as shopping carts, email forms, and more

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Perl Support:Practical Extraction Resource Language: is the most popular programming language for web developers. With a format similar to C++ and the best text manipulation abilities of any language PERL is very well suited for Internet development.

Perl 5.8x

PHP Support:A widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. It is one of the easiest languages to learn.

PHP 5.3x

Python Support:An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

MySQL Support:One of the most popular and highly suggested database engines available online today. This database engine combines great features, performance, and reliability!

MySQL 5.1x

MySQL Databases:

1

3

5

10

PHPMyAdmin:An open source tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. It can perform various tasks such as creating, modifying or deleting databases, tables, fields or rows; executing SQL statements; or managing users and permissions.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Apache ASP Support:Apache::ASP provides an Active Server Pages port to the Apache Web Server with Perl scripting only, and enables developing of dynamic web applications with session management and embedded Perl code.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Server Side Includes:Commonly known as SSI. A simple interpreted server-side scripting language used almost exclusively for the web. The most frequent use of SSI is to include the contents of one or more files into a web page on a web server. For example, a web page containing a daily quote could include the quote by placing a line of code nto the file of the web page; with one change of the file, all pages including the file will display the latest daily quote.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Ruby on Rails:An open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology that is used by web developers for rapid development.

Ruby 1.8x

ECOMMERCE / SSL:

Bronze

Silver

Gold

Platinum

GeoTrust QuickSSL:A dedicated Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificate which enables up to 256-bit encryption. QuickSSL Certificates help ensure that your customers' and business partners’ information is secure during transmission with your site.

optional ($150/yr + $50 one-time setup)

Visa/MC PCI Compliance:Provided by McAfee. Everything you need to satisfy Visa/MC PCI Standards compliance for Free! (set up via web control panel)

Available

Available

Available

Available

OTHER:

Bronze

Silver

Gold

Plantium

Available
(can be configured nightly, weekly or manually)

24/7 Support:Generally available both online and/or by phone.

Available

Available

Available

Available

Search Engine Optimization:The process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" or unpaid search results, as opposed to Search Engine Marketing (SEM) which deals with paid inclusion.

Generally bundled with site development, or available independently for $80. Includes proper optimization of site code and submission to Google, Bing, etc.

ANNUAL COST:

$100/yr

$200/yr

$300/yr

$400/yr

SETUP FEE:

$40 one-time setup fee