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Gold/Platinum
Hosting
MagnaCom's "Gold" account is the
premium service offering we believe to be
incredible value for money. Your domain
is hosted on a fast Dual DS3 connection
(90Mb) by Sun
Enterprise 250 servers operating with
SunOS/Solaris 2.7 and running Apache 1.3.x.
The servers are currently dual 300Mhz processors
with 2Mb cache, 2Gb of RAM and 50Gb of hard
drive space with redundant power supplies
and daily tape backups.
With your account we give you more than
enough space to build a good extensive website
with 350 Mb of storage
space with unlimited bandwidth
- so do not worry about your site being
too popular! Our only restriction on content
is no illegal MP3s or adult content, for
more details see the Terms of Service. You have secure shell access and the ability
to run CGI scripts from
anywhere on your account, and we provide
several scripts for you to install automatically:
- Matt Wright's
CGI Scripts (FormMail, Guestbook, Random
& Free-4-All Links)
- Random Images
& Sounds
- Graphical &
Text Counters
- Excite Search Engine
- Shopping Cart (with
access to a 128-bit SSL)
- WebAdverts
With MySQL
and PHP3, Miva
Engine and support for FrontPage
2000 extensions there are many
options open to you. In addition you can
have java chatrooms and
we offer Real Networks G2 streaming ability.
With your domain account you have many ways
of manipulating e-mail for your domain:
- 100 POP3 accounts
- Unlimited E-mail
Forwarders
- Unlimited Autoresponders
- Mailing List Manager
- Majordomo
There is
also the ability to have 25 sub-domains
on your account, and to enable sharing of
your space you can set-up 25 FTP
accounts in addition to a space
for anonymous access.
What else do you want? You can keep track
of who is accessing your site with various
Website Statistics scripts
- we even have a Website Promotion
script to help you list your site with search
engines. If you would like help designing
your site we can offer consulting services
or make use of our design
services, please contact us to discuss
your individual needs and how we can make
the internet work for you.
How much would you pay for all that? Most
likely hundreds if not thousands a year
from many web presence providers but we
are able to offer this at just over 50p
a day! Interested? First of all you need
to choose a domain, use our Domain
Search Service in the order section
to check if yourname.co.uk or yourname.com
is available. Then theres just a Quarterly
Standing Order charge of £60.00 + Vat which
includes continuing registry fees for UK
domains (just £20 p.a. extra for .com/.net/.org).
 We
now offer the choice of an NT based operating
system for Gold hosting, with similar features
but also offering ASP support, ColdFusion,
DrumBeat and your own iMail server plus
many other exciting features. Check out
the Service Plan
Comparison table to see the differences.
While the consensus holds that UNIX based
webhosting is more user friendly than Windows,
it is our belief that our Gold Control Panel
for both the UNIX and Windows platforms
makes both user friendly. However, UNIX
does have some features, such as Telnet/SSH
that make it easier to administer your webhosting
account. Given the background of UNIX, which
dates back into the early 1960's versus
Windows birth in the 1990's, UNIX has had
far more time to improve in efficiency and
stability. The consensus is that UNIX based
hosting is a more reliable platform for
multi-user, shared-server hosting environment.
Many commercial applications, especially
e-commerce packages, are developed for the
Windows environment. While UNIX does have
commercial support for popular applications
such as Real Networks G2, Miva, and now
WebTrends, the history of UNIX software
development is Open Source, or GNU software
(non-commercial). Therefore, many more commercial
applications for e-commerce and web development
are developed for the Windows environment.
On the flip side, many open source applications
which have gained tremendous popularity,
such as Perl, PHP3, and mySQL were developed
for UNIX operating systems under the GNU
license. Commercial applications versus
GNU software can easily distinguish which
platform should be used when considering
functionality.
For clients looking to create a simple website
with little experience or dynamic features
with GNU software (Perl, PHP3), we recommend
a UNIX-based virtual server. However, clients
looking for e-commerce add-ons for their
virtual server or with high-end database
or development needs, we recommend the Windows
platform.
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