Domains & Web Hosting

Mailing Lists

Mailman is software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.

Secure POP/IMAP/SMTP

Secure POP3/IMAP/SMTP are private and secure (128-bit encrypted) methods to login, send & receive e-mail via third party e-mail programs such as Outlook Express, MacMail, Eudora and Thunderbird.

Our online documentation section provides detailed instructions on how to setup and use secure POP3, IMAP and SMTP e-mail.

Webmail

Allow your users to connect to a web-based mail interface, enabling them to send and receive e-mail without the need to configure a local e-mail client.

Spam Filtering

Splashweb utilizes the infamous SpamAssassin™ spam filtering software to accurately identify spam. Using a highly refined rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial e-mail. The spam-identification tactics used include:

• Header Analysis: spammers use a number of tricks to mask their identities, fool you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or fool you into thinking you must have subscribed at some stage. SpamAssassin tries to spot these.
• Text Analysis: again, spam mails often have a characteristic style (to put it politely), and some characteristic disclaimers and CYA text. SpamAssassin can spot these, too.
• Razor: Vipul's Razor is a collaborative spam-tracking database, which works by taking a signature of spam messages. Since spam typically operates by sending an identical message to hundreds of people, Razor short-circuits this by allowing the first person to receive a spam to add it to the database - at which point everyone else will automatically block it.
• Blacklists: SpamAssassin supports many useful existing blacklists.

Vacation / Out of Office Messages

Vacation or out-of-office messages tell others that you are away. A common type of message may sound like: "I have received your e-mail message but I am away on vacation until June 21st. I will respond to it then."

Auto Responders

An auto responder is a pre-determined message with information you want automatically sent to anyone who e-mails a designated e-mail address/mailbox at your domain. When an e-mail is sent to a mailbox that you have assigned an auto respond message to, the auto responder automatically sends a reply. You can easily create auto responders through your manager control panel provided with your account.

Catch-All Account

A catch-all e-mail account receives e-mails addressed to former users or non-existent users. For example, if an e-mail is addressed to mary@yourdomain.com but the user name "mary" does not exist on that domain, the e-mail is routed to the catchall account.

E-mail Forwards

E-mail forwards enable you to have e-mail messages redirected to a specific e-mail account. For example, you can set up the e-mail account sales@yourdomain.com to forward all messages to any e-mail account, for example you@yahoo.com. These forwards can be added or deleted at any time.

POP3/IMAP Accounts

POP3/IMAP are traditional methods to access the storage locations for your e-mail accounts, which must be accessed through a third party e-mail program such as Outlook, MacMail, Eudora and Thunderbird.

Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

Secure Socket Layer allows you to equip your website with secure Internet transaction capability. SSL is a protocol that enables encrypted, authenticated communications across the Internet via a secure certificate and a dedicated IP address.

Example: https://secure.yourdomain.com/ Note the "s" after the "http" - this indicates an SSL enabled site.

NOTE: Customers must have a dedicated IP address and purchase an SSL certificate to securely transfer data over the Internet.

E-Commerce Ready

E-Commerce ready hosting plans include all necessary hosting elements for accepting orders or transferring data securely. All that's left to do is add your SSL certificate.

NOTE: Customers must have a dedicated IP address and purchase an SSL certificate to securely transfer data over the Internet.

Cron tab Support

A cron tab (cron job) is an automated process which is set up to run automatically at a scheduled time of day, week, month, or hour (Similar to the Windows Task Scheduler). Cron jobs can be used to perform basic operation such as backups, updates to cgi scripts, etc.

SSI Support

A "server-side include" is a function performed by a web server that embeds ("includes") information into the middle of an HTML file as it's being sent to the web client. This is convenient for inserting the current time or a file's size into your HTML document without resorting to writing a CGI. It is also useful for placing common headers and footers (such as copyright notices, addresses, and other boilerplate items) on a set of pages.

Perl (CGI-BIN)

Perl (Practical Extraction Recursive Language) is a popular scripting language of choice for many web developers. Libraries for Perl exist for several platforms and Perl's speed and flexibility make it well-suited for form processing and on-the-fly web page creation.

PHP5 w/Zend Optimizer

PHP is a relatively easy-to-use and powerful scripting language which can be used to create web-based applications and dynamic websites. It combines PHP scripts and the Apache HTTP server, so you can insert PHP code directly with HTML and is browser-independent because it is processed on the server and output as HTML.

The Zend Optimizer is a free application that runs the files encoded by the Zend Guard, while enhancing the performance of PHP applications.

Perl DB MySQL Support

Perl libraries needed to connect to the MySQL database server, which improves interaction between MySQL and the Perl programming language.

phpMyAdmin

Manage your MySQL database with a simple web-based interface. PhpMyAdmin is a user-friendly alternative to administering a MySQL database from the command line. The GUI interface allows you to create, delete, and edit databases, tables, columns, and records.

MySQL Databases

MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that consists of a server daemon, mysqld, and many different client programs and libraries.

File Manager

This web-based file-manager provides full control to maintain and modify your account's files and subdirectories. This also includes the ability to upload, delete and edit both files and directories directly on the server.

Backup & Restore Tools

Completely backup and restore site files, directories and account settings to a local computer with this easy-to-use utility.

Account Statistics

An advanced stats program which is integrated into the control panel produces a nice variety of charts and graphs about who has visited your site. Reports include:

• monthly, daily and hourly breakdowns of site hits
• web page views
• visitor sessions and
• amounts of data transfer (or bandwidth usage)
  

Other reports include:

• most frequently accessed files
• site entry and exit pages
• hostnames of your visitors
• breakdown of site access by country
• detailed referrer information including the sites sending you your visitors
• full search strings being used to find your site through search engines

Anonymous FTP

Anonymous FTP is a method for giving users the ability to upload and download files without identifying themselves. This means that users can access a restricted area of your website without knowing any information about them, and you have control over the content that they can see. Should anonymous uploads be enabled you will have no control over the content users upload.

FTP Accounts

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the procedure used when you transfer your files from your computer to our web server. This is necessary for your files to be available on the Internet for everyone to see.

Subdomains

Technically called Canonical Domains or c-names for short.

This is an example: http://secure.yourdomain.com/

The "secure." in front of "yourdomain.com" is a subdomain. It works the same as a regular domain name.

Sub domain names can be anything you want. Some examples:
"sales.", "marketing.", "resume.", "mykids.", "products.", "anything."

Domains

Host and manage multiple web sites under one hosting account limited only by disk space and bandwidth purchased.

Dedicated IP Address

A dedicated IP address is not shared by other domain names; it is unique to your domain name and your space on the server. If you want to have an e-commerce enabled website or use anonymous ftp, you'll need to purchase a dedicated IP address for your account.

Dedicated IP addresses are available through Splashweb. Contact us for the details. Justification for IPs is required, if you ask for IPs it is required they are going to be used for domain hosting, SSL, nameservers, or specific technical uses.

Data Transfer

Data transfer, which is sometimes referred to as bandwidth, is a measurement of how much data travels in and out of your website or account. You can figure out how much data transfer you will require by estimating your average page size (including graphics) and multiplying it by the number of page views you expect to have in a month.

For example, with an average page size of 50 KB and around 5,000 page views per day, over 31 days (one month) you will transfer an average of 7.5 GB.

RAID 10 Disk Space

This is the amount of hard drive space allocated to your account, including the mailbox. Each 100 megabytes represents approximately 5,000 files.

We use 5 or more, 15,000 RPM SAS hard drives to create a level 10 Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID 10). This means your account data is simultaneously written across multiple hard drives and in the unlikely event that a hard drive fails, it will not result in any loss of data or downtime. The bad drive is simply pulled out of its bay and replaced with a new one.

Web-based Control Panel

All web hosting plans feature DirectAdmin; the most powerful, secure, stable and easiest to use web hosting control panel available, period. DirectAdmin gives you the ability to fully control all aspects of your web hosting account.

• E-Mail: You can create POP3 and IMAP accounts, catch-all e-mail addresses, forwarders, mailing lists, autoresponders, and webmail. Filters allow users to block mail by domain, keyword, and size. Adult Filter is also available.
• FTP Manager: You can create FTP accounts and set directory permissions for each account. Anonymous FTP is also supported.
• Statistics: You have available every possible statistic about their account. More advanced options and Webalizer are also included.
• Subdomains: You can list, create, delete, and get statistics on subdomains.
• File Manager: A user-friendly and fast alternative to FTP. Includes every feature needed to build and maintain a web site.
• MySQL Databases: You can easily create, modify, and delete MySQL databases from this menu.
• Site Backup: Using this powerful tool, you can backup and restore only what you want to. For example, account data but not web site files.
• Error Pages: You can create custom messages and outputs for 401, 403, 404, and 500 error codes.
• Password Protection: You can password protect any directory with a username and password.
• Advanced Tools: You can install SSL certificates, view sever information and installed perl modules, set cron jobs, mime types, and apache handlers, and enable site redirection and domain pointers.

One Time Setup Fee

A one time setup fee is charged for each account opened. This fee covers the technical resources necessary to correctly provision your web hosting account and enables us to keep recurring prices as low as possible. Setup fees are non-refundable.