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Basic
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Email
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Email Support
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Phone Support
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Free Setup
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Disk Storage
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100mb
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50mb
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Data Transfer
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5000mb/month
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2000mb/month
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Email Accounts
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100
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Control Panel
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File Manager
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Email Manager
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Site Statistics
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Web Site Builder
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Private CGI-BIN
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Secure Server (SSL)
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HTML Primer
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PHP4
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Form Script
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Bulletin Board
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Guestbook
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Frontpage Extensions
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Spam Protection
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Virus Protection
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Mailing Lists
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Shopping Cart
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Protected Directories
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Site Search Engine
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MySQL Database
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ASP
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PowerScriptz
* Forum
* Network Query
* Calendar
* Poll
* Counter (SSI)
* Guestbook
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Basic
Hosting
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Email
Hosting
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$9.95/month
email billing every 3 months
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$6.95/month
credit card on file every 3 months
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$8.95/month
credit card on file every 3 months
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$5.95/month
credit card on file every 6 months
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$8.95/month
payment 1/year
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$4.95/month
payment 1/year
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Our Basic Hosting Plan
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100mb disk storage
30000mb data transfer/month
(Over 98% of the domains we host use
less than 100mb disk storage and 3000mb data transfer per month.)
Control Panel which includes:
Email Manager
100 POP accounts
HTML primer
Web Design Tool
Site Statistics
Microsoft Frontpage Extensions
Secure Server (SSL)
Shopping Cart
Forms
Counters
Password Protected Directories
Site Wide Search Engine
Password Change Option
Search Engine Submission Page
ASP
Private CGI-BIN
Free Scripts
Copy & Paste Javascripts
Plus many more options!
100mb disk storage
Disk storage is the measure of how much information you can store on our servers. What this means is how much information you can have sitting online waiting for your viewers to look at. Everything is measured in bytes to gigabytes.
| Term | | Approximate | | Actual | | Byte | = | 1 byte | = | 1 byte | | Kilobyte (k or kb) | = | 1,000 bytes | = | 1,024 bytes | | Megabyte (m or mb) | = | 1,000,000 bytes | = | 1,048,576 bytes | | Gigabyte (g or gb) | = | 1,000,000,000 bytes | = | 1,073,741,824 bytes |
or| 1024 bytes | = | 1 kilobyte (kb) | | 1024 kb | = | 1 megabyte (mb) | | 1024 mb | = | 1 gigabyte (gb) |
The web page you are viewing right now is around 20kb. You could have over 5,000 of these pages on your web site and still be under the 100mb you get with our hosting plan.
You can add disk storage from your control panel but why pay for excessive disk storage if you don't need it?
3000mb data transfer/month
Data transfer is how much data is transferred over the internet from your web site. Data is measured the same as disk storage. Everything is measured in bytes to gigabytes.
| Term | | Approximate | | Actual | | Byte | = | 1 byte | = | 1 byte | | Kilobyte (k or kb) | = | 1,000 bytes | = | 1,024 bytes | | Megabyte (m or mb) | = | 1,000,000 bytes | = | 1,048,576 bytes | | Gigabyte (g or gb) | = | 1,000,000,000 bytes | = | 1,073,741,824 bytes |
or | 1024 bytes | = | 1 kilobyte (kb) | | 1024 kb | = | 1 megabyte (mb) | | 1024 mb | = | 1 gigabyte (gb) |
Over 100,000 different viewers could look at this page you are viewing right now and you would not be over your 3000mb of data transfer allowed.
Email Manager
You add and delete email addresses when you want with your control panel.
For our example let's say you want 3 email aliases such as:
info@yourdomain.com
bill@yourdomain.com
mary@yourdomain.com
You can set these up as follows:
info@yourdomain.com to be sent to maryspuppets@aol.com
bill@yourdomain.com to be sent to bill@uswest.com
mary@yourdomain.com to be sent to marys@hotmail.com
You can also set up autoresponders such as:
Everyone who sends an email to mary@yourdomain.com will
also receive an automatic email sent to them. You could set up the
message - 'Thanks for emailing me and asking about my paintings. I will
get back to you as soon as possible , - Mary'.
Now everyone who emails to mary@yourdomain.com will
automatically receive that message.
You can also set up your email account so when you email someone
they see the address of yourname@yourdomain.com. This is a type
of POP account.
Plus a mailing list option
The Mailing List option allows you to create and manage your own
mailing lists, which is an efficient way of communicating with many
people at one time.
Plus Web Mail!
Web Mail allows you to receive and send email from any computer in
the world that is connected to the Internet. This option is very much
like 'Hotmail' that so many use on the Internet.
100 POP accounts
Our basic hosting plans starts accounts with 100 POP accounts. You are only limited in how
many POP accounts you can set up by your disk storage or transfer. We host many domains
who have over 50 accounts set up.
HTML Primer
We have written an HTML Primer which consists of over 200 pages of basic information on how to write the coding to design your web site. This easy to follow primer will start you at the beginning and work you through until you can design a basic web site. This primer will show you the basics. Once you learn these there will be no stopping you. Your editor (such as Frontpage) will be much easier to understand. You won't be afraid of making mistakes and if (or should I say when because we all make mistakes?) you do they won't seem so bad. You'll be able to fix most minor glitches and the ones you can't fix just contact us. Use this HTML Primer at your leisure and don't worry about making mistakes. Work on your site and if you have a problem contact us. We'll look at what you did and help you find any problems.
Web Design Tool We provide a basic web design tool for every domain we host. This tool will allow you to design a web site with up to 6 pages using one of the predesigned templates. Many will start designing their site with this tool and work their way up to writing their own site after going through our HTML primer. View example here.
Site Statistics | The Site Statistics option on your control panel will have a navigation bar like the bar on the left. You will be able to track the traffic on your site for the last 12 months. Keep track of viewers per hour, day or month or use many of the advanced options on the site statistics panel. |
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Microsoft Frontpage Extensions
You have the option on your control panel of adding or deleting FrontPage extensions. You do not have to contact us (the server) as many hosting companies have you do. There is no lengthy wait or extra cost to add FrontPage extensions to your site.
Secure Pages (SSL)
Our basic hosting accounts can make their pages
secure by using our server wide certificate. We give you the exact code to use and
it is available on your control panel. Many hosting companies charge extra for this exact
service with costs ranging from $5 to $10 per month. And if you can't get this option from
your hosting company you will have to purchase your own certificate which will usually
cost $125 per year or more.
Shopping Cart
Forms
We give you the exact code to use to do the following:
* Specify to whom you wish your form results to be mailed.
* Specify the subject that you wish to appear in the e-mail that is sent to you after your form has been filled out.
* Provide a realname form field that will allow the user to input their real name. This field is useful for identification purposes and will also be put into
the From: line of your message header.
* If you wish to redirect the user to a different URL, rather than having them see the default response to the fill-out form, you can use a hidden variable to send them to a pre-made HTML page. Many times this is called a 'thank you page' because designers will put a thank you on a page for the submitter to see after they send the form.
* You can require certain fields in your form to be filled in before the user can successfully submit the form. If the required fields are not filled in, the user will be notified of what they need to fill in, and a link back to the form they just submitted will be provided.
There are also many other options available for your forms. All coding and any help you may need are available from your control panel. There is also coding for forms that you can copy and paste into your site. And of course we provide support if you are unfamiliar with forms or if you have special requirements.
Counters Your control panel has complete instructions on installing counters. The basic counter looks like the image below: 
You can adjust the appearance with a few basic code changes. You can also set the count at whatever you want from your control panel.
Password Protected Directories Your control panel has the option to allow you to password-protect specific directories within your account. You can limit the amount of access users have to a specific directory. You can specify a username and password for the directory you are protecting. Each protected directory can have multiple users (each with different passwords if you prefer) who have access to it. Additionally, the Protect Directories option can be used to remove a user's access from a protected directory.
Site Wide Search Engine
The Search Engine Option allows you to install the WebGlimpse Search Engine on your site. This tool allows users to perform searches for content on your site. Of course we will help you set up this feature if you have any problems.
Password Change Option
You access your control panel, FTP and Frontpage with the same username and password. Things change and maybe you have given access to your site to someone who no longer should have access. You can change your password whenever you need to with this option on your control panel.
Search Engine Submission Page
Your control panel has an option where you can get some basic tips on search engine submission. There are also links to the major search engines where you can submit your site whenever you want.
ASP
ASP is usually something that is unique to Windows based servers,
and MinnesotaShopper uses all Linux (Unix) based servers. Through
software called Chili!Soft, we can now offer ASP on our
Linux servers.
Sun[™] ONE Active Server Pages 4.0 (formerly Sun Chili!Soft ASP) is Sun's latest
cross-platform Active Server Pages engine for the Sun ONE and Apache Web servers.
ASP applications, created from popular Web authoring tools such as Macromedia's
Dreamweaver MX, can now benefit from the secure, highly available and scalable
architecture of the Sun ONE platform.
Free Scripts
We will install these for you!
Forms - A form script that will allow your viewers to
submit information to you and you receive that information at your email address.
Bulletin Board - A simple bulletin board that viewers
can add their own comments or comment directly to others postings. You can delete any
or all comments at any time.
Guestbook - A very nice guestbook that allows your
viewers to add their comments about your web site.
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