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Price |
Hosting Companies list there prices on monthly basis but mostly they
charge yearly and some of them make a discount when you pay yearly , and
when buying expensive hosting like VPS they charge monthly or quarterly |
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Web Space/ Disk Storage/ Disk Space |
Is the places where you store your website files |
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Data
Transfer/ Bandwidth/ Traffic/ File Transfer |
Data transfer means downloading and uploading files from your website.
when visitors open your website and when you upload files to your site,
that's what's called data transfer. |
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Domains |
Number of domains (www.domain.xxx)
that can be hosted in a single plan
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Sub Domains |
Number of sub-domains (www.subdomain.domain.xxx)
that can be hosted in a single plan
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Parked domains |
Number of parked domains that can be hosted in a single plan.
Parked domains are domains that you can buy and add to your hosting plan
but cant use. (you might host them for later use or to sell them) |
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Stopgap Domain |
Number of stopgap-domains that can be hosted in a single plan.
A Stopgap is used to access your website when you don't have a domain
name. you can use FTP but you wont have email service. this is what a
stopgap would look like
123.uNNNN.providersdomain.com. |
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Redirect Url |
Number of redirectors.
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Domain alias |
Number of domain aliases.
Domain Alias points to another domain that you have and directs visitors
from that domain to another. example: you can direct your visitors from
www.yourwebsite.net to www.yourwebsite.com |
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IP Address |
IP address is either Shared or Dedicated
Shared IP means that you and other websites on the same server have the
same IP address but the server can recognize which website is requested
from the Domain name.
Dedicated IP means that your website will have its own IP, and when the
IP is used instead of your domain name you will always see your website,
where on a Shared IP you will get a different website (which are on the
same server of your website) each time you ask for the website using IP
address. |
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Virtual FTP Server
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Number of Virtual FTPs.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the way you can upload and download
files from your website and in bulk easily. |
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Anonymous FTP Server |
Number of Anonymous FTPs
Anonymous FTP means that you can give Anonymous user access to download
files from the FTP server. |
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Mailbox |
Number of emails that can be created using your Domain name zone. ex:
admin@yourwebsitename.com
support@yourwebsitename.com ..... |
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Mailing List |
Number of Mailing lists
A mailing list is a list of email addresses that are grouped and sending
an email to the list will be sent to the entire group. |
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Mail Forward |
Number of forwards allowed
Mail Forward means that you can forward the emails that you receive in
your website email to another email account. ex: forward
admin@yourwebsitename.com to your hotmail account john@hotmail.com |
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Email Auto Responder
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Number of auto responders allowed
Auto responders allows you to setup a default message that will be
emailed automatically to any email you receive. |
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Mail Box Alias |
Number of mail aliases allowed
Mail box alias let you receive more than one email to the same inbox. |
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Custom DNS Record |
Custom DNS Record allows you to host you website at a host and your
email at another host. |
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SSL |
Secure Sockets
Layer is a protocol for transmitting private documents via the internet |
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Crontab |
In Unix operating system you can schedule tasks and commands to be
executed periodically, these tasks and commands are saved in file named
Crontab. |