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Bandwidth / Transfer / Hits
Your Platinum account will have
25 Gig/month bandwidth on your shared hosting package.
Any outbound traffic from your web site is considered
data transfer. FTP uploads do not count as data
transfer. Each time a html file, graphic file or any
other element on your web page is loaded, data transfer
is generated.
For Instance, Gold Unix Accounts are limited to 5 GB/month
(about 300,000 hits/month on an average site). Any bandwidth above the maximum
for your account will be billed at $5/gig (if prepaid) or $10/gig (if paid
after you have used it). Gold accounts should upgrade to the Platinum account
for extra bandwidth since the Platinum account allows a lot more bandwidth.
Disk Storage
Disk storage refers
to the amount of server disk storage your account is
allocated. This space is used to store your html files,
graphics, audio/video files and all other files that
make up your web site. Your POP3 emails are not stored
in this space. You are allotted an extra 10 MB of space
for your mail spool on each email account.
Should you require additional space
for your content you will need to upgrade your account
to the Platinum package or if you already have the
Platinum package you may pay $9.95/month to add another 1500 megs to your disk space.
Actually, most web sites do not require more than 100 megs. In fact
6STAR.NET's web site, with all of the web pages and downloadable files, uses about
400
megs.
Number of Domains Per Server
We
do not overload our web servers. We bind 1 class C of IPs to each
machine (255 accounts). This ensures that your web site
loads fast and is always available to your
visitors. All servers are held at or below 50% capacity
in order to handle peak loads without slowing down your web site.
Domain
Registration
We are a Gold Premier
Partner which gives us the
ability to register your new domain name instantly. Network Solutions charges you
direct via postal mail for $35.00 per year. You are able
to register your domain for up to 10 years at a time for
large discounts on the yearly fee.
For instance, you will only
have to pay $12.95 when you register your domain for one year through us.
Additional years are only $9.95/year. The reseller cost is $10.95 for the first
year and $8.95 for additional years.
Static IP
Address
Every shared hosting account is
configured with a static IP address. This means that you
are given a unique set of numbers (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
specifically assigned to your web space. This allows you
to access your web site via a web browser or development
tool regardless of the status of your domain name.
Having your own IP address also gives you the
opportunity of publishing your web site to your new web
space before actually transferring your domain name to
our DNS. This results in no down time when transferring
your web site from another hosting company.
Personalized Nameservers
With
this feature, all
Whois database searches of domain names will show your company
name as the network your domains are hosted on for all the
domains you register. This is done by using your own
personal name servers instead of ours.
In other words, instead of using
"ns.6star.net" and "ns2.6star.net" as your name servers for
your domain name, personalized name servers will use "ns.YourDomain.com"
and "ns2.YourDomain.com" as your name servers.
Some of our
resellers who wish to remain totally anonymous may wish to use this
feature. Also, you may use our generic name servers for free. If you are not a reseller, you will not need this.
SiteMonster
Software
Need a free, custom site design? Use our proprietary SiteMonster software to make as many
custom web sites as you need. Our "Site
Builder" software can automatically create your web site for you (you don't
even need to know anything about HTML). Programmers charge Thousands for
just a simple 5 to10 page web site. Try it today!
Instant Setup Monster Control Panel (Unix only)
Once
we have setup your account, your web site's Monster Control Panel will allow you
to instantly setup anything you want. Our awesome Monster Control Panel will automatically setup
over two dozen "ready to run" software programs for your web site.
Also, it will allow you to setup all your email accounts, mailing lists, auto
responders, user accounts, databases, directory and file permissions, and
everything else that you'll ever need.
On top of this, it is your user
friendly interface to view all of your site statistics and web traffic access
reports (sorted in every way), and also links to all of the other things you
need such as tech support. In short, it gives you complete control of your
web site so that you can setup anything you want instantly.
Email Features
Email
Accounts
Each of our shared hosting
packages comes with unlimited POP3 email accounts in
addition to email forwards and aliases. You have the
option to retrieve email directly from POP3 mailboxes on
the mail server using an email program such as Eudora,
Outlook or Outlook Express or to access your email from
your web browser.
Email Aliases
/ Forwards
Using Email Aliases or forwards gives you the ability to receive any email at
*@yourdomain.com. Specific email addresses that you want
to forward out of your domain to another email account
can be accomplished through MonsterControls or by
editing your .redirect file within your /home directory.
For example you may want to forward all email addressed
to sales@yourdomain.com to an AOL account such as
Bob232@aol.com or another POP3 account on your domain bob@yourdomain.com. The best part about using aliases or
forwards is that the person emailing you never knows the
mail is being redirected.
Email
Autoresponders
An autoresponder is a
pre-determined message with information you want
automatically sent to anyone who emails a designated
email address/mailbox at your domain. You may setup as
many of these as you need.
PGP
PGP
is a program that adds privacy to your electronic mail
that you send through our network. It encrypts your mail
so that nobody but the intended person can read it. When
encrypted, the message looks like a meaningless jumble
of random characters. PGP has proven itself quite
capable of resisting even the most sophisticated forms
of analysis aimed at reading the encrypted text.
Mailing
Lists
You can create multiple mail lists
based on your customer's interests. You simply provide
customers with an email address they can send an email to and
be added to your personalized mailing list. As soon as
customers sign on they are sent a friendly welcome
message.
This is a great way to cost effectively
communicate with your customers through monthly
newsletters, sales updates or just a friendly hello.
Each list can hold 1000 names and a 75kb message can be
emailed to all the lists you create. We also have more
robust mailing lists for the Platinum Unix accounts called MajorDomo which is covered
separately in the "Advanced Features" area.
Personal
POP3 and SMTP
Servers
You have a personal POP3 and SMTP mail
server on each domain you host with us. This mail
server enables you to send mail out through your domain
at mail.yourdomain.com
WMail
(Unix), IMail (Windows)
Lets you view,
delete, send, receive and manage all of your email accounts through the
convenience of your web browser.
SendMail (Unix), ASP QMail (Windows)
Lets you
send email messages directly from your web page or from a form on your web page.
Technical Support
Platinum Level
Toll Free Technical Support
Guaranteed 24 x 7 tech support (All holidays
included) to answer all your questions.
Platinum Level
Email Technical Support
Guaranteed
Response time of 5 hours or less to tech support email
via our leading edge Ticket Monster support system.
Instant Setup Monster Control Panel (Unix only)
Once
we have setup your account, your web site's Monster Control Panel will allow you
to instantly setup anything you want. Our awesome Monster Control Panel will automatically setup
over two dozen "ready to run" software programs for your web site.
Also, it will allow you to setup all your email accounts, mailing lists, auto
responders, user accounts, databases, directory and file permissions, and
everything else that you'll ever need.
On top of this, it is your user
friendly interface to view all of your site statistics and web traffic access
reports (sorted in every way), and also links to all of the other things you
need such as tech support. In short, it gives you complete control of your
web site so that you can setup anything you want instantly.
Monster Chat
Live chat with our friendly
tech support experts. They will talk to you "one on one" in a
private online Monster Chat room.
99.9% Uptime Guarantee
We
guarantee that 99.9% of the time that your web site will
be accessible via IP address to the world. The IP
address is the numerical value equivalent to
www.yourdomain.com. If your web site is not online 99.9%
of the time we will refund the percentage of your
monthly hosting fees equal to the downtime.
30
Day Money Back Guarantee
If for any reason
you are not completely satisfied with 6Star.net's
services we will gladly refund all monthly fees you have
paid if you cancel within the first 30 days of
signup.
Personal Representative
You will have a dedicated
representative from 6Star.net to help you every day with any questions or problems that may
arise. This dedicated representative will always be your
personal contact.
Ecommerce
FREE Shopping
Cart Systems
We have two FREE shopping cart
systems installed with every Unix account.
Let's Take an Order
Is the simplest shopping cart
solution and lets you add all of your products into a
one page
HTML document that will sort your products with price,
quantity and other attributes you set. It lets you
create a custom receipt and order page and emails both
you and the customer when an order is completed.
The Boutique Shopping Cart system
Is a very robust shopping cart system which will empower you to setup a complete
store with different departments and categories for your products.
More detailed information about both of these shopping carts and a demo may
be seen by viewing our web page of FREE
Pre-installed Ready-to-Run Programs.
Free Merchant Account
A Free
merchant account will save you the normal $595 setup cost. This will allow
you to accept and instantly process charge cards on your web site.
Miva Merchant Commercial Shopping Cart System
We
fully support this industry leading shopping cart system and will install it for
you. We CAN give you a FREE license
to use it without having to buy it for $550. However, as much as we would
love to give you this system for a few dollars/month, Miva requires that
everyone charge a bare minimum of $19.95/month. Sorry, but we are FORCED
to charge you this much (it's required by the Miva license agreement).
Miva Merchant Order
This is a scaled down version of the "Full Blown" Miva Merchant
shopping cart system. It will provide you with the ability to setup a 25
item store for $4.95/month.
Cybercash
A service that
connects a storefront or web site to the CyberCash
payment services, enabling businesses to accept secure,
real-time credit card payments at their web sites.
Secure Server (SSL)
All shared hosting accounts are
provided with secure server access. Any sensitive
information such as credit card information that can be
encrypted before transmission through a web browser. SSL
will light up the key in your customer's browser,
greatly increasing customer trust when buying from your
site.
SSH -
Secure Shell
The industry standard for
encrypting terminal connections and file transfer over
the Internet.
Server Side Includes
(SSI)
Lets
you embed CGI and PHP scripts into your web pages. The scripts
will execute automatically when the web page is
opened.
Password Protected Pages
Protect
directories within your web site so that only approved
username and password combinations gain access.
PHP
A
server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting
language.
MS
Transaction Server (Windows only)
Microsoft Transaction Server is a component-based
transaction processing system for developing, deploying, and managing
high-performing, scalable, and robust enterprise, internet, and intranet server
applications.
Chat
Software
Java
Chatroom
Chatroom that you can install on
your domain that will let your users login and converse
about topics you set or random topics set by the
users.
Volcano Chatroom
A more
sophisticated chat room with the ability to have
personal, restricted chat rooms, auditoriums for
moderated events, membership database support,
server-side event reporting and chat message
logging.
Additional
Software
FrontPage
Extensions
The Microsoft
FrontPage 2002 web site creation and management tool
gives users everything you need to easily create and
manage great web sites. You are required to own and
install the FrontPage 98, 2000 or 2002 software on your
home system.
Real Audio / Video
We
provide full support for RealMedia technology from
RealNetworks to stream audio and video from your web
site. Streaming allows your users to see or hear your
multimedia files without having to download them to
their local PCs first.
Web Based
Control Panel (MonsterControls)
This is
our proprietary Monster Control Panel
web administration system which allows
you to perform all aspects of your web site
administration.
You can add/edit your email redirects
and forwards, setup and manage your databases and mailing lists and
autoresponders, password protect directories and manage
the username/password combinations, download your raw
access-logs, manage your site with SiteManager (create,
edit and upload files to your web space). You can also
change read, write or executable permissions on any of
the files or directories in your web site plus much
more.
Miva
Empresa
Enables your server with XML based
Miva Script, commerce processing and database. Miva
Script applications running under Miva Empresa execute
in a sandboxed data and runtime environment. Special
virtual domain and shared server features let busy site
administrators create per user and per domain runtime
environments.
Support for Plugins
Support for
Vream (Virtual Reality Authority Software), Voxware,
Vivo Active, Midi and IPIX, Sizzler, Fractal,
FutureSplash, Infinop's Wavelet Image Compression,
VocalTec Internet Phone, TrueSpeech Digital Audio, VRML,
Macromedia's Shockwave.
Wireless Application Protocol Ready
(WAP)
Allow your clients and potential
customers to view your web site on Palm Pilots, cellular phones,
pagers and other wireless devices with Internet
access.
Online Data Bases
MySQL Databases (Unix only)
A
database is a structured collection of data. It may be
anything from a simple shopping list to a picture
gallery or the vast amounts of information in a
corporate network.
To add, access and process data
stored in a computer database, you need a database
management system such as MySQL. Since computers
are very good at handling large amounts of data,
database management plays a central role in computing,
as stand-alone utilities or as parts of other
applications.
Microsoft
SQL Server (Windows only)
Microsoft SQL server is capable of supporting even the most
demanding web applications. Microsoft SQL Server is a robust enterprise-caliber
relational database server that is designed for enterprise databases. It is similar
to and competes with Oracle and Informix.
Microsoft Access / FoxPro (Windows only)
Microsoft Access comes bundled
with Microsoft Office Pro enabling you to connect your database on your PC to update
and manage your production database on your servers. Powerful and fully
compatible with ASP scripting, this feature is available on NT servers
only. FoxPro is a popular database than can be deployed on any NT server for
high-end database functionality.
Advanced
Features
CGI-Bin
Directory setup with
special permissions to auto-execute user-defined
scripts. CGI is used to accomplish tasks which are not
supported by basic HTML such as a hit counter or guest
book. You may use this directory to execute any cgi-script you write or ones that are already
pre-written for you. The directory is specially designed
for scripts that end in *.pl or scripts that end in .cgi
which are executable script files.
Pre-Installed CGI-scripts
(Unix 30, Windows 4)
We
offer many pre-written scripts available FREE for
your use. These include hit counters, two shopping cart
systems, two guest books, bulletin board system, visitor links
page, random quote displayer, and much more. To
see a list of these scripts and a demo of each one, please check out our FREE
Pre-installed Ready-to-Run Programs web page.
Custom MIME
Types
Adds the ability for serving
multiple content types such as midi files, special audio
formats and others.
Unix Shells: bash,
csh,
tcsh (Unix only)
Each shared server has 3 different
shells available letting you choose which you are most
comfortable scripting in.
Perl, C, C++, Java
JDK, Python
& TCL Compilers
Various types of
scripting languages / shells that are installed on all
Unix servers. We is support the latest version of each one.
Emacs (Unix only)
An extensible,
customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor
that is used in a UNIX shell.
Pine, vi, elm, Joe,
Pico & Cron Tab and .htaccess (Unix only)
Pine is
an easy to use UNIX shell-based email client that
organizes your emails complete with address book, sent
items and inbox. VI, JOE and PICO are text editors that
lets you create and edit files within telnet. ELM is a very simple email program that lets you just send and
receive emails from within your telnet shell. CRON TAB
is similar to an alarm clock, it executes set commands
at user-defined times. .HTACCESS lets you setup password
protected directories within your web site.
Majordomo
This is a very
flexible tool for interacting with your customers or
clients. In simple terms it's an interactive style
newsletter that allows all subscribers to distribute
information. There are many configurable features
including automatic subscribe and unsubscribe and much
more. When one authorized user emails the Majordomo listserver that
email is sent out to everyone on the list to read.
Also, it can be setup as a send only mailing list for
your newsletters or as a moderated mailing list where you
can allow everyone to send messages after you approve
them.
Cold Fusion (Windows only)
Cold fusion is a sophisticated scripting
language for web developers that want advanced site development and database
interfacing. Cold Fusion supports MS Access, dBase, FoxPro, and Paradox
databases.
Custom Error Documents
By
placing a file in your main directory called
missing.html, you will be able to provide a customized
page to any viewer that requests a file with their
browser that does not exist on your domain.
Website
Management
FTP
File Transfer Protocol or
the method used to "upload" your web site files to
storage space on our network. You have unlimited access
to your domain via FTP 24 hours a day to setup, change
and manipulate your web site. Our network is
compatible with any FTP client you choose to use.
Anonymous
FTP
Capability of setting up a public area
where anonymous users can upload and download files from
your web server.
Telnet
Telnet is a
telecommunications software utility which allows you to
become a user on a remote computer. Once you access the
remote terminal, you can use it for its intended
purposes. Unlike FTP, the telnet utility does not allow
you to transfer and save files to your own
computer.
Website
Monitoring
Daily
Backups
We do daily backups of your sites
data and your email spool file. In the event you lose or
corrupt any of your data you may request a restore from
our technical support department.
Site Listed
With All Search Engines
We will, upon
request, automatically
list your site with the top search engines by your
sites keywords, title and meta tags. This is a free
service included with all accounts.
Raw Access
Logs
These are the text logs showing every
hit to your site and what the user downloaded, accessed
or viewed. For statistical analysis you can download
these to compile on your local machine in programs like
Web Trends or other site analysis programs.
Graphical Referrer
Logs
This is an extended logging feature
that documents where each visitor to your site came
from. You will know if they found you through a search
engine or a web site link. It will show you the search
engines queried and what keywords or sentences
they typed in to find your web site. This is invaluable
information when trying to determine if marketing
campaigns are paying off.
Wusage
7.0 (Unix only)
This is a very powerful tool for
graphically tracking visitors to your site. It provides
you with statistics on how long visitors stay at your site,
what pages they visited and the order in which they were
visited. It also provides the most popular entry/exit
pages, what browsers your visitors use, which countries
your site is most popular in and with referrer logs
activated it will graphically capture how the user found
your web site. Wusage can be configured to run nightly
or weekly.
Media House LiveStats (Windows only)
All Windows-based shared hosting accounts
come with Media House LiveStats Log Analyzer with Referrer Logs. Media House
LiveStats Log Analyzer
will analyze the log file of a web server and will create a comprehensive
summary report from the information gathered.
Bandwidth Consumption Meter
The Bandwidth
Consumption Meter will tell you how much bandwidth you have used so far during
the current month and give you a projected figure for the total which will be
used by the end of the month.
Disk Usage Meter
The Disk Usage Meter will
tell you how much disk space you have used and how much free space remains.
Microsoft Development Software
(Windows
servers only)
Visual Interdev 6.0 (Windows only)
Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 empowers
web application developers to rapidly build fully interactive, dynamic web
sites. With visual development features and powerful database tools, Visual
InterDev provides the most complete and technically advanced development system
for building both intranet and Internet applications.
Microsoft NetShow (Windows only)
A Multimedia application for streaming
audio and video.
FrontPage Subwebs (Windows only)
You are given administrator permissions to your web site allowing you to create
and delete sub-webs on your own. (ie: www.domain.com/company1) Each sub-web can
have its own home page.
This is very useful if you would like to organize your
web site into different sections or you would like to have multiple web sites
within your main account. There is no limit to how many sub-webs you can have as
long as you stay within your designated hosting plan's storage and bandwidth
guidelines.
FrontPage 2002 Web Site Creation Tool
The Microsoft FrontPage 2002 web site creation and management tool gives you
everything you need to easily create and manage great web sites. You are
required to own and install the FrontPage 98, 2000 or 2002 software on your home
system. We have FrontPage extensions installed on all servers for every account.
MS
Index Server (Windows only)
Microsoft Index Server is a full-text indexing and search engine for
Internet Information Server. It allows any Web browser to search documents for
key words, phrases, or properties.
Drumbeat
2000 (Windows only)
Drumbeat 2000(tm) is the fastest, easiest way to build Web interfaces to
databases and applications using Active Server Pages (ASP) - without manual
coding.
Active
Server Pages (Windows only)
ASP (Active Server Pages) is enabled on all of our shared Windows web servers. ASP can be used to create, complex, consumer oriented
web applications such as shopping carts and personnel oriented databases. This
is usually accomplished in conjunction with MS Access and MS SQL Server.
ASP Components (Windows only)
We install the most commonly used ASP Components from ServerObjects.com
Hardware and Network
Server
Hardware
Each shared server has the
fastest Dual Intel Pentium processors and 512 MB + of RAM. Our
servers are custom built to our needs and spare parts
are kept in inventory in case of hardware failure. We
keep 10 pre-built machines in inventory at all times
ensuring that if the entire server fails we can swap the
hard disk or other part into another server and have it back online
within 5-10 minutes.
Server Operating System
Each of
our shared Unix servers runs a custom version of Red Hat
Linux with Apache Web Server. Our Windows servers run
Windows 2000 with MS Internet Information Server.
Network
Connectivity
Your web site will be hosted
within our primary state-of-the-art data center - CDC-01
in Bedford, Texas. This site has fully redundant power,
air-conditioning and fiber connectivity. CDC-01 has many
multi-homed backbone providers of OC-3 and OC-12 connections (directly to the Internet backbone) each connecting thru OC-48
or OC-192 connections for fast and extremely reliable
connectivity.
Uninterruptible power with UPS and backup
generator
Every server is connected to a
3000W Compaq UPS device and our data center power is
backed by a 235,000W Diesel-powered generator ensuring
that even during the longest power outages your web
server remains online.
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