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Server Features
Bandwidth / Transfer / Hits
You have unlimited 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.
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. Should you require additional space for your
content you will need to upgrade your account to the next shared package.
Memory
This is the amount of RAM your server will come pre-equipped with.
Number of Domains Per Server
We do not overload our web servers. We bind 1 class C (256) of Ips to each
machine. This ensure that your web site loads fast and is always available
to your visitors.
Domain Name Registration
American Netlink has working relationships with the world's largest Domain
Name Registrar's (DNR). This gives us the ability to register your new
domain name within 5 minutes of your order.
Static IP Addresses
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.
Private Name servers
ns and ns2.youractualdomain.com protect your identity and to anyone doing a
whois? query appears as though you maintain your own servers and DNS.
Perfect for a reseller or business hosting multiple domain names.
Setup Time
Setup time is the time it takes us from the time we receive your payment
until the time your machine is online and ready to use.
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.
Email Aliases / Forwards
Using Email Aliases or forwarders gives you the ability to receive any email
at *@youractualdomain.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@youractualdomain.com
to an AOL account such as Bob232@aol.com or another POP3 account on your
domain bob@youractualdomain.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.
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.
Mail Lists
You can create multiple mail lists based on your customer's interests. You
provide customers 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.
Personal SMTP Server
You have a personal SMTP mail server on each domain you host with American
Netlink. This mail server enables you to send mail out through your domain
at mail.youractualdomain.com
MonsterMail
Lets you view, delete and manage all of your email accounts through the
convenience of your web browser.
EXT3 File System Architecture
Availability
After an unclean system shutdown (unexpected power failure, system crash),
each ext2 file system cannot be mounted until its consistency has been
checked by the e2fsck program. The amount of time that the e2fsck program
takes is determined primarily by the size of the file system, and for
today's relatively large (many tens of gigabytes) file systems, this takes a
long time. Also, the more files you have on the file system, the longer the
consistency check takes. File systems that are several hundreds of gigabytes
in size may take an hour or more to check. This severely limits
availability.
By contrast, ext3 does not require a file system check, even after an
unclean system shutdown, except for certain rare hardware failure cases
(e.g. hard drive failures). This is because the data is written to disk in
such a way that the file system is always consistent. The time to recover an
ext3 file system after an unclean system shutdown does not depend on the
size of the file system or the number of files; rather, it depends on the
size of the "journal" used to maintain consistency. The default journal size
takes about a second to recover (depending on the speed of the hardware).
Data Integrity
Using the ext3 file system can provide stronger guarantees about data
integrity in case of an unclean system shutdown. You choose the type and
level of protection that your data receives. You can choose to keep the file
system consistent, but allow for damage to data on the file system in the
case of unclean system shutdown; this can give a modest speed up under some
but not all circumstances. Alternatively, you can choose to ensure that the
data is consistent with the state of the file system; this means that you
will never see garbage data in recently-written files after a crash. The
safe choice, keeping the data consistent with the state of the file system,
is the default.
Ext3 by default imposes stricter ordering than the other journalling
filesystems in order to improve _data_ consistency, as opposed to the
guarantee of consistent _metadata_ as most other filesystems do).
Speed
Despite writing some data more than once, ext3 is often faster (higher
throughput) than ext2 because ext3's journaling optimizes hard drive head
motion.
Microsoft .NET
.NET it is a unified Web development platform that provides the services
necessary for developers to build enterprise-class Web applications. While
ASP.NET is largely syntax-compatible with ASP, it also provides a new
programming model and infrastructure that enables a powerful new class of
applications. You can augment your existing ASP applications by
incrementally adding ASP.NET functionality to them.
Estimated Maximum Total Web Pages
Estimated Maximum Total Web Pages" is American Netlink's estimate for the
maximum upper threshold that this account is designed for. While it is
possible to host additional web pages within your space it may slow the
performance of your web site and cause it to load and operate slower than we
would like.
Estimated Maximum Web Site Hits/Month
Estimated Maximum Web Site Hits/Month" is American Netlink's estimate for
the maximum upper threshold of site hits that this account is designed for.
Keep in mind that each unique user to your site is considered 1 hit and each
time that user its another web page that is considered an additional hit.
While it is possible to take on additional web site hits within your space
it may slow the performance of your web site and cause it to load and
operate slower than we would like.
Estimated Maximum Company Employees Using Site
Estimated Maximum Company Employees Using Site" is American Netlink's
estimate for the maximum upper threshold of employees that this account is
designed for. While your company may have more associates or employees using
this web site account for email and for communication purposes, it may slow
the performance of your web site and cause it to load and operate slower
than we would like.
Technical Support
MonsterChat
Lets you chat in real-time with our support technicians. This exclusive
software is available to every American Netlink client 24 hours a day, 7
days a week.
24 Hour Toll Free Support
No busy signals, no long distance calls for technical support, sales,
billing and quality assurance. You have 24 hour access to our technicians
for any support you may need with no limits or restrictions.
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.youractualdomain.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 American Netlink's
services we will gladly refund all monthly fees you have paid if you cancel
within the first 30 days of signup.
Detailed Online Billing
View your past and current invoices, payments, account history and services
online 24 hours a day.
Complete Server Automation Scripts
Each server comes configured with our proprietary account robots that will
let you easily add domains, add users, setup features server wide or on just
1 account, install FrontPage 2002, Real Audio / Video and much more.
Ecommerce
Shopping Cart System
This simple shopping cart solution lets you add all of your products into a
1 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.
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 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.
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.
Volano 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 2002
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 or 2000 software and on
your home system.
Real Audio / Video 8.0
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 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 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
directory 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.
mSQL / mySQL Databases
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 mSQL/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.
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 cellular
phones, pages and other wireless devices with Internet access.
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 as
scripts that end in .cgi will execute from any directory within your web
space.
Pre-Installed CGI-scripts
We offer several pre-written scripts available free for your use. These
include hit counters, a shopping cart system, guest book, bulletin board
system, visitor links page, random quote displayer, and much more.
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
Each shared server has 3 different shells available letting you choose which
you are most comfortable scripting in.
Perl 5.6.0, C, C++, java jdk 1.4, Python 1.5.2 and Python
2.1.1 & TCL 8.3 Compilers
Various types of scripting languages / shells that are installed on all
American Netlink machines.
Emacs
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
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
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 user
emails the Majordomo listserver that email is sent out to everyone on the
list to read.
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.
SharePoint Team Services
The SharePoint Team Services technology gives users the ability to quickly
create and contribute to team or project-focused Web sites from within their
browser or Office XP applications. With SharePoint Team Services, teams can
create a quick Web site for sharing information such as documents,
calendars, announcements, and other postings. And, Web sites created with
SharePoint Team Services are easy to customize and manage—even for those who
have never created a Web site before.
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. American
Netlink's 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 List With 2500 Search Engines
We automatically list your site with the top 2500 search engines by your
sites keywords, title and meta tags.
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 MediaHouse LiveStats
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 users 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 8.0
This is a very powerful tool for graphically tracking visitors to your site.
It provides you 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.
Hardware and Network
Server Hardware
Each shared server is Dual Pentium III-1 GHz or faster with 1000 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 into another server and have it back online within 5-10
minutes.
Server Operating System
Each of our shared servers runs a custom version of Red Hat Linux with
Apache Web Server 1.3.23.
Network Connectivity
Your web site will be hosted within our primary state-of-the-art data center
- ANL-01 in Bedford, Texas. This site has fully redundant power,
air-conditioning and fiber connectivity. ANL-01 has 5 T3 connections to the
Internet each connecting thru OC-48 or OC-192 connections for fast and
extremely reliable connectivity. It also has 10 backup T1 connections used
in case of emergency fiber cuts.
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 245,000W Diesel-powered generator ensuring that even
during the longest power outages your web server remains online.
Load Balancing ($175/mo. + $175 startup)
Load-balancing is a process of connecting multiple servers together in order
to increase performance, reliability, and capacity of your web applications.
If your web site or applications demands 100% server uptime and greater
reliability and speed our load balancing solution is perfect for you.
Note: This features requires a second server.
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