WINDOWS HOSTING

All accounts will be activated within 3 hours or less.

Additional domains allow a site owner to host unique additional domains and websites using the hosting control panel. Additional domains are very useful for hosting client sites, prototype sites, or sites for friends and family. Alternate domains can be used as "pointers" or used to host additional fully functional websites, and email accounts. Additional domains are completely individualized and each has its own set of configuration options, separate from the primary hosted domain.

The total disk space storage, listed in megabytes, for all HTML and related web site files, emails, log files, and stats. Site owners who require more space can simply add storage space as needed.

Bandwidth is the total amount of data sent to and from your hosting service in any given month (often referred to as 'network transfer'). Hostlantic offers a generous amount of bandwidth as demanded by the type of clients we host.

Should a site owner exceed their allocated bandwidth, our server will notify you by email and present you with some simple options for upgrading your account.

Our versatile email system permits a site owner to create numerous email addresses. Email features include POP3 account creation, 100% Virus Free Email and webmail.

To upload files to your webhosting space, you require an FTP account. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and as the name suggested is used to transfer files. To transfer files, you can download the FTP program from the internet for free.

Dedicated IP address is a unique address in which your site is assigned to. If your hosting plan does not come with a dedicated IP, you can add this feature for an additional of $1.95/monthly to your existing plan.

Plesk is a friendly user interface control panel. Plesk allows you to easily control all hosting accounts of yours. With a click of the button you will be able to create and manage your mail accounts, databases, access files, set up a shopping cart and much more.

The Instant Scripts Installer is a web application services installer, which can install and manage over 30 popular BLOGS, FORUMS, CMS and many more, automatically through the Web Hosting Control Panel.

Build your own Web Site in a few simple steps online! Sitebuilder Express is a browser-based WYSIWYG application for creating and editing websites that allows you to create, modify and update your own website without any tehnical HTML know-how. It contains dozens of valuable new product features, improvements and updates and includes an easy to use wizard that can be used with programs such as photo gallery, e-shop, PayPal, blogs, and much more.

In addition to Daily Backup, our control panel gives you to option to make an Acronis 'instant' backup of your entire hosting account with us. It will archive your account and provide you with a link to download the backup. You can then use this backup file to restore your account on our servers if need be.
This backup gets everything associated with your account: e-mail accounts (including the passwords and messages still on the system), FTP accounts, add-on/sub/parked domains, databases, mailing lists, EVERYTHING that is setup with the account.

All shared and reseller hosting accounts are on the Hostlantic backup network. Your data is saved on a daily basis by our remote backup system. In the unlikely event of a disk failure, we can quickly restore users' data.

Prices will never increase regardless of how long you stay with us.

We are so sure that you will love hosting with us, that we back up all of our hosting plans with a 45 day money back guarantee. If you are in any way dissatisfied within your first 45 days of service, we will refund your money (excluding setup fees and overage charges).

Web based front-end administration tools are included free of charge in order to manage your MySQL and Microsoft SQL database(s). They allow users to create, modify, and delete tables and data without the knowledge of the more complex SQL commands. External access to the database servers is also allowed for you to access and manage your database directly from your desktop.

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.

MS Access is the most popular small database in windows web application

Highly scalable, Microsoft SQL is the perfect choice for handling your e-commerce site or enterprise application. Microsot SQL Server is capable of handling hundreds of thousands of transactions per day.

MySQL is the most popular open-source database in use on the web today. It offers simple maintenance, rich data types, robust operation and extremely fast query capabilities. Additionally, it is integrated very tightly with scripting language such as PHP, simplifying the process of creating dynamic web sites.

ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) DSN's (Data Source Name) are included in all of our hosting plans. It allows simple connectivity to Microsoft SQL, MySQL and file based data storage.

Allows you to manage your domains and perform various tasks related to its management.

All domain contact details can be edited as needed.

REGISTRAR-LOCK is a status code that can be set on an Internet domain name by its registrar. This is usually done in order to prevent unauthorized, unwanted or accidental changes to the domain name`s status.

The EPP transfer authorization code is required when transferring any .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us, .name, .tv, .tw and .cn domain name from one registrar to another. The transfer authorization code can be obtained from the domain`s current registrar.

ID protect insures that your private contact information is not visible in the domain WHOIS. It is held in confidentiality and protected by our Domain Privacy Protection Service. The contact information is displayed to provide you with the highest level of protection against spammers and identity theft. ID Protection is available only for .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info domains that registered by us.

Sub Domains are popular for hosting unique content at a URL similar to "http://subdomain.domain.com/".

Domain Aliases can be used as an exact replication of any domains. For example, you could host both yourdomain.com and anotherdomain.net, and each will have the same email accounts, website and all the other settings of the master domain.

Hostlantic offers FREE Domain Parking. You can point unlimited domains to Hostlantic without a fee! This service has been created to accommodate customers who need domains (www.yourcompany.com) registered but are not yet ready for a Web site.

All domains can be set up as a web forwarding.

You can activate your domain and personalize your email and web service. You can manage Zone data file and MX records as you see fit.

You have the option to configure DNS to match your domain name. For example: ns1.yourdomain.com; ns2.yourdomain.com.

You can use your existing domain name you have registered elsewhere.

Agora is another of the fully featured shopping cart that can be installed with a click of the mouse. For more info, click here.

osCommerce shopping cart is the industry-standard for open source shopping cars. It is a full featured e-commerce system that is completely customizable and able to meet even enterprise level applications' needs. With its robust feature set, it's no wonder thousands of web businesses choose osCommerce as the cornerstone of their online businesses. Whatever it is you're selling, osCommerce can simplify the process.

Zen Cart™, the Shopping Cart Designed for Online Merchants with a user-friendly shopping cart interface. Zen Cart™ can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic web site building and computer skills.

CubeCart is a powerful eCommerce script written with PHP & MySQL. With CubeCart you can setup a powerful online store.

Google Checkout is an online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at simplifying the process of paying for online purchases. Users store their credit or debit card and shipping information in their Google Account, so that they can purchase at participating stores at the click of a button. Google Checkout also offers fraud protection, as well a unified page for tracking purchases and their status.

PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. It serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as cheques and money orders.

All of shared and reseller hosting accounts can make use of the global machine SSL Certificate. 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.

Private SSL certificates require a dedicated IP address at $1.95/month. We can install a private SSL certificate you may already have for a $10 install fee. You can also purchase an optional dedicated/private SSL from us including installation.

Your hosting control panel includes an easy to use web interface that allows you to password protect directories on your site. For a given directory, you can allow access to as many or as few people as you like.

McAffee HackerSafe (previouly know as ScanAlert) is a 3rd party security certification service. Our system has been optimized to use HackerSafe certification for your ecommerce site.

Every email user has access to our web based email system that permits sending and receiving email directly over the web. This feature is great for email users who are traveling or are in remote locations.

Includes contacts database system.

Includes a very robust calendaring system. With notification schedules, tasks, and recurrence rules, SmarterMail 4.x can completely replace your desktop calendaring solution.

Matching email with your domain name, similar to yourname@yourdomain.com.

The Email Management ties into our Control Panel and allows you to manage all your email accounts, aliases, forwards, autoresponders, and mailing lists.

Multiple Recipient Addresses are just like email forwarders (below), however, Multiple Recipient Addresses, as the name suggested are used to forward to more than one email address at a time. This feature can be used as a simple method of emailing a group of people or as a mailing list and recipients can be altered at any time via the control panel.

Using forwarders, a site owner can choose to quickly forward email to other addresses on a permanent or temporary basis. Such as "john@yourdomain.com" can be forwarded to "john@yahoo.com".

All email accounts can be caught into a single account in your domain.

Email Auto responders are useful for email users who are away from their emails (on vacation for instance) who would like an automated response sent back whenever an email is sent to them. Responders are also great for businesses who publicly list role-based or generic email addresses such as "sales@yourdomain.com".

Spam Filtering/Protection are now included with all hosting accounts! Once a paid feature, our spam solutions use accurate spam detection and prevention technologies to keep your mailboxes as spam-free as possible.

All Hostlantic email services are protected with supreme Dr. Web Virus Protection software allowing Hostlantic to offer 100% Virus Free Email (known viruses only - since it would be impossible to protect from brand new threats instantly). This service is included free of charge. Terms and conditions apply.

All POP3 accounts hosted with Hostlantic are also IMAP enabled! IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a method for accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a (possibly shared) mail server. In other words, it permits a client email program to access stored remote messages as if they were local. For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be accessed from a desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook computer while traveling, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between these computers.

In addition to email forwarding, users have the option to retrieve and send email directly from their POP3 mailboxes on the mail server using an email program such as Eudora, Microsoft Outlook or web based email. POP3 email accounts are accounts that you setup using your domain name ie sales@yourdomain.com or nancy@yourdomain.com. Our SMTP servers allow you to send mail from your domain as well. You can manage your POP3 email accounts easily in your Control Panel. Every email service has its own secure outbound email server which ultimately simplifies the aspect of sending outbound email from a site owner's domain. Your SMTP server will also be password protected so that spammers cannot use your domain as a "free relay service" to cause serious problems. The SMTP gateway is constantly sync with your POP3 email accounts so multiple passwords do not have to be remembered.

SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is an extension of SMTP that stops email spammers from forging the "From" fields in an email. SPF Protection is one method that can be used to stop spam from being sent using unauthorized domain names.

Microsoft's new implementation of their IIS web server mail component that can be used with any web-based scripts. This component is replacing the CDONTS mail component.

All Hostlantic email servers have a secondary mail server backup - in the event your primary mail server is unreachable, a backup one will collect mail messages and forward them to the primary mail server once it is available again, ensuring that you do not lose a single message. The backup services can also be used by those hosting email off-site such as Microsoft Exchange based setups.

This application by Microsoft helps you to listen to audio and watch video tracks without completely downloading them from the Web, that is, you are able to play .avi or .wav files just from the Internet.

This software allows audio and video files to be played without waiting for its full download from the Web.

Our servers support different kinds of multimedia formats. To make real audio active, you just need to add corresponding entries to the general MIME types. It will help web server to map the content correctly.

Shockwave is a technology that allows animations, interactive forms, games and other jazzed-up features to be embedded in web pages. Shockwave allows people to access to some of the best the Web has to offer - including dazzling 3D games and entertainment, interactive product demonstrations, and online learning applications.

Macromedia Flash Player is a well-known and trustworthy plug-in that users should feel comfortable installing. Flash plays small, fast multimedia buttons, as well as interactive animations, flying logos, and graphics created in Macromedia Flash. All our servers support applications to use this format and Flash technologies.

FREE submission to major search engines by your sites keywords, title and meta tags.

Thanks to a special arrangement between Hostlantic and Google, it costs you nothing to get started with Google AdWords. You create your own ads, choose keywords to help Google match your ads to your prospective customers, and pay only when someone clicks on them. You can set your own budget and update your campaign at any time. No commitment, no minimum spending requirement, no obligation of any kind. Promotional code will be generated and given after 45 days your account host with us.

.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.

Microsoft ASP is still the easiest and fastest web development language to use, even when compared to ASP.NET.

Linux is currently the most popular, freely-distributable open source operating system, which can runs on a number of hardware platforms. The Linux kernel was originally developed by Linus Torvalds. Since it is free of charge, and because it has such high platform compatibility (this includes PCs and Macintoshes), Linux has become an extremely popular alternative to paid operating platforms. Apache is a freely distributed Web server that is available under an "open source" license. According to a popular web server survey, 60% of web sites on the World Wide Web are using Apache, easily making Apache more widely used than all other Web servers combined.

Hostlantic offers our clients a powerful web based control panel that among other things allows you to select Microsoft ASP.NET v2.0 or ASP.Net v1.1 for your web applications. Microsoft ASP.NET is the sucessor to Microsoft ASP and is the next generation in web development languages. ASP.NET combines unprecedented developer productivity with performance, reliability, and deployment. Learn more at http://www.asp.net/learnmore

All customers have access to a personal /cgi-bin directory in which you can place your own custom CGI scripts. CGI scripts are often used to accomplish tasks which are not supported by basic HTML such as a "hit counter" or a "guest book". We also offer several pre-written scripts, available free for your use including a web form to email script, hit counter, discussion board, meta tag search, guestbook, web board, and search engine. Many free CGI scripts are readily available on the Web. Just search on 'free CGI scripts' on any search engine.

With ColdFusion, you can build and deploy powerful web applications and web services with far less training time and fewer lines of code than ASP, PHP, and JSP. The latest version includes powerful features for gateway applications, business reporting, webpage printing, form building and so much more.

You can use CF Tags to manage interactions with server files. Supported CF Tags are CFOBJECT, CFCONTENT, CFREGISTRY, CFDIRECTORY, CFADMINSECURITY, CFFILE, CFFTP, CFLOG, CFMAPPING, CFMAIL.

Crontab is a Unix command for scheduling jobs which will be executed sometime in the future. A cron is usually used to schedule a task that is executed periodically - for example, to send out an e-mail message to specified people every month. Being a daemon process, it runs continuously, waiting for specific events to occur.

Curl is command line tool for transfering files with URL syntax.

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.

Thanks to w3 JMail it is now possible to send and retrieve e-mail from any client without the use of a mail program. w3 JMail can be used by developers to send and receive e-mail from their ASP code or Windows program in a very simple way. Not only is it possible to send e-mails, w3 JMail now also features retrieval of e-mails, encryption and advanced massmailing features.

Dimac JMail.NET, the eagerly awaited successor of our world-wide renowned COM-component w3 JMail, is a 100% native .NET class library created from scratch in C#. With its rich and powerful API and full MIME, POP3 and SMTP support, JMail.NET has everything you need to cover all of your e-mailing needs in .NET.

w3 SiteSecurity addresses the common problem of adding and tuning security on a web site in an easy and fast manner.

With Dreamweaver, web developers go from start to finish, creating and maintaining basic websites to advanced applications that support best practices and the latest technologies. Macromedia Dreamweaver by Adobe supports and guides users as their skills grow and web technologies evolve, facilitating easy and quick adoption of new technologies and methodologies. With Dreamweaver and Flash Video, it's a snap to place video content on the web. Drag and drop Flash Video into Dreamweaver to quickly incorporate video to websites and applications.

The file manager is a file browser with which you can upload, copy, move, edit and delete files. It can be also used for changing the permissions of your files and folders.

You can also upload and manage your files directly from our control panel under "File Manager".

This makes your web site management easier if you have a third party designer. You can also use FTP as a transfer method to store files on your web server as needed. With plentiful FTP accounts you can give each of your employees their own storage area.

GD is an ANSI library dynamic creation of images. GD creates PNG and JPEG images, among other formats. We stay up to date with the latest GD version.

This is a tool, which prevents others from using your images on their website at your expense by preventing external links directly to your image files of the following types: .gif, jpg, .bmp.

Windows Server 2003 operating systems take the best of Windows 2000 Server technology and make it easier to deploy, manage, and use. The result: a highly productive infrastructure that helps make your network a strategic asset for your organization.

Windows Server 2003 includes all the functionality customers need today from a Windows Server operating system to do more with less, such as security, reliability, availability, and scalability. In addition, Microsoft has improved and extended the Windows server operating systems to incorporate the benefits of Microsoft .NET for connecting information, people, systems, and devices.

ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many formats. We stay up to date on the latest version.

IonCube Loader is a PHP extension created by IonCube Ltd that works to decode PHP scripts previously encoding by the ionCube PHP Encoder package.

IP deny manager allows you to block whoever you want from being able to visit your site.

ISAPI URL Rewrite is a powerful URL manipulation engine based on the regular expressions. It acts mostly like Apache's mod_Rewrite but was designed for Microsoft IIS web server. It can be used to allow dynamic pages be indexed by search engines, stop hotlinking, proxy another server content, manipulate incoming request headers and strengthen server security. It supports regexp rules and conditions to create really flexible URL manipulations.

Developed by Microsoft, FrontPage Extensionshelp the features of its HTML authoring program, FrontPage, to be compatible with the webserver. This feature is disabled by default, however, it can be turned on at a moment notice.

Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) allows customers who use JScript, VBScript and Microsoft Visual Studio v6.0 to build high-performance XML-based applications that provide a high degree of interoperability with other applications that adhere to the XML 1.0 standard.

Perl is the most popular web programming language due to its text manipulation capabilities and rapid development cycle..

AspEmail v5.0 offers a lot of new features you have been asking for, including full Unicode support and memory attachments. But most importantly, the new version comes with an all-new message queuing module which supports up to 64 simultaneous SMTP sessions, logging, CRAM-MD5 and NTLM authentication methods, automatic bounced-message handling, and much more.

PHP, the "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor", is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially well suited for web development and is embedded into HTML. It offers a wide array of functionality and is used to power leading web sites such as Yahoo! We support PHP v4.x & PHP v5.x Scripting.

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes programmer productivity and code readability. Python's core syntax and semantics are minimalist, while the standard library is large and comprehensive.

Lets you redirect folder or pages of your site to any url you want.

Ruby on Rails is an open source project written in the Ruby programming language, and applications using the Rails framework are developed using the Model-View-Controller design paradigm.

ASPImage allows you to create images on the fly from ASP. Features include:

• Create GIF* (RLE encoding only. Loading of GIFs not supported) JPG, PNG, BMP, TGA & PCX format images.
• Modify existing images (JPG, BMP, PNG, TGA & PCX)
• Gradient fills
• Animated GIF creation
• A large variety of draw methods
• Transparent PNG & GIF

Lets you embed CGI scripts into your web pages. The scripts will execute automatically when the web page is opened.

IIS 6.0 takes advantage of the latest Web standards like Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) for the development, implementation, and management of Web applications.

Zend Optimizer is used by commercial PHP scripts to protect their code and thus is required in order to run their scripts.

Powerful reporting and visitor tracking are keys to a successful website with this powerful online resource usage and website statistic package.

A fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser. Powerful online resource usage and website statistic packages are available free of charge with all Hostlantic hosting plans. Powerful reporting and visitor tracking are keys to a successful website.

If you need to look at your log files to determine who's coming to your site, you can always access your log files. We store the last 6 months of log files in zipped format.

The best way to walk you through each step of getting your site up and running in the shortest time. You can have full access once you login to your control panel.

We have an extensive library of online support available as well. Our FAQ and Support Center may provide the answers you need without having to contact support directly.

Hostlantic also provides extensive online documentation for common web applications.

Hostlantic Chat Support are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year!

Our Help Desk is manned 24/7, submit your request there anytime of the day or night.

Remote Off-Site Data Backups provide a cost effective means of automatically backing up your data to a remote Network Accessible Storage (NAS) facility. Your backups are performed by Hostlantic during non-working hours so as not to interrupt your business.

Get industrial-grade user and application policy enforcement, mutli-vector attack protection, and secure connectivity services in a single cost-effective, easy-to-deploy solution.

Our servers are fully patched and kept up-to-date with the latest security and software update. This is done on a regular basis.

In the event of a power loss, our equipment is connected to automatic battery backup systems and readily available generators so that we may continue to operate without any down time. In the event of prolonged power outages our system is connected to Diesel powered backup generator capable of powering the entire operation for weeks if necessary.

All of Hostlantic's hosting services are connected to the Internet in multiple ways using a variety of carriers and network providers. We call this "load balancing" - a unique aspect of our service that eliminates most common network and downtime issues caused by congestion and failure.

If one of our network routes becomes "unhealthy", our network immediately and automatically switches connectivity links to use a healthy route which eliminates packet loss and downtime.

Our core network is guaranteed to be fully functional and packet-loss free at all times. If a site owner experiences a network problem that is the fault of Hostlantic we will gladly refund the hosting fee for the month in which the failure occurs. See Terms of services for more details.

Have your own dedicated IP for only $1.95 per IP monthly.

ID protect insures that your private contact information is not visible in the domain WHOIS. It is held in confidentiality and protected by our Domain Privacy Protection Service. The contact information is displayed to provide you with the highest level of protection against spammers and identity theft. ID Protection is available only for .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info domains that registered by us.

Get this dedicated SSL certificate from SBS Instant for only $59.00 yearly. You save over $20 yearly over regular price of Branded SSL when you order from us. For more information, visit SBS's website.