Here are the key components of a website hosting
package, and what they mean to you and your site:
Hard Disk
Storage
This is the space you have to store your site. Every website
is stored on a web server, which is the computer that broadcasts
your site to your visitors. Your hard disk storage is how
much space you are allocated on that server's hard drive.
Even most robust websites don't require more than 10 megs
of space, but having more is a nice luxury for storing pictures,
video, and graphics. Galfano Design plans offer 50 to 400+
megs of storage.
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Monthly
Transfer (also called bandwidth)
This is the total amount of data (including graphics, HTML
web pages, video, etc…) which can be uploaded and downloaded
from your site each month. It is a rough estimator of how
many visitors your hosting plan can accommodate. For example,
on an average size website with a moderate amount of graphics,
it has been our experience that 1000 megabytes (MB) of transfer
can accommodate well over 5,000 visitors per month. Some web
hosts claim to offer "unlimited bandwidth" which
is not really possible. Not only are they likely to pack your
site on an overloaded server and connection, but if you read
the fine print there are always "excessive use penalties"
which are arbitrary and costly. In contrast, we insure your
site always gets the resources you pay for to make it fast
and reliable with no hidden charges.
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POP3 Email
Accounts
These are email accounts which can be used with your account.
They allow you to receive and read email via our easy web
interface or with a number of popular mail clients. Please
visit our support center for more information on configuring
your email client of choice.
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Unlimited
updates via FTP
We allow you to update your site 24/7 using an FTP (File Transfer
Protocol) Client. This is a program which allows you to connect
to our server and upload your files. We recommend WS_FTP which
is both powerful and simple to use. It can be found at http://www.ipswitch.com/.
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Microsoft
FrontPage Server Extensions
Microsoft FrontPage is an extremely popular web development
tool. You can create your site and upload it to our servers
using this extremely powerful product. Our servers support
FrontPage components which are easy-to-add features for your
website like counters, order forms, and more. Galfano Design
always supports the latest version of FrontPage and is backwards
compatible with all previous versions. You can use FrontPage
to add powerful functionality to your website with an easy
graphical interface.
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CGI script
support with Perl
CGI (common gateway interface) allows you to run scripts and
programs on our server to enhance your web pages. Most of
these scripts are written in a language called Perl. Unlike
with HTML, CGI's are executed on the server. You can use CGI
to add advanced forms, shopping carts, counters, and many
other features to your website.
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Active
Server Pages
With ASP, you can add interactive content to your Web pages
or build entire Web applications that use HTML pages as the
interface to your visitors. Active Server Pages (ASP) is a
server-side scripting environment that you can use to create
dynamic Web pages or build powerful Web applications. ASP
pages are files that contain HTML tags, text, and script commands.
ASP pages can call ActiveX components to perform tasks, such
as connecting to a database or performing a business calculation.
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