BooYah!! Crystal Wind WebworX™ offers hosting plans!
Through Crystal Wind WebworX™ and our Hosting
Partner, Hostgator, we are secure and confident about providing the
following plans and options.
We offer full service hosting management that is
monitored and tracked on every website built by Crystal Wind WebworX™.
Our Professional Content Management Systems and Social Networks are
better served on Robust and High Level Hosting platforms. If you elect
to use our hosting services please see below for a comprehensive list of
features and tools. Hosting fees are billed separately and are not
part of the website design fees. Please contact us for more details.
We offer the following features on the Crystal Wind
WebworX™ Hosting platforms:
Key Features:
- Host Unlimited Domains: Crystal Wind WebworX™ range of plans
allow you to ‘Host Unlimited Domains’ under the single account. You can
allocate your disk storage and data transfer between your various
domains however you like.
- Sub Domains: Create unlimited sub domains under each of your
hosted domains. A sub domain takes the format: sub.domain.com.
- cPanel Control Panel: Every account you create (e.g. client
sites) via the Web Host Manager (WHM) will have its own individual
cPanel login. cPanel allows your client (or yourself if you are simply
using the reseller plan to host your own websites or managing sites on
your clients behalf) to take complete control over the hosting account
including allowing management of the entire website, email accounts,
databases and more. For example, email accounts and forwarders can be
created, password protected directories configured, MySQL databases
managed and more directly through the cPanel system without having to
contact customer support.
- Hardware RAID10 Arrays: Crystal Wind WebworX™ servers are
protected by hardware RAID10 arrays to help reduce or even eliminate
downtime in the event of a hard disk failure. The servers are also
backed by a hot-spare disk for immediate failover and the hard disks are
completely hot-swappable so that a failed disk can be replaced while
the server remains online.
Email Tools:
- Create Unlimited Email Accounts: You may create an unlimited
number of email accounts through your control panel which can be
accessed using any email client that supports POP3 or IMAP4 including
but not limited to Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla
Thunderbird and Apple Mail.
- SMTP Access: SMTP access is provided on both ports 25 and
1025. This ensures you can always access SMTP even if you are using an
Internet Service Provider (ISP) who blocks access to external SMTP
servers on port 25.
- Email Forwarders: You can setup email forwarders to point to
any email account you have created. You can also setup a forwarder to
point to an external email account hosted elsewhere.
- Auto Responders: Auto responders can be setup for any of your
email accounts instantly via your account's cPanel. An auto responder
delivers an automated response to anyone who sends you a message. This
feature is especially useful if you are out of the office or away on
vacation and would like anyone who sends you a message to know that you
won't be back until a specific date.
- Mailing List Software: You can operate small mailing lists
under your accounts using our included software.
- WebMail Access: We offer three web mail systems (Horde,
Squirrel Mail and RoundCube) which allow you to check your messages at
anytime via your web browser without the need to have an email client
installed. This is especially useful if you are checking your email
while on the move from somewhere like an internet cafe or a public
computer because it means you can check your email quickly and securely
without the need to configure your account on that computer or install
any special software.
- SPAM Filtering: We include several tools to help you fight
SPAM including Spam Assassin, Spam Box and Box Trapper. All of these
tools can be easily configured via your account control panel.
- Custom MX Record Changes: We allow you to easily change the
Mail Exchange (MX) record for any of your hosted domains. This is useful
if you run your own mail server at your office but want to host your
website with Crystal Wind WebworX™. We can point the MX record for the
domain to your office mail server. This also allows you to use services
like Google Apps and GMail with your Crystal Wind WebworX™ account.
Site Development Tools:
- PHP 5: The latest version of PHP 5 with all the most popular
modules is installed at Crystal Wind WebworX™. When PHP 6 is made stable
by the PHP Group we will run this in a dual configuration with PHP 5.
PHP scripts like Joomla, phpBB and WordPress will run right out the box
on any of our servers without any configuration changes needing to be
made.
- Perl: You can run Perl scripts under your accounts.
- Python: You can run Python scripts under your accounts.
- Custom Error Pages: Create your own custom pages for errors
such as 404 (File Not Found), 403 (Forbidden Access) etc.
- Apache Handlers: Setting custom handlers for Apache is
permitted. For example, you could set a handler to phrase all .html
files via PHP.
- Password Protection: The password protection function within
your cPanel allows you to create password protected areas within your
website. For example, you could password protect yourdomain.com/members
so that when this URL was entered into a user's web browser they would
be asked to enter their credentials before the content was displayed.
This feature is ideal for creating members-only areas etc.
- Support for .htaccess: We allow for .htaccess files to be
created under accounts letting you take advantage of Apache modules such
as mod_rewrite.
- Raw Logs Access: You may download the raw access or raw error
logs for your accounts for further analyze.
- AW Stats: View full graphical statistics about the visitors to
any of your hosted domains. Find out where they came from, what pages
they viewed and more via AW Stats.
- Cron Jobs: Cron Jobs allow you to set a script to run
automatically at a specific time.
- Shared SSL (HTTPS): Connect securely over an HTTPS / SSL
connection to any of your hosted domains using our shared SSL
certificate. We can also install a dedicated SSL certificate upon
request.
- Server Side Includes (SSI): You may use Server Side Includes
(SSI) under any of your accounts.
- ionCube Loader: Run ionCube encoded scripts.
- Zend Optimizer: Run Zend encoded scripts.
- Image Magick / GD: Run scripts which require ImageMagick or
GD.
- Curl: Run scripts which require Curl.
- Blogging: Blogs are extremely popular these days with everyone
from teenagers to CEOs of multi-national companies creating them.
Unlike a regular website a blog allows you to communicate with your site
visitors on a much more personal level through a series of entries,
much like a diary. With our easy to use blogging system you can get your
blog up and running in minutes and create entries containing text
articles, photos, images and more to record your thoughts on anything
and everything you wish. You can also install blogging scripts like
WordPress with a few clicks.
- Fantastico Auto-Installer: Fantastico Auto-Installer allows
you to install many popular scripts with one-click via your account's
cPanel. You can install a wide range of scripts including various types
of Content Management Systems, Blogs, Forums and many other popular
scripts with little technical knowledge. Ideal if you want to get a
script up and running quickly. Installable Scripts: Joomla!, phpBB,
Simple Machines Forums (SMF), WordPress, PHP-Nuke, Post-Nuke,
phpWebSite, Xoops, b2, pMachine Free, Invision Board, CS Live Help, PHP
Support Tickets, Support Services Manager, OS Commerce, 4images Gallery,
PHPauction, PHProjekt, phpLinks, Moodle, Noah's Classifieds, PHPlist
and WebCalendar.
File Management:
- FTP Access: Full FTP access to your domain allows you to
upload and manage your files on the server.
- Secure FTP Access: For additional security you may also
connect to FTP using an encrypted SSL connection.
- Web File Manager: Manage your files securely via your web
browser where FTP access may be blocked or unavailable.
- SSH (Secure Telnet): SSH access can be enabled upon request
for any of your hosted domains. Ideal for advanced users who wish to
manage their files via the command line.
- Web Disk (WebDAV) File Access: Web Disk allows you to place a
shortcut on your local desktop for access to your hosting account files.
With this fantastic system you can then drag and drop files into your
hosting account just like it is part of your computer's local file
system. This feature allows for easy publishing and eliminates the need
for FTP or publishing software. It is also compatible with WebDAV.
Database Management:
- Performance Tuned MySQL 5: Hostgator run the latest version of
MySQL 5. Our MySQL installs are also heavily performance tuned with
query caching and other tweaks to ensure your scripts fly.
- Create Unlimited MySQL Databases: Create unlimited MySQL
databases instantly via your control panel.
- Remote MySQL Access: We allow remote connections to MySQL from
authenticated IP addresses.
- phpMyAdmin: Online management for your MySQL databases.
- Create Unlimited PostgreSQL Databases: Create unlimited
PostgreSQL databases instantly.
- phpPgAdmin: Online management for your PostgreSQL databases.
Backup Tools:
- Daily Local Backup: Backups are captured daily to a secondary
drive in every server.
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) Remote Backup: In addition to
full daily backups captured locally on each server, all of your data
will be securely backed up to an off-site location using the latest
Network Attached Storage (NAS) technology. This protects your important
data in the unlikely event of a full facility failure. You can never be
too careful when it comes to your critical data. Remote Backup Schedule -
Web Hosting Plans - Once Weekly Hosting Plans - Twice Weekly
- 'One-Click' User Backup: Create your own backups instantly
with one click via your account's control panel.
More Features:
- Route Optimized Performance Bandwidth: The highest quality of
bandwidth from InterNAP, Level 3 Communications and Time Warner Telecom.
All of our outbound routes are optimized using the Flow Control
Platform (FCP) device. This means that we will not only route traffic to
your site visitors but we will do so in the quickest and most reliable
way possible. The FCP device helps to route around any packet loss or
latency that may exist between the data center and your site visitor
that wouldn’t be on a conventional unoptimized hosting network. Running
the FCP device on top of our high performance bandwidth providers and
fully redundant meshed network offers our customers an unbeatable
solution.
- Cisco Backend Network for Enterprise Service Delivery: We run a
secure 100% Cisco powered backend network running at 1GBps/sec which
all of our servers are connected to. Over the backend network we deliver
enterprise services to you such as the Hostgator Vault imaging backup
and recovery platform.
- Hot-Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) Failover Protection: We
run Cisco's Hot-Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) failover protection
system across all routers at all network levels. This means network
maintenance can be performed transparently without downtime. If a router
should fail, traffic is automatically failed over without causing an
outage. Our network is 100% Cisco Powered using Cisco Catalyst 6509 and
2960 switches, all run in redundant pairs.
- Certified Support Engineers: Home hosting providers will have
different tiers of supports allowing them to reduce costs by filtering
initial requests through low level support staff. Hostgator hires Level
III technicians and have thier own own team of Red Hat Certified
Engineers (RHCEs) and Cisco Certified Network Associates (CCNAs)
available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week - even on Christmas Day! We
do not outsource any part of our support process either. You can be
assured that you will always be able to contact us and receive the
expert and friendly support you expect anytime of the day or night.
*Please note features and options
on this page and in this article are subject to change without notice. Please contact us for further
clarification and consultation.