Unlimited Disk Storage
This is the amount of storage space that is allotted to your account on our servers. This represents the sum total of all space available for your web files, email and databases. This is a separate factor from the number of visitors you have, and is not affected by web traffic.
3 Free Domain Name Regs For Life
Depending upon which hosting plan you choose, IX Web Hosting provides you with a number of free domain points, which enable you to register domain names at no additional cost! *The domain will be Free For Life for as long as you host with us at a qualifying account level. Unfortunately, due to technical limitations, we are currently unable to accept domain registration transfers. If you intend to use a domain which you registered elsewhere, you can still host it with us, but you can\'t transfer the registration to us. For that reason, the free domain points can only be used for new domain registrations.
16 Dedicated IP Addresses
IP addresses are unique identifiers that allow your website to be found on the internet. Many hosting companies will assign multiple domains to a single IP, sharing it amongst them. IX Web Hosting provides dedicated IP addresses, one per domain, to each web site we host. This is necessary for SSL certificates as well as a variety of other functions, and does not subject you to problems with other sites sharing the same IP address as you.
4,000 GB Data Transfer
Data Transfer represents the amount of data, per month, that you can move to and from our servers. For example, if you have a 1 megabyte file in your hosting space, and 100 people download that file per month, then 100 megabytes of your monthly transfer are used.
Unlimited Sub Domains
Sub domains are third level domains. For example, if you have domain.com, and you want to setup a special site just for your sales department, you could do so by adding a sub domain of sales.domain.com. These are independent sites with independent file and folder structures.
Free Site Builder
We provide you with an easy-to-use template-based application for creating your website from scratch. Knowledge of HTML not required, and you do not need to install any software on your computer. The site builder runs on our servers, and is accessed and utilized through your web browser.
Free 24/7 Support
Most hosting companies provide very limited support, often email-only. If phone support is provided, it is generally available during business hours only. IX Web Hosting provides you not only with phone support, but phone support that is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and also provides additional support outlets such as LiveChat and our ticketing system, also available 24/7.
Catch-All Email Addresses
Many times, a person may want one single email account to receive all email that comes into a domain, or any emails that are not addressed to an existing account. This is useful in making sure that ANY email that comes into a domain is received, even if the address is misspelled. So long as the domain is correct, a catchall account will receive any of these emails. This must be enabled on the desired account.
POP3
POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol version 3, and is the de facto standard for accessing your email. Email clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird and others utilize this protocol by default to access remote email boxes, and are the most popular way to retrieve and manage email.
IMAP
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol, and is a more advanced standard for accessing remote email than POP3.
Webmail
Webmail is a popular way to access your email when you are away from your computer. All you need is access to the internet and you can log directly into your email box on our servers through a web browser. This is especially useful when you are traveling.
Email Forwards
An email forward is an email address which, when it receives email, automatically forwards it to a specified remote email address. Forwards do not store email, they only route email to another email address elsewhere. For example, if you setup an email forward of johndoe@domain.com forwarding to johndoe@aol.com, then any email that is received by johndoe@domain.com will be automatically forwarded to johndoe@aol.com, where the email will then be stored.
Mailbox Aliases
An alias is an email address which acts as an additional address to a local email account. For example, if you setup an email account called john@domain.com, and then setup an alias for it called info@domain.com, any email that is sent to info@domain.com will automatically be delivered to john@domain.com where the email will then be stored.
Email Auto-Responders
Email auto-responders are user-specified messages which will be sent back to whom ever sends email to that account. For example, if you were going on vacation for a week, you could setup an auto-responder for your email address which, when email is received at this address, will send a response back to the sender containing whatever message you specify. The email sent by them to you is stored in your mailbox as normal.
Mailing Lists
Mailing lists allow you to easily send one email to any number of recipients. You could have a mailing list of newsletter@domain.com which has several hundred subscribers. An email sent to newsletter@domain.com will then be sent to each email address on the mailing list.
Perl
Perl (unofficially acronymed as Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a dynamic procedural programming language which is influenced by a wide range of pre-existing technologies, such as the C programming language, and has been popular on Unix and Linux platforms.
CGI / FastCGI
CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, and is a protocol for interfacing external application software, in any number of languages, with a web server.
CGI-BIN
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is a kind of program that allows for communication between a web server and a script. This enables the interaction of HTML documents and applications. The CGI-BIN is a special folder in which these scripts can execute.
ASP / ASP.NET v2.0
ASP stands for Active Server Pages, and is Microsoft\'s proprietary server-side scripting language. We support both ASP and ASP.NET v1.1 and v2. It can only be used on Windows platforms.
Cold Fusion v7 MX
Cold Fusion is a server-side scripting language developed by Macromedia (available for only $5/mo) - only on the Windows plans.
Javascript/DHTML
Javascript is a client-side scripting language which allows dynamic, interactive elements to be implemented into a website. These can be games, forms, rollover effects, etc. DHTML (or Dynamic HTML) is a variant of JavaScript in which high level client-side browser manipulation is made possible. Since both of these are client-side technologies, both function perfectly well with our services.
Server Side Includes (SSI)
Server Side Includes are files which can be included when a web page is parsed. For instance, if you have a header or footer which appear on every page in your site, you can separate their code into separate files, SSI files, and the content of these can be included into the various pages within your site when they are accessed. This function is fully supported by IX Web Hosting, and is a convenient way to modularize repetitive code, making it easier to build and maintain a site.
Override .htaccess Support
This is a method of customizing the behavior of a directory, especially a web folder, by using a custom .htaccess file with the desired overrides in place.
Unlimited PostgreSQL Databases
PostgreSQL is an open-source database system which is often compared to Oracle in scope and power. This database platform is still relatively unknown and unexploited, despite its incredible power.
Unlimited Microsoft SQL 2005 Databases
Microsoft SQL is Microsoft\'s proprietary Structured Query Language database platform. It is very powerful, and a common counterpart to ASP. Microsoft SQL databases are only available on Windows platforms.
ODBC/DSN
ODBC stands for Open DataBase Connectivity, and is an API for interfacing with database management systems. DSN stands for Database Source Name. These are data structures used to identify and describe a connection to a database.
phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a web-based administrative tool for MySQL databases.
phpPgAdmin
phpPgAdmin is a web-based administrative tool for PostgreSQL databases.
Blogs (Online Diaries)
A Blog is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
Photo Galleries
An Online Gallery is a script that lets you manage your photos or pictures on your own website. With online galleries, you will have an ever-lasting memory with your moments.
Online Shops
An online shop, e-shop, e-store, internet shop, webshop or online store enables you to sell products online without any geographical boundaries. With us, you can set up your own online shop with just a few clicks of a button.
LiveChat System
LiveChat systems allow users to communicate in real-time through a website. With our LiveChat scripts, you will be able to provide the online support for your visitors.
Web Portals and CMS
A Web Portal is a site that functions as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web, and a CMS (Content Management System) is a back-end administrative system that lets you manage the front-end contents of your website.
Miscellaneous Scripts
From Form-Mail, Website Counter, Online Calendar, etc. to Advanced Polling System, you will have plenty of scripts to beautify your website.
COMPLETE LIST
Blogs
b2evolution - b2evolution is probably the most comprehensive blog engine you can find! It includes almost any feature you could expect from a blog tool, and more!
FeedONFeed - FEED ON FEEDS, your server side personal RSS (and Atom!) aggregator.
WordPress - WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
CMS & Portals
e107 - e107 is a content management system written in php and using the popular open source mySQL data base system for content storage. It's completely free and totally customizable, and in constant development.
Mambo CMS - Mambo Open Source is the finest open source Web Content Management System available today. Mambo Open Source makes communicating via the Web easy.
phpNuke - PHP Nuke - open source professional portal system.
PHP Wiki - A WikiWikiWeb is a web site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. Linking is done automatically on the server side; all pages are stored in a database.
vtiger - vtiger CRM is an Open Source CRM software mainly for small and medium businesses. vtiger CRM is built over proven, fast, and reliable LAMP/WAMP (Linux/Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) technologies and other open source projects.
Xoops - XOOPS is an extensible, OO (Object Oriented), easy to use dynamic web content management system written in PHP. XOOPS is the ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.
Joomla - Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
Forums
phpBB2 - phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all websites.
SM Forum - SMF is a next-generation community software package and is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources.
XMB Forum - XMB is a fully scalable, highly customizable Open Source message board software. XMB has a user-friendly interface, simple set up, stable performance, and tons of features. Based on the powerful PHP language and the MySQL database, XMB is a very powerful combination, suitable to everyone's needs.
E-Commerce
CubeCart - CubeCart is an eCommerce script written with PHP & MySQL. With CubeCart you can setup a powerful online store as long as you have hosting supporting PHP and one MySQL database.
osCommerce2 - osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved.
phpAdsNew - phpAdsNew is an open-source ad server, with an integrated banner management interface and tracking system for gathering statistics. With phpAdsNew you can easily rotate paid banners and your own in-house advertisements. You can even integrate banners from third party advertising companies.
phpCoin - A free software package originally designed for web-hosting resellers to handle clients, orders, invoices, notes and helpdesk, but no longer limited to hosting resellers.
SugarCRM - SugarCRM is a suite of business automation tools for managing your marketing, sales and customer service operations. From leads to contacts, opportunities to cases, the Sugar Suite helps you track and gain insight into your customers.
Openads - Openads is the world's most popular adserver with the the web's largest community of ad space owners. Tens of thousands of websites use Openads to make money from online advertising.
ZenCart - Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.
Support Systems
CS Live Helper - A multi-user, multi-operator, multi-department live Help support chat system that allows the operators of the websites to monitor their visitors as they are browsing the site and proactively open a chat session with the visitor.
helpCenterLive - Help Center Live is a `Live` help desk system written in PHP using a MySql database backend that features Live Support, Trouble Tickets and FAQ within one project.
phpMyChat - phpMyChat is an easy-to-use multi-room chat based on PHP and a database.
phpMyFAQ - phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ-system. For the time being a MySQL database (support for other databases is under development) is used to store all data, PHP 4.1.0 (or higher) is needed in order to access this data. phpMyFAQ also offers a Content Management-System, flexible multi-user support, a news-system, user-tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML-support, PDF-support, a backup-system and an easy to use installation script.
Galleries
Coppermine Photo Gallery - Coppermine Photo Gallery is a picture gallery script. Users can upload pictures with a web browser (thumbnails are created on the fly), rate pictures, add comments and send e-cards. The admins can manage the galleries and batch add pictures that have been uploaded on the server by FTP. Support for multimedia files has been added recently.
Gallery - Gallery is a web based software product that lets you manage your photos on your own website. You must have your own website with PHP support in order to install and use it. With Gallery you can easily create and maintain albums of photos via an intuitive interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.
Miscellaneous
DokuWiki - DokuWiki is a simple to use Wiki aimed at a small companies documentation needs. It works on plain texts files and thus needs no database. It has a simple but powerful Syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki.
FormMail - You can use our PHP FormMail as a simple replacement of another FormMail script or Form Processor, or you can use its powerful new options to make your HTML forms even more useful.
phpESP - PHP scripts to let non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online after database initialization. MySQL database backend.
phpMyCounter - phpMyCounter is an easy to use, yet sophisticated counter.
PHProjekt - PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group activities and to share informations and document via intranet and internet.
Advanced Poll - Advanced Poll is a polling system with powerful administration tool.It features: multiple polls, templates, unlimited options, multi-language support, IP-Logging, IP-Locking,cookie support, comment feature, vote expire feature,random poll support and more.
SiteBar - Access and manage your private, shared or public bookmarks from any computer and browser connected to the Internet! Create personal, family, team, company or enterprise-wide bookmarks with flexible access rules, permissions and customizable design!
sRecommender - This php Site Recommendation script will allow your visitors to enter their contact information and recommend your site to as many recipients as you specify (only one required). The default messages are easily modified. Look and feel is customizable via the stylesheet. You can choose to be notified when your site has been recommended...notification will show recipient(s) AND the message. Email addresses are hidden so they will not be harvested by spammers. Also contains error checking and validation and does not require database access.
WebCalendar - WebCalendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors.
Web Cards - This project enables a Webmaster to add an "e-card" system to their website. The Webmaster can upload images for the user to put on their e-cards. He then has full control to add/edit/delete any of the pictures. The system includes a full administration control panel including ability to ban by email address and IP address, edit messages sent to recipients of a WebCard, template/CSS editor, ability to add/remove/edit further administrators and an admin toolbox for various maintenance tasks. The "send WebCard" page features the ability to filter images by category and will also verify email addresses. The system outputs friendly error messages and instructions on how to remedy the situation. A full installer is also included.
PhpGroupWare - phpGroupWare - formerly known as webdistro - is a multi-user groupware suite written in PHP.
SSL Secure Server
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer, and is a technique whereby any information passed from a visitor\'s machine to the web server, and vice versa, is encrypted. This prevents the exposure of any private and sensitive information to the world, keeping you and your visitors safe and secure. A locked padlock in your browser, generally in the lower right of the window, indicates a secured connection. An open padlock indicates an unsecured connection.
Online Shop Ready
You will have a complete tools with our hosting accounts. You can set up your online shop with our complimentary scripts, get a secure URL with our SSL support, and accept payment with our Merchant Account. Everything you need to start selling online!
LiveChat System
LiveChat is a popular alternative to phone support for communicating with our support staff. Accessed by way of our website, live support personnel are always here to address anything that might arise.
Ticket Center
This is our internal ticketing system. You\'re guaranteed a response within 24 hours.
International Domain Name Support
International Domain Names are domains whose TLD (Top Level Domain) is country-specific. Examples of these can be found in .CA (Canada) and .US (The United States). These are fully supported by IX Web Hosting, although only a few can be registered through us. They can all be hosted with IX Web Hosting.
Website Statistics
This tool provides you with graphics analysis of the traffic that your web site has received, breaking down where visitors are coming from, when they visited, what they did when they came to your site, what search term they used to find you in a search engine, and much, much more. This is an indispensable tool for knowing what sort of traffic your web site receives.
Account Control Panel
IX Web Hosting provides you with access to your account information and settings, including invoices, payment settings and even our helpful ticketing system, as part of your hosting control panel. This gives you full control over your account and billing options, and allows you to make whatever changes to your account information are necessary.
Additional FTP Accounts
Additional FTP accounts, also called FTP Sub Accounts, are special FTP accounts which can be setup with unique logins and passwords, and can be restricted to specific folders within the directory structure of the hosting account. This is commonly used to allow a designer to access one particular directory in a hosting account, but nothing else. For Windows account, this is called Systems Accounts, which, unlike Linux FTP Sub-Accounts, has no ability to restrict access to certain folders.
Anonymous FTP Accounts
Anonymous FTP is a form of FTP which allows users to transfer files without having to have an FTP account. These are fully supported on Linux accounts.
FrontPage 2000/2002 Extensions
These are a group of add-ons scripts and programs, installed on the web server, which allow for the use of proprietary functions used by Microsoft FrontPage. This is necessary for many FrontPage functions such as forms. FrontPage server extensions are available on all of our hosting plans, both Linux and Windows.
Create and Change Designs at Any Time
IX Web Hosting imposes no limits whatsoever as to when you can modify your website, databases, or related services. Your services are available to you at all times for management, modification, or anything else.
Log Files + Site Stats
Log files are text documents in which activity on a web server or web site is chronicled. Information about each visit, such as IP, time and date, and other relevant information is stored in these log files. Site stats tools are applications which analyze these log files and produce people-friendly charts and diagrams which illustrate and summarize the contents of these log files. Log files and site stats tools are both provided to our customers by default, even to the extent of providing two very different stats applications: ModLogAn and Webalizer.
Web File Manager
Our hosting services come with a handy file management tool called Webshell 3. This allows you to work with your files, modify documents, set permissions, and much more, all through your browser. Although many times a dedicated FTP client is the best way to handle these things, sometimes this is not practical, and this tool is always available to you for such needs.
Publishing Program
IX Web Hosting allows for the publishing of documents by way of FTP and FrontPage, as well as through our site builder utility, Site Studio. FrontPage has the build-in capacity to publish through both FrontPage server extensions and FTP. Dream Weaver publishes through FTP as well, as do most web design applications.
Password Protected Directories
By way of .htaccess, any folder can be password protected on Linux accounts. Windows accounts can have folders password protected as well, but the process of establishing this security is a bit involved.
Online Web Editor
There are two ways which we provide for editing your web pages. One is called Webshell 3, and is a file manager provided through your control panel. This application has the ability to edit documents (as raw html) in your browser, and is very handy for making minor changes to existing documents. The other tool is a template based website creation tool called Site Studio. It is proprietary, self contained, and can only edit documents created within it.
Custom MIME Types
MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. MIME types are used to instruct one computer on how to communicate with another regarding the nature of the file that is being sent. It defines the types of files attached to email, and is supported by IX Web Hosting.
Custom CRON Jobs
CRON Jobs are functions which can be scheduled to run at specific times, and on a recurring basis, such as every night at midnight. They are scheduled to run based on the system clock, and can be setup in the control panel we provide.
Custom Error Pages
You are not required to use our server’s default error pages. Customer error pages can be used, and are specified in the control panel we provide you with. These are very popular with regards to keeping the look and feel of your site consistent, even unto the error pages themselves, as well as for modifying the behavior of the site in the event of an error.
Custom Throttle Policy
Throttle Policy helps you regulate the amount of traffic your website receives. This is useful when you are nearing your traffic limit and do not want to exceed it. You can set how much traffic your website will be receiving and deny traffic you do not want to save your traffic limit.
Custom Server Aliases
Server aliases are additional names for your website. Unlike subdomains, you will not have separate websites for each names. For instance, if your website is example.com and you also would like it to be available at test.example.com, you should add test server alias to the example.com domain. Both example.com and test.example.com will point to your website.
MIDI File Support
MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Usage of midi files in web pages is not terribly popular, primarily due to the lack of control over how the playback on the visitor’s computer will sound. However, it is not a problem to embed a midi file into an html document, and can be done on our service.
Streaming Audio Support (via http://)
Streaming audio is a method of media delivery in which the audio will play on the client’s computer before the file has finished downloading. In other words, as the beginning of the file is downloaded, the audio will begin to play, and will continue to play as long as the process of downloading (“streaming”) the audio continues uninterrupted. This is supported by IX Web Hosting as http streaming.
Streaming Video Support
Streaming video is a method of media delivery in which the video will play on the client’s computer before the file has finished downloading. In other words, as the beginning of the file is downloaded, the video will begin to play, and will continue to play as long as the process of downloading, “streaming” the video continues uninterrupted. This is supported by IX Web Hosting as http streaming.
Real Audio & Video Support (via http://)
RealVideo and RealAudio work perfectly well with our service. However, we do not provide streaming services such as Helix. All streaming must be facilitated using http streams.
Firewall Protection
Firewalls are services which manage the traffic between 2 points on a network. They can be configured to block certain kinds of traffic, certain IP addresses, and pretty much any other factor. Among other things, this is used to prevent hacking, abuse, denial of service attacks, and the like. Our entire network is protected by a firewall which we keep constant track of. This is a crucial factor in maintaining a secure and safe environment for our clients.
Spam Filter Spam Assassin
Spam, or unsolicited commercial email, is an ongoing problem and annoyance. We utilize Spam Assassin as a means of curbing the amount of spam that is received by our customers. This is an always-on solution, and requires no intervention by the customer in order to use.
UPS Power Back-up/Back-up Generator
Without electricity, none of this would be possible. In order to ensure seamless, problem-free hosting, power backup is absolutely essential. We incorporate not only UPS systems on all of our equipment, but also have diesel backup generators in place for worst-case-scenarios. We test this system each and every week, and have shown that even in the event of catastrophic power failure, our data center remains live with no downtime.
Hotlink Protection
Hotlinking (commonly called bandwidth theft) is a practice whereby a web accessible resource, usually an image or video, is linked to from a completely different website. This is considered unacceptable to most people, and can easily be prevented by using the appropriate overrides in an .htaccess file.
Server Load Balancing System
Load balancing is a technique to spread work between servers in order to get optimal resource utilization and decrease computing time. We are using a state-of-the-art load balancing solution to maximize our uptime.
Domain Contact Management
Domain names have several points of contact associated with them. These are the registrant, the administrative contact, the billing contact, and the technical contact. When you register a domain with us, you are able to modify these contacts at any time through the control panel provided to you.
External Domains
These are domains which were registered independently of IX Web Hosting. These can be hosted here without any problems. Being that they are registered with 3rd parties, the settings for the domain, specifically the name servers which are authoritative for it, would need to be changed over to ours, and the domain would have to be setup for hosting with us in order to function. Other than those factors, external domains work perfectly fine, and are very common.
Parked Domains
Parked domains are domain names which do have their own hosting yet. They are pointed to a pair of name servers for the time being. This is perfectly fine with IX Web Hosting and is, in actually, rather common with customer who have registered a domain name, but who have never established hosting for it.
URL Masking
This is a function whereby a visitor is forwarded to a resource, but the URL displayed in the address bar of their browser remains unchanged. This can be achieved by implementation in an .htaccess file.
Add-on Domains
Add-On Domains are what are called “domain aliases.” A common example of this would be websites for which multiple domains can be used to access. For instance, if you were the owner of domain.com, and had a website setup at that domain, you could setup domain.net and domain.org as domain aliases, and all 3 domains would pull up the same site, the site at domain.com. These are fully supported by IX Web Hosting.