Our Features
Automated .NET Control Panel
We provide a complete automated .NET control panel for your account. Here you can
set-up FTP logins, add web sites. With the power of our .NET control panel, you'll
be able to add or change domains, sub-domains, domain alias, domain redirect, email
accounts, email alias, email forwarder, email lists, autoresponders, and many other
functions to your hosting account easily and conveniently by yourself 24/7 without
our aid.
Live Stats Server
Each web site we set-up in your account comes with it's own Live Graphic rich
view of the stats of activity on your web site. You can see who is on your site
, what pages they viewed, how long they viewed them for and a whole lot more. Also
our stats databases will maintain a history of your statistics so you can compare
activity of your web site over time.
Web Based Email Client
You can access, read, reply and send email from any web browser anywhere from the
internet. Simply go to webmail.CheapDotNet.com login and you can utilise the power
of a mail client in your web browser. Just another example of the rich windows and
ASP.NET web hosting environment CheapDotNet.com provides at low cost.
Unlimited Mailboxes, Auto responders, Forwarders
On all our accounts you can have as many POP3 mailboxes( standard internet mailboxes),
auto responders, forwarders, aliases as you like. We have no restrictions to how
many you want to set-up. We do not have restrictions on how much mail you can
send and receive but we will contact you if your mail causes a problem with our
mail server and will help you to sort out any problems. This only occurs if you
have around 100MB in your mailbox and you are sending and receiving 50MB a day.
It is against our terms and conditions to Spam or send unsolicited email messages
of any size or volume.
Websites
Depending on what account you choose you can set-up 1 to 55 web sites with no extra
costs. Each web site comes configured with it's own mail server (mail.domain.com),
statistics server, FrontPage extensions, log files and directory structure. For
instance for $20 a month you can have up to six web sites. At this price most web
sites only give you one web site. CheapDotNet.com is the leader in multiple web
sites in one low cost hosting account.
FTP Login(s)
To access your windows and ASP.NET web hosting account we give you a master FTP
login to access all your directories (data, web sites, log files etc) from the one
login. You can also (depending on your hosting package) set-up multiple FTP logins
to individual directories within your account of your choice. This allows you to
give an FTP login to specific people in your business, family members etc. Each
person can have FTP access only to the projects or areas that you want them to have
access to. This is also good for web designers where they want their clients to
have access only to their web directories.
Unlimited FTP & FrontPage updates
We have no restrictions on the number of updates or changes or uploads you wish
to make to any of your web sites. Make as many changes, updates or uploads as you
like. Smaller ISP's on personal accounts sometimes restrict how much you can
update your site but no windows web hosting company charging you more than $5 per
month would put such a restriction.
FAQ Knowledge base
We have one of the biggest web hosting knowledge bases with hundreds of questions
and answers to typical hosting related questions. We add to this every day expanding
our knowledge base to answer your common questions and save you time. Click here
to view the CheapDotNet.com knowledge base Online Support Database - All support
queries sent to us by email or via our web based control panel are recorded in our
support database and attached to your account. This gives you a complete history
of support requests and answers your can reference at any time.
FrontPage 2002 Extensions
Each web site you set-up with CheapDotNet.com in your hosting account can be configured
with FrontPage 2002 extensions. FrontPage is an excellent tool for the novice or
experienced developer to access and edit the site quickly and easily. If you work
on ASP pages and use Visual Interdev FrontPage 2002 extensions let you work directly
with your web site from Visual Interdev.
Click here for information on Microsoft FrontPage
Unlimited FrontPage Sub webs
With FrontPage sub webs you can effectively set-up a new web application in a new
folder that will work like another web site i.e. www.yourdomain.com/anotherweb
These FrontPage webs run in their own application space, what this means is you
can have variables in your ASP page, like Application and Session variables that
are not used in other webs. Also you can specify a different global.ASA file for
each web folder.
SSI enabled
SSI (Server Side Includes) is a really useful, and convenient way to create web
pages that contain 'common' content.. The menu on this web page for instance,
is added dynamically to the 'base' web page using SSI. What this amounts
to is that every page on this website can be altered or modified just by changing
the content of a 'separate' single menu page. You can also use SSI to 'call'
a cgi script which will then also change or update the web page 'on the fly'
whenever necessary. Many 3rd party cgi applications such as guest books, and ffa
pages require SSI to be accessible on the webserver. (SSI is inclusive in all of
our hosting accounts)
MySQL databases
MySQL is the industry standard database server application based on the familiar
SQL databases. The addition of a MySQL databases to this account doesn't reduce
the disk space, nor bandwidth allocated to the package as it is served separately
by our MySQL server. MySQL database driven applications are becoming a 'must'
for those businesses who want a fast, and comprehensive online catalogues for their
business.
MS-SQL Server
SQL Server 2000 exceeds dependability requirements and provides innovative capabilities
that increase employee effectiveness, integrate heterogeneous IT ecosystems, and
maximize capital and operating budgets. SQL Server 2000 provides the enterprise
data management platform your organization needs to adapt quickly in a fast-changing
environment.With the lowest implementation and maintenance costs in the industry,
SQL Server 2000 delivers rapid return on your data management investment. SQL Server
2000 supports the rapid development of enterprise-class business applications that
can give your company a critical competitive advantage.
SQL Server Web Data Administrator
The SQL Server Web Data Administrator enables you to easily manage your SQL Server
data, wherever you are. Using its built-in features, you can do the following from
Microsoft Internet Explorer or your favorite Web browser:
- Create and edit databases in SQL Server 2000 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop
Engine (MSDE 2000)
- Perform ad-hoc queries against databases and save them to your file system
- Export and import database schema and data
- Manage users and roles
- View, create and edit stored procedures
Catch-All Email Address
If someone sends an email to a mailbox on your mail server that does not exist,
instead of returning it to the sender you can catch it in a "catch all"
email mailbox. This is great for catching those email messages where the sender
has typed the email quickly containing a typo which means it would normally "bounce"-
this will help protect against missing all those important emails that might otherwise
go astray.
Real Time Web Based Email Administration
Administer all your mail servers through one customisable web based interface. Set-up
mailboxes, auto responders, forwarders and aliases directly yourself. There is not
waiting for our tech support staff to do this for you.
Access to Raw Log Files
Whenever someone accesses your website the web server records as much detail about
the connection as possible: IP address, length of time, web browser, amount downloaded
etc. We set-up our web servers to record the W3SVC Extended Log format to catch
everything about the connection to your web site as possible. We store all the log
files for all your web sites in a directory called "logs", here you can
download these text files to your computer and analyse them with your own web server
stats software. Our graphic stats server also uses these logs and stores a copy
of the data in it's own database.
Unlimited Domain Parking
Domain parking is where you want to register a domain but do not necessarily want
to activate it as a web site or mail server,you just want to register the domain
for use at a later date. You can park as many domains as you like on our domain
name server. You can even register the domain through us for a very low registration
fee.
Unlimited Domain Redirects
You may want to register a domain and redirect it to another web site or IP address,
you do not want a web site or mail server for the domain. You can set-up as many
domain redirects as you like. Click here for information on BIND DNS for NT Unlimited
Domain Pointers- A domain pointer is where you might want to have several domains
pointing to the one web site i.e. www.my-site.com and also www.mysite.com plus as
many other domains as you'd like, pointing to the one web site and mail server.
Unlimited Dynamic Domains
A dynamic domain requires a little ASP, PHP or CGI programming knowledge but is
very simple to set-up. A dynamic domain allows you to detect what domain is pointing
to the web site and depending on the domain you can redirect it to another web site
or directory within your web site. This allows you to inexpensively have many web
sites on the one account without asking us to set-up another website for you in
our system. If you want a separate mail server, stats and log files for the web
site you will have to have us set it up for you as another web site on our server.
Dynamic domains are good for running the same web application or web site with different
branding and imagery depending on the domain calling it.
Domain Name Registration
We are more than happy to register and transfer your domains. For many it can be
a daunting process and our sales and support staff are happy to make this as straight
forward and easy for you as possible. For us it's a very quick and easy process.