Web Hosting Software and Features
General Features
Large Space
PNGconnect web hosting plans provide a generous amount of space more than enough to to host all your web pages, images, files and data. As your web site grows we can accommodate it by providing a larger plan to suit you.
Generous Traffic Allowance
PNGconnect's range of traffic allowance is designed to cater for a wide range of web sites from a simple personal site up to a busy information and community portal.
User Friendly Control Panel
You can control your account through our user friendly control panel at anytime.
Manage all aspects of your web site and email in one place, or should you wish, we can handle it all for you!
True Multiple Domain Support
Our system allows you to have more than one web site yet you only pay for one account.
Each of your web sites has a separate directory and email system. Deleting or updating one site will not affect the others. Enjoy the savings
with us.
Unix or Windows Platform Choice
PNGconnect offers you the choice of Unix or Windows to be your web hosting
platform. We give you the opportunity to sign up for both Unix and Windows
accounts so that you can use ASP or ASP.NET on your Windows projects and
take advantage of PHP, Perl or other Unix tools on our Unix hosting. Both
are done natively on each platform so there are no "translation layers" involved.
Website Features
Ready made Scripts
We provide ready to use scripts such as page counters, guestbook, web chat
scripts that can be integrated to your web site easily.
Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions
Designing with FrontPage? We provide FrontPage support on our
Windows web hosting services compatible with FrontPage 2002, 2000 and 98.
Detailed Site Statistics
With every website that you host with us, we provide automated detailed statistics
so you know how your site is doing. Find out which is the most popular page visited,
where your visitors came from, what is your site's busiest time,
how they found your site, and what search keywords they used to find it.
Your Own CGI-BIN
You can run your own cgi scripts to provide custom functionalities on
your web site. You can also install the many cgi-scripts that are freely
available on the web.
Perl, Python and More
We can host many of the popular scripting tools and supporting modules
to give you more choices and flexibility to use any Perl or Python
web scripts out there on your web site.
PHP Scripting - Advanced
PNGconnect specialises in providing a rich set of PHP modules and
Perl Libraries to support and host the widest range of PHP
scripts and web sites out there. We understand PHP and can provide support
for the advanced PHP developers' web hosting needs.
SSL Secure Server
We provide FREE Secure SSL facility on some of our web hosting packages. SSL
allows you to provide secure encrypted connection from your visitors
to and from your website, often used for e-commerce / credit card payment
facility.
Free Shared SSL and Low Cost SSL Certificates
We offer shared SSL certificates for FREE. If you prefer to have
your own SSL certificate, we have partnered with one of the leading SSL
certificate authorities to offer you low cost SSL certificates
with free installation. You can also use your own SSL certificates.
Databases
High Performance MySQL Database Server
Host your dynamic web sites powered by PHP, Perl, Python, ASP or ASP.NET with
our high performance MySQL database servers. MySQL is available for both Unix and Windows
web hosting.
By using a dedicated database server, we can deliver better performance
for your web sites. MySQL databases are included in our packages free of charge.
High Performance PostgreSQL Database Server
Our PostgreSQL database service is available to PHP, Perl, Python, ASP or ASP.NET.
PostgreSQL database is available for both Unix and Windows web hosting.
PostgreSQL databases are included in our packages free of charge.
It provides most modern database functionalities that are still missing from
MySQL such as transactions, stored procedures and subqueries.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (MSSQL)
Utilise the MS SQL server for heavy duty and data sensitive web applications
linked via ASP or ASP.NET scripts. Our MSSQL server is a low cost solution
ideal for your small to medium scale deployment.
E-Mail Features
E-Mail Account Aliases
Create email address aliases for your email accounts. For example,
create an alias called bob@domain.com for your actual email account robert@domain.com.
Advanced Email Forwarding
Our email forwarding feature allows you to have multiple recipients. For example
you can have sales@yourbiz.com going to bob@yourbiz.com, jane@yourbiz.com and
bob@homeisp.com all at the same time.
Catch-All Account
You can designate one of your email accounts to receive all emails that are
sent to non-existent addresses. For example, if you only have one email account
bob@domain.com but wish to also receive emails sent to sales@domain.com,
inquiries@domain.com, or anything@domain.com, then you can
set the bob@domain.com to be the catch-all account.
Free Mailing List Facility
Create newsletters, discussion list etc using our mailing list feature. It allows
your customers to automatically subscribe and unsubscribe to/from your list.
Secure Web Mail Facility
We provide web mail facility with address book and calendar so you can read and
reply to your emails while you are away. You can access our web mail from
any Internet browser worldwide. For extra security, our web mail facility is
also available through SSL secure address.
Spam and Junk Mail Protection
Save your time from sifting through the junk mails. Our Spam protection feature
can make it easy for you to identify and automatically move the spam away from
your inbox.
Virus Protection
All emails passing through our system are scanned for viruses.
Domain Hosting Features
Domain Aliasing
Point several domain names to your web site for free. For example, you can have
www.yourbusiness.com, www.your-business.com and www.yourbusiness.com.pg
all pointing to the same web site.
Sub Domains
Create multiple sub-domains for free. For example if you have the domain name
"blogg.com", you can have joe.blogg.com (or www.joe.blogg.com), jane.blogg.com,
tom.blogg.com, etc.
Custom DNS Records
We provide an online DNS editor so that you can add custom DNS records to your
domain names.
Dedicated IP Address
We can provide dedicated IP address to your domains / web sites should it
be required.
Unix Hosting Features
Shell Access via SSH
We provide secure shell access to perform tasks that are often hard or
impossible to do otherwise.
Cron Jobs
Schedule jobs to be performed at a certain time via our crontab facility,
for example to perform clean up or reminder mailouts or to check and respond
to incoming emails automatically.
Windows Hosting Features
ASP Hosting
Our ASP Hosting runs on fully updated and patched Windows 2003. It comes with many
features and ASP components to be used by your scripts.
ASP.NET Hosting
We provide a stable Windows 2003 (aka .NET server) environment to host your
ASP.NET powered web sites. Choose from MS SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL
databases to store your data.
Infrastructure
Reliable Servers
We utilise disk mirroring (RAID1) on all our servers to ensure that we are
covered against drive failures. This gives us and you a peace of mind.
World Class Data Center and Internet Connectivity
Our servers are housed in a world class data center with all the bells and
whistles expected from such facility, such as UPS backup and generators,
redundant power feed, VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus),
climate and temperature control, Network Operation Center (NOC) staffed 24/7,
and a fully meshed redundant connectivity to the Internet backbones.
24/7 Monitoring System
Every aspect of our web hosting service is monitored around the clock.
From web, email, dns, control panel, hard drive space and server load,
everything is carefully monitored so we can keep up our quality of service to you.
Daily Backup System
We back up every file, database and email account every day so that we can
recover from crashes, computer failures or even just to bail you out if you
ever made a mistake and accidentally deleted all your files.
Enhanced Security
We constantly, religiously and carefully update our system for the purpose
of keeping up with the latest security patches and updates. We apply special
security settings to improve the security of our system and your data
whereever possible.
Summary
The following table outlines some of the features available on our windows
and unix web hosting. We continually improve and add more features to our
web hosting service, and we will update this table to provide more information.
| Features |
Unix Hosting |
Windows Hosting |
| General Web Hosting Features |
| User Friendly and Powerful Control Panel |
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| Pre-payment Discounts |
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| Detailed Web Access Statistics and Analysis |
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| Service Level Guarantee |
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| Comprehensive Technical Support |
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| Domain Name Features |
| True Multi Domain |
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| Free Sub-Domains |
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| Free Domain Aliases / Pointers |
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| Custom DNS Records |
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| Dedicated IP Address1 |
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| Email Hosting Features |
| FREE Spam and Junk Mail Tagging Feature |
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| FREE Virus Protection |
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| Unlimited Email Accounts (POP3) |
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| Free Mail Forwarding |
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| Free Mail Aliasing |
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| Free Auto-Responder |
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| Free Mailing Lists |
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| Catch All Feature |
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| Web Mail Access |
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| Online Address Book and Calendar |
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| POP3, SMTP, IMAP Protocols |
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| Secure POP3, SMTP, Webmail |
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| Custom MX Records |
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| Mail Alias for the entire domain |
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| FTP Hosting Features |
| Sub-FTP Accounts |
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| Virtual FTP Site and Accounts2 |
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| Anonymous FTP2 |
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| Web Publishing and Account Access |
| FTP |
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| Publishing via Sub-FTP Accounts |
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| Microsoft Front Page Publishing |
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| Shell Access via SSH |
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| scp |
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| rsync |
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| Secure FTP (sftp) |
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| FTP Over SSH |
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| Pre-installed Scripts |
| PhpBB Online Community |
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| osCommerce |
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| FormMail Script |
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| Web Chat Script |
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| CGI Web Counter |
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| Guest Book |
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| ASP Web Counter |
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| Easy App Open Source Scripts Collection |
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| Server Side Scripting / Programs |
| PHP (more information) |
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| Perl (more info) |
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| Python |
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| ASP |
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| ASP.NET |
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| CGI-BIN |
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| ISAPI DLL |
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| Databases |
| MySQL Database |
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| PostgreSQL Database |
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| Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL)1 |
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| Microsoft Access (MDB) |
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| Free ODBC DSN |
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| MySQL Web Based Interface |
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| PostgreSQL Web based Interface |
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| MSSQL Web based Interface |
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| E-Commerce Hosting Features |
| Dedicated IP Address1 |
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| Free Shared SSL (Secure Site) |
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| Dedicated SSL (Secure Site)1 |
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| Ready to install Shopping Cart (osCommerce) |
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| Compatible with other shopping cart |
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| Payment Gateway Support |
| Commonwealth Bank / Dialect Solutions |
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| MasterCard Internet Payment Gateway (MIGS) |
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| E-Way |
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| Camtech Payment Gateway |
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| ANZ eGate (MIGS) |
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| St. George Bank IPG (Internet Payment Gateway) |
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| St. George Bank OCA (Online CreditCard Authorisation) |
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| Open SSL Libraries (to conduct secure transactions with other payment
gateways such as Authorize.net, PaySystems, WorldPay, LinkPoint, PayPal,
etc). |
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| Advanced Web Hosting Features |
| Raw Log Files |
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| Error Log Files |
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| Password Protected Directories |
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| .htaccess |
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| GD2 Libraries |
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| ImageMagick Libraries |
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| Custom Error Pages |
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| Page Redirection |
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| Custom MIME Types |
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| Custom Directory Index |
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| mnoGoSearch Site Search Engine |
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| Custom DNS Records |
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| Apache mod_rewrite |
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| Apache Multi Views |
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| Web Hosting Server Features |
| Separate Email and Database Server |
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| Daily Backup |
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| RAID1 HDD Mirroring |
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| Data center with 24/7 on-site technicians |
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| Automated 24/7 System, Network and Service Monitoring and Alerting |
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| Redundant High Speed Backbones |
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| UPS and Generator Backup |
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Notes:
- Will incur extra costs.
- Freely Available however it requires a dedicated IP address which costs
extra.
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