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General Package Information

Size in Mega Bytes

The size of your web space is measured in Mega Bytes and Giga Bytes. A Giga Byte is 1000 Mega Bytes. How much space you need is determined by the amount of material (HTML Documents and Images) you will have on your site and what other features you will want to use.

FTP Accounts

An FTP Account allows you access to your web site files. You can upload, download, delete and manage files on your site. If you don't currently have and FTP software, we will provide a link to software you can use.

Email Accounts and Lists

The Email accounts on your site will allow you to have web mail access from anywhere. Each Email Account can have an Email List. You can also set up an autoresponder to automatically send the person accessing your email address a message.

MySQL Database

Many types of web site operations require a MySQL Database. The MySQL Database(s) is part of your site and will use some of your web space.

Sub-Domains

Each package includes the use of one domain name you need to register separately. However you may make use of subdomain names. Should you need to have different sections, topics or products on your site, subdomain names can be of benefit. For example, if you wanted to have a section of flowers separate from your area on cats and dogs, you could have a subdomain name like http://flowers.yoursitename.com.

CGI Access

Each site has a CGI Bin. You may want to run a script on your site. For example you might want to sell a product and deliver it via a script. Such a script must be located in a safe place away from hackers and misfits. You will have a cgi-bin on your site. This is where such a script would reside. There are many free scripts available on your control panel.

Front Page Extensions

If you use the FrontPage html editor, the extensions used by this program are recognized and used.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth is measured in mega bytes or gigabytes. Your bandwidth use reflects how much traffic yoursite attracts. If you have many pages and/or your site is accessed frequently, you will use more bandwidth than if you only have a few pages and /or your site receives few visits. Bandwidth is also used each time you link to an image stored on your site. If you use images stored on your site in signatures for Email or in forums, you must plan on using more bandwidth.

Special Features

Auto Responder, Shopping Cart, Forum, Blog, Guest Book are all options from which you may choose depending on the size of your site. Each of them will require some use of space and bandwidth. The size package you will need will depend on how many features you wish to make use of and how much space and bandwidth each requires.