Anonymous FTP Access: Depending on your package and platform, anonymous FTP access allows users to upload or download files to and from your domain without the usual means of authentication, such as a user name or password. NT users may download files and Unix users may upload and download files.
Auto Responder: Allows you to automatically send a reply when an e-mail is sent to your account. This is a useful feature that lets people know you are away from your account and will not be able to immediately reply to their e-mail.
Bandwidth: Bandwidth measures the amount of information that can be transmitted over a network, normally measured in megabytes (MB) or gigabytes (GB). Simple HTML web pages do not require a large amount of bandwidth, but full-motion video does.
CGI: An acronym for Common Gateway Interface. Refers to the method of passing data back and forth between the web server and the application program. Use CGI scripts to submit your forms to a web server.
Disk Space: Disk space is a measure of hard drive storage you are allowed on the server, measured in megabytes (MB). The greater the amount of disk space, the more features and pages you can store on your web site.
Domain Name Server (DNS) Transfer: Already have a domain name? Your domain names' IP address needs to be redirected from your registrar's servers to wizzwoo's servers. We will redirect your DNS for you.
Domain Name: Register you unique web address with us. We offer domain name registration in all the top level domain extensions. Beginners Guide to Domain Names
E-mail Aliasing: Allows you to have multiple addresses for one POP mailbox. For example, you could have sales@test_domain.net, info@test_domain.net and help@test_domain.net as aliases to a single POP mailbox.
E-mail Exploders: Part of an e-mail delivery system that allows a message to be delivered to a list of addresses. E-mail exploders are useful for implementing mailing lists. Simply send messages to a single address, and the mail exploder delivers the message to all the e-mail addresses on the list.
E-mail Forwarding: The e-mail forwarding feature allows you to automatically forward mail from one POP mailbox to an existing e-mail address. For example, you could forward e-mail sent to your domain test_domain.net to your ISP.
Flash: Macromedia Flash is the standard for interactive vector graphics and animation for the Web. Web designers use Flash to create resizable, compact navigation interfaces, technical illustrations, long-form animations, and other effects for their site. Graphics and animation will anti-alias and scale, based on the viewer's screen size, providing high-quality viewing.
Graphical Usage Statistics: The graphical usage statistics displays your web traffic in an easy-to-read graphical format. It displays the number of visitors to your site, what pages were visited, when they were visited, and who visited them.
HTTP Streaming: An alternative approach to serving Real Audio files on the Web. Although this technique is not suited to high-volume sites serving numerous simultaneous streams, smaller web sites can benefit from this simple and inexpensive approach. This technique relies on HTTP, which is already used by all Web servers to store and transmit ordinary text and graphics files on the Web.
Mail Control Panel: Contained within User Services, the mail control panel allows you to easily enable e-mail forwarding, aliasing, and exploders.
Live Windows Media Streaming: Allows the user to watch or listen to a media file without downloading it. The file is simultaneously "streamed" and broadcasted as you are watching or listening to it.
MIVA Shopping Cart: This dynamic browser based storefront development and management system allows you to create multiple online stores showcasing and selling an unlimited number of products.
MySQL: MySQL is a relational database management system that implements many industry standards including SQL and ODBC along with C and Perl APIs.
Perl/Perl Script Support: Acronym for Practical Extraction and Report Language, Perl is one most popular programming languages for writing CGI scripts. Our servers support Perl/Perl script programming.
Personal CGI directory: The personal CGI directory feature allows you to run any CGI script from a directory located inside your home directory, provided the script conforms to the terms and conditions of usage agreement.
PHP Support: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic web pages. We support this feature.
POP: An acronym for the Post Office Protocol. The current version of this protocol is POP3. This protocol allows you to read your electronic mail by connecting to the Mail Server and downloading your inbox (new electronic mail messages) to your computer. To send and receive e-mail, you need an SMTP account (for outgoing mail) and a POP account (for incoming mail).
Real Audio & Real Video: This is a client server-based streaming media delivery system. Providers of news, entertainment, sports, and business content can create and deliver audio-based streaming multimedia content from their web sites.
Secure Transactions: This feature uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to provide site authentication and peer-to-peer secure communication allowing you to securely transmit and receive sensitive information such as credit card numbers or passwords.
SMTP Account: An acronym for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It refers to the standard rules that many e-mail clients use to handle "outgoing" e-mail messages. To send and receive e-mail, you need an SMTP account (for outgoing mail) and a POP account (for incoming mail). Allows you to send and receive e-mail using your domain name.
Unlimited FTP Access: FTP is the Acronym for File Transfer Protocol. It is the preferred method of uploading files to your web server. Once you have created web pages on your computer, you can upload either individual pages or an entire directory to your web server using the FTP program. Most of our hosting packages include unlimited access to your account via FTP 24 hours a day. This way you can update your site whenever you want.
Web-based control panel: HELM is a password-protected login area that allows you to administer your account online. You can configure e-mail (POP) accounts and aliases, change your account password, check your disk space usage, order additional services or view your web site statistics.
Web-based File Manager: "Helm File Manager" performs many of the file operations needed to manage a web site. Use it to navigate the directories of your web site and view a list of files listed within each directory. You can also copy, create, delete, edit, move and upload files, as well as create and delete subdirectories.