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This account includes a free domain name with setup. If the domain for your order does not exist Brainwrap will register it for you; if the domain already exists with a different registrar, Brainwrap will transfer the domain tat no charge and add 1 year to the current expiration date; and if Brainwrap has already registered your domain name previously without hosting, the registration will be renewed for 1 year with the hosting package. Annual domain name renewal after the first year is $15/year, or $12/year for multiple years. |
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The amount of storage space on the account for web pages, images, audio, video, email etc. The average web page is about 100K in size, so 1GB (1,000 MB) of storage can hold approximately 10,000 complete web pages. |
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The amount of network throughput your account includes for each service month. This is the amount of uploading and downloading of html, images, media, and email from your account. On average a normal web page is about 100K so 1GB of traffic would on average support about 10,000 complete page views including images. |
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This will be a consideration for programmers looking for specific features. A Unix/Linux based account will deliver many advanced features at a lower cost than a Windows server. Brainwrap-hosted accounts utilize a RedHat Linux server, the most popular Linux distribution, with excellent vendor support for hardware support and security updates. Accounts using this operating system benefit from excellent performance, reliability, and low cost overhead. These servers run Apache, the world's most popular web server used by more web sites worldwide than any other software in the world. Highly configurable and very stable. |
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Graphical reports which turn raw access logs into manageable data, so webmasters can visually understand traffic trends related to their website. |
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Detailed server logs which detail access to the account with full details. These can grow very large very quickly and are mostly valuable for debugging or remote processing by thirst party logs report programs/services. All hosting accounts include log reporting software so the value of raw logs is quite specific. |
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Allows web designers using Microsoft Frontpage to easily publish their site, with support for server side active elements like email forms and counters. |
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File Transfer Protocol is the industry standard for moving files to and from servers. Using a client application like WS_FTP, CuteFTP, Transmit,or Fetch you can easily upload the html, images etc which make up your site. |
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Web based control panel which includes easy management of email addresses, log files, password protected folders, accessing server side backups and restoring files, viewing statistics with detailed graphs, managing users and passwords, setting up anti-spam measures, and much more. |
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QuickTime®, RealPlayer® and Windows Media Player® are widely popular formats used to deliver high quality video online, while Flash® is a cross-platform multimedia rich format which allows the efficient delivery of interactive applications, and presentations. |
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Personal sub-websites for individuals who do not need their own domain names. This service is popular with educational institutions that host non-commercial personal pages of their students and staff. These sub-websites--which have their own individual FTP access--usually have web addresses like www.yourdomain.com/~username. However, they can also be set up as username.yourdomain.com using the Subdomain option below. |
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Subdomains are additional domain names that enable you to logically organize your site structure and/or host additional Web sites or parts of a Web site on the same server without the need to pay for registration of additional domain names.
For example, if your main website is www.yourdomain.com, and the "staff" section is normally located at www.yourdomain.com/staff, you could set up a subdomain for this section at staff.yourdomain.com.
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Email boxes which save email on the server which can be downloaded using our own Webmail, or you own favorite email software, like Outlook, Eudora, Entourage or Thunderbird. This kind of mailbox has the added ability of anti-spam systems which cannot be added to forwarding-only addresses (such as aliases). |
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With an email catch-all any mail addressed to a non-existant address at your domain will go to this address. This is a great feature to help ensure clients trying to email you and possibly making a typo still get to you. |
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A free web based email which allows you to access your mailbox from anywhere worldwide. A great way to check email from remote locations without setting up an email client. |
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The easiest way to setup email to your domain, and have it forward to an existing address. A great way to offer the professional image of email at your domain without the technical overhead of another email box to check. |
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Allows the ability to have an instant reply message sent back when and email is sent to you. Clients appreciate confirmation their email was received, and you can include addition information in the email such as phone numbers, urls, etc. |
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An extensible email filter which is used to identify spam. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of advanced heuristic and statistical analysis tests on mail headers and body text to identify spam, also known as unsolicited bulk email. |
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Refers to the ability to run scripts developed in various programming languages to allow your account to have dynamic content such as shopping carts, email forms, and much more! |
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Programs written in the Java programming language that can be included in an HTML page, much in the same way an image is included. When you use a Java technology-enabled browser to view a page that contains an applet, the applet's code is transferred to the visitors system and executed by the browser's Java Virtual Machine. |
Password-Protected Directories:
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These allow you to restrict access to folders on your site. Commonly used for private areas on a site like members-only, or staff specific content. |
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Practical Extraction Resource Language: is the most popular programming language for web developers. With a format similar to C++ and the best text manipulation abilities of any language PERL is very well suited for Internet development. |
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A widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. It is one of the easiest languages to learn. |
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An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. |
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One of the most popular and highly suggested database engines available online today. This database engine combines great features, performance, and reliability! |
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Commonly referred to as SSI; allows web developers to add simply html comments to their pages which can add a number of benefits to a site, includes efficient hear/footer includes or the execution of a dynamic server side script. A classic example of an SSI is a counter. |
Miva® Merchant Shopping Cart Software:
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The industry leading shopping cart With outstanding community support, and a very easy web based management interface Miva Merchant has the features to make you online store a success. Ecommerce accounts feature hosting on a Unix/Linux machine with SSL Secure connections included on their account at no additional cost. |
Secure Socket Layer w/Shared Certificate:
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An entry level way to get secure connections on your site for sensitive information like credit cards. Shared SSL does not require you to purchase a certificate from a signing agency. |
META Tag/Keyword Optimization:
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META Tags are Information placed in the HTML header of a Web page, providing information that is not visible to browsers. The most common meta tags relevant to search engines are keyword and description tags. Keywords are phrases related to the search terms used, and are a critical part of the search engine optimisation for any website. |
Search Engine Registration:
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A search engine is specialized software, used by websites such as Google, Yahoo! and AltaVista, which lets WWW browser users search for information on the Web by using keywords, phrases, and boolean logic. Different search engines have different ways of categorizing and indexing information. |
