Web Hosting

The more disk space you have the more files, pages, emails, and more everything your account will be able to store on our server.

Bandwidth can be best described as gas for a car. If your website runs out of bandwidth nobody will be able to visit it. 1GB of bandwidth is equal to over 100,000 hits. The average account with us uses less than 2 GB of bandwidth a month. Your bandwidth number used will reset back to zero on the first of every month.

All of our hosting plans come with the option to pay monthly or yearly. The price will never increase as long as you keep your account with us. Tax has already been included in the listed prices. The price you see is the TOTAL price you will pay.

Every server in out fleet has a Raid1 setup that provides instant backups. We also have a weekly offsite backup.

We guarantee that your site will be up 99.9% of the time we host it. This guarantee includes both network and server failures.

We guarantee that if for any reason during your first month with us you decide to cancel we will issue a full refund within 24 hours.

All accounts have FREE setup, and will be created automatically within a few hours.

Have multiple domains point to your website with multi domain hosting. Park any domain and have traffic directed to your website when typed in the browser's address bar.

A normal domain name looks like www.domain.com. A sub domain looks like sub.domain.com. For example forums.tucandesigns.com is a sub domain name of our site www.tucandesigns.com

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. Having multiple ftp accounts will allow you to give friends and employees their own FTP account. This will allow you to give them as little or as much access to your website as you choose.

MySQL is the worlds most popular open source database. Many forums and other database driven programs require MySQL to run. We use version 4.0.13

Common Gateway Interface allows for your programs to be used with HTTP daemons. Most websites use multiple CGI scripts. You will get a cgi-bin. However your CGI scripts will work both inside and outside of it.

PHP is a server side HTML embedded scripting language. All accounts come with support for version 4.4.4 and 5.2.0

Perl is a language that runs with CGI. We use version 5.006001

Python is a programming/scripting language that can be used on many different computers and operating systems.

Server Side Includes, refers to Perl based HTML commands that direct a server to generate on-the-fly content for web pages.

Crontab is a process in Unix systems that uses a Daemon called cron to execute commands for the user at a certain time.

We support all version of Microsoft FrontPage. Frontpage is a website creation tool that can be used to both create and upload your site when FP extensions are installed.

Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with url syntax.

GD is an ANSI library dynamic creation of images. GD creates PNG and JPEG images, among other formats. We stay up to date with the latest GD version.

ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many formats. We stay up to date on the latest version.

We support Windows Media, Quicktime, and Real Media player allowing you to run streaming audio and video.

Need a special module for your program to work? We will install it free of charge within 24 hours.

This is the number of POP accounts you get. POP accounts are used to send and receive emails through programs such as Outlook Express and Eudora.

We use both Neomail, Horde and Squirrel Mail. Web mail allows you to send and receive emails online by going to yoursite.com/webmail

Mail box aliases will allow you to setup multiple email addresses to go to a single mail box.

You can setup your email addresses so when they receive mail they will automatically reply back with your message.

Have a group of people you regularly mail? Add them to a mailing list so you can email them faster and easier.

A catch all email address will receive all emails delivered to non existent email addresses.

If you enable Spam Assasin it will block most spam from reaching your e-mail.

You can setup a mail forwarder. Doing this will forward all your mail to any email address you wish.

We support Internet Message Access Protocol. IMAP permits a client email program to access remote message stores as if they were local.

We allow you to use our servers to send outgoing mail.

1 .No more waiting 24 hours for your stats to update. You can update them to be real time!

2. Get the most accurate Unique Visitors and Click Paths information in the industry.

3. See where your traffic is coming from - search engines, banner ads, referrals, email campaigns and more

4. Analyze downloads, bandwidth usage, errors, and much more that is only possible with software-based web analytics.

Webalizer displays in depth traffic statistics for your site.

You will have access to download your sites raw logs.

The referrer log will tell you what sites your traffic is coming from.

The error log will tell you if anyone is getting errors and where.

Analog is the most popular logfile analyzer in the world.

We will provide your site with a shared SSL. SSL encrypts confidential data such as credit card numbers and passwords. Either a shared SSL or a private SSL is required when taking credit cards off your site.

SSL encrypts confidential data such as credit card numbers and passwords. Either a shared SSL or a private SSL is required when taking credit cards off your site. You are welcome to provide us with the SSL and we will install it for a $30 charge, or you can purchase one directly from us for $80.00. (Recommended)

The Interchange shopping cart is a fully featured shopping cart we provide with every account. Interchange will work with Authorize.net and other merchant gateways.

Agora is another of the fully featured shopping cart we provide, and can be installed with a click of the mouse.

Zen Cart is another of the shopping carts we provide that can be installed with a click of the mouse. "Zen Cart will deliver the ultimate online shopping experience to your customers. Navigating through your merchandise offerings is a breeze with Zen Cart, the program provides several Spotlight lists in addition to the traditional category to product links."

Cube cart is another shopping cart that is free to use and can be installed instantly using our control panel.

cPanel allows you to monitor the amount of bandwidth used, space used, create e-mail addresses, sub domains, MySQL databases, and much more instantly!

Fantastico DeLuxe will allow you to install the web's most powerful scripts. To use Fantastico you just login to the control panel click Fantastico, and then click one of the 41 scripts to be installed.

Hotlinking is when another site is linking to your images or files. Hotlink protection will stop them from stealing your bandwidth.

IP deny manager allows you to block whoever you want from being able to visit your site.

You will have the ability to submit your site to all the big search engines using our search engine submittal tool. (free of charge)

Allows you to make a custom error page for anyone who visits a not existant page of your site.

Lets you redirect pages of your site to any URL you want.

The below blogs (journals) can be installed with a click of the mouse.

b2 (0.6.1)
b2evolution (0.8.6)
Nucleus (2.0)
pMachine Free (2.3)
WordPress (1.0)

Install the below portals intantly:

Drupal (4.3.2)
Geeklog (1.3.8-1sr3)
PHP-Nuke (6.8)
phpWebSite (0.9.3-2 english)
Post-Nuke (0.7.2.6-1)
Siteframe (3.1.2)
Xoops (2.0.5.2)

With a click of the mouse you have the ability to create a PHP Nuke site.

Our chatroom creator will allow you to put a chatroom on your site instantly.

You are welcome to install any forum you want with us. You will even be able to install phpbb, Invision, and Yabbse instantly using our control panel.

A guestbook that allows your friends to sign and leave messages.

Put a hit counter on your site instantly.

Formmail is a form that will email you all the info when filled out.

You can upload your files directly from our control panel.

Password protect a directory and nobody can view its contents without a password.

All accounts come with phpMyAdmin preinstalled. PhpMyAdmin allows for easy management of your databases.

osCommerce is yet another of the shopping carts we provide that can be installed with a click of the mouse. osCommerce allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online store fronts with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved.