You can host up to 5 domains under your hosting plan.!
 

In the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain. For example, 'me.example.com' is a subdomain of the 'com' top-level domain (TLD) and 'example.com'.
 

Domain parking is an advertising practice used to monetize type-in traffic visiting an under-developed domain name. The domain name will usually resolve to a page containing relevant advertising listings and links.
 

Your account comes with unlimited Email accounts for example you@yourwebsite.com.
 

You can use autoresponders to send a message back automatically to anyone who sends an email to a certain account. This can be useful for times when you are on vacation or unavailable, or if you have a generic message that you wish to send for a support email address.
 

You can use email forwarders to send all email messages that are sent to an account to another account. If you have multiple email accounts, you can use forwarders to send all your mail to one place so you do not have to login to multiple email accounts to check your mail.
 

We provide you with a way to receive email @yourbusiness.com. Depending on the company, you often times can specify several email aliases such as: info@yourbusiness.com, or employee's name@yourbusiness.com.
 

We support SMTP, POP, IMAP as standard.
 

You can use the Modify Mail Exchanger (MX Entry) function to change where a domain's email is delivered to. This allows you to have the email from one domain delivered to another domain. It comes in handy when you do not want to use our email servers to send out emails but instead go with another email provider.
 

Spam Assassin is an automated mail filter that uses a wide range of heuristic algorithms on mail headers and message body text to identify 'SPAM' (unsolicited email). Once identified, the mail is tagged as 'SPAM' for later filtering using the user's desktop mail client. For more information, please visit the developer's website: http://www.spamassassin.org
 

Your account comes with your own mail servers for example mail.yourdomain.com.
 

Your account comes with free webmail software and access. Now you can access your email from anywhere in the world and send/receive messages. Works just like your Yahoo or Gmail email control panel.
 

When someone on the Internet sends email to a non-existent address, the mail gets bounced, or returned to the sender with a message that the address could not be found. With catch-all you can receive mail that is sent to an address on a domain associated with your account, even if that address does not exist.
 

Site configuration and management software application. All accounts come with free cpanel software.
 

FTP or file transfer protocol is used to connect two computers over the Internet so that the user of one computer can transfer files and perform file commands on the other computer (server). All accounts come with unlimited FTP accounts.
 

With this feature you can upload your site directly from your Microsoft Frontpage software on to our web servers.
 

You can make your websites in Macromedia Dreamweaver and then upload them on our servers. Please also note that our hosting packages are compatible with ALL website making programs as well as Computer Operating Systems. It does not matter if you have made your site in your MAC or Windows computer.
 

As the name suggests you can forward or redirect your Domain names to different URLs by using this feature.
 

AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. Comes free and fully integrated with all XtraOrbit accounts.
 

The Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser. Comes with all XtraOrbit accounts.
 

Raw Access Logs allow you to see who has accessed your site without the use of graphs, charts or other graphics. You can use the Raw Access Logs menu to download a zipped version of the server's access log for your site. This can be very useful when you need to see who is accessing your site quickly.
 

Our Web servers run separate logs that show web site errors. These logs can show things like access to robots.txt (if it does not exist), cgi program failures or gerneral website access failures.
 

The cPanel FILE MANAGER allows you to modify the files and contents of files that are part of your website. The FILE MANAGER allows point and click uploading, editing, copying, and more. If you need access to the files that make up your website, you will need to use the FILE MANAGER.
 

The Index Manager allows you to customize the way a directory will be viewed on the web. You can select between a default style, no indexes, or two types of indexing. If you do not wish for people to be able to see the files in your directory, choose no indexing.
 

The IP Deny Manager allows you to prevent an IP address, domain name, or block of IP addresses from accessing your web site. If someone is using a lot of your bandwidth, posting malicious content, or should not be allowed to access your site for another reason, you can prevent them from doing so in the IP Deny Manager.
 

As the name suggests, it allows you to manage your domains and perform various tasks related to its management.
 

You can use this option to place a password on one of your site's directories. Only users that you specify will be able to access this directory.
 

Hotlink protection prevents other websites from directly linking to files (as specified below) on your website. Other sites will still be able to link to any file type that you don't specify below (ie. html files). You can use hotlink protection to keep other sites from linking to your images, videos, and other files. If another site links directly to your images or other files, they will be using your bandwidth to display those files rather than theirs.
 

You can view server's current health and certain other characteristics by using this feature.
 

You can create your own custom error pages. This feature is typically helpful in directing users to custom web pages when they hit 404, 500 etc errors on your website.
 

The MySQL database has become the world's most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. It's used in more than 10 million installations ranging from large corporations to specialized embedded applications on every continent in the world.
 

You can have unlimited mysql databases.
 

phpMyAdmin allows you to administrate all of your mySQL databases. To learn more about this tool, please look at : http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/docs.php
 

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
 

Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks.
 

The Zend Optimizer is a free application that runs the files encoded by the Zend Guard, while enhancing the performance of PHP applications.
 

The IonCube Loader is a free application that runs the files encoded by ionCube PHP Encoder, which is an encoding and licensing system for protecting PHP source code and non-PHP files from prying eyes, theft and change.
 

We support Image Magick, GD and cURL.
 

Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data - a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message.

If you want to install an SSL Certificate, please order a dedicated IP from our members area, purchse the SSL Certificate and then we will assist you to install the certificate free of charge.
 

We support TCL and Python.
 

SSI (Server Side Includes) are directives that are placed in HTML pages, and evaluated on the server while the pages are being served. They let you add dynamically generated content to an existing HTML page, without having to serve the entire page via a CGI program, or other dynamic technology.
 

HTTP streaming is an alternative approach to serving RealAudio and RealVideo files on the Web without the added management requirements and expense of server-side streaming software. Although this techniques is not well-suited for high-volume sites serving numerous simultaneous streams, many smaller Web sites can benefit tremendously from this simple and inexpensive approach.
 

We support Flash based websites.
 

We support Shockwave.
 

Your hosting account is compatible with Windows Media player.
 

Your hosting account is compatible with Real Audio/Video.
 

The cPanel CGI Center allows you to activate and modify simple CGI scripts that can be used through your web site. These CGI scripts allow you to run counters and guestbooks, rotating banner ads, and more.
 

b2evolution is a free blog tool for the next generation of blogs. It includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with evolved features such as file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support as well as detailed user permissions... Not to mention third party plug-ins! Plus, it's free, open-source (GPL) and available in many languages!
 

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
 

YaBB is a leading free forum software package that rivals any professional message board out there. It provides a real-time chat and support system for your visitors. While chat programs allow people to talk directly, you have to be on at the same time as others. With forum software like YaBB, you can talk any time, and everyone can join in the conversation! Build a community and get visitors to come back for interesting discussions, fun chit chat, or needed support without having to spend thousands of dollars.
 

phpBB is a popular internet forum package written in the PHP programming language. The name 'phpBB' is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board. Available under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is free software.
 

e107 is a content management system written in PHP and using the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It's completely free, totally customisable and in constant development.
 

PostNuke is a free, open source content management system (a 'nuke') forked from PHP-Nuke, released under the GNU General Public License. The PostNuke project was started because some PHP-Nuke users believed there should be a more open development environment. The users felt the only way this could be done was to develop their own fork of the PHP-Nuke code.
 

Geeklog is a weblog powered by PHP and MySQL. It allows you within minutes to set up a fully functioning dynamic website, and has many features to get you started.
 

Soholaunch is a software product that makes it easy for people of all experience levels to create and maintain a great website. It reins-in the hard parts of building a website and presents them in a way that the non-geek can understand and control.
 

Mambo (formerly named Mambo Open Source or MOS) is an open source content management system (CMS). It features a page caching mechanism to improve performance on busy sites and automates many tasks for a static website like web indexing. Mambo can provide RSS feeds, PDF versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, internet forums, polls, calendars, website searching, language internationalization, and other possibilities.
 

XOOPS is a program that allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.
 

Nucleus CMS is an open-source content management system written in PHP, with a MySQL backend, primarily written and maintained by Wouter Demuynck. It is used to manage frequently-updated Web content, commonly weblogs.
 

PhpWiki is wiki software written in PHP. The first version, by Steve Wainstead, was in December 1999 and was the first Wiki written in PHP to be publicly released.
 

phpMyChat is an easy-to-install, easy-to-use multi-room chat system developed in PHP and using a database as the content storage.
 

Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.
 

Advanced Guestbook is a PHP-based guestbook script. It includes many useful features such as preview, templates, e-mail notification, picture upload, page spanning , html tags handling, smilies, advanced guestbook codes and language support. The admin script lets you modify, view, and delete messages.
 

osCommerce is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved. Comes FREE with all XtraOrbit accounts.
 

Shopping cart software surpassing your wildest dreams. Over three years in development. Tens of thousands of hours spent testing and enhancing. Search Engine Optimized (SEO) out of the box.

Although we provide an easy and automated way to install and use ClickCartPro using cPanel, a License is required to use the software.
 

AgoraCart - The powerful 'Free' Open Source ecommerce shopping cart software solution that offers a very wide range of 'out-of-the-box' features that allow you to setup an online ecommerce solution ranging from a simple template based store to the integration of a complex visual design concept containing all the creative magic of your web designer.
 

This function allows you to use ClamAV to scan your email, home directory, public web, or public FTP space. Scanning consistently for viruses will help keep your site running properly, and can prevent many problems.
 

Our servers are fully patched and kept up to date with the latest custom kernels and software upgrades are done on regular basis. They are hardened as rock for our complex hosting environment.
 

We place our servers at a state of the art carrier class data facility in Houston, Texas. Take a look at the Data Center tour : http://www.xtraorbit.com/core/about/dtour1.php
 

Our help desk is open 24x7 at whbsupport.com for all techinical and billing support.
 

We offer 24x7 email support to all our clients.
 

Online Documentations are available to all clients at http://www.xtraorbit.com/core/support/index.php
 

We provide you with a secure billing management area where you can pay for your invoices, change your billin details, order new accounts or perform other billing related tasks.
 

All accounts are sent online invoice statements which saves the environment as well as boosts security.
 

Our servers maintain an average of 99.9% uptime in any given month.
 

You can get your money back within 30 days if you are not satisfied with our services.
 

We never increase the prices. All accounts have price freeze on them regardless of how long you stay with us.
 

All hosting accounts are activated instantly.