
| Home | Business | Unlimited | |
| Prices | |||
| Direct Debit Monthly | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Direct Debit Yearly | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Credit Card Monthly | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Credit Card Yearly | £14.99 | £29.99 | £39.99 |
| General Features | |||
| Web Space (MB) | 5000 | 10000 | Unlimited |
| Data Transfer (MB) | 5000 | 50000 | Unlimited |
| Fully Integrated Domain Management | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Technical Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Email Features | |||
| Webmail 1 GB Mail Boxes | 10 | 100 | Unlimited |
| Mail Boxes (POP3 & IMAP) | 10 | 100 | Unlimited |
| Autoresponders | 10 | 100 | Unlimited |
| Mailing Lists | 0 | 100 | Unlimited |
| Email Forwarders | 20 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Catch All Email | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Junk Mail Filters | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Email Technical Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Website Statistics Features | |||
| Error & Access/Referrer/Agent Logs | No | No | Yes |
| Google Sitemaps Generator | No | No | Yes |
| Webalizer Graphical Statistics | No | Yes | Yes |
| AWStats Graphical Statistics | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced Graphical and Text Counters | No | No | Yes |
| Access Features | |||
| Master FTP Account | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Additional FTP Logins | No | 10 | Unlimited |
| Free FTP Client (upon request) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Database Features | |||
| MySQL 5 | 1 | 10 | Unlimited |
| MySQL Web Interface | No | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced Features | |||
| Custom Control Panel | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sub Domains | 3 | 50 | Unlimited |
| Website Builder (Corporate Only) | No | No | No |
| Website Builder Plus (Corporate Only) | No | No | No |
| Microsoft FrontPage Extensions | No | Yes | Yes |
| Online File Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Submission to 15 search Engines | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Backup & Restore Your Website | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced Website Password Protection | No | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduled Tasks | No | No | Yes |
| Multiple Domain Mappings | No | No | Yes |
| IP Address Blocking | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Website Directory Auto-Indexing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced Search Engine Submission From | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Programming Features | |||
| PHP4 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PHP5 with SOAP Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Perl | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Python | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Miva | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| RealAudio | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sun ONE ASP (Chili!Soft ASP) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ruby | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ImageMagick | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ghostscript | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Zend Optimizer | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ecommerce Features | |||
| Shared Secure Server Access | No | Yes | Yes |
| Agora Cart - Simple Shopping Cart | No | Yes | Yes |
| osCommerce Shopping Cart | No | Yes | Yes |
| Zen Cart | No | Yes | Yes |
| Personalised Secure Server | No | £199 | £199 |
| Free Web Tools | |||
| Free Software (worth £300) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Graphics Archive | No | No | Yes |
| 50 Premium Website Templates | No | Yes | Yes |
| 400 Basic Website Templates | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 100 New Professional Website Templates | No | Yes | Yes |
| 16 Flash Website Templates | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Other Templates | No | No | Yes |
| Flash Banners | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 100 Company Logos | No | Yes | Yes |
| Banner Templates | No | Yes | Yes |
| 22,500 Photos | No | No | Yes |
| Web Art | No | No | Yes |
| Massive CGI Script Library | |||
| Guestbook | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Geeklog Blog | No | Yes | Yes |
| WordPress Blog | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Nucleus Blog | No | Yes | Yes |
| Joomla CMS | No | Yes | Yes |
| Mambo CMS | No | Yes | Yes |
| Locked Area Lite Password Manager | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Online Discussion Forum - phpBB | No | Yes | Yes |
| Online Discussion Forum - Eblah | No | Yes | Yes |
| Postcards | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Form to Email | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom 404 and 500 Error Pages | No | Yes | Yes |
| Search Engine | No | Yes | Yes |
| Free For All Links page | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Banner Advertising System | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Online Auction - Just Like EBay | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Domain Name Checker | No | Yes | Yes |
| Online Photo Album | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Web Calendar | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Web Survey | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Internet Countdown | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Random Text Displayer | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Random Images Displayer | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tell-A-Friend | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Web Ring | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kandy Express (Corporate Only) | No | No | No |
| Classified Adverts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Java Clock | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Gallery2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| RoundCube Webmail | No | Yes | Yes |
| MediaWiki | No | Yes | Yes |
| SugarCRM | No | Yes | Yes |
| JavaScript Generator | |||
| Break Frames | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bookmark Us | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Set Home Page Link | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Logo Branding | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Frameless Popup | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Browser Entry | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Language | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Avenue Search | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Popup Page | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Data Centre Features | |||
| Dual 1000 Mb Connections to the Internet | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cisco Gigabit Network | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Diverse Fibre Networks | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hosted on Dell Super Servers | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Load Balanced Storage Systems | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Redundant Data Backup | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Redundant Power Feeds | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Redundant Uninterruptible Power Supplies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Redundant Standby Generators | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Redundant Cooling Systems | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 24 X 7 X 365 Onsite Manned | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Incipient Fire Detection System | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CCTV and Smart Card Access | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Webspace is where your web pages and the items associated with them such as images and sounds are stored.
Every time someone visits your website they will use some of your data transfer allowance. For example if one of your web pages is 10 kilobytes in size (KB) and the images that are on that page are 90 KB then if someone visits your page they will use 100 KB of data. Your data transfer allowance is in megabytes (MB), there are 1024 KB in 1 MB.
This feature allows you to forward any email address @yourdomain.co.uk to any email address you choose, for example a hotmail or yahoo.com address. You can forward each address to up to three different addresses.
This feature allows you to forward ALL email from yourdomain.co.uk to any email address you choose, for example a hotmail or yahoo.com address.
This feature allows you to add mail boxes to your account. A mail box stores mail on our server until you download it using an email client like Outlook Express.
Our mail servers support POP3 and IMAP.
Email distribution lists allow you to have a simple form on your website with which your users can subscribe or unsubscribe their email address. You can then send an email to all members of the list using our simple system.
This feature allows an email address on your account to automatically respond with a specific message.
Junk mail filters use special technology to strip out junk mail before you receive it. This feature also allows you to set an address to send the junk mail to so that you can check this address to ensure that only junk mail is being caught.
We offer one of the most powerful and flexible WebMail systems to all our customers. Features include:
Folder Support
You can create as many folders as you need to easily store and organise your mail.
Enhanced Calendar
This handy feature allows you to manage appointments (tasks) on a quarterly, annual, or daily basis.
Outlook-to-Webmail Sync
Microsoft Outlook can be synchronized with your Webmail account so that contacts and scheduler data can be shared between a desktop and Webmail client. If a user adds a new appointment (task) or contact while using Outlook or Webmail, the data will be automatically synchronised between the applications.
Enhanced Address Book
Webmail's enhanced address book functionality allows you to import and export contacts from/to CSV (comma separated values) file format. You can also sync your Webmail account with your existing address-books.
Spell Checker
Spell check your email before sending it using the built in spell checker with a new and updated language database.
Mailbox Sorting & Searching
Messages contained in your Inbox can be sorted by subject, date, or email address. You can search your mailbox for keywords, allowing quick and easy access to your stored email.
Rich HTML Messages
Create eye-catching emails using different fonts and colours or by embedding pictures and sounds. Why not add your company logo or a customised signature? You can easily attach files to your emails to send to friends, family or colleagues.
Email Filters
Create rules to move specific messages or block unwanted senders altogether.
Webmail is one of our most popular features and we operate our Webmail system on a sophisticated hardware platform. This uses state-of-the-art hardware load balancers to distribute traffic to our cluster of Webmail servers. Your messages are centrally stored on giant disk arrays and backed up each day, first to another disk array and then to tape which is stored offsite.
MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language in the world. MySQL is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs and libraries.
Miva Empressa scripts language supported as standard.
Full support including the most commonly used modules for Perl, PHP and Python.
Sun ONE ASP (Chili!Soft ASP) allows you to use the Microsoft ASP programming launguage on Linux.
View a list of the Perl and PHP modules installed on your web hosting server.
View a list of the paths to common programs and see their relevant version number.
Validate the quality of your HTML using this handy HTML checker.
Validate the quality of your Perl using this handy script checker.
Our file manager has a great range of features to help you manage your files and folders online.
This feature enables a program to run automatically on the server and can set your program to run hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.
If you have used Microsoft FrontPage to design your website you will need to install the Microsoft FrontPage Extensions to use all the features.
This feature allows you to password protect a directory on your website. By keeping the password a secret you can let only people who have the password into this area.
This feature allows you to add, remove and update users for an already-password-protected area of your site.
This feature allows you to change your password for FTP, FrontPage and SSH.
This feature allows you to download your website as a zip file. You can use this feature to make a regular backup of your website in case you lose any data.
This feature allows you to restore a backup zip file that you have made..
Sub domains allow you to have new web addresses for separate areas of your Website. For example you could have support.yourdomain.co.uk and point this at your yourdomain.co.uk/support/ directory. You can use sub domains in conjunction with additional FTP accounts, creating in effect simple hosting accounts with a sub domain and an additional FTP account.
SSH server access allows you to login directly to the server hosting your Website. You can manipulate your Website files using Linux commands. This feature is for advanced users.
Additional FTP accounts are most commonly used to give others access to an account for the purpose of sharing a web development project, without giving them control over the entire Website. By restricting their access to their home directory, you can ensure they can only modify files within this particular space.
Submit your site to 10 search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN!
This feature allows you to block certain IP addresses from visiting your website.
This feature allows you to either show the content of your web directories as file listings or show them as a 403 forbidden error.
Check how much web space you have used on your whole account or specify a directory within your account to check.
This feature allows you to ping, trace or nslookup an IP address or hostname.
This feature allows you to view the full WHOIS output of a domain name.
This feature will try to tidy up the layout of an HTML page.
Javascripts are great little tools to drop into your website to make it more interactive.
Webalizer is a highly powerful and easily configurable web site statistics package that analyses the access log files that we automatically create for your website.
AWStats is a powerful and fully featured tool that generates advanced graphical web server statistics.
Having your website listed in Google is vital. Google has a special tool called Google Sitemaps which generates a list of all the files on your website and sends them to Google. This allows Google to ensure it finds all of your web pages and files.
The software to generate a Sitemap is quite complicated but we have made it really easy by integrating the software into our EcoHosting Control Panel. We would recommend everyone generates a Google sitemap and then re-generates it every time their site is updated.
This feature allows you to download your server access log as a zip file. You can then manipulate the file locally on your computer to get any specific data you need.
This feature allows you to add a plain text or graphical counter to your Website. You also get a full set of statistics for the page the counter is on.
RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking.
Share your pictures with others or view them over the internet. Upload your pictures while on holiday so you can take more. Create groups of people who can see different sets of pictures eg you might let your football team see pictures from matches etc.
A collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites. Work with others to maintain information. For example if you run a business you can share information with your colleagues at the same time as documenting it for yourself.
A Customer Relationship Management application - This application lets a business keep track of its relationships with its customers. Users can manage customer accounts, contacts, sales leads, calls, meetings etc. A dashboard showing the most successful leads, the sales pipeline, and the month-by-month outcomes for opportunities in the pipeline can be displayed.
Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
Locked Area Lite is a sophisticated password protection and membership management system that gives your users access to a password protected members area. Locked Area Lite manages the users login details and allows the webmaster to email and manage users from a simple web interface.
Geeklog is a 'blog', otherwise known as a Weblog. It allows you to create your own virtual community area, complete with user administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, weblinks, and more!
Nucleus offers you the building blocks you need to create a web presence. Whether you want to create a personal blog, a family page, or an online business site, Nucleus CMS can help you achieve your goals.
WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging software available today! It's easy to install and use and will allow you to have a great looking blog in minutes. Please note that this feature will use one of your MySQL databases.
Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ.
This feature allows you to implement forms on your website and receive the results via email.
This feature allows you to run an online photo gallery, great for sharing your holiday snaps!
This feature allows visitors to your site to add a link back to their website.
This feature allows you to have a search box on your website to help visitors find the web page that they need.
This feature allows your visitors to leave their name, email address and some comments about your website.
E-Blah is one of the best discussion forums available, it has hundreds of options and is a great feature for any website.
This feature is a great traffic booster, it simply allows your visitors to send their friends a personalised postcard from your website.
Interested in running a website like Ebay? Start the simple way with this powerful Auction system.
This feature allows your website visitors to check the availability of a domain name.
Our file not found and server error pages can be configured to email you when an error occurs.
Install a powerful banner advertising program to allow you to run banner adverts on your website, and includes statistics and reports on the success of your banners.
This feature enables you to install a Java clock for use on your website.
Web Calendar is a web-based calendaring and scheduling system for managing personal, group and corporate events over the internet. It is a fully featured online application that allows you to keep track of your personal appointments, group projects and company meetings.
This feature allows you to have a survey on your web page, once a visitor has voted they may see the results of the survey so far.
This feature allows you to have a countdown to a specific date on your web page.
This feature allows different pieces of text to be displayed each time a web page is loaded.
This feature allows you to show a random image in any web page from a store of images you specify.
Our tell-a-friend feature allows people visiting your website to fill in a simple four-field form and have a link to that page of the website emailed to their friend.
A Web Ring is a great way of getting more traffic to your website. It allows webmasters of similar sites to your own to add their link to the ring then each webmaster displays the ring (a system of links) on their site.
This feature allows you to run classified adverts on your site, which allows your visitors to advertise goods or services they have for sale.
The price at which you sign up is the price you pay for the duration of your account with Eco Hosting- we guarantee you will never pay any more.
Eco Hosting have one of the most integrated web hosting and domain name platforms in the world,. We don't operate separate systems or brands for our domain name or web hosting business, meaning that all our systems are tightly integrated. Wherever we can, we have handed control of all the services we offer over to you - after all, who else is more qualified to operate your Website? This means that you can make the most of the changes you need or add new services in real time in our simple to use Control Panel
Our detailed online knowledge base contains answers to the most frequently asked questions. We update the database on a regular basis to ensure you get the most up-to-date information.
Sometimes things do go wrong and we want to work with you to resolve any issues you have as quickly as we can. We operate an easy-to-use ticketing system where you can alert us to any issues you have.
We aim to answer support questions within 4 hours, and often reply faster than that.
One of our philosophies at Eco Hosting is not to employ what we call "Support Droids" - people who don't have any real technical experience and simply read from crib sheets. All our support engineers are highly trained employees who care about your problem. Our aim is to resolve your problems the first time around.
The price at which you sign up is the price you pay for the duration of your account with Eco Hosting - we guarantee you will never pay any more.