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Standard features
All accounts contain the following features as standard. Click the  icon to view more information!
FREE and instant account setup!
Unlike many web hosting companies we do not charge anything extra to set up your account. We believe in value for money, and through our indepth automation of your account, we happily waiver your administration fee to provide you with the best value for money service possible.
HELM Control Panel to manage your account
The Helm Control System is the most advanced web hosting control panel for the Microsoft platform available today. Helm will allow you to have as many different types of packages as you like, and you will only need to log into Helm once. You can even remove domains from your hosting package and add in new ones when ever you like! Since Helm is accessed through a website, you can access it from anywhere in the world 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to control every aspect of your account.
Full OpenHosting Membership
Becoming a member of OpenHosting will provide you access to a range of community features to help you make the most out of your OpenHosting account and your time on the internet. We strongly believe in our community, and its unique friendliness and helpfulness means that website owners of all levels can get help with any queries they have, webhosting related or not ;-)
E-mail autoresponders
Auto responders allow you to automatically have messages sent to people that email you. Often also called 'vacation messages', these are very useful if you know that you will not be able to answer any emails for a prolonged period. You can set up an autoresponder to let people know that they may not receive a reply during that period.
Catch-all e-mail address functionality
Catch all email accounts are special email addresses that not only collect email for their specific address, but will collect email that is addressed to any email address for your domain. i.e. anything@yourdomain.com.
Web-based e-mail facility
If you are away from your home or office and need to check your email, the web based email service is a perfect solution. You can view, compose and manage your emails from any computer that has access to the internet.
Custom error pages
For the ultimate in flexibility for your website, you can change those boring '404 page can not be found' error pages into your own style and format for that polished professional look.
Active Server Pages (ASP) support
ASP (Active Server Pages) is the most popular server side scripting language on the Microsoft Windows platform. The language is based on a form of Visual Basic making it straightforward to pick up and develop web applications with. This technology is the most stable platform for developing truly dynamic websites which can be database driven from Microsoft Access databases or MySQL databases.
PHP support
PHP is a common server side scripting language that is much like ASP in its abilities and form. There are many excellent free web applications, such as forums, content management systems and web-based database tools available in PHP. Having this technology available on your website means that you can host any of these applications.
Perl and CGI support
Perl is one of the earliest server side scripting languages. Although a reletively complex language, it boasts superior text manipulation speed and effeciency. Although we personally recommend ASP over Perl, you may find there are a greater selection of small, free applications built in Perl than in ASP.
Server Side Includes (SSI) support
SSI (Server Side Include) allows you to better manage your website designs by having webpage content shared amongst multiple web pages. The most common use for SSI are for centralising database connections and applying website templates to your website.
Scripting components
Scripting components include ASPUpload, ASPJpeg, CDONTS, CDOSYS, JMail Professional, ImageMagick and GD Image.
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