Click on the headings to read more about a feature, however if you have any further questions then try reading our pre-sales FAQ or ask our sales team.
Control Panel Features
The "Parallels Pro" control panel allows you to manage all aspects of your hosting account. From adding email accounts to managing your MySQL databases, you can do it all quickly and easily.
We recommend FTP for uploading your website files. However, when FTP is not practical you can use the web based file manager provided to upload and/or manage your website files directly from a regular web browser.
Sub domains allow you to setup separate sub sites within your main website, for example you can create http://blog.yoursite.com to start a blog separate to your main website. You can create unlimited sub domains.
PHPMyAdmin is a popular, powerful web-based interface for administering MySQL databases. You can login and manage your databases from an easy to use control panel in your regular web browser.
Your control panel allows you to password protect directories on your website. You can then manage users, passwords and groups who are allowed access to these protected areas.
You are provided full FTP and SSH access to your webspace. FTP allows for fast and easy file transfer and management. SSH allows you direct command line access to your webspace via shell.
From your control panel you can create an instantly downloadable backup of your website, or schedule a regular automatic backup for later on! You can also restore previous backups to your webspace.
You may have a script or task on your website or application that needs to run at a certain time each day or week. We allow you to use Cronjobs to accomplish this.
We provide your website with free secure server access, which would be accessible via https://server/yoursite.com/. You may also add your own branded SSL certificate to allow secure access via https://www.yoursite.com.
Email Features
Squirrelmail software is already installed to your web hosting. This provides simple, fast access to your email via regular web browser. Perfect if you don't like email software such as Outlook, or if you are away from your own PC.
Our service fully supports POP3 and IMAP access to your mailboxes. This allows you to choose any popular email program to access your email such as MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and Eudora.
We allow you to use our SMTP server to send email from your hosting account with us. We also provide SMTP on alternative port 26 for those advanced users who may have ISP's blocking port 25.
We provide premium MailFoundry spam filtering for your email as standard. This industry-leading spam filtering removes 99% of all spam and viruses from your emails. You wont find better filtering!
Email aliases are similar to email forwarders, and allow you to setup email addresses @yoursite.com which will forward to mailboxes elsewhere, such as to your @hotmail, or to multiple other email recipients.
Email forwarding simply means you can forward email for user@yoursite.com hosted with us to a mailbox elsewhere such as you@hotmail.com or any other email address.
Auto responders can be set up from your control panel and allow you to set up a pre-written reply which will be sent instantly to anyone emailing a set email address.
When you leave your email for long periods of time you can enable vacation responders, to let people know you are away from your email and that you will reply as soon as possible.
We pre-install "Majordomo" mailing list software to your hosting account, allowing you to easily maintain a mailing list. You can also install most other popular mailing list software.
Procmail can be used by more advanced users to manipulate, sort, and filter incoming email based on rules that you create within a text based procmail file.
E-Commerce Ready
OSCommerce is a very popular, highly recommended, e-commerce store front software. You can install it easily to your webspace and set up an online store within minutes.
Most e-commerce software written in PHP and MySQL is compatible with Industry Square accounts. Contact us if you would like to check a specific piece of software will work with our hosting.
We provide your website with free secure server access, which would be accessible via https://server/yoursite.com/. You may also add your own branded SSL certificate to allow secure access via https://www.yoursite.com.
We support all major payment gateways. You will be able to use Protx, HSBC, 2checkout, Paypal and many many others to accept secure payments from websites hosted with us.
Scripting & Development Features
Powertools is a feature inside your control panel which allows you to install popular software to your webspace with a single click of a button. It includes blogs, forums and e-commerce software.
MySQL databases are easily created, managed and deleted from your web hosting control panel.
We provide the latest PHP5. We run your own secure install of PHP, meaning you have full access to php.ini to make any necessary changes. Our PHP installation is far more secure than other traditional shared hosting.
Perl 5 is provided for your site. We run your own secure install of Perl and a massive amount of modules. Additional perl modules can be installed for you upon request.
CGI is provided for your site, with its own cgi-bin for running your scripts securely. We also provide a large amount of modules. Additional perl modules can be installed for you upon request.
Server Side Includes (SSI) are fully supported and allow you to place includes in your web page templates, which are processed by the server when someone views your website.
Pear is compiled with PHP for your site and allows you to use a whole library of pre-written Pear modules and tools for your website development.
Mod_rewrite is pre-installed to your webspace allowing you to "rewrite" URL's on-the-fly. Mod_rewrite is handy for moving and manipulating web pages for tasks such as Search Engine Optimisation.
.htaccess is supported with our webspace. You can use it for many tasks including custom error documents, blocking users and IP's, redirects, MIME Types and much more.
MIME types are used to identify the type of information that a file on your hosting contains. Standard MIME Types include .html, .php and .pl but you can add custom MIME Types as required.
You can create custom Error pages to replace the default ones with, allowing you to remove the Ugly 404 Page Not Found messages and all other standard error pages.
Unbeatable Infrastructure
We have maintained a 99.9% or better uptime on our servers fleet since 1998.
We have been a UK registered, privately owned company, hosting websites since 1998. Peace of mind that we won't be 'here today gone tomorrow'"!
Hosts offering extremely large or "unlimited" quota's with their hosting packages are 'overselling' meaning you will not be able to use all of that space. We provide realistic, 100% usable quota's with no overselling.
All our servers are the absolute latest, server grade hardware from Dell and Supermicro. Utilising Dual Dualcore Processors and huge 4GB+ amounts of memory to keep your site lightning fast!
All of our servers carry 2 or 3 Hard Drives for RAID redundancy. Meaning if 1 disk fails your site remains online and with zero data loss, thanks to mirroring to multiple disk drives.
Our revolutionary backups system takes FOUR times a day backups of all your data to a remote location for ultimate peace of mind!
We use only the best bandwidth providers, you won't find slow, low quality bandwidth in our network. Check our network and infrastructure pages for more information.
We use datacentres located in London Docklands, housed within world-class 'state of the art' datacentre facilities.
Every element of our infrastructure has been built with full redundancy in place, from our network connections through to our backup power supplies and air conditioning.
