Great features as standard
All of our packages come loaded with great features, no matter what your budget. If you want to know more about a specific feature then have a look at our descriptions below.
Instant Setup
Start creating your new website straight away with our quick and easy sign-up.
Free Technical Support
Unlimited free online support with every package. Have your questions answered by a human being, not a computer or call centre. We reply to all queries within 12 hours and often you'll have a response within hours.
PHP 4 & 5 (w/Zend OptimizerTM)
PHP is a widely-used general-use scripting language that is great for web development. PHP allows you to install software like Wordpress and phpBB on your account and also write your own applications.
You can also run the latest OOP, MySQLi and XML services code with PHP5.
MySQL 5
MySQL is database server that is commonly used in conjunction with PHP in web applications and is used by famous names such as Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia.
Pronounced MY-S-Q-L, this relational database management system (RBDMS) has over 6 million installations as is a core component of a the LAMP solution stack that we offer (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python).
Ruby on Rails (Ruby 1.8.7 & Rails 2.3.3)
Ruby on Rails (RoR) is a open-source framework that is designed for rapid web application developement using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) methodology.
Using Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) you can now deploy your apps even faster. New to RoR? Start learning now!
Python 2.3, 2.4, 2.6 & 3.0
Used by giants such as Google, CERN & NASA - Python is a general-purpose programming language often used a scripting language (like Perl or PHP).
Perl 5.8
Perl is a commonly used programming and scripting language that was designed for processing text. To get started with Perl take a look at this beginners tutorial.
cURL Library
cURL which allows you to connect and communicate with many different types of servers through various protocols such as HTTP, FTP etc using the URL syntax.
GD Graphics Library
The GD Graphics Library can be used in conjunction with PHP, Perl or Python to create and manipulate graphics. GD is commonly used to generate charts, graphics and thumbnails on the fly.
cPanel© Web-based Control Panel
cPanel is the industry standard web hosting control panel. It provides an easy to use interface designed to make running your website simpler. One login and you can add email addresses, FTP accounts and mailing lists with a few clicks.
Web Database Manager (phpMyAdmin)
An intuitive web interface for the administration of the MySQL databases in your package. phpMyAdmin allows you to manage databases, tables, fields, relationships, indexes, users, permissions, etc with its graphical user interface and also supports the ability to directly execute SQL statements.
Graphical Web Stats
We offer two ways of analysing the visitors and traffic to your website; Analog and AWStats. Both these packages are powerful tools for you that let you see who is visiting your site, which of your pages is the most popular and other statistics such as user browsers, operating systems, referer urls and bandwidth analysis.
Domain Parking
Domain parking allows you to register a domain name in order to redirect it to another domain name, for future use or to prevent the domain being aquired by another party.
Enterprise WebMail Interface
Simply by visiting http://webmail.yourdomain.co.uk (replacing yourdomain.co.uk with your own) you can access any one of our 3 availiable Webmail applications; Horde, SquirrelMail or RoundCube. Each offers it's own range of features and it is up to you to choose which one you wish to use.
You can also access your email accounts via a desktop email client such as Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail (Windows 7, Vista) / Outlook Express (Windows XP) or Mail on Mac OS X using either POP3 (downloads your email to your computer) or IMAP (accesses your email on your server, but does not download it).
SpamAssassinTM Email Filtering
SpamAssassin uses a variety of spam-detection techniques to stop spam emails and can be automatically configured to run on any mailbox in your hosting account. Just click the option in your cPanel control panel to enable it. More information can be found on it's official website.
Web-Based File Manager
The file manager is easily acessable from any web connection via your cPanel control panel. It can be used to upload/download files, create/delete directories and also extract or compress files directly on your webspace.
Over 50 Pre-Installed Scripts
Fantastico De Luxe allows automated installation of over 50 scripts such as phpBB, Drupal, Joomla, OS Commerce, Coppermine Photo Gallery and more. You can access this feature from your cPanel control panel. For a full list of supported scripts visit the manufacturers website.
Microsoft FrontPage Extensions
Although not frequently used now, FrontPage extensions provide additional functionality for your website if you use Microsoft Frontpage. Microsoft dropped support for this feature in 2006 and it has since be replaced by newer technologies.
SSH Access*
SSH (Secure Shell) allows you to directly access your hosting accounts Linux command line remotely.
*This feature is disabled by default and is intended for experienced users familiar with Linux shell commands. Contact us to enable this feature on your package.
Downloadable Raw Logs
Raw Log Files are raw copies of the web server log files for your website which such information as web pages downloaded, size of the pages downloaded, referrer (where are people coming from to your site), browser information and more.
We make these log files available to users wanting to use their own statistics package to process them.
Customizable Error Pages
Allows you to control the design and text shown to users when an error occurs on your website such as a 404 error (page not found) or 403 (forbidden). For example the Anvil Hosting 404 error page - http://www.anvilhosting.co.uk/404