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Our One Plan, Comprehensive Solution For $12.50 a month.

Free Domain Name Registration included

Your chosen domain is included in the fee for the year, as long as it is available to register. If you wish us change to another host we can redirect your domain to the server/provider of your choice for free.

FrontPage 2002 Extensions

FrontPage is a Microsoft page creation tool that requires special server extensions to function properly. Our accounts come with the FrontPage extensions... Free Of Charge. All you have to do is login to your online control panel and press a button to install them.

Unlimited e-mail addresses

Up to 999 email addresses at yourdomain.com, all which can be multi-forwarded, can use autoresponder we provide free, and are only limited to size by your hosting space.

333 MB Webspace

You benefit by having 333 megs of web space... enough space to publish any type of website. Whether it is a business site, personal page, fan site, club or organization site... you will have more than enough web space. Web Space is the amount of disk space your web hosting account is allotted.

Online Control Panel

A simple to use yet highly capable control panel allows you, the administrator to control everything from email addresses to files permissions. This enables people that are not knowledgeable in UNIX to perform powerful administration actions through a graphic user Interface.

24/7 FTP Access

You will have 24 hour, 7 days a week access to your files on your server space. Some providers have scheduled times that you can have FTP access to your site, not so here. This is your space online you choose whether it is accessible or not.

5 Free Subdomains

You can have as many sub-domains as you need. We offer five sub-domains for free and if you need more subdomains, there is a small fee of $5 per additional subdomain. You can set an FTP account for every sub-domain!

Web Site Statistics

The Site Statistics feature gives you access to your site's web statistics, such as hits, transfers, etc. The Site Statistics are updated once on every 24 hours.

Webmail

Each account comes with a complete WebMail solution, so you and your users can check your email anywhere, anytime! It's simple and easy to use!

MySQL Database

MySQL is our vendor's GNU database of choice. They develop all of their own products with MySQL or Oracle. We encourage all mSQL and postgresQL users to migrate to MySQL. You get local access for your MySQL database. We have a graphical format for you to create and add tables, etc. MySQL is an advanced database feature. The Interface we are currently using for clients to administrate their databases is myPHPAdmin.

SMTP, POP3, IMAP Servers

Our servers allow you to send from your own SMTP server (mail.yourdomain.com). With this capability, you can send email FROM you@yourdomain.com etc.

5 Gigabytes Data Transfer and Hits

Each account comes with 5 Gigs of transfer per month (on average, close to a 100,000 hits per month). All sites that go over the allowed free traffic will be charged $5 per extra gig.

Custom 404 Page

If you have your own domain name, you can create a custom 404 error page for your visitors. What does this do for you? It can help you retain visitors who may leave if they get the standard "File not found" page. The standard 404 page looks a little like this: File Not Found The requested url /notafile.htm was not found on this server. That isn't very appealing to a visitor, and if the person came from another site's link- that potential visitor may just leave. However, you can make your own 404 page much more informative and provide your visitors with a way to navigate through your site. Instead of a "File Not Found" and nothing else, they can be directed to an error page with a professional appearance that can redirect them to another page of your site.

PERL, C++, TCL, Python and PHP4

We have enjoyed being the clear choice for computer programmers building web sites. For this reason, we always give programmers the most recent versions of the hottest programs needed to build their web applications. Not only do we provide you with PHP support, but the majority of our system tools and design projects are done by our vendor's staff in PHP.

Personal CGI-BIN

We encourage development of highly interactive, successful sites. For your site to be truly interactive you need to be able to run computer programs in your own cgi-bin.

Password Protected Directories

With our fully automated password protection feature, you can password protect directories at the click of a button via our easy to use online control panel. Simply choose the directory you would like to protect, then create a user and a password... that's it!

SSL (Secure Socket Layer)

The secure connection, which can protect you from everyone. With the help of SSL you will receive the opportunity to use encrypted connection between the server and the browser, which will guarantee the transmission of information that should not be revealed to anyone. SSL is a protocol, compatible with every modern browser - Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera etc. It is appropriate to use SSL when you have implemented a commerce involving credit cards or when you have password protected certain areas of your site.

If you would wish to install a previously purchased Security Certificate or you plan to purchase one to have it installed for your website, we would need to supply a dedicated IP for your domain. The price for dedicated IP is $30/yr. Please note that we only supply dedicated IPs to Security Certificate owners.

SSI (Server Side Includes)

Our servers support Server Side Includes (SSI), a method of calling code into a page. SSI makes it possible for you to include a snippet of html code onto a page or a group of pages. When you want to change the code, you simply change it in one place, and then all the other pages update automatically.

Graphical Hit Counter

Our very slick looking access counters can be installed on as many pages as you choose at no extra charge. Plus, the code is basically generated for you automatically... for you to place on your webpages.

Super Fast Servers

Our vendor's new ultrafast servers are equipped with P4 2GHz CPU's and 1GB DDR

Site Search Engine

The site search engine is easy to use and can be installed with the push of a button by logging on to your control panel. Your web site documents will be searchable either publicly or privately, it's your choice.


Our Price

All this and more comprise our one comprehensive solution. We only accept prepaid orders for a year of service at $150 US per a year. If you are not happy with your service we can offer your money back (minus Domain registration fees), and will redirect your new domain name to the hoster of your choice. That's $12.50 a month for a powerful, flexible hosting solution with the best support!



*In most cases, we will be able to have you up and running within one hour. However, due to circumstances beyond our control, we may require anywhere from one to five hours to email your account information to you. If for any reason your account information has not been supplied to you before 24 hours, Optimus Hosting will waive all fees and your Hosting and Domain Name Registration will be free for a period of one year.

We offer one complete hosting solution ideal for small to mid-sized business, personal and community sites.

Web Hosting Plan Features:

Free Domain Registration (www.yourdomain.com, net or org)
Unlimited Email Addresses @yourdomain.com
5 Free Subdomains (subdomain.yourdomain.com)
333 MB Web Space
Linux Based Servers
Online Control Panel
24/7 Tech Support
One MySQL Database
Website Statistics
Personal CGI-BIN
Server Side Includes (SSI)
Perl, C++, PHP, Python

The Infrastructure
Our server vendor maintains servers in the Largest Internet Service building in the world (over 350,000 sq feet)! This building hosts over 10,000 racks of servers. If uptime and reliability is important for you, you made the right choice.

Floor to Floor Height:

Typical floor: 4.1m (3.5m under beam)
Floor loading: 5kPa / 7.5 kPa
Typical Floor: 14, 000 sq feet gross
Number of Storey: 24 storey's of ISC's
Utility Connection

Dual 11kV power supply from separate  HKE zone substations
Dual feed telecom connection from separate telephone exchanges (PBXs)
Electricity Supply

UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply)
Main Supply: KVA Transformers
UPS: 400KVA UPS modules with n+l configuration per floor, 30 mins battery back up time, dual power supply risers
ESP:2000KVA generator sets ( 24-hour continuous full supply )
Earthling: Separate data centre clean earth
Industrial-Grade Air Conditioners

Indoor temperature at 20 +/- 2 Degree Celsius
Relative humidity at 50% +/- 10 %
Direct expansion type or Chilled Water Type CRAC unit
Stand By Servers

Spare servers are kept on-line of all CPU configurations. If a server were to experience a hardware failure, we would insert it into an identical standby CPU. We would then reboot the second machine and the server would be up and running again in a matter of minutes.

Network Reliability

Dual TBE rooms and dual risers
Dedicated 100mm dia G.I. Conduit for vertical backbone.
G.I. Conduit for interflow cabling use
Optical fiber to the building

Recent Updates

[06/09/2007] We can get you up and running within an hour!*
You will have complete access to your site, including administration tools and email, usually within an hour of Optimus Hosting having received your payment. Please note, you will not be able to access your website by typing the domain name, as this process takes 24 hours before the domain name resolves with the internet name servers, but you will have immediate access by typing the IP address.

 

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