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Personal Starter Plan

If you're just starting out with personal web hosting, this plan may be perfect for you. Included is a generous amount of space coupled with powerful features and tools for building and maintaining your Web site, blog, forum, photo albums, and more.

Core Features

15,000 MB Disk Space
- Disk space refers to the amount of storage your account is allocated within its WestHost Virtual Private Server. This space is used to store HTML files, graphics, audio/video, e-mail messages, and any other files that are part of your Web site. Learn More
350 GB Bandwidth
- Bandwidth refers to the amount of files that can be transferred to and from your Web site each month. This data includes html files, graphics, audio/video, e-mail messages, and any other files that are a part of your Web site. Learn More
25 E-mail / FTP Accounts
- E-mail accounts are mailboxes for you and anyone else whom you want to give e-mail at your domain name. Once a user mailbox/account is set up, you can create as many forwarding addresses (aliases) as you want to go to that address. Learn More
1 Included Web site
- This is the default Web site limit for your hosting account. Some plans allow for an unlimited number of Web sites while others allow multiple Web sites with a default limit. For limited accounts capable of supporting multiple Web sites, you can add an additional at any time for a $10 one-time fee (per Web site). Learn More
WestHost VPS Hosting Technology
- Most Web Hosting companies offer "VIRTUAL" or "SHARED" hosting. This means you literally share your resources, applications and environment with potentially hundreds of other users in the same directory. With WestHost Virtual Private Server (VPS Hosting) technology, a web server is divided into multiple isolated environments, offering independent server software, increased security, and much more control over your Web site. Learn More
Dedicated IP (Optional)
- With most web hosts, one IP address is assigned to several domains and access to a domain is available only by its domain name. With WestHost, your Web site can have a unique and dedicated IP address. It is required for Anonymous FTP, private SSL certificates and certain applications. Learn More

Domain Management

Multiple Web site Support
- With a WestHost Virtual Private Server (VPS) you have the ability to host multiple Web sites within your hosting account. You can point multiple domains to the same Web site or point domains to separate Web sites within your web space. Learn More
1 Included Web site
- This is the default web site limit for your hosting account. If your plan supports Multiple Web sites, you can increase the web site limit of your account at any time for a $10 one-time fee (per web site). Learn More
Unlimited Subdomains
- With Subdomain support, you can place a word or phrase in place of the standard "www" (subdomain.domain.com) and redirect all requests for that URL to a different directory within your Web site. Learn More
DNS Records & Web Aliases
- All WestHost clients can take advantage of WestHost's powerful domain management services for web aliases, DNS headers, DNS records, and more. Learn More

Site Management

Statistics

AWStats
- AWStats is a powerful, feature-rich statistical tool that generates advanced reports on visitor traffic and web server statistics. Learn More
Counter
- The Counter Site Application keeps track of the number of 'hits' to your web pages and displays them to visitors. You can choose from a few different display types.

Site Promotion

Search Engine Tools
- Dominate the web's leading search engines with our tools. Optimize and submit your site instantly. Track your results, make modifications and control top keyword positions. Learn More

Media

Photo Album Application (Gallery)
- Gallery 2.0 is the next generation of photo and movie sharing web applications, giving you an intuitive way to blend photo management and photo printing seamlessly into your own Web site. Upload your photos, edit them, and create slideshows with comments, polls, statistics, and more. Learn More
ImageMagick
- ImageMagick is a free software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Images can be cropped, rotated, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, and more. Learn More

E-mail / FTP Management

25 E-mail / FTP Accounts
- E-mail accounts are mailboxes for you and anyone else whom you want to give e-mail at your domain name. Once a user mailbox/account is set up, you can create as many forwarding addresses (aliases) as you want to go to that address. Learn More
Unlimited Forwarding & Aliasing
- E-mail Aliases are forwarding rules for your e-mail. You create an e-mail address and decide to forward mail sent there to one or more specified e-mail addresses, e.g. forward mail sent to sales@abc.com over to joe@abc.com and mike@xyz.net. Learn More
Web Based E-mail (RoundCube)
- Webmail is a secure web application that allows you to view e-mail stored on a mail server (rather than downloading it). You can access your e-mail directly from a web browser anywhere in the world. Some popular examples of other webmail applications are Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, but at WestHost, you'll use your own domain name. Learn More
Spam Protection
- SpamAssassin is a popular SPAM filtering program that uses a set of rules to determine if incoming e-mail is potentially SPAM. It uses a scoring system to add or subtract points based on conditions that match certain rules, and, if enough points are recorded, marks it as SPAM. Learn More
IMAP/POP3 Protocols
- WestHost offers both IMAP and POP3 e-mail protocols for accessing your e-mail. This ensures the greatest level of compatibility with your preferred e-mail client/program.
Autoresponders
- Once set up, WestHost's autoresponder automatically returns a prewritten message to anyone who submits e-mail to a particular Internet address. Learn More
Formmail
- This application allows you to make an interactive form on your site where users can submit various information into fields, which will in turn be e-mailed to you. Learn More
Anonymous FTP
- With Anonymous FTP you can specify a directory of your web space that anyone can access to download or upload files. This application requires a dedicated IP address. Learn More

Security

Shared SSL
- Those that do not wish to purchase their own SSL Certificate for 128bit SSL data encryption, server authentication and message integrity, can share ours for free by installing this application. Learn More
OpenSSL
- OpenSSL is a required application for those that wish to use their own SSL certificate issued from a trusted Certificate Authority (CA). This application requires a dedicated IP address. Learn More
Password Protect Directories
- With WebPassword you can create and manage shared web directories with password protection.

Development

CGI-BIN
- The CGI-BIN is a directory on the server where the executable CGI scripts reside. You have complete control over your CGI-BIN and can install any custom or 3rd party CGI scripts that you would like.
Perl
- Perl is a server-side scripting language which is commonly used to write CGI programs. If installing your own applications, it is often a required that your server supports Perl. Learn More
PHP
- PHP is a server-side scripting language where the PHP commands are embedded in the webpage's HTML. Many web applications require PHP. Learn More
eAccelerator
- eAccelerator increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated.
Python
- A popular server side scripting language, Python is used in many situations where a great deal of dynamism, ease of use, power, and flexibility are required. Learn More
GNU Compiler Collection (C, C++)
- A set of development tools that allow users to compile, link and install programs and utilities. Learn More
Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
- The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is the minimum standard Java Platform for running Java programs. Learn More
Macromedia Flash/Shockwave Support
- Flash and Shockwave are multimedia technologies developed by Adobe/Macromedia to allow a lot of Web site interactivity (graphics, animation, video) to fit in a relatively small file size. Learn More
Server Side Includes (SSI)
- SSI (abbreviation for "Server-Side Includes") is a server-side scripting language. Common uses of SSI are to include or populate common areas of your Web site (e.g. a header or footer) from a single file. This way, you make the change to one file, and your entire site changes. Learn More

Database

Unlimited MySQL Databases
- MySQL is a popular Open Source Software relational database management system which uses a subset of ANSI SQL (Structured Query Language). Learn More
phpMyAdmin
- phpMyAdmin is an application written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases directly from a web browser. Learn More

Support

24/7 REAL Support
- At WestHost, we know that web hosting is much more than price, space, and bandwidth. This is why we offer a level of 24/7 support and response times via toll-free phone, live chat, and e-mail that are unmatched in this industry. Learn More

Server Specs

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- - Red Hat ES Linux 4 OS w/Apache 2
  - Gigabit Ethernet
  - Daily Backups

RAID

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- All WestHost servers are configured with RAID functionality for data redundancy.

Pricing

Hosting Fees
- $6.95 x 24 Months + $19.95 Setup
  $7.95 x 12 Months + $19.95 Setup
  $8.95x 3 Months + $19.95 Setup

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