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Matrix Microsoft and Linux Servers

Our Windows servers are the latest Microsoft 2003 IIS6 servers with full support for ASP, Perl, CGI, PHP, ISAPI and SHTML scripting. Additionally, if you opt for our Professional Hosting package, you also get full and unrestricted support for the .NET Framework. Meanwhile, our Linux Apache servers have the latest version of Redhat, with Apache web-server and support for Perl and PHP scripting. Full telnet access is also provided. Sites hosted on our Matrix server are housed on a single server, and are not load balanced.

Enterprise Microsoft and Linux Servers

All the features of our standard Matrix servers, but your web site is hosted on multiple high performance web servers, ensuring that no single failure can take you off line. In addition, requests to your web site are evenly distributed or load balanced across the servers maximising the performance and availability of your site. All Enterprise servers have advanced server specifications and are less densely populated, ensuring optimum performance.

Advanced URL Security

You can password protect specific areas of your web site to restrict who has access. User authentication can come from a text file or out of a database.

Microsoft Media Streaming

Lets you add live web casts, or streaming audio and video to your site to provide added interest and information.

Microsoft SQL Server 2002 Databases

You can create MSSQL Server databases on your account and have full control of them via the Microsoft Enterprise Manager or ODBC.

MySQL Databases

MySQL is the open-source standard for databases, and is ideal for web applications based on our Linux Servers.

ODBC Databases

Windows domains can use any ODBC compliant database such as Microsoft Access or Microsoft Excel.

SMS Alerts

Enables you to receive a text message on your mobile phone informing you every time you receive an email. You could configure the system only to send you SMS alerts about e-mails from a certain person or with a certain word in the subject.

SPAM Filtering

Spam filtering removes unsolicited e-mails. You can control the sensitivity of the filtering used, and decide what action should be taken when Spam e-mail arrives.

SSL

Allows secure transactions between your web site and your customers.

Sub Domains

By creating sub domains you effectively get multiple web sites from a single domain. For example you could have support.mydomain.co.uk, and shop.mydomain.co.uk, in addition to the standard http://www.mydomain.co.uk/.
Additional charges may apply. Please contact us prior to requesting a sub domain.

Virus Scanning For Email

Allows you to set up automatic email virus scanning on all email sent to your domain name. Incoming emails are scanned before they reach your inbox. The Virus Scanning technology is provided by McAfee.

WebTraffic Live Stats

Our own web-based statistics service has been developed to allow you to view both real-time and historical information about the visitors to your web site. You can find out which pages are being looking at the most, search keywords used, and much more.