iStarter Web Hosting Solutions

The iStarter web hosting accounts provide an affordable, entry-level web hosting solution for small to medium-size web operations.

Like the E-Commerce, Corporate and Windows web hosting solutions, the iStarters also provide you with complete control, management and access to your site 24 hours a day.

If more bandwidth, disk space and/or user accounts are required for your web site, then you may wish to consider using either our E-Commerce Web Hosting solutions or Corporate Web Hosting solutions.

In addition, we have Windows Web Hosting solutions, which range from entry-level and up.

If instead you're looking to outsource the management of your web site operation, consider our BrochureWare Managed Web Hosting solution.

If you still can not find a web hosting account suitable to your requirements, you may "build your own" by submitting your requirements here.

iStarters' Features & Prices Fedora Core OS, Apache Webserver and Apache SSL Hardware: XEON Processors, 4 GB RAM Memory, SATA RAID 5 with hot-swap spares	iStarter-1	iStarter-2	iStarter-3
Price Per Month	US$ 9.95 (HK$ 78)	US$ 14.95 (HK$ 117)	US$ 19.95 (HK$ 156)
Setup Fee	None	None	None
Minimum Contract	None	None	None
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee	Yes	Yes	Yes
Free domain name transfer and set-up	Yes	Yes	Yes
Free web site transfer and set-up	Yes	Yes	Yes
Domain Features
Your Own Dedicated IP Address / True Domain	Yes	Yes	Yes
Disk Space / Storage Space	1 GB	1.5 GB	2 GB
Monthly Traffic Allowance	150 GB	200 GB	250 GB
Your Own CGI-Bin	Yes	Yes	Yes
Unlimited Domain Subhosting	Yes	Yes	Yes
Access & Management Features
Web Control Panel	Yes	Yes	Yes
Secure Shell (SSH) Accounts	1	1	1
FTP Accounts	1	1	1
Detailed Site Stats (Webalizer)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Detailed Site Stats (Wusage)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Access to Raw Logs	Yes	Yes	Yes
Referrer Logs	No	Yes	Yes
Support Features
99.99% Uptime Guarantee	Yes	Yes	Yes
Daily Backups	Yes	Yes	Yes
Error Logs	No	No	Yes
Professional Online Support Manual	Yes	Yes	Yes
Professional Support & Help Desk	Yes	Yes	Yes
Professional Online Training Tools	Yes	Yes	Yes
24/7 Technical Support via E-mail	Yes	Yes	Yes
24/7 Technical Support via Phone	Yes	Yes	Yes
Basic Site Promotion & Consulting	Yes	Yes	Yes
E-Commerce Features
Unlimited Secure Server Access (SSL)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Secure Server Order Forms	Yes	Yes	Yes
Secure Shell Access	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
osCommerce E-Commerce Shopping Cart See the Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
Zen Cart E-Commerce Shopping Cart	Yes	Yes	Yes
That's An Order Shopping Cart See the Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ability to Resell Your Space (www.yourdomain.com/yourclient/) Also see Unlimited Domain Subhosting	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ability to Install 3rd-Party Shopping Carts (e.g., Commerce.cgi and many others: Perl Shopping Carts and PHP/MySQL Shopping Carts)	Yes	Yes	Yes
E-Mail Features
Added User Accounts (POP3 E-mail Accounts)	100	175	250
Web-Based E-mail (SquirrelMail) - Bayessian filtering enabled, Spellchecker, Addressbook, Multilingual Support (including Chinese)	Yes	Yes	Yes
E-mail Redirects (Forwarding)	200	200	200
E-mail Aliases	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Autoresponders (Infobots)	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Server-Side Spam Filters	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spam Assassin	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pine	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mailing List / Forums and Chat Room Features
Subscribable Maillists	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Wordpress Weblog	Yes	Yes	Yes
phpBB Bulletin Board	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bulletin Boards (Forums)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Web Site Development Features (More Info)
Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Extensions	Yes	Yes	Yes
Joomla! Content Management System (CMS)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Database Features
MySQL (1 database. Additional databases may be added for an additional monthly fee.)	Yes	Yes	Yes
phpMyAdmin (web-based MySQL administration tool)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Miva Empresa (Miva Script)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multimedia Features
RealAudio G2 Version 8.0	Yes	Yes	Yes
RealVideo G2 Version 8.0	Yes	Yes	Yes
TrueSpeech Streaming Audio	Yes	Yes	Yes
Midi File Support	Yes	Yes	Yes
Advance Features
Server-Side Includes (SSI)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Server-Side Imagemaps	Yes	Yes	Yes
Password-Protected Directories	Yes	Yes	Yes
Custom "404:File Not Found" Error Page	Yes	Yes	Yes
Curl, SSL, Pear, Java jdk, Perl, C++, Tcl, ImageMagick, Sendmail, and Python Support	Yes	Yes	Yes
PHP	Yes	Yes	Yes
For a list of installed Software & Modules, click here.
Preconfigured, Preinstalled CGI-Bin Scripts
phpBB Bulletin Board	Yes	Yes	Yes
Wordpress Weblog	Yes	Yes	Yes
Menalto Gallery Photo Album	Yes	Yes	Yes
Web Calendar	Yes	Yes	Yes
Postcards	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vote/Survey	Yes	Yes	Yes
Quiz Master	Yes	Yes	Yes
Perlfect Search (installed by request)	Yes	Yes	Yes
SFE PageSearch	Yes	Yes	Yes
Whois Script	Yes	Yes	Yes
Formmail	Yes	Yes	Yes
Cgiemail Form	Yes	Yes	Yes
Secure Server Order Forms	Yes	Yes	Yes
VisitorBook Pro Guestbooks	Yes	Yes	Yes
Free-for-All Links Page	Yes	Yes	Yes
Random Text Generator	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bulletin Boards (Forums)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Graphical Page Counters	Yes	Yes	Yes
Text-Based Page Counter	Yes	Yes	Yes
Click & Go Redirection	Yes	Yes	Yes
osCommerce E-Commerce Shopping Cart See the Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
That's An Order Shopping Cart See the Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes

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Add-on / Optional Features
Additional Bandwidth	US$ 2/GB/month (HK$ 16/GB)
Additional Diskspace	US$ 2 per 10 MB/month (HK$ 15.60 per 10 MB)
Additional MySQL database	US$ 3.50/month (HK$ 27.30/month)
Additional POP E-mail Account	US$ 4 one-time setup fee (HK$ 31.20)
Additional FTP and POP Account	US$ 8 one-time setup fee (HK$ 62.40)
Additional SSH, FTP and POP Account	US$ 12 one-time setup fee (HK$ 94)
Referrer Logs	US$ 3/month (HK$ 23.40/month)
Error Logs	US$ 2/month (HK$ 15.60/month)
Majordomo Listserver	US$ 8.95/month (HK$ 70/month)
Park Additional Domain	US$ 12/domain one-time setup fee (HK$ 94)
Subhost Domains	US$ 12/domain one-time setup fee (HK$ 94)
Site Manager	US$ 5 one-time setup fee (HK$ 39)
Personalized Name Servers	US$ 20/month (HK$ 156/month)

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