
Our network
Two upstream carriers, Cisco routers, batteries and a generator. 99.9% network uptime with a published credit schedule.
corvus, the secondary nameserver, came off its original hardware in June. The name still answers; the machine went home with the person who installed it.


One-click installs
phpBB 2.0.10 · WordPress 1.2 · Movable Type 3.0 · Gallery 1.4.4 · osCommerce 2.2 MS2 · Zen Cart · Mambo
Fantastico carries the versions it has been shipped; ours was updated in September.


Control panel
cPanel 9 and WHM 9 with the cPanel X theme; the old theme is still installed for accounts that ask. Console remains for accounts created before 2000.
FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions are fully supported. They are also the component of our platform we patch most often, and those two sentences are related.

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The best place to host your forum.
Most of what we host started as one page and an idea. The parts that are still here grew a forum, because that is where the people who liked the idea went. phpBB installs from the panel in about four minutes, without a shell.

Forum and community scripts
If you have bought a licence for vBulletin 3.0 or Invision Power Board, upload it: both want PHP 4 and MySQL, and both find what they need here. Everything in the one-click list installs from the panel instead.
Turn the image confirmation on before you announce the board rather than after. Every forum on this network is found by something that registers accounts within about a week of its first post.


Mail
SpamAssassin 3.0 and ClamAV run on the way in, and we publish SPF records for your domain on request. A second scheme was proposed in the spring, merged with the first and withdrawn in September over its licence terms, so we are waiting.
In January and again in May we spent a fortnight explaining to customers that the mail their address book sent was not sent by them.
Your mailbox quota comes out of the same disk as your website. That was uncontroversial until April, when a search company gave a gigabyte away by invitation and everybody recalculated what a gigabyte is. The invitations are traded on auction sites and in forum signatures, and we are now asked to match the number.


What is on the machines
| Web server | Apache 1.3.31, or 2.0.52 on machines built this year |
| PHP | 4.3.9 everywhere; 5.0.2 on the two beta servers, on request |
| MySQL | 4.0.21. 4.1 is coming and is not going underneath your forum this year |
| Also installed | Perl 5.8.5, Python 2.3.4, mod_perl, GD, ImageMagick, cURL, ionCube |
| Statistics | AWStats 6.2, Webalizer and Urchin 5 |
| Systems | Fedora Core 2, CentOS 3, FreeBSD 4.10 |
| Windows | Windows Server 2003, IIS 6.0, ASP.NET 1.1, MS SQL 2000, ColdFusion MX 6.1 |
The beta servers are two machines. Nothing on them is guaranteed except that we tell you before a restart.


Resellers and the affiliate programme
Reseller accounts carry WHM 9 and RVSkin, so the panel your customers log into has your name on it and not ours. Overselling is permitted; the arithmetic is yours.
The SOAP interface to account provisioning now has a WSDL and a version number, and two resellers have written against it.
The affiliate programme has produced a small industry of websites that rank the top ten web hosts, and we appear on several of them. What it pays is in the agreement rather than on this page.
We do not otherwise advertise. In April a man in a chicken suit did more for one brand than this entire industry's advertising did all year, and the conclusion we drew from that was the one that suited us.

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