• Unlimited Domains
• Unlimited Email Accounts
• Dedicated IP
• 1000 GB BandWidth
• CPanel

Take advantage of an incredible deal at a seemingly impossible price — and guaranteed for the life of the account! This very special offer is only available on new accounts. Hurry, offer ends soon!

Special Bonuses!

Key Features
Disk Space	50 GB
Bandwidth	1000 GB
Included Web sites	Unlimited
MySQL Databases	Unlimited
Wordpress Support
Softaculous Instant Application Installer
Sub Domains
SSH Access
SSL Secure Web Site Access
Shared Secure Certificate
Dedicated Secure Certificate	$32.95
Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
Dedicated IP
Dedicated Performance Shared Hosting
Exclusive WestHost Features
WestHost Control Panel (cPanel)
Ad-Free Hosting
Toll-Free 24/7 U.S. Support
Instant Activation
Network Wide Backups
Google Search Credit $75 Google Adwords credit available to new Adwords customers in US & Canada only	($75 value)
Yahoo Search Credit $25 Yahoo credit available to new Yahoo customers in US & Canada only	($25 value)
Email Features
Email Accounts	Unlimited
Auto-Responders	Unlimited
Email Forwarders	Unlimited
SpamAssassin
Enterprise-Class Webmail
SMTP Access
Dovecot IMAP Support
Mailing Lists
Exim
GnuPG PGP Secure Email Encryption
Email Aliases
Advanced Hosting Features
PHP 5
FTP Accounts	Unlimited
Web Database Manager (PHP MyAdmin)
Python
Perl-CGI
Personal CGI-BIN
Private .htaccess
MIME types
IP Banning Access
File Handlers
GD Graphics Library
ImageMagick 5+ Support
Server Site Includes (SSI)
PHP Nuke
cURL Library
Web-Based File Manager
Cron Job Editor
Online Statistics
Analog Log File Analysis
Visitor Tracking Reports
Sub-Domain Stats
Access to Raw Log Files
Awesome Stats Upgrade (AWStats)
Ecommerce Features
PayPal Support
Merchant Account Support
osCommerce
Zen Cart
Magento
Self-Signed SSL
Password Protected Directories
Web Design Features
Dreamweaver Support
FTP Client Support
Web Site Builder
Instant Blog
Instant Forums
Instant Guest Book
Online Form Builder
CMS

ApacheVPS 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

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

5 Included Web sites
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

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

Applications

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 ManagementControl Panel (Site Manager)
Each web hosting account is managed with an online control panel (Site Manager). It allows setup and administration of e-mail / FTP user accounts, your own DNS, real-time statistics, web applications, and gives complete control over your web server, e-mail server, and ftp server settings. Learn More

Site Builder (Web site Creator)
Want to build a professional Web site without hiring a web designer? Our site builder (Web site Creator) allows you to create a presence online using only a web browser and Internet access. Learn More

Content Management CMS
Joomla and Drupal are some of the most powerful Content Management Systems (CMS) on the planet. They can empower anything from a personal Web site to a large business portal, combining blogging, news feeds, polls, link management, forums, and more. Learn More
Blogging Application (WordPress)

Blogging is extremely popular these days as it is offers a simple means of posting and managing Web site content. With WordPress, you have the most popular and (arguably) powerful blogging application available. Learn More

Forum/Bulletin Board (phpBB)
phpBB is the world’s leading Open Source flat style discussion forum (message board) application. It can integrate into any existing Web site, or be the Web site in and of itself. Learn More
Wiki Application (Media Wiki)
MediaWiki is an easy to use software Wiki package, originally written for use with Wikipedia. MediaWiki allows you to create your own Wiki.

Guestbook
With a guestbook, visitors to your site can post comments, or read those posted by others. Learn More

Site Search Engine
Perlfect Search is a sophisticated, powerful, versatile, customizable and effective site indexing/searching suite. Once installed, and your site indexed, your visitors can quickly find the information they need. Learn More

Microsoft FrontPage Support
FrontPage is an extremely popular web publishing application created for non-programmers. WestHost supports the use of FrontPage 2003, 2002, 2000, 98 and 97. Learn More

File Manager
WestHost’s File Manager allows access to all your Web site files. You can navigate through directories as you would your own computer. Once in a particular directory, you can upload files, edit files, create new files and folders, download/view files, search, and more. For the advanced user, there is the ability to execute shell commands. Learn More

IP Filtering Utility
Use this utility to limit access to your site by filtering a single IP or a block of IP addresses. This can be a great utility, for blocking or allowing select individuals or entire countries to your Web site. Learn More

SSH (Secure Shell)
Secure Shell (SSH), sometimes known as Secure Socket Shell, is a UNIX-based command interface and protocol for securely getting access to a remote computer. It is widely used by network administrators to control Web and other kinds of servers remotely. Learn More

Cron Jobs
Cron is the ability to run programs based on the server’s clock. A cron job is a scheduled task that you want to automatically run at a scheduled time, e.g. automatically back up your Web site at 7:30pm each day. LeaLearn More

Apache Watchdog
Our system utilizes a unique “watchdog” system. This system checks the web service on every WestHost Virtual Private Server on our network every 30 seconds and restarts if it’s down. If the web service cannot be restarted, an e-mail is sent to you and our network engineers are immediately notified. Learn More

Apache Error Messages
This application will allow you to display a response of your choice as an alternative to conventional error messages such as: “404 Not Found”. You can choose to display either a custom text message or a select web page. Learn More

StatisticsAWStats
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 PromotionSearch 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

$25 Yahoo Search Marketing Credit
All WestHost clients now receive $25 credit with Yahoo Search Marketing. If you want to get your site listed instantly with leading search engines like Yahoo, MSN, Alta Vista, Infospace and CNN.com, the only way is with Yahoo Search Marketing.

$25 Google AdWords Credit
There is only one way to get a guaranteed top position in the search result pages of Google, and it’s with Google AdWords. Use this $25 credit to start receiving traffic to your Web site within hours of signing up. Learn More

MediaPhoto 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 1,000 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

Mail List Manager
Both Dada Mail & phplist are intuitive, web-based e-mail list management systems allowing automatic subscription management by the mailing list recipient. 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. LeaLearn More

E-commerce ServicesosCommerce
osCommerce is a powerful and extremely popular online e-commerce solution. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to set up, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort. Learn More

Zen Cart
Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; powerful, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. This e-commerce Web site design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce Web design could be and should be done differently. Learn More

SecurityShared 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.

DevelopmentCGI-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 MorePHP
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

Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. Learn More

FastCGI
FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitation of server specific APIs. 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 MoreMore

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). LearLearn 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 SpecsClick for Details
- Red Hat ES Linux OS 4 w/Apache 2
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Daily Backups
RAIDClick for Details
All WestHost servers are configured with RAID functionality for data redundancy.
Pricing

Hosting Fees

$10.00 x 24 Months
$10.00 x 12 Months
$12.00 x 3 Months

Often, it so happens that small businesses struggling to make ends meet opt for shared hosting services at the beginning. But, as traffic starts to trickle in, grow and build into a deluge of customers, expanding companies experience the need to switch over to a better, faster and more powerful hosting service. While big companies may not be intimidated by the prohibitive cost of using dedicated servers, medium companies may find it difficult to bear the colossal cost. That is where Virtual private servers come in.

VPS hosting services allow companies to hire a virtual server. That means, this server will, for all practical purposes, act as a dedicated server. However, it is not a dedicated server in reality because the main server is divided into a number of partitions. Each part works as a virtual server. Thus, members are able to enjoy the same benefits as dedicated servers, while paying a fraction of the cost.

There are two kinds of VPS hosting services: Linux based and Windows based. Linux VPS hosting services are attractive because of the inherent power and flexibility of the Linux operating system. Linux VPS hosting provides an isolated environment on a server where the virtual server is able to share all the resources of the main server. Each Linux vps hosting server acts almost like a standalone server as far as the user is concerned. Thus, every virtual server can have its own applications without affecting the other virtual servers located on the same physical server. Each virtual server may be rebooted independently since it has its very own root access, IP address, users, files and processes. Each server even has its own mail and web server and control panel. This flexibility is possible because each virtual server has its own application and configuration files.

Any company that needs a dedicated hosting environment but does not have the resource to hire a dedicated server can make use of Linux VPS hosting services. Linux VPS servers are so powerful that they even allow you to run versatile applications like Asterix and Java.

Linux VPS hosting packages give the end user more power and control over their virtual servers, at significantly lower costs. In fact, companies that want to host unlimited domains, resell hosting or want to install a variety of applications can make use of the state-of-the-art features and flexibility offered by Linux.

Linux combines the concept of ease of use, simplicity, flexibility and customization. Thus, customers are able to get the most value for the money they shell out. Unlike Windows systems that show a great bias towards Windows applications, Linux lends equal support to all applications. Little wonder that many web experts believe that Linux is the future of web hosting!

Linux web hosts also boast a higher resistence to viruses, which mean less overall downtime.

osCommerce is a powerful and extremely popular online shop e-commerce solution. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to set up, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort. osCommerce web hosting gives you both a catalog front-end and an administration tool backend.

osCommerce Store Demo | osCommerce Admin Demo

osCommerce Hosting Help
With osCommerce hosting, you have everything you need to start selling products and services online, and osCommerce is supported on many of our web hosting plans. You can auto-install a FREE osCommerce shopping cart on your hosting account from within the Site Applications section of your control panel (Site Manager). For more information about osCommerce, please see http://www.oscommerce.com/.

We also offer Zen Cart on some hosting plans.
Includes osCommerce!
Up to 60,000MB Disk Space!
Up to 1,000GB Bandwidth!
Host Multiple Web sites!
Personal E-mail w/Spam Protection!
E-commercee Hosting Solutions
Search Engine Tools
Web Site Statistics
SSL Security
PHP, Ruby (RoR), Perl, CGI, MySQL
Secure Shell (SSH)
WestHost VPS Hosting Technology
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Expanded Feature List

General Functionality

* Compatible with all PHP 4 versions
* All features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution
* Object oriented backend (MS3)
* Completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default

Setup / Installation

* Automatic web-browser based installation and upgrade procedure

Design / Layout

* Template structure implementation to:
o allow layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and quick to make
o allow easy integration into an existing web site
* Support for dynamic images

Administration / Backend Functionality

* Supports unlimited products and categories
o Products-to-categories structure
o Categories-to-categories structure
* Add/Edit/Remove categories, products, manufacturers, customers, and reviews
* Support for physical (shippable) and virtual (downloadable) products
* Administration area secured with a username and password defined during installation (MS3)
* Contact customers directly via email or newsletters
* Easily backup and restore the database
* Print invoices and packaging lists from the order screen
* Statistics for products and customers
* Multilingual support
* Multicurrency support
o Automatically update currency exchange rates
* Select what to display, and in what order, in the product listing page
* Support for static and dynamic banners with full statistics

Customer / Frontend Functionality

* All orders stored in the database for fast and efficient retrieval
* Customers can view their order history and order statuses
* Customers can maintain their accounts
o Addressbook for multiple shipping and billing addresses
* Temporary shopping cart for guests and permanent shopping cart for customers
* Fast and friendly quick search and advanced search features
* Product reviews for an interactive shopping experience
* Forseen checkout procedure
* Secure transactions with SSL
* Number of products in each category can be shown or hidden
* Global and per-category bestseller lists
* Display what other customers have ordered with the current product shown
* Breadcrumb trail for easy site navigation

Product Functionality

* Dynamic product attributes relationship
* HTML based product descriptions
* Automated display of specials
* Control if out of stock products can still be shown and are available for purchase
* Customers can subscribe to products to receive related emails/newsletters

Payment Functionality

* Accept numerous offline payment processing (check, money orders, offline credit card processing, ..)
* Accept numerous online payment processing (2CheckOut, PayPal, Authorize.net, iPayment, ..)
* Disable certain payment services based on a zone

Shipping Functionality

* Weight, price, and destination based shipping modules
* Real-time quotes available (UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc.)
* Free shipping based on amount and destination
* Disable certain shipping services based on a zone basis

Tax Functionality

* Flexible tax implementation on a state and country basis
* Set different tax rates for different products
* Charge tax on shipping on a per shipping service basics

For developers, this means access to httpd.conf and php.ini. You can set you own maximum executuion time and memory buffer without affecting the entire server or other accounts.