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Web Site Hosting Overview

LuxSci provides a comprehensive set of features with its web hosting services; in fact, all our email hosting features are included in all web hosting plans.

Standard Web Hosting Features

SecureForm: Secure web site form to secure email feature.
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Test Before Going Live: Use our "temporary domain name" feature to view and test your web site before making it live or before switching from your old provider.
Scripting Languages: Perl, Hardened PHP 5, Python
MySQL Databases: Use any number of MySQL v5.X databases with your web sites.

Remote SSL access to MySQL which can be enforced (i.e. so insecure connections would be forbidden).

You can install standard software like: Wordpress, phpMyAdmin, MediaWiki, and almost any software that runs on PHP, MySQL, and Perl.
FTP Access: Access your files 24/7 using FTP.
SCP and SFTP Access: SCP and SFTP access available to all hosting accounts.

Accounts can be configured so that FTP access is disabled, but SFTP is allowed.

Web-based FTP: Secure web-based alternative to FTP.
WebDAV: Access-controlled shared files and calendars on your web site.
Password-Protected Directories: Easy-to-use interface for password protecting web site directories. Create users and user groups; assign read-only and/or read-write access to any directory.
Web Site Access Reports: "Webalizer" reports for your web sites, updated daily.
Access to raw web site access and error logs
Secure web sites over SSL
Server-side includes
SuEXEC for the security of CGI scripts (i.e. CGI scripts can run as you instead as the web server user).
Custom Error Documents
Full .htaccess support
CGI scripts in any directory
Real cgi-bin directory
Mirror websites across multiple domain names
Configurable web site redirection

Hosting Multiple Web Sites in One Account

LuxSci allows you to have any number of web sites and domains associated with your account. All share the same overall disk and bandwidth limits so that you don't waste money on extra disk and bandwidth for each separate domain. For web hosting customers, web site access statistics are calculated separately for each domain.

Virtual Directory Web Hosting

The least expensive way to setup multiple web sites is to use a "virtual directory". Instead of purchasing multiple domain names for separate users, you use your domain name, domain.com, together with a "site name" of your choosing. For example, your web site address could be "http://domain.com/site-name". You can have multiple web sites as virtual directories; see multiple web site hosting. This method is least expensive because you don't have to purchase multiple domain names and you don't have to pay for DNS services for them.

If you do have your own domain name, you can take advantage of virtual directory web hosting to give out separate web sites in your domain to your individual users. They will have full control over the contents of your web site within their virtual directory.

Secure Web Sites with SSL

Using an SSL certificate, you can create a secure connection between your website and its visitors. This allows you to securely collect information from the visitors to your site or to display secure information to them.

How Does Secure Socket Layer (SSL or TLS) Work?
SecureForm: Web and PDF Forms to Email
Recipe: Completely Secure Collection of Web Form Data using SSL and PGP or S/MIME
Advantages of LuxSci/Thawte SSL Certificates over Go Daddy

If you would like to have a web site secured via SSL, you must obtain a secure site certificate from a trusted third party and a unique IP address from us for your domain. We can help you obtain the secure site certificate from our partner, Thawte.com.

For more information on ordering certificates, see SSL Certificates and IP Addresses.

LuxSci allows you to (optionally) have separate web site locations for the secure and insecure versions of your web site for maximum flexibility.

Pricing

Web Hosting-Related Prices

The following services are optional upgrades to a Web Site Hosting account.

Service Price

Each additional web site $1.00 /site/month
Each MySQL database $1.00 /database/month
Additional web/FTP bandwidth $1.50 /Gigabyte/month
Supplemental bandwidth (over soft limit) $2.25 /Gigabyte

See also: pricing for SSL Certificates and IP Addresses.