Multiple FTP Accounts | back to top

This features allows for people to have limited access to your web account under different user names.  This could be beneficial for companies who want to give employees access to update their web site.

MySQL | back to top

MySQL is a true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. SQL is the most popular database language in the world. SQL is a standardized language that makes it easy to store, update and access information. For example, you can use SQL to retrieve product information and store customer information for a web site. MySQL is also fast and flexible enough to allow you to store logs and pictures in it. The main goals of MySQL are speed, robustness and easy to use. All plans come with 100MB (more available upon request) of MySQL storage space for your databases.

Online Control Panel | back to top

Payless 4 Hosting proudly offers a control panel for your web site that allows for REAL-TIME updates of your email and FTP accounts.  This means when you want to change an email or add an FTP account simply point your browser to our panel and its all done right there in front of you without waiting or having to shuffle emails back and forth.  The control panel also contains a sophisticated file manager to edit your view permissions and upload your files directly if you are not familiar with FTP.  The control panel also supports testing of Perl scripts & many more features!!

Password Protected Directories | back to top

This feature allows you to password protect certain portions of your web site from the public. They will be prompted for a username and password when entering sub sections of your web site as you protect and unprotect via our online control panel. You can either have one username and password for the sub section or multiple ones that you give out to various members/viewers of your web site. 

Perl | back to top

PHP4 | back to top

PHP 4 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP 4 attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP 4 also offers built-in database integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled web page with PHP 4 is fairly simple. The most common use of PHP 4 coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.

Python | back to top

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language very similar to Perl. Python like perl is another popular server-side scripting language.

SMTP Server | back to top

SMTP Is what allows for you to send out email through your domain name. Many people want to both receive and send out email via their own SMTP server. Our service allows for you to do this and if you use AOL to access the internet you require this service to have a fully functional email address at your domain name.

Server Side Includes (SSI) | back to top

SSI can include information such as the current date, a file's last modification date, and the size or last modification of other files. This can be a very powerful tool for the advanced web site developer.

SPAM Filtering On All Plans | back to top

We provide SPAM Filtering across our network to help prevent your inbox from receiving SPAM. Some techniques we use include blocking all domain names that do not resolve, and requiring reverse IP lookup. These two features combined with the lookup of blacklisted known SPAM havens reduces your SPAM significantly. If you are getting bombarded with SPAM at your current host you need to switch to a host that filters SPAM for you.

Sub Domains | back to top

Payless 4 Hosting offers the ability to create subdomains. A subdomain is also known as a "third-level" domain, and is a great way to create memorable web addresses for various areas of your site. For example if your web site is www.sports.com, and you created a subdomain for your easier navigation for the different sections of your site. You would create a subdomain for example baseball.sports.com. This would go to a different area of your site. You can create subdomains for co-workers, family members, build separate sub-sites, and ease navigation of your site.

Ultra Fast Unix Web Servers | back to top

Payless 4 Hosting is committed to outstanding service for our clients.  We have multiple high performance Unix servers to insure your page is fetched quickly.   We implement UNIX machines running Apache for scalability, reliability and performance.  

Ultra High Speed Dedicated Connection | back to top

Payless 4 Hosting is not a reseller of a larger provider.  Our Internet connection is used by us and only us.  We do not share space off of someone else's server. We own all our equipment and we currently are connected through Our OWN OC-12 Backbone.  Bandwidth is not a problem for your web site on our network.  Come test us out and you will know after one day how fast your site can move!

Unique Domain Name | back to top

Payless 4 Hosting offers Domain Name Web Hosting accounts.  A virtual domain name would be (e.g.: www.yourname.com).  We can handle U.S. domain name registration or transfers on your behalf. (i.e.: .com, .net, .org).  We currently charge $25 per year for the domain name.  You can register the domain name for a 1 - 10 year period.  

We can also host any International domain names (ie .co.uk, etc) as well.  You can also have additional domain names point to your account for $5 a month, quantity discounts are available.  

Unlimited Auto Responders | back to top

E-mail auto-responders automatically reply to all incoming messages to a specific email address with a pre-defined message you have placed in your home directory.  You can change the response message on any auto-responder as frequently as you wish.  E-mail auto-responders work on both POP3 e-mail accounts and e-mail forwarders.

Unlimited E-mail Forwarding | back to top

Once your domain name is active worldwide, you can receive all e-mail addressed to your domain such as webmaster@yourname.com, sales@yourname.com, etc.  You also have the ability to have different email addresses forward to different email accounts.  For example, e-mail addressed to support@yourname.com could forward to an account at AOL, while sales@yourname.com could forward to another ISP account.

Unlimited FTP Access | back to top

You will have unlimited access to your account via FTP 24-hours a day to set up and maintain your Web site. You can work on HTML documents, graphics, and scripts locally, then upload files to your Web site when ready.

POP3  E-mail Accounts | back to top

In addition to e-mail forwarding, you have the option to retrieve your e-mail directly from POP3 mailbox on the mail server using an e-mail program such as Eudora. 

Storage/Disk  Space | back to top

Disk storage space refers to the amount of server disk storage specifically allocated to your account. This space is used to store your html files, graphics, POP mail messages, pdf's, and other files that make up your Web site. 

Monthly Traffic | back to top

This is commonly referred to as bandwidth consumption.  It includes the transfer of images, text, sound, etc.  Therefore, we encourage all of our clients to develop a strong web site both in design and popularity. 

Web Based Email | back to top

This features allows for you to check your pop3 email account while you are away from your computer. This makes it great for those users that travel abroad and do not have access to an email client. 

Wireless Application Protocol(WAP) | back to top

Payless 4 Hosting offers Wireless Application Protocol Ready (WAP) Support for the WAP protocol allowing for your pages to be viewed on Wireless Handheld Devices.

Price Freeze Guarantee | back to top

Payless 4 Hosting offers on all of its plans and services a "price freeze" guarantee. The price you sign up for is the price you will pay for the given plan as long as you are a customer of ours. If we raise prices later on you will be "grandfathered" in on the old pricing. In addition, we also regularly increase the alloments of storage and bandwidth on the various plans. These increases in allotments will not raise your price.

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