Setup fees are currently being completely waived for all hosting plans.

When you place an order for service you will be given the option of a recurring payment frequency. You may choose to pay annually, or every bi-annually. The more pre-paid in advance determines the amount of discount that will be applied.

When you place an order for service you will be given the option of a recurring payment frequency. You may choose to pay annually, or every bi-annually. The more pre-paid in advance determines the amount of discount that will be applied.

The total disk space storage, listed in megabytes, for all HTML and related web site files, emails, log files, and stats. Site owners requiring more space can simply add-on storage as needed.

Bandwidth is the total amount of of data sent to and from your hosting service in any given month (often referred to as 'network transfer'). Starbic Hosting offers generous amounts of bandwidth as demanded by the type of clients we host.

Should a site owner exceed their monthly bandwidth, our server sends you a brief notification email letting you know that you've gone over and presents some simple options for upgrading your account. Starbic Hosting does not retroactively tax or penalize site owners for exceeding their bandwidth. We also have a published list of bandwidth rates and a list of bandwidth add-on packs that are publicly accessible on our website.

Because availability is critical for your mission-critical hosting environment, our Service Level Agreements (SLA's) are designed to protect customers against unscheduled outages. The SLA's provides unsurpassed levels of availability with correspondingly aggressive penalties for failure to comply with them. Offering 99.9% availability with all our hosting solutions

All of Starbic  Hosting's services are connected to the Internet in multiple ways using a variety of carriers and network providers. We call this "load balancing" - a unique aspect of our service that eliminates most common network and downtime issues caused by congestion, and failure.

If one of our network routes becomes "unhealthy", our network immediately and automatically switches connectivity links to use a healthy route which eliminates packet loss and downtime. This "connectivity switching" actually happens frequently, yet is completely invisible to our customers.

This specifies the location of the servers where your hosting will be based. Currently, Starbic Hosting is a Nigerian Hosting Company and all our hosting servers are located in the United Kingdom.

Powerful online resource usage and website statistic packages are available free of charge with all Starbic Hosting plans. Powerful reporting and visitor tracking is your key to a successful website.

Additional domains allow a site owner to host unique additional domains and websites using the hosting control panel (Helm). Additional domains are very powerful and can be used to host sites for clients, prototype sites, or sites for friends and family. Alternate domains can be used as "pointers" or used to host additional fully functional websites, and email accounts. Additional domains are completely individual and each have their own set of configuration option, separate from your primary hosted domain. Starbic Hosting currently offer unlimited additional domains.

Sub Domains are popular for hosting unique content at a URL similar to "http://subdomain.domain.com/".

Domain Aliases can be used as exact replication of any domain. For example you could host both yourdomain.com and anotherdomain.net, and each will have the same email accounts, website and all the other settings of the master domain.

To upload files to your webhosting space, you require an FTP account. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and as the name suggests is used to transfer files. To transfer files you will an FTP client, which are available for download from the internet.

Pre-DNS is a unique feature of the Starbic Hosting  hosting service! It enables you to work on your website before DNS updates or your domain is registered. (Domain registrations and DNS updates usually take 24 hours)

The MIME Type editor included in your hosting control panel can be used to edit your website MIME Types. MIME Types are Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, they tell the visitors web browser the type of files that your website serves.

You can use the Custom Error Page editor in your hosting control panel to display friendly error messages to your website visitors when a scripting error occurs, or a file can not be found.

URL Rewriting is a complex subject and involves regular expressions, it allows to setup automatic "virtual" URLs that point to actual URLs on your website - this feature is aimed at advanced web developers. The documentation for the URL Rewriting Rule syntax can be found at the Helicon Tech ISAPI_Rewrite website.

Hotlink Protection will protect your website from people stealing your bandwidth by directly linking to the content on it. If you have an image collection, video, document archive, flash games or any other downloadable content Hotlink Protection will ensure the content is not hotlinked. This method of Hotlink Protection also can be used as a form of access and authorisation control for digital content delivery. The documentation for the Hotlink Protection functionality can be found at the Helicon Tech HotlinkBlocker website, or read about signing links manually.

Our versatile email system permits a site owner to create numerous email addresses. Email features include POP3 account creation, 100% Virus Free Email and webmail.

Multiple Recipient Addresses are just like email forwarders (below) however, Multiple Recipient Addresses as the name suggests are used to forward to more than one email address at a time. This feature can be used as a simple method of emailing a group of people or can be easily be used as a mailing list as recipients can be altered at any time via the control panel.

Using forwarders a site owner can choose to quickly forward email to other addresses on a permanent or temporary basis. Such as "john@yourdomain.com" can be forwarded to "john@yahoo.com".

Email responders are useful for email users who are away from email (on vacation for instance) who would like an automated response sent back whenever email is sent to them. Responders are also great for businesses who publicly list role-based or generic email addresses such as "sales@yourdomain.com".

Spam solutions are now provided as standard with all hosting accounts! Once a paid feature, our spam solutions use accurate spam detection and prevention technologies to keep your mailboxes as spam free as possible; the system also allows you to control black and white lists direct in the webmail client.

All Starbic Hosting email services are protected with supreme Virus Protection software allowing Red Fox Hosting to offer 100% Virus Free Email (known viruses only - since it would be impossible to protect from brand new threats instantly). This service is included free of charge. Terms and conditions apply.

All POP3 accounts hosted with Starbic Hosting are also IMAP enabled! IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a method of accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a mail server. In other words, it permits a client email program to access remote message stores as if they were local. For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook computer while traveling, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between these computers.

Every email service has its own secure outbound email server which ultimately simplifies the aspect of sending outbound email from a site owner's domain. Your SMTP server will also be password protected so that spamers can not use your domain as a "free relay service" which causes serious problems. The SMTP gateway is constantly synced with your POP3 email accounts so multiple passwords do not have to be remembered.

Every email user has access to a our web based email system that permits sending and receiving email directly over the web. This feature is great for email users who are traveling or are in remote locations. The web based email system is also used to manage the Red Fox Hosting Spam Solution add-on services.

All Starbic Hosting email servers have a secondary mail server backup - in the event your primary mail server is unreachable a backup one will collect mail messages and forward them to the primary mail server once it is available again, ensuring that you do not loose a single message. The backup services can also be used by those hosting email off-site such as Microsoft Exchange based setups.

SSI allows web developers to embed HTML content inside other HTML content.

Microsoft ASP is still the easiest and fastest web development language to use, even with ASP.NET available.

All web hosting servers are installed with many ASP components ready to use! These components include:

• Asp Email
• ASP Encrypt
• ASP Grid
• ASP Encrypt
• ASP Image
• ASP Jpeg
• ASP PDF
• ASP Upload
• DI WhoIs
• GflAx
• HSBC Payment Gateway
• ImageSize
• JMail

Other ASP components can also be installed upon request.

Microsoft ASP.NET is the successor to Microsoft ASP and is the next generation in web development languages. ASP.NET combines unprecedented developer productivity with performance, reliability, and deployment. Learn more at http://www.asp.net/learnmore.

Visual Web Developer 2005
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition is a lightweight, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn development tool focused exclusively on Web development. Inside, you will find everything you need to begin building exciting, dynamic Web applications with ASP.NET v2.0. For more information please click the button below:

Microsoft ASP.NET is the sucessor to Microsoft ASP and is the next generation in web development languages. ASP.NET combines unprecedented developer productivity with performance, reliability, and deployment. Learn more at http://www.asp.net/learnmore.

Visual Web Developer 2005
Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition is a lightweight, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn development tool focused exclusively on Web development. Inside, you will find everything you need to begin building exciting, dynamic Web applications with ASP.NET v2.0. For more information please click the button below:

PHP, the "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor" is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially well suited for web development and is embedded into HTML. It offers a wide array of functionality and is used to power leading web sites such as Yahoo! If you are new to PHP and want to get some idea of how it works, try this introductory tutorial . After that, check out the online manual, example archive sites, and some of the other resources available in the links section.

Starbic Hosting employs Zend software to accelerate and enhance PHP performance. The Zend software speeds up PHP upto 25 times.

Developed by Microsoft, FrontPage Extensions help the features of its HTML authoring program, FrontPage, to be compatible with the web-server. This feature is disabled by default however it can be turned on at a moments notice.

MySQL is the most popular open-source database in use on the web today. It offers simple maintenance, rich data types, robust operation and extremely fast query capabilities. Additionally, it is integrated very tightly with scripting language such as PHP, simplifying the process of creating dynamic web sites.

Highly scalable, Microsoft SQL is the perfect choice for handling your e-commerce site or enterprise application. Microsoft SQL Server is capable of hundreds of thousands of transactions per day.

Starbic Hosting supports BOTH versions of Microsoft SQL Server - you choose which you would like to use!

ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) DSN's (Data Source Name) are included as standard with all hosting plans. They allow simple connectivity to Microsoft SQL, MySQL and file based data stores.

Web based front-end administration tools are included free of charge in order to manageyour MySQL and Microsoft SQL database(s). They allows users to create, modify, and delete tables and data without necessarily knowing the more complex SQL commands. External access to the database servers is also allowed meaning you can access and manage your database direct from your desktop.

If you have already purchased an SSL certificate for your domain, or you would like to purchase an SSL certificate, you can purchase the "Dedicated SSL Add-On". This will allow you to securely access your site's contents at the https://www.yourdomain.com URL. Once setup, this gives your website HTTPS access which is an encrypted data transfer channel, making it secure for your visitors to transfer personal data.

All of our hosting accounts can make use of the global machine SSL Certificate. This will allow you to securely access your site's content at a URL such as https://www.securedwebspace.com/yourdomain.com/.

Your hosting control panel (Helm) includes an easy to use web interface that allows you to password protect directories on your site. For a given directory, you can allow access to as many or as few people as you like.