Disk space refers to the amount of storage. This space is used to store HTML files, graphics, audio/video, e-mail messages, and any other files that are part of your Web site.

Bandwidth refers to the amount of files that can be transferred to and from your Web site each month.

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.

This is the default Web site limit for your hosting account.

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.

Domain Management

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.

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.

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.

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 about Joomla & Drupal

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.

With WordPress, you have the most popular and (arguably) powerful blogging application available.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

AWStats is a powerful, feature-rich statistical tool that generates advanced reports on visitor traffic and web server statistics.

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.

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.

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.

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

Both Dada Mail & phplist are intuitive, web-based e-mail list management systems allowing automatic subscription management by the mailing list recipient. Learn more about Dada Mail & phplist

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.

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.

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.

Google AdWords (TM) can help you reach new prospects right when they're searching for your products and services on Google (TM). Use this $50 credit to start receiving traffic to your Web site within hours of signing up.

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.

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.

MIVA Merchant is a premier e-commerce solution that enables businesses of all sizes to create, enhance and grow a thriving online store. Its web-based software comes complete with page design templates, inventory management, payment gateway support, shipping calculation, and an integrated shopping cart.

All WestHost Hosting Plans are compatible with PayPal, Google Checkout, and Amazon Payments.

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.

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.

With WebPassword you can create and manage shared web directories with password protection.

MySQL is a popular Open Source Software relational database management system which uses a subset of ANSI SQL (Structured Query Language).

phpMyAdmin is an application written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases directly from a web browser.

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.

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.

Darwin Streaming Server is the technology that allows you to stream QuickTime media files on your Web site using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols. It was developed as an open source version of the popular QuickTime Streaming Server. This application requires a dedicated IP address.

Helix DNA Server is an open source media streaming server developed primarily by Real. It streams RealAudio, RealVideo, and MP3 files via RTSP/RTP and HTTP.

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 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.

PHP is a server-side scripting language where the PHP commands are embedded in the webpage's HTML.

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

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

eAccelerator increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated.

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.

A set of development tools that allow users to compile, link and install programs and utilities.

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is the minimum standard Java Platform for running Java programs.

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.