Our true Virtual Server System, has a significant technological edge over simple hosting companies. A Virtual Server is all about control, and we give that control to you.

The Virtual Server System was created by "multiplexing" or partitioning the root physical server into many independent Virtual Servers. Only the physical hardware is controlled and maintained by us. All of the software – web, ftp, and pop services, as well as the smtp gateway – is completely independent, affording you complete flexibility, control, and power over how your Internet services behave. This gives you the ability to configured and customized your own Virtual Server as you see fit. Below are just a few of the advanced features of our Virtual Servers and the control they offer you.

Software Technology

1. We provide true Virtual Servers using unique proprietary technology. An true Virtual Server is not just a hosting solution – it is much more than that. A true Virtual Server is a powerful Internet solution with all of the server capabilities that you need to make your business more effective on the Internet. "Virtual hosting", which other hosting companies offer, is simply a single feature of the our Virtual Server System. We allow you to host multiple virtual web hosts – each with its own domain name, FTP access, virtual e-mail, and even set quotas – on a single fully functional Virtual Server.

2. Not only do we put you in control of your Virtual Server configuration files, you also have your choice of HTTP (web) server software, either NCSA or Apache – two of the most popular and widely server software packages.

3. The Virtual Server System not only provides FTP access, you also have telnet, secure shell (SSH), Windows "File Share" (your Virtual Server's disk space becomes a network disk volume on your Windows desktop), along with a web based server management system to provide you full control over your Virtual Server functions without needing Unix experience.

4. Because we offer true Virtual Servers, you have full cgi support and a development environment. Create your own cgi scripts in Perl4/5, C, C++, Objective C, Java 1.02, Java 1.1, TCL/Tk, Python, sh, etc.

5. Our Virtual Server provides you with full access to your own log files including access_log, error_log, agent_log and referrer_log (in a combined, separate, or any customized log format you define) that are fully compatible with almost all popular statistic programs. You also have your own sendmail and ftp log files.

6. The Advanced and Pro Virtual Servers support Anonymous FTP, Multi-user FTP w/quotas, FTP directory messages and "welcome"" messages, Anti-"Warez" support and secure user directories so your virtual host users cannot get to privileged files.

7. Our Virtual Servers allow you to easily create unlimited e-mail aliases, support unlimited autoresponders, and create unlimited POP/IMAP e-mail accounts at no extra charge. (POP/IMAP servers not available for the Basic Virtual Server).

8. Our Virtual Servers give you control over your own "sendmail.cf" and e-mail "aliases" files. Therefore, popular list manager software like Majordomo works great. Majordomo is even included in our contributed software library (which is quite large). This library also provides resources like PGP, WWW Count, and Matt's WWW Board (just to name a few).

9. Our Virtual Servers support the mSQL database program. In addition, you are not limited to one database like many of our competitor's mSQL offerings; rather, you can create numerous databases for use with your Virtual Server.

10. Our Virtual Servers support SSL, CyberCash, htmlscript/Miva, PHP/FI, RealAudio™, RealVideo™, Microsoft® FrontPage®, and just about any Unix BSD based program you can find.

11. Our Virtual Servers also have "clean" e-mail headers. You will not see "digitaldaze.com" anywhere in your headers nor in the e-mail messages you send. Also, when you type "hostname" at your telnet prompt in your Virtual Server you will see your own domain name not the machine name. As far as anyone knows, you have your very own dedicated server located in your office.

Server and Network Technology:

1. We use proven Intel Pentium, Pentium Pro, and Pentium II technology. This is the same technology which is used to power the fastest supercomputer in the world, which is capable of more than 1 trillion operations per second.

2. Each Virtual Server has two high-speed disk I/O channels and use advanced Ultra SCSI disk technology.

3. We use 50ns ECC (Error Check and Correcting) Micron memory, and lots of it.

4. We concentrate hard on keeping our Servers properly balanced so they are never over-loaded. We prove this by placing less than 100 accounts on each of our Servers. Many other hosting companies place 500-1000 accounts on a single Server. Proper load balancing is just one more way we provide you the power you expect.

5. Our network employs high speed Cisco 7500 routers and Cisco 5000 switches. Each Server has its own dedicated, full-duplex (collision-less) connection. The routers have dual power supplies and dual route processors.

6. Your online business is kept online using redundant DS3s (45 Mbps) connections through a diverse network of backbone providers: Sprint, MCI, and UUNET. We are also in the process of adding additional connections to even further improve our great connectivity.

7. Triple file backup of your data is offered using the following processes:

   • An online mirror drive that can be accessed anytime ("/backup").
   • A compressed archive to a separate system volume.
   • An off-site tape archive.

8. All of the server and networking equipment have UPS battery and generator backup power supplies.