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Unlike some other web hosting companies, we don't charge any setup fees. The price you see is the price you pay. |
Monthly Price |
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We don't charge VAT/TAX on checkout. The price you see is the price you pay. |
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30 Day Money Back Guarantee |
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In the unlikley event you don't like our services we offer a NO quibble 30 Day Money Back Guarantee on all hosting plans. |
Free Domain Name |
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You can choose from 1 of 10 different free domain name extensions |.com |.co.uk | .net | .eu | .info | .org | .co.za | .me.uk | .biz | .name | on selected paid hosting plans. |
Free Domain Transfer |
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We dont offer free domain transfers on free webhosting accounts. |
Web Space |
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You can enjoy 20 MB of free web space. |
Data Transfer (traffic) |
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We will give you 200 MB of bandwidth absolutely free. As far as we are aware no other hosting provider offers this much bandwidth for free. |
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Email Accounts |
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You can setup as many email addresses at yourdomain as you like. You can have multiple unlimited email addresses for all your employees, family and friends. |
Email Manager |
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You can manage the email accounts associated with your domain(s). |
Box Trapper |
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BoxTrapper protects your inbox from spam by forcing all people not on your white list to reply to a verification email before they can send mail to you. |
Spam Assassin |
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Spam Assassin is an automated email filtering system that attempts to identify spam messages based on the content of the email's headers and body. |
Email Account Forwarders |
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Forwarders allow you to send a copy of all mail from one email address to another. For example, if you have two different email accounts joe@domain.com and joseph@domain.com, you could forward joe@domain.com to joseph@domain.com so you do not need to check both accounts. Note that the mail for a forwarded email address will still be delivered to that address as well. |
Autoresponders |
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You can use autoresponders to send a message back automatically to anyone who sends an email to a certain account. This can be useful for times when you are on vacation or unavailable, or if you have a generic message that you wish to send for a support email address. |
Mailing Lists |
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Mailing lists can simplify sending messages to a large group of people. You can add a group of email addresses to a mailing list to avoid typing in those addresses each time a mailing is sent. This can be very useful when sending newsletters or other updates to large groups of people. You can configure specific settings for your list once it is created by clicking on Modify. |
Manage Filters |
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In this area you can manage filters for each user. Each user filter is processed after the main account filters. |
Edit Filters for All Mail On Your Account |
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You can manage filters for your main account. |
Email Delivery Route |
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This feature allows you to view how the mail server will treat a message when sending to or delivering to a specific address. If you enter an address on the server, it shows how the mail server will deliver mail to that address. If you enter an address that exists somewhere other than this server, it will show how the mail server will attempt to send mail to that address. |
Import E-mail Accounts/Forwarders |
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This feature allows you to use 2 types of files to create multiple email address or email forwarders for your account simultaneously. You may use Excel spreadsheet files (.xls) or comma-separated values sheet, aka CSV file (.csv) to import the data. A CSV file is a plain text file that has been given a .csv extension. |
Email Authentication |
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Email authentication is the effort to equip messages of the email transport system with enough verifiable information so that recipients can recognize the nature of each incoming message automatically. Enabling email authentication will help fight the spread of spam. |
MX Entry |
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An MX (mail exchanger) entry tells a client which server receives mail sent to a domain name. |
| File System |
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Daily Backups |
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Backups allow you to download (to your computer) a zipped copy of either your entire site (your home directory, databases, email forwarders configuration, email filters configuration) or one of the previously mentioned parts of your site. These are not automatically scheduled backups. |
Backup Wizard |
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This feature allows you to download a zipped copy of your entire site or parts of it onto your computer and also allows you to restore parts of your control panel by uploading your partial backup zip file(s) that you downloaded from the backup feature. |
File Manager |
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File manager allows you to upload and download content to your web space. |
Web Disk |
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The Web Disk allows you to easily drag and drop files to your hosting account. You can create a Web Disk login and access your Web Disk below. Once your Web Disk is configured, you can then drag and drop files to it just like they are part of your home computer. You can also navigate through the files in your hosting account just as you do the files on your local computer. |
Disk Space Usage |
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This feature provides a quick way to see the amount of disk space being used by folders. It will not show you the disk space taken by individual files. If you need to view individual files you can use the File Manager. |
FTP Accounts |
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FTP Accounts allow you to access your web site's files through a protocol called FTP (File Tranfer Protocol). You will need a third party FTP program to access your files. |
FTP Session Control |
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You can use this function to see who is currently logged into your site through FTP. You can also terminate any FTP connections to your site that you feel should not be open. This can be very useful in preventing users from accessing your files without your permission. |
Anonymous FTP Controls |
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You can allow users to connect to your anonymous FTP directory without having a password to login. This may be useful if you have files that you wish to be publicly available for download. |
| Logs |
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Latest Visitors Stats |
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This function will show the last 300 people that have accessed your site. |
Bandwidth |
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This function allows you to see the bandwidth usage for your site. It shows the current month's bandwidth usage as well as your total bandwidth usage. This will include all HTTP (web) and POP (mail) bandwidth usage and may include FTP bandwidth usage if your system administrator has enabled FTP bandwidth logging. |
Webalizer Stats |
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Webalizer is a complex stats program that produces a variety of charts and graphs about who has visited your site. |
Raw Access Log |
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Raw Access Logs allow you to see who has accessed your site without the use of graphs, charts or other graphics. You can use the Raw Access Logs menu to download a zipped version of the server's access log for your site. This can be very useful when you need to see who is accessing your site quickly. |
Error Log |
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This function will display the last 300 errors for your site. This can be very useful for determining what links are broken on your site, or what files do not exist that should. Checking this log frequently can help keep your site running smoothly. |
Awstats |
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Awstats produces visual statistics about visitors of your site. |
| Security |
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Password Protect Directories |
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This feature will allow you to require a username and password to access a folder or folders from the web. This can be very useful when you need to limit access to a certain part of your site. |
IP Deny Manager |
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This feature will allow you to block a range of IP addresses to prevent them from accessing your site. You can also enter a fully qualified domain name, and the IP Deny Manager will attempt to resolve it to an IP address for you. |
SSH |
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SSH allows secure file transfer and remote logins over the internet. Your connection via SSH is encrypted allowing the secure connection. In this section you can manage your SSH keys to allow automation when logging in via SSH. Using public key authentication is an alternative to password authentication. Since the private key must be held to authenticate, it is virtually impossible to brute force. You can Import existing keys, generate new keys, as well as manage/delete keys. |
HotLink Protection |
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HotLink protection prevents other websites from directly linking to files (as specified below) on your website. Other sites will still be able to link to any file type that you don't specify below (ie. html files). An example of hotlinking would be using a tag to display an image from your site from somewhere else on the net. The end result is that the other site is stealing your bandwidth. |
Leech Protect |
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Leech Protect allows you to prevent your users from giving out or publicly posting their password to a restricted area of your site. This feature will redirect (and suspend if selected) accounts which have been compromised to a url of your choice. |
GnuPG Keys |
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GnuPG is a publicly available encryption scheme that uses the "public key" approach. With GnuPG, messages are encrypted using a "public key" however, they can only be decrypted by a "private key", which is retained by the intended recipient of the message. |
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Parked Domains (Domain pointers) allow you to "point" or "park" additional domain names to your existing hosting account. This will allow users to also reach your website when entering the "parked" or "pointed" domain into their browsers. An addon domain allows you to reach a sub-domain when entering the name of the addon domain into a browser. This means that you can host additional domains from your account. Addon Domains Subdomains are relative to your account's home directory. |
Subdomains |
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Subdomains are URLs for different sections of your website. They use your main domain name and a prefix. For example, if your domain is mediastorm-webhosting.com a sub-domain of your domain might be support.mediastorm-webhosting.com. |
Redirects |
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Redirects allow you to make a specific web page redirect to another page and display the contents of that page. This way you can make a page with a long URL accessible by a page which has a shorter and easier to remember URL. |
Simple DNS Zone Editor |
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DNS is the component of the Internet which converts human-readable domain names (example.com) into computer-readable IP addresses (208.77.188.166). It does this according to DNS zone files that reside on your server and tie domain names to IP addresses.
There are several different types of records in a domain's zone file. This feature allows you to create and edit A and CNAME records. |
Advanced DNS Zone Editor |
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Zone files allow you to control how DNS functions. For example, if you want to have a subdomain point to another IP address and/or domain, add a new CNAME record. |
| Databases |
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MySQL Databases |
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MySQL Databases allow you to store lots of information in an easy to access manner. The databases themselves are not easily read by humans. MySQL databases are required by many web applications including some bulletin boards, content management systems, and others. To use a database, you'll need to create it. Only MySQL Users (different than mail or other users) that have privileges to access a database can read from or write to that database. |
MySQL Database Wizard |
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MySQL Database Wizard is an easy to use interface to quickly setup databases. |
php MyAdmin |
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phpMyAdmin is a software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. |
Remote MySQL |
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You can allow external web servers to access your MySQL databases by adding their domain name to the list of hosts that are able to access databases on your web site. |
| Software |
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cPanel is a Unix based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site. cPanel is designed for the end users to control everything from adding / removing email accounts to administering MySQL databases. cPanel is a very nice and easy to use Control Panel. cPanel is for Web Hosting users. |
CGI |
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CGI Center has a number of pre-installed scripts ready to use on your account. |
QuickInstall |
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QuickInstall is a 1 click wizard that will install a selection of 63 applications/software to your webspace. Applications/Software Categories: Blogs | Chat | Commerce | Content Management | Forums | Mailing Lists | Photo Galleries | Polling | Wiki | and many more.. |
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Perl Module Installer: Perl modules are collections of functions that allow you to perform tasks in Perl. |
PHP Pear |
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PEAR packages are collections of functions that allow you to perform tasks in PHP. |
PHP Config |
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Allows you to configure which php version you wish to use. |
Ruby Gems |
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Ruby Gems are collections of functions that allow you to perform tasks in Ruby. |
Ruby on Rails Applications |
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Ruby on Rails Applications are based on the Rails framework. |
php.ini EZConfig |
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GUI for editing a global php.ini file. |
Fantastico |
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Fantastico is an alternative to QuickInstall you also have extra applications in fantastico that can't be found in QuickInstall. |
| Advanced |
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Apache handlers allow you to control what Apache will do with certain file types. When Apache sees a file, it has an action built in for that file type, and will perform that action. If you wish Apache to do a different action, you will need to make a handler to tell Apache to perform that action. |
Image Manager |
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The Image Manager allows you to view and modify images in your account. You can change the size of your images, convert their file type, or just view them with the Image Manager. |
Index Manager |
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The Index Manager allows you to customize the way a directory will be viewed on the web. You can select between a default style, no indexes, or two types of indexing. |
Error pages |
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An error page informs a visitor when there is a problem accessing your site. Each type of problem has its own code. |
Cron Jobs |
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Cron jobs allow you to automate certain commands or scripts on your site. You can set a command or script to run at a specific time every day, week, etc. For example, you could set a cron job to delete temporary files every week so that your disk space is not being used up by those files. |
Frontpage Extensions |
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Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your site directly from the FrontPage application. This means that you will not have to upload files through FTP, or another method. |
Network Tools |
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Network Tools allow a user to find out information about any domain, or to trace the route from the server your site is on to the computer you are accessing cPanel from. Finding out information about a domain can be useful in making sure your DNS is set up properly as you will find out information about your IP address as well as your DNS. |
Website Templates |
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Choose from 1000's of website templates to upload to your web space. |
MIME Types |
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MIME types tell browsers how to handle specific extensions. For example, the text/html MIME type equates to .htm, .html, and .shtml extensions on most servers, and this tells your browser to interpret all files with those extensions as HTML files. You can alter or add new MIME types specifically for your site (note that you can not alter the system defined MIME type values). MIME types are often used to handle new technologies as they appear. When WAP technology first appeared no one had these extensions set up on their server. With MIME types, however, you could have set it up yourself and begun serving WAP pages immediately. |
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Dedicated IP |

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Starter Plus Plan - £2.00 Per Month
Business Plan - £1.50 Per Month |
SSL Certificates |

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SSL certificates offer your website a true secure environment for your customers. This is essential if your customers enter credit card or personal details on your website. Free SSL is available on our business hosting plan. Email Technical Support to initate your SSL Certificate. |
ID Protection |

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Did you know that your name, email, and phone number are made publically available within the WhoIs database when you register any domain name? Any spammers, solicitors and other prying eyes can find your personal information online, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. ID protection removes your personal details from the WhoIs database. Free ID protection is available on our business hosting plan. Email Technical Support to initate your protection. |
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osCommerce is yet another of the shopping carts we provide that can be installed with a click of the mouse. "osCommerce allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online store fronts with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved" You can read more at their homepage located at www.oscommerce.com |
ZenCart |
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Zen Cart is another of the shopping carts we provide that can be installed with a click of the mouse. "Zen Cart will deliver the ultimate online shopping experience to your customers. Navigating through your merchandise offerings is a breeze with Zen Cart, the program provides several "Spotlight" lists in addition to the traditional category to product links." You can read more at their site www.zen-cart.com/ |
Cube Cart |
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Cube cart is another shopping cart that is free to use and can be installed instantly using our control panel.
www.cubecart.com/ |
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Excellent Customer Support |
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First class customer support around the clock, we have a 24 hour simple but powerful help/ticket system. |
Cancel Anytime |
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You can cancel your account at any time. |
Upgrade Anytime |
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You can upgrade your account at any time. |
Downgrade Anytime |
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You can downgrade your account at anytime. |
Video Tutorials |
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We have an extensive library of video tutorials to guide you through setting up Email, Ftp account, Databases, Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Zen Cart and many more.. Click Here! to see the full list. |
Online Support Portal |
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You can access our online support portal 24/7 and submit support/help tickets 365 days of the year. |
| General |
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No Contracts |
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Media Storm operate a no contracts policy. You can cancel at any time. |
Online Account Manager |
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You can login into your very own online account manager to upgrade, downgrade, print invoices, check bandwidth and much more.. |
Online Invoice |
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You can keep track of your services, invoices and payments using our fully automated invoice and payment system. |
Change Contact |
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You can easily manage all your personal and payment deatils with our easy to use online control panel from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. |
99.9% Uptime Guarantee |
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We guarantee 99.9% uptime on all of our servers this guarantee includes network uptime, server uptime and web server uptime. Click Here! to check our new server/s monitoring page. |
Free Live Support |
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You can use our free live support chat 9am - 5pm / Mon - Fri, excluding UK Bank Holidays. Our support staff will be happy to help you with any questions or problems you may have. |
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World-class datacentres that contain top of the line technology to ensure that servers stay cool, secure, and up at all times. The datacentres feature redundant power, HVAC, and fire detection systems, and are monitored 24x7x365 in the Network Operation Centre. |
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In addition to a fully redundant network and top of the line data centres, System administrators monitor all servers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Servers are monitored and issues are acted upon before they become serious. Additionally, the network and datacentres are monitored and managed by on-site technicians dedicated to ensuring maximum uptime and reliability. |
Location |
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The datacentres are located in London, Houston and Dallas and managed by THE PLANET the largest privatly-owned dedicated hosting provider. |