The Subscribable maillists are a very simple to use way of building a e-mail list to make general announcements, such as specials, price drops, or a monthly newsletter.
Majordomo is a highly interactive full featured program that allows every one subscribed to the list to interact and post to the list. Its fully designed to automate the management of Internet mailing lists. Commands are sent to Majordomo via electronic mail to handle all aspects of list maintenance. Once a list is set up, virtually all operations can be performed remotely, requiring no intervention upon the postmaster of the list site.
Included FREE with every account is Wusage 7.0, a very powerful tool for graphically tracking visitors to your site. It provides you statistics on how long visitors were there, what pages they visited and the order in which they were visited. With the advanced logging feature activated it even captures what browser was being used and how the visitors found you, whether through a search engine or a web site link. - Updated: June 20, 2001
We specialize in virtual web hosting, which means you can find a home for your web site on our high performance web servers and establish your presence on the Internet with your own unique domain name. This is a cost effective alternative to hosting your own web site internally. Our shared hosting environment gives you the benefits of high performance servers, high bandwidth connectivity that can seamlessly grow with your needs, pre-installed software, guaranteed reliability and round the clock technical support, all at a fraction of the cost of doing it yourself. - Updated: March 25, 2001
Yes. You will be able to access your domain address with or without the "www" in front of the domain name. Example: [http://www.your-name.com] or [http://your-name.com] is acceptable, whichever you prefer. - Updated: March 25, 2001
You are hosted on our fiber optic network, which connects to the Internet through 1 OC3 and 3 redundant DS-3 multi-homed connections. This high-speed connectivity combined with exceptionally fast and reliable Dual Pentium III servers, guarantee fast access to all web sites housed within our network, and 99.9% uptime 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. - Updated: June 20, 2001
All our systems run a customized version of RedHat, using the powerful Apache Web Server and Apache SSL Server for secure transactions. - Updated: March 25, 2001
For maximum reliability all our servers are custom-built using the best components currently available in the industry. Since there are constant improvements in the hardware industry, we ensure that we upgrade all our systems every 3-4 months, thereby providing you access to the latest machines equipped with fast processors and lots of memory and storage space. - Updated: June 20, 2001
Yes. We are proud to currently house domains for customers in over 120 countries worldwide and can host any valid domain name extension. If you are interested in foreign domain name registrations, we provide you with useful resources to help link you to most registration services around the world. - Updated: March 25, 2001
Yes. You may add additional disk space to your account by emailing upgrades@novastate.com with your requirements. As a customer you are charged @ $0.15/1MB, and this must be purchased in 10MB increments. - Updated: March 25, 2001
You will be notified by email ahead of time allowing you enough time to choose from our numerous Traffic Upgrade Levels. For traffic usage in excess of your monthly allowance, you will be billed @ $12/month for every additional 1GB used. A permanent traffic upgrade will provide monthly additional savings. Depending on your choice, simply fill out and submit the online application form. It's that easy!
NOTE: Sometimes domains exceed the bandwidth level allocated faster than our system can monitor. You will still be responsible for overage costs in this case. - Updated: June 20, 2001
Yes. We can give you a third level domain name for an existing domain (e.g. anyname.yourdomain.com) The biggest advantage here is that additional registration is not needed, therefore there are no registration fees involved. - Updated: June 20, 2001
Yes. We allow you to create sub-directories, which you can use to offer friends or clients disk space under your main account, as long as it is within our policy guidelines. You can also request additional FTP Accounts with limited access to a specific directory for a small additional set-up charge. - Updated: March 25, 2001
Yes. We provide with you 3 options to immediately contact our Support Staff:
24/7 web-based Support Desk that allows us to directly take your questions
Email support
Live chat support
We also provide a number of online training courses in HTML, FrontPage and Java, all in HTML and fully searchable. We also offer an extensive Support Manual along with a detailed Support FAQ to provide you with answers to all support queries immediately. The Support FAQ is constantly being updated and offers a searchable archive of all support-related queries. - Updated: March 25, 2001
New accounts are set-up within 24 hours from the time we receive your order. Once your account is set-up, you will be emailed your Account Login information (User ID, Password & FTP hostname) along with some useful URLs to help you get started. You can immediately start uploading files to your new web site. Domain account users will be given a temporary URL to access their site via the web prior to the completion of either domain registration or domain modification. - Updated: March 25, 2001
Yes. You can use your account for commercial purposes. The World Wide Web has become the most efficient and cost-effective means of making information, products and services available to the users of the Internet community, and we provide our customers the necessary tools to develop a successful Internet business. - Updated: March 25, 2001
Yes. You have unlimited access via FTP 24 hours a day 365 days a year. As such, you can create and maintain your web pages on your own computer and upload files to your web site at your leisure. - Updated: March 25, 2001
Files must be transferred to the web server via File Transport Protocol (FTP). Internet providers such as AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy may have a built-in FTP interface. If you need FTP, Telnet, mail, or other Internet software, visit www.shareware.com. Shareware.com is a source for the latest Internet applications with ratings and reviews to help you decide which application is best suited for your needs. An FTP tutorial is also available for beginners who may not be familiar with FTP. Microsoft FrontPage users can "publish" their sites to our server and should not use FTP. - Updated: March 25, 2001
Yes. Each account also comes with a number of regular POP accounts that will allow you to pickup email with any standard email program like Netscape or Eudora. - Updated: June 20, 2001
A virtual/true domain is having your own domain name (http://www.your-name.com) without having to install expensive server hardware and software. With a virtual domain, you utilize our server's storage space, however, you are still professionally represented via your own personal Internet web address (www.your-name.com) and by your own personal email address (you@your-name.com). Having your own domain name enables you to maintain the same email address (you@your-name.com) even if you change Internet providers. - Updated: August 1, 2001
This is a commercial product for processing email from a web browser. This offers all the features of a regular email program with the flexibilty of being usable anywhere you have internet access and a browser. Unlike other web-based systems we have incorporated other services that make this a full Internet portal. - Updated: June 20, 2001
