All our servers use IBM Netfinity and xSeries server hardware running the latest version of Microsoft's powerful and secure Windows operating system and Internet Information Server software. Prior to server placement on the Internet networks, all of them are configured, tested and checked for security flaws by our certified network security experts.

Amount of space on the server's hard drive allocated for your web site to store web pages, graphic images, databases, log files, etc. protected by your user ID and password from unauthorized access.

Dedicated IP (Internet Protocol) address - a unique digital address assigned to your virtual web server and the domain name.

For any computer to find your website on the World Wide Web, it must find that unique digital IP address to connect to. When somebody types 'www.YourDomain.com', it has no meaning to the computer and it performs a search, trying to "resolve" this request by sending requests to several Domain Name Servers - computers that maintain tables of domain names and the corresponding unique digital IP addresses. Once the record for a particular domain name is found, the computer plugs it in place of the meaningless words and connects to the corresponding server on the Web. SelfNet is currently using three separate DNS servers located on different networks to ensure redundancy of our domain name resolution service.

Unlike most of our volume-oriented competitors, we maintain "reverse IP lookup" records, which will show your domain name in case someone is trying to find out where you host your website by querying its dedicated IP address.

We provide full live statistical analysis and reporting service on who is visiting your site. Users can customize reporting for their web sites in many ways, including automatic report e-mailing. To see a live demo of the reporting system, please click here.

A stand-alone "mailbox" that receives electronic mail sent to a particular address like 'you@YourDomain.com' and stores it until you retrieve your mail and "empty" your mailbox.  We also offer UNLIMITED aliasing, i.e. you can receive mail sent to different addresses like 'you#1...you#5@YourDomain.com' using a single mailbox or forwarder account (see below).

Imagine having 3-4 different addresses your regular mail would be delivered.  Sooner or later, you'll get tired of driving around to collect your correspondence delivered to mailboxes located on different streets.  Same with e-mail -you probably already have a mailbox provided with your dial-up service, another one at the office and now you want to receive mail sent to 'You@YourDomain.com'.  All on different Internet "streets".  Forwarder account receives mail sent to 'You@YourDomain.com' and automatically delivers it to your existing e-mail mailbox (or several mailboxes) without you having to "drive" there...

Minimizes spam at the server level, taking spam control to a level never before available.  It uses a very extensive array of tests and ways to handle the unwelcome E-mail, including adding subject and header tags to suspected spam messages, and total removal of the known mass mailings as soon as they hit our mail server!

The ultimate answer for mail server virus control, eliminating many of the problems with traditional anti-virus solutions. It scans all SMTP E-mail on the server, so the viruses never reach your desktop. It also detects vulnerabilities that allow viruses to bypass scanning on other mail server virus scanners.

Many web hosting companies structure their pricing based on the number of hits received and files transferred by your web site. For example, if your average visitor accesses ten 20K pages published on your website, this single visit generates 200K of "file transfers". 50 visitors a day will generate 10,000K of network traffic a day, or ~300,000K per month. In addition, every time you make an update to your website, you generate additional traffic. What if your website is getting 1,000 visits a day?..

We regularly perform tape backups of our servers for emergency recovery. However, clients are responsible for creating their own backup copy of all the web files. It simply makes sense, as they always have the most current version of it prior to publishing to the server. It is also a good practice to make all the changes to your own copy, test it first on your local PC and then upload files to the server.

We provide full support for the current versions of Microsoft FrontPage software at no additional charge. FrontPage provides many nice "on-the-fly" features and functions that normally would require custom scripting and programming skills. Most commonly used ones are hit counters, form results handlers (including SMTP mailing), image maps, Java applets, site search, banner rotation and many others. For more information, please click here.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is another way to access and update information on your web server. It is provided on "as-required" basis for clients who are not using FrontPage for that purpose. Basically, it allows users to connect to their virtual server's root directory protected by user ID and a password.  Anonymous FTP service can be provided at extra charge to Standard or Pro server accounts.

Scripts are small programs embedded into your HTML pages. Things like hit counters, flashing buttons, hyperlinks, form results handlers require scripts to work properly. Poorly written scripts can not only mess up your web site - they can also cause "damage" to the main server software itself and crash it. This is the main reason we are very careful about allowing custom scripting activities on our servers. Most of our clients are interested in a stable and consistent day-to-day server performance for their businesses and that is our commitment. There are many other places on the Web where beginner programmers can try their skills out. We offer our clients a comprehensive set of most commonly used scripts through the standard FrontPage functionality. In case you require some additional functionality, we will attempt to provide it, as long as it can be done in a safe and cost-effective manner.

ASP (Active Server Pages) - original (classic) scripting language technology from Microsoft. For details, please contact us at sales@selfnet.com.

Database functionality is available through Microsoft SQL Database Server. For more details, please click here or contact us at sales@selfnet.com.

SSL is a security certificate purchased from Verisign for authentication of the encrypted communications between users and a secure server.  When you place your order on-line, your browser will switch into its "secure mode" and establish secure connection with our SSL server.   From that point all communications between your PC and our SSL server will be encrypted, so you can safely transmit your personal information, credit card number, etc.   In case the "bad guys" are listening to the traffic, they won't be able to decrypt this information and/or use it. For details, please contact us at sales@selfnet.com.

All our servers are protected by UPS (uninterrupted power supplies) and monitored for 24 hours, 7 days a week. In case of electric power outage in the area, UPS device will keep the servers powered up and running for several hours. If the main power is not back by that time (a disastrous situation, but it can happen), the UPS will promptly shut down the servers without any damage to its hardware or software.

RAID stands for 'Redundant Array of Independent Drives'. Each of our IBM Netfinity servers is equipped with RAID-5 (highest level of redundancy) drive array using 'hot swap' disk drives and a 'hot spare' drive. Should one of the drives fail, the RAID controller will automatically replace it with a hot spare and notify our administrator. Once the failed drive is replaced, RAID will put it back into action and retire the hot spare drive back to its original waiting state. All this will happen WITHOUT server shutdown, on the fly - completely unnoticed by users.

After receiving many requests for an E-Mail Only service package from people tired of unsolicited advertising, spam and technical limitations they face with most free e-mail services, we introduced SelfPostOffice™. If you want to use your own domain name with your e-mail service, but do not want to maintain a website, this is the service for you. You will receive full access to our mail server to configure and maintain user accounts, aliases, mail lists, calendar entries and message filters via our easy-to-use web interface.