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Mac compatible Web Building, meet Mac compatible Web Hosting


MacHighway's "Easy" hosting package is the perfect, affordable answer for Mac users who don't want the Mac friendly experience to end once they've built their web site. There's no "Apple tax" here, just friendly web hosting at a wallet friendly price (and powered by renewable energy). $39.50 a year
iWeb
Full compatibility for the native features of iWeb, RapidWeaver and SandVox.
Build your site with Mac friendly tools and serve your site from a professional, Mac oriented host.
@yourdomain.com email
 @youdomain.com email addresses with access via webmail, Apple's Mail application, your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Billing and Hosting Control Panels
 Billing and Web Hosting control panels allow you quick access to your account information directly from the Internet.
True domain name hosting
 True domain name hosting. No need to rely on an outside service to provide you with a C record to make your hosting and domain name work together - MacHighway handles it all under one roof, simply.
WebDAV
 WebDAV access adds compatibility with iCal for publishing your calendars.
Live technical support
 Live technical support handled by highly skilled web hosting experts (who all use Macs) based in the United States.

If you need to do more complex features such as shopping carts, mailing lists, discussion forums or just need "more" you can upgrade to a larger package at any time. Questions? Feel free to contact us.

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Easy Package Details (for Techies)
Annual Fee
$39.50
Hard Drive / File Space:Hard Drive / File Space

The allotted file space for each package defines how much total hard drive space is available for you use.

For the Email Only package, the space is used exclusively for email storage space.

On the proper web hosting packages, the allotted space can be used for MySQL databases,web site file storage and email.

Hard drive space is easily monitored from your web hosting control panel.
Monthly Transfer:Monthly Transfer

Monthly bandwidth transfer is the amount of bandwidth used by visitors accessing your site. As an example, If a single visitor accesses an image file that's 1 MB in size, then 1 MB of traffic has been used. If 50 visitors view that same image, then 50 MB of traffic is used.

While monthly bandwidth transfer may seem to be out of your control, you can control how much is used by doing your best to ensure that your site files (mainly image files, audio files and movie files) are kept as small as possible without compromising the look and function of your site.

Monthly bandwidth transfer is easily monitored from your web hosting control panel.
Control PanelControl Panel

MacHighway offers the Cpanel Control Panel to manage all aspects of your site. Within minutes of activation you'll be able to easily setup email accounts, create a blog, Content Management System or discussion board. Manage your files and account details with ease from any web browser.
Domains  
Number of Sites:Number of Sites

This is the number of top level "www" web sites you can host with the package. You can easily register available domain names through MacHighway or anywhere else as well as transfer existing registrations to us to simplify billing if you wish.
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Sub-domains:Sub-domains

A sub-domain is an address that appends your domain name and is commonly used to provide an easy to remember URL when sending visitors to a specific portion of your web site.

If you have a blog on your site and you want to create a URL specifically for that blog on your site, you might use the sub-domain "blog" to create the URL blog.mydomain.com. If you have a section of your site specifically for clients to view, you might use the sub-domain "clients" to create the URL clients.mydomain.com.
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Domain Parking (Redirection):Domain Parking

Parking your domain name allows you to "point" a domain name that you have registered, but aren't currently using, at your existing domain name.
Languages & Databases  
HTMLHTML

Hyper Text Markup Language is a language that allows for web site creation. It is the most common & generally regarded as the easiest to learn web site related computer language.
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PHP ScriptingPHP Scripting

PHP, or PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, is an HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages.
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cgi-bin (PERL 5.8)PERL

Practical Extraction and Report Language (aka PERL) is a general-purpose programming language.
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Email  
@yourdomain Email Accounts (POP/IMAP):POP / IMAP Email Accounts

Your allotted email accounts can either be used as POP email accounts, IMAP email accounts or mixture of the 2. You will specify which protocol your will use when you setup your email application to check your email.

POP Email is checked from our mail server and stored on your hard drive. This protocol is preferred if you check your mail from a single computer and/or you receive large attachments on a regular basis. Since the mail is saved onto your hard drive, you don't have to worry about the storage quota specified for that particular email address.

IMAP email is checked from our mail server and stored on our mail server. This protocol is preferred if you check your email from multiple computers or devices. Because your mail is stored on the server, each computer or device will be viewing the same stored information, meaning that if you send an email from your iPhone, it will also be viewable from webmail or your mail application on your computer.
@yourdomain Email Aliases / Forwards:Email Aliases / Forwards

An Email Forward or Alias is an address @yourdomain that, when received, immediately forwards to another address. For instance, sales@yourdomain.com could be setup to forward to bobsmith@yourdomain.com or it could instead forward to bobjsmith4559@aol.com. This will allow you to issue email addresses @yourdomain.com to people who don't necessarily need or want a POP or an IMAP address.
Email Autoresponders:Email Autoresponders

Email Autoresponders 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, unavailable, or if you have a generic message that you wish to automatically reply with.
Secure Email Sending/Receiving (SSL)Secure Email Sending/Receiving (SSL)

When using MacHighway's mail server, you have the option of securing the processes of sending and receiving your email with SSL. This encrypts the transmission of data from your mail client to our server and back again, protecting your information from anyone who may try to "listen in".
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WebmailWebmail

Webmail is a web based interface which will allow you to view the mail on the server for a particular account. The MacHighway system offers webmail through the Squirrelmail webmail interface, Horde webmail interface and Round Cube webmail interface.
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SpamAssassinSpamAssassin

SpamAssassin analyzes each email message you receive and assigns a score to those emails based on how likely it is that the message is spam. You can then have SpamAssassin delete message which have a certain range of score so that those messages don't find their way into your inbox.
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MX ControlMX Control

With MX control you can specify a non-MacHighway mail server that will handle the email for your domain. You will need a separate email provider for this function to work.
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Domain Keys Email AuthenticationDomain Keys Email Authentication

DomainKeys is an e-mail authentication system that allows for outgoing mail to be checked against the server it was sent from to verify that the mail has not been modified. This ensures that messages are actually coming from the listed sender and allows abusive messages to be tracked with more ease.
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SPF Email AuthenticationSPF Email Authentication

SPF will specify which machines are authorized to send email from your domain. This means that only mail sent through this server will appear as valid mail from your domain when the SPF records are checked by the recipient's mail server.
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File Storage & Access  
Backup ManagerBackup Manager

The Backup Manager allows you to create a backup of your site files, MySQL databases, email addresses and email filters at the push of a button and from an intuitive user interface.
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Web DiskWeb Disk

Web Disk is a WebDAV enabled folder within your disk space which is desktop mountable, allowing you to drag and drop files directly from your computer into your hosting space. (WebDAV)
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Disk Space MonitorDisk Space Monitor

From the MacHighway control panel, not only will you be able to view how much disk space is being used, but you'll also be able to view which directories are taking up the most space.
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FTP/SFTP accounts:FTP/SFTP

File Transfer Protocol is a way for you to transfer files to and from your computer through an FTP application. Generally, there is a master FTP username and password for full access to you server space and secondary usernames and passwords that would be given to other contacts to upload and/or download large files to and from your site.

Secure File Transfer Protocol is the exact same as FTP except that transmission of files between your computer and the server is securely encrypted.
24/7 Unlimited FTP/SFTP Access24/7 Unlimited FTP/SFTP Access

Access your site via FTP or SFTP any time of the day. The transfer of files via FTP or SFTP does not count against your bandwidth transfer allotment.
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Password Protected Directory ManagerPassword Protected Directory Manager

When password protecting a directory, you require your visitors to use valid username and password to view the contents of that directory. This is useful if you are hosting sensitive content that you don't want to be available to the general public.
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Hotlink ProtectionHotlink Protection

Hotlink protection prevents other sites from including content on their site that's directly served from your site. This can help to control bandwidth and promote traffic to your site.
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Traffic Logs & Monitoring  
Latest Visitors MonitorLatest Visitors Monitor

Latest Visitors Monitor shows the last 300 people that have accessed your site.
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Bandwidth MonitorBandwidth Monitor

The bandwidth monitor shows you how much of your bandwidth has been used and from which sources (HTTP, POP email and IMAP email)
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Raw Access LogsRaw Access Logs

Raw Access Logs provide you with the unprocessed information regarding who has been visiting your site and where they have visited. These are generally helpful to power users who use their own traffic analysis software to analyse their raw logs.
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Webalizer Web Traffic Analysis ReportsWebalizer

Webalizer analyzes the access logs for your site and presents the information in easy to read reports which includes graphs and charts.
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Webalizer FTP Analysis ReportsWebalizer

Webalizer analyzes the access logs for your site and presents the information in easy to read reports which includes graphs and charts.
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Error LogError Log

Error log will display the last 300 errors for your site. This can be very useful for determining what links are broken on your site, why a script is failing or what files do not exist that should.
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