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All Plans Comparison

Whether you're creating a personal or family site, launching a new ecommerce business or upgrading your current web presence, WestHost has the right Web hosting plan for you. Every plan comes with WestHost VPS Hosting Technology and a 30-day money back guarantee, so there's NO RISK. Order a plan today!

Price
Monthly Fee	$3.95	$6.95	$9.95	$7.95	$10.00	$12.95	$24.95
Core Differing
Disk Space Disk space refers to the amount of storage your account is allocated within its WestHost Virtual Private Server. This space is used to store HTML files, graphics, audio/video, e-mail messages, and any other files that are part of your Web site. Learn More	1,000 MB	15,000 MB	25,000 MB	15,000 MB	50,000 MB	30,000 MB	60,000 MB
Bandwidth Bandwidth refers to the amount of files that can be transferred to and from your Web site each month. This data includes html files, graphics, audio/video, e-mail messages, and any other files that are a part of your Web site. Learn More	10 GB	350 GB	500 GB	350 GB	1,000 GB	750 GB	1,000 GB
E-mail / FTP Accounts E-mail accounts are mailboxes for you and anyone else whom you want to give e-mail at your domain name. Once a user mailbox/account is set up, you can create as many forwarding addresses (aliases) as you want to go to that address. Learn More	3	25	100	50	1,000	250	Unlimited
Included Web sites This is the default Web site limit for your hosting account. Some plans allow for an unlimited number of Web sites while others allow multiple Web sites with a default limit. For limited accounts capable of supporting multiple Web sites, you can add an additional at any time for a $10 one-time fee (per Web site). Learn More	1	1	3	2	Unlimited	5	Unlimited
WestHost VPS Hosting Technology Most Web Hosting companies offer "VIRTUAL" or "SHARED" hosting. This means you literally share your resources, applications and environment with potentially hundreds of other users in the same directory. With WestHost Virtual Private Server (VPS Hosting) technology, a web server is divided into multiple isolated environments, offering independent server software, increased security, and much more control over your Web site. Learn More
Dedicated IP With most web hosts, one IP address is assigned to several domains and access to a domain is available only by its domain name. With WestHost, your Web site can have a unique and dedicated IP address. It is required for Anonymous FTP, private SSL certificates and certain applications. Learn More	Optional	Optional	Optional	Optional
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Free Domain Free domain good on annual and 2 year billing cycles for primary domain name only.
Domain Management
Multiple Web site Support With a WestHost Virtual Private Server (VPS) you have the ability to host multiple Web sites within your hosting account. You can point multiple domains to the same Web site or point domains to separate Web sites within your web space. Learn More
Included Web sites This is the default web site limit for your hosting account. If your plan supports Multiple Web sites, you can increase the web site limit of your account at any time for a $10 one-time fee (per web site). Learn More	1	1	3	2	Unlimited	5	Unlimited
Subdomains With Subdomain support, you can place a word or phrase in place of the standard "www" (subdomain.domain.com) and redirect all requests for that URL to a different directory within your Web site. Learn More		Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Site Management
Control Panel (Site Manager) Each web hosting account is managed with an online control panel (Site Manager). It allows setup and administration of e-mail / FTP user accounts, your own DNS, real-time statistics, web applications, and gives complete control over your web server, e-mail server, and ftp server settings. Learn More
Site Builder (Web site Creator) Want to build a professional Web site without hiring a web designer? Our site builder (Web site Creator) allows you to create a presence online using only a web browser and Internet access. Learn More
Content Management CMS Joomla and Drupal are some of the most powerful Content Management Systems (CMS) on the planet. They can empower anything from a personal Web site to a large business portal, combining blogging, news feeds, polls, link management, forums, and more. Learn more about Joomla & Drupal
Photo Album Application Gallery 2.0 is the next generation of photo and movie sharing web applications, giving you an intuitive way to blend photo management and photo printing seamlessly into your own Web site. Upload your photos, edit them, and create slideshows with comments, polls, statistics, and more. Learn More
Blogging Application Blogging is extremely popular these days as it offers a simple means of posting and managing Web site content. With WordPress, you have the most popular and (arguably) powerful blogging application available. Learn More
Forum/Bulletin Board (phpBB) phpBB is the world's leading Open Source flat style discussion forum (message board) application. It can integrate into any existing Web site, or be the Web site in and of itself. Learn More
Wiki Application (Media Wiki) MediaWiki is an easy to use software Wiki package, originally written for use with Wikipedia. MediaWiki allows you to create your own Wiki.
Guestbook With a guestbook, visitors to your site can post comments, or read those posted by others. Learn More
Site Search Engine Perlfect Search is a sophisticated, powerful, versatile, customizable and effective site indexing/searching suite. Once installed, and your site indexed, your visitors can quickly find the information they need. Learn More
Microsoft FrontPage Support FrontPage is an extremely popular web publishing application created for non-programmers. WestHost supports the use of FrontPage 2003, 2002, 2000, 98 and 97. Learn More
File Manager WestHost's File Manager allows access to all your Web site files. You can navigate through directories as you would your own computer. Once in a particular directory, you can upload files, edit files, create new files and folders, download/view files, search, and more. For the advanced user, there is the ability to execute shell commands. Learn More
IP Filtering Utility Use this utility to limit access to your site by filtering a single IP or a block of IP addresses. This can be a great utility, for blocking or allowing select individuals or entire countries to your Web site. Learn More
SSH (Secure Shell) Secure Shell (SSH), sometimes known as Secure Socket Shell, is a UNIX-based command interface and protocol for securely getting access to a remote computer. It is widely used by network administrators to control Web and other kinds of servers remotely. Learn More
Cron Jobs Cron is the ability to run programs based on the server's clock. A cron job is a scheduled task that you want to automatically run at a scheduled time, e.g. automatically back up your Web site at 7:30pm each day. Learn More
Apache Watchdog Our system utilizes a unique "watchdog" system. This system checks the web service on every WestHost Virtual Private Server on our network every 30 seconds and restarts it if it's down. If the web service cannot be restarted, an e-mail is sent to you and our network engineers are immediately notified. Learn More
Apache Error Messages This application will allow you to display a response of your choice as an alternative to conventional error messages such as: "404 Not Found". You can choose to display either a custom text message or a select web page. Learn More
Statistics
AWStats AWStats is a powerful, feature-rich statistical tool that generates advanced reports on visitor traffic and web server statistics. Learn More
Counter The Counter Site Application keeps track of the number of 'hits' to your web pages and displays them to visitors. You can choose from a few different display types.
E-mail / FTP Management
E-mail / FTP Accounts E-mail accounts are mailboxes for you and anyone else whom you want to give e-mail at your domain name. Once a user mailbox/account is set up, you can create as many forwarding addresses (aliases) as you want to go to that address. Learn More	3	25	100	50	1,000	250	Unlimited
POP3/IMAP Support All WestHost Hosting Plans support both POP3 and IMAP.
Unlimited Forwarding & Aliasing E-mail Aliases are forwarding rules for your e-mail. You create an e-mail address and decide to forward mail sent there to one or more specified e-mail addresses, e.g. forward mail sent to sales@abc.com over to joe@abc.com and mike@xyz.net. Learn More
Web Based E-mail Webmail is a secure web application that allows you to view e-mail stored on a mail server (rather than downloading it). You can access your e-mail directly from a web browser anywhere in the world. Some popular examples of other webmail applications are Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, but at WestHost, you'll use your own domain name. Learn More
Spam Protection SpamAssassin is a popular SPAM filtering program that uses a set of rules to determine if incoming e-mail is potentially SPAM. It uses a scoring system to add or subtract points based on conditions that match certain rules, and, if enough points are recorded, marks it as SPAM. Learn More
Autoresponders Once set up, WestHost's autoresponder automatically returns a prewritten message to anyone who submits e-mail to a particular Internet address. Learn More
Mail List Manager Both Dada Mail & phplist are intuitive, web-based e-mail list management systems allowing automatic subscription management by the mailing list recipient. Learn more about Dada Mail & phplist
Formmail This application allows you to make an interactive form on your site where users can submit various information into fields, which will in turn be e-mailed to you. Learn More
Anonymous FTP With Anonymous FTP you can specify a directory of your web space that anyone can access to download or upload files. This application requires a dedicated IP address. Learn More
Site Promotion
Search Engine Tools Dominate the web's leading search engines with our tools. Optimize and submit your site instantly. Track your results, make modifications and control top keyword positions. Learn More
$25 Yahoo Credit All WestHost clients now receive $25 credit with Yahoo Search Marketing. If you want to get your site listed instantly with leading search engines like Yahoo, MSN, Alta Vista, Infospace and CNN.com, the only way is with Yahoo Search Marketing.
$25 Google AdWords Credit There is only one way to get a guaranteed top position in the search result pages of Google, and it's with Google AdWords. Use this $25 credit to start receiving traffic to your Web site within hours of signing up. Learn More
E-commerce Services
osCommerce osCommerce is a powerful and extremely popular online e-commerce solution. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to set up, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort. Learn More
Zen Cart Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; powerful, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. This e-commerce Web site design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce Web design could be and should be done differently. Learn More
MIVA Merchant 5.5 MIVA Merchant is a premier e-commerce solution that enables businesses of all sizes to create, enhance and grow a thriving online store. Its web-based software comes complete with page design templates, inventory management, payment gateway support, shipping calculation, and an integrated shopping cart. Learn More
Compatible with PayPal, Google Checkout, and Amazon Payments All WestHost Hosting Plans are compatible with PayPal, Google Checkout, and Amazon Payments.
Security
Shared SSL Those that do not wish to purchase their own SSL Certificate for 128bit SSL data encryption, server authentication and message integrity, can share ours for free by installing this application. Learn More
OpenSSL OpenSSL is a required application for those that wish to use their own SSL certificate issued from a trusted Certificate Authority (CA). This application requires a dedicated IP address. Learn More
Protected Directories With WebPassword you can create and manage shared web directories with password protection.
Database
MySQL Databases MySQL is a popular Open Source Software relational database management system which uses a subset of ANSI SQL (Structured Query Language). Learn More		Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is an application written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL databases directly from a web browser. Learn More
Media
Photo Album Application Gallery 2.0 is the next generation of photo and movie sharing web applications, giving you an intuitive way to blend photo management and photo printing seamlessly into your own Web site. Upload your photos, edit them, and create slideshows with comments, polls, statistics, and more. Learn More
ImageMagick ImageMagick is a free software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. Images can be cropped, rotated, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, and more. Learn More
Darwin Streaming Server Darwin Streaming Server is the technology that allows you to stream QuickTime media files on your Web site using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols. It was developed as an open source version of the popular QuickTime Streaming Server. This application requires a dedicated IP address. Learn More
Helix DNA Server Helix DNA Server is an open source media streaming server developed primarily by Real. It streams RealAudio, RealVideo, and MP3 files via RTSP/RTP and HTTP.
Development
CGI-BIN The CGI-BIN is a directory on the server where the executable CGI scripts reside. You have complete control over your CGI-BIN and can install any custom or 3rd party CGI scripts that you would like.
Perl Perl is a server-side scripting language which is commonly used to write CGI programs. If installing your own applications, it is often a required that your server supports Perl. Learn More
PHP PHP is a server-side scripting language where the PHP commands are embedded in the webpage's HTML. Many web applications require PHP. Learn More
Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. Learn More
FastCGI FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitation of server specific APIs. Learn More
eAccelerator eAccelerator increases performance of PHP scripts by caching them in compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated.
Python A popular server side scripting language, Python is used in many situations where a great deal of dynamism, ease of use, power, and flexibility are required. Learn More
Apache Tomcat JSP lets you separate the dynamic part of your pages from the static HTML. WestHost offers support for this technology with Apache Tomcat. Learn More
GNU Compiler (C, C++) A set of development tools that allow users to compile, link and install programs and utilities. Learn More
Java Runtime Environment The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is the minimum standard Java Platform for running Java programs. Learn More
Macromedia Flash Support Flash and Shockwave are multimedia technologies developed by Adobe/Macromedia to allow a lot of Web site interactivity (graphics, animation, video) to fit in a relatively small file size. Learn More
Server Side Includes (SSI) SSI (abbreviation for "Server-Side Includes") is a server-side scripting language. Common uses of SSI are to include or populate common areas of your Web site (e.g. a header or footer) from a single file. This way, you make the change to one file, and your entire site changes. Learn More
Server Specs
Red Hat ES Linux 4 OS w/Apache 2
Gigabit Ethernet
RAID All WestHost servers are configured with RAID functionality for data redundancy.
Daily Backups
Support
24/7 REAL Support At WestHost, we know that web hosting is much more than price, space, and bandwidth. This is why we offer a level of 24/7 support and response times via toll-free phone, live chat, and e-mail that are unmatched in this industry. Learn More