Website Hosting, Domain Names, & Custom Email

Hosting is the service that keeps your website live on the web 24/7. Crunch42 provides reliable hosting services utilizing shared and dedicated servers (hosting computers).

Crunch42 offers high quality hosting for $99 a year. If you already have your own hosting, in most cases you may continue to use it.

If your site is very complicated, requires exceptional security, is very large or very popular, you may require what's known as virtual private hosting ($50+ per month) or even dedicated hosting ($150+ per month). In these cases, please request an estimate.

In most cases, these more expensive hosting options are overkill, and your site will run just fine on the $99/year hosting. See below for more hosting details.

Domain Names

Your website's main URL (www.yourwebsite.com) is its domain name. In some cases you may want to purchase more than one domain name and have them all point to one site. For example, you can get yourwebsite.com, yourwebsite.net, and yourwebsite.org.

Crunch42 will help you choose a good domain name that will be easy to spell and memorable. Here's an article about choosing a good domain name.

Custom Email Address(es)

Your hosting will come with the capability for you to have as many custom email addresses as you like, which you can check using webmail and Outlook (or Mac Mail, Thunderbird, Eudora, or any other mail software).

Every custom email account will have the 'spamassassin' spam filter attached to it.

Crunch42 hosting includes:

As much disk space and bandwidth as your site requires.
Unlimited custom email addresses.
PHP scripting, MySQL databases, phpMyAdmin, CGI access
User control panel.
Comprehensive site traffic statistics.
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Hosting uptime for 2008 was 99.98%. If you want higher uptime you'd need to pay significantly more than $99 a year to a third-party hosting service.

Basic Hosting Details

Disk Space: Depending on need
Bandwidth: Depending on need
Domains & Subdomains: unlimited
MySQL Databases: unlimited
Mail & FTP Users: unlimited
Dedicated Static IP Address: $3/month extra
Domain Aliases: unlimited
E-Mail Aliases: unlimited
E-Mail Auto-Responders: unlimited
SSL Certificate: $100 per year plus Static IP ($36/year)

Hosting Comes With

- Spam Assassin
- Webmail
- Anonymous FTP
- AWStats
- Web Access & Error Logs
- Password Protected Directories
- Perl 5.8.4
- PHP 4.4.0 (5.1 coming soon)
- MySQL 4.1.14-standard
- Server Side Includes
- SSH Secure Shell
- POP3 / IMAP / SMTP Server
- File Manager
- cPanel/WHM
- cPanel Pro (Boxtrapper)
- Custom DNS Servers on Separate Class C
- Fantastico
- Dallas, TX Datacenter

Installable Scripts

The following scripts are installable from within your site's control panel. You will probably need at least beginning web knowledge to install these yourself. You may also want to check with each script's website to be sure that you're getting the version you want.

Blogs: eGroupWare, pLog, Geeklog, Nucleus, Serendipity, WordPress, b2, b2evolution, bMachine, myBloggie, pMachine

CMS / Portals: CPGDragonfly, Drupal, Joomia, PHP-Nuke, Siteframe, Typo3, VortexPortal, phpWebSite, phpwcms

Communities/Forums: e107, Mambo, MamboOpenSource, PostNuke, punBB, SMF, XMB, Xoops, YaBBSE

Customer Relationship Management: SugarCRM, vtiger

Customer Support: HelpCenterLive, OneOrZeroHelpDesk, SupportLogic, SupportServicesManager, livehelp, osTicket, phpSupportTickets,

E-Commerce: CREloaded, CubeCart, osCommerce, ZenCart

E-Learning: ATutor

FAQ: FAQMasterFlex, ODFAQ, phpMyFAQ

Forums: VanillaForum, phpBB

Guestbook: AdvancedGuestBook, iPeiGuestBook, ViPWERGuestbook

Image Galleries: 4Images, Coppermine, Gallery, Gallery2

Mailing List: phpList

Other: AardvarkTopsites, Classifieds, CuteNews, Moodle, OpenRealty, WebCalendar, paFileDB, phpAdsNew, phpAuction, phpDig, phpFormGenerator, phpLinks

Polls and Surveys: AdvancedPoll, PHPSurveyor, phpESP

Project Management: PHProjekt, dotProject, phpCollab

Wikis: MediaWiki, PhpWIki, TikiWiki