Services
Web Design, Custom Programming & Development
Few jobs are too big or too small for Modwest's design and development team. Just contact us and let us know what you have in mind. Here are some types of projects we've done recently:
- Simple brochure-style, information sites for book authors
- Fully content-managed news/magazine sites
- E-commerce-enabled sites with shopping cart solutions
- Secure intranet (private computer network) services for multi-national corporations
- Flash-based portfolio sites for
individual graphic designers or
larger advertising firms
Web Hosting
Our award-winning hosting service performs for thousands of websites and clients on every continent except Antarctica. We use the latest open-source software in our enterprise-grade hardware infrastructure which includes an EMC Corporation Storage Area Network (SAN), Juniper routers, Cisco switches, and HP's RLX blade system. Each of our hosting plans from our most affordable shared hosting plan to our most robust dedicated server incorporates the following powerful feature-set:
- Modwest OnSite
Login to Modwest OnSite with any browser to add new databases or hosting accounts, create new mailboxes or forwarding rules, manage your MySQL database, view detailed bandwidth and disk space utilization graphs and full website traffic analysis reports. You can also change account and mailbox passwords, update contact information, and pay your bill with one click.
- Webalizer and Wusage Website Traffic Statistics
Analyze your site traffic with graphs and charts and reports produced by Webalizer or Wusage, depending on your hosting plan. These statistics detail how much web traffic you have and where it's coming from, with detailed breakdowns.
- 24/7 Server Monitoring
Modwest servers are monitored by a remote "robot" program that tests web and database availability, keeping our staff informed of server status every second of the day.
- 24/7 Server Access
Update your site content any time of the day or night via your favorite FTP program, or use Telnet or SSH to login to your shell account.
- 24/7 E-mail Support
Support questions sent to support@modwest.com at any time of the day or night are usually answered in less than an hour.
- Loads of Disk Space
Our Starter plan includes 1 Gigabyte of disk space to hold your website and database files. If you need more space, additional blocks of disk may be purchased at just $10 per 100MB, or $70 per 1GB.
- E-mail Services
Access e-mail @yourdomain with your favorite POP or IMAP e-mail client (e.g. MS Outlook, Netscape Mail), or use any internet browser with our webmail feature. We can host your e-mail accounts on our server, or forward your e-mail to existing accounts you may have at work or with your internet service provider. If you need more mailboxes than your plan includes, you can get additional mailboxes at $1 each, per month. All hosting plans include unlimited e-mail aliases and mail forwarding.
- Virus Detection
Your security is important to us, so we have implemented e-mail virus detection for all our customers. Virus signatures are updated nightly.
- Spam Filtering
We hate junk e-mail as much as you do. To help keep unwanted mail out of your mailbox, we have created a tool that will catch spam as soon as it's received. Using our Spam Control feature, you can customize the sensitivity of your spam filter and specify what happens to spam when it is detected.
- Network Redundancy
Your web pages will be delivered at the fastest speeds possible. Our system is connected to the internet backbone via multiple DS3 and OC3 circuits from Sprint, Global Crossing, and Big Pipe Communications. Bandwidth capacity is kept well above our peak usage and is "burstable," so we can handle unexpected surges in traffic without slowdowns. BGP-4 routing provides stable, efficient, and intelligent data delivery.
- Data Security
Physical security, quick software updates, and a proprietary data architecture help prevent unwanted browsing of your data. All incoming mail is scanned for viruses even before it reaches your mailbox, and you can customize your spam filtering rules in your Modwest Control Panel. (Optional for managed servers.)
- Reliability
We house our servers in a highly secure, temperature-controlled environment with backup generator power. Redundancies in our internal network and external provider network protect your site from unexpected downtime, and we have a proven 99.9% uptime history to back it up.
- Monthly Data Transfer/Bandwidth Usage
Our most inexpensive hosting plan includes 10 Gigs of bandwidth usage per month. Assuming each page is 30k, 5 gigs allows for over 150,000 page views each month, more than enough for most websites. If you need more bandwidth, our other hosting plans offer even more. Data transfer beyond the amount included with your hosting plan is billed at 2 cents per megabyte.
- Shell Access via Telnet and SSH
Advanced users will enjoy administering their site via the command line (telnet or SSH). Dozens of standard unix utilities are available, such as bash, diff, perl, python, ruby, scp, rsync, ispell, vi, pico, jed, ex, pine, ping, nslookup, traceroute, whois, ncftp, mysql, mysqldump, recode, zip, tar, gzip, chmod, wget, htpasswd, sort, uniq, wc, sed, awk and more.
- Backups
Everyone makes a mistake once in a while. In the event that you lose precious data, we can restore an archive for you. Your website and database data are archived automatically on a nightly schedule and are kept for 14 days.
- Free, Unlimited Subdomains
Our system allows you to start accepting traffic instantly at any "subdomain" simply by creating a subdirectory with the same name. For instance, to create the subdomain "my" at example.com, you can create a subdirectory named "my" and then traffic to http://my.example.com will be routed there.
- Scripting, modules, and other supported features
Apache, PHP 4.3.10 and PHP5, MySQL 4.1.11, Perl CGI scripting, Python, Ruby, Htdig search engine, CVS, True Type fonts with Freetype, Ghostscript, GNU Gettext, JPEG-lib 6b, NetPBM graphics tools, ImageMagick image manipulation, MivaScript, and more. PHP modules include: PEAR, BCMath, Bzip2, cal, Ctype, CURL, Cybercash, dba, dBase, dbx, DOM XML, Exif (undocumented digital camera image functions), Adobe FDF, Filepro, FTP, GD lib, Gettext, GMP, iconv, IMAP, LDAP, mailparse, Multi-Byte Strings, MCAL, Mcrypt, Mhash, Ming SWF, mnoGoSearch, MySQL, Unified ODBC, OpenSSL, Perl Compatible Regex, POSIX, PostgreSQL, Pspell, PDFlib, Pfpro (Verisign Payflow Pro), (GNU) Recode, Semaphore and System V Shared Memory, Shockwave Flash, shmop Shared Memory, Sockets, WDDX, XML, XMLRPC, XSLT Sablotron, YATS, Zip, Zlib and the Zend Optimizer
- Scalability: Upgrades and Add-ons
Our proprietary hosting environment is designed for maximum scalability, enabling our service to grow as your site and company demands increase. Whether you're ready for a complete, customizable e-commerce system, or if you just need an extra mailbox, we can accomodate you quickly. In fact, most upgrades for your site can be made instantly through Modwest' OnSite.
- Managed Server Hardware Guarantee
All Modwest managed servers include redundant hard drives in RAID configurations to protect against data loss from drive failures. Any other hardware problems are guaranteed to be resolved by Modwest within four hours of problem detection at no cost to you, subject to the terms of our Service Level Agreement.
