What is Hosting?
Hosting is the process of storing a website on a computer for public viewing.  Computers that host websites must be very powerful as millions of people may access a page at a single time. 

What is Full Serve Hosting?
E-Solutions.ca has created a complete solution for small business.  We not only host your website but we maintain it.  Maintenance of the website is included as no additional cost!

Currently, you may pay a company to host your website.  As time passes your business changes and you will most likely want to update your website.  Typical hosting companies will charge you $60 - $120 per hour to make these changes.  In addition they will charge in 30 or 60 minute increments!

Case Study
John's Moving Company is paying $30/month for a company to host their website.  During a 1 year period they make 6 content changes, add 5 pictures, change their contact information, and add 2 new services.  Each of these changes are important to John and thus the website is updated as soon as possible.  John's current web hosting company will evaluate the changes as they occur and bill John.  Below is a chart of changes:

A SAVINGS OF $1,000! OR MORE!  PER YEAR!

In addition, Full Serve Hosting also includes:

Features explained....
Ad Manager
This function allows you to configure an advertising server for use on your website. An ad server allows you to place rotating banner advertisementson your website and to collect statistics on banner views and "click throughs". Satistics are stored in a MySQL database.

Announcer
Announcer is an easy way for you to keep your customers or friends up-to-date with what is new and exciting on your website. With Announcer, you can manage distribution lists of email addresses and send messages based on these lists. Announcer uses a simple text format for its distribution lists, which allows you to create lists on your local machine and upload them to your account. Please be aware that Announcer may not be used for spamming.

ASP/CFM Enabler
The ASP/CFM Enabler allows you to use ASP and ColdFusion files on your domain. The Enabler sets up your domian along with any uploaded ASP and ColdFusion files to be correctly parsed by the web server.

Business Card Website Builder
This function creates a simple, professional looking single-page website in minutes. No programming knowledge required!

Change Password
The change password function allows you to change your WebsiteOS and FTP access password.

Database Manager
Database Manager is a web based MySQL client that allows you to create and manipulate MySQL databases.

Disk Usage
This function generates a report of the disk space usage for your website. It provides a listing of each directory and the amount of space used. The report is in plain text, and you can cut and paste it for printing.

Domain Manager
Domain Manager allows you to update your domain's owner, administrative and billing contact information.

EasyMail Administrator
This function allows you to manage your domain's EasyMail (email) accounts. EasyMail setup is a full-featured accessory that allows a novice user to easily configure your various email account features. EasyMail administrator allows you to create and delete accounts, change passwords and forward email accounts. These accounts can be accessed by traditional mail reading clients or over the web with the WebMail application.

ecBuilder
This feature is useful for customers interested in building and maintaining an e-commerce site. The ecBuilder SOHO version can be downloaded FREE from our ecBuilder page. Advanced versions can be purchased through BlueGenesis.ca or directly from ecBuilder.

File Manager
File Manager allows you to take full control of your website files. It is a safe alternative to full shell access for sophisticated users. You can copy, move, delete, rename and edit files, create and remove directories, change file permissions and upload files from your local computer to the server.

FrontPage Manager
The FrontPage Manager allows you to configure FrontPage extensions for your website. You can install FrontPage extensions on your website using your current domain name as the username, and choosing a FrontPage password.

Log Manager
This function allows you to manage your log files and obtain raw server logs about your site activity and traffic. You can create a log file archive, work with multiple files and print them out easily. In addition, you can view the size of your log files and download them in a zip format.

Miva Manager
Miva Merchant is a browser-based store front development and management system. The modular organization allows the Miva Merchant to be upgraded "live", without any changes to the core system and without taking the store down in the process. All Miva Merchant application and database files are 100% cross platform. A user can enter colors, fonts, images, layout, etc. all from the administrative interface.

Plug-in Scripts
This feature allows you to add pre-written CGI scripts such as FormMail or TextCounter to your website.

Server Status
The Server Status function allows you to view the status of our web servers. It allows you to view Current date and time, Memory usages, including: Total memory, shared memory, buffer size, cache, swap total and free swap space and Server Load Average.

Site Checker
Site Checker gives your website a check-up. It allows you to view the structure of your site, check your pages for broken links, list links pointing to external sites, view your website images, get a list of problems sorted by the author of the pages, locate pages that may be slow to download, show new and old pages, give pages that have no title and show links that are not checked.

SSL Manager
The SSL Manager allows you to use our generic SSL certificate on your domain without having to contact our support staff.

Upgrade Center
The Upgrade Center allows you to automatically and securely upgrade your hosting package.

Webmaster Tools
The Webmaster Tools feature is made available by our good friends at Tucows Interactive. It gives you access to a variety of useful software, developed to enrich your web presence. These tools are available at the click of a mouse, and they let you take advantage of web developing software such as color pickers, style sheets, editors, image mappers, and image animators.

Website Security
This function allows you to set up a user/password authorization list which you can use to restrict browser access to specific areas of your website. You can also restrict access to subdirectories of your site based on an IP address, effectively creating an intranet for your network.

Web Stats
The Website Activity Analyzer is a web server log file analysis program, which produces usage statistics in HTML format. The results are presented in both numerical and graphical formats, which facilitates easy interpretation of the detailed data.