Advantage

Here on this page we will list the advantages of being with Vlexo.com, these advantages or benifits are here to provide you the excellence and confidence of being hosted with us. - Plus you can get some good information on what some of the features do, so this page can also serve as a small 'FAQ' as well as a page which lists the VlexoAdvantages. 

• True support
  • Forum Support, always friendly staff to help you out whenever assistance is needed. (Private Forum Support)
  • Ticket Support - Ticket support is provided through the forum, however only the staff can see your ticket content.
• cPanel/WHM, we provide these services with the use of cPanel/WHM, these control panels can also be used by you, which gives an advantage as it comes with literally stacks of features, which can be used to your advantage.
  • Fantastico, all accounts come with fantastico. Fantastico is an automatic script installer, it saves you uploading files which do not need to be uploaded, because the use of fantastico stops you from doing so.
  • File Manager, don't have any editing software to edit your websites? No problem, just use the built in file manager from where you can edit html, php and any other coding, especially html, as it includes a WYSIWYG feature, which is used for editing html pages; with ease. (What You See Is What You Get)
  • Backup Manager, you can make full backups pending on whatever date you want a backup. This backup system in cPanel makes it so you can backup your very own data, ensuring that your data is safe, even if your account is hacked into.
  • Webmail, our webmail interface includes the likes of Roundcube, Squirrel Mail and Horde, all very good interfaces to further better your experience with vlexo.com. Webmail also provides 'spam assasin', which will keep most spam emails out of your email addressses; which are created through cPanel.
  • Logs, check how much bandwidth and what visitors are visiting your website (especially know what IP address and browser they're using and where they were referred from). You can even check 'error logs' to see if you have links which mislead to a 404, which can be easily fixed.
  • And more... cPanel/WHM offers a lot more than listed above, for more information go to: cPanel.net
• Ruby on Rails, "Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework written in Ruby that closely follows the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture. It strives for simplicity, allowing real-world applications to be developed in less code than other frameworks and with a minimum of configuration." - Ruby on Rails is also another feature that comes with vlexo.com, which gives you ("the client") the advantage of being with us.
• Python, "Python is developed as an open source project, managed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation. Python 2.4.1 was released on March 30, 2005." - This also comes installed on our premium server, which gives you more of a chance to learn other programming languages.
• Perl, "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, is a programming language often used for creating CGI programs." - Comes fully installed on the vlexo.com servers, meaning you can experiment more with scripts/coding that you find on the net.
• CGI, have any scripts which are coded in CGI/PERL? You'll be sure and able to install it on our servers.
• Want any other languages or serverside applications installed? Open up a ticket and we'll install what you want, depending on the need and importance and of course security of the application being installed.
• We offer more than just what we list above, if you need extensive knowledge of what we do offer, then kindly sign up to our forums and we will be more than happy to list more on what we offer.
• PHP - We run the latest version of PHP a world known programming language which you can utilize, many scripts run on php such as wordpress, joomla and many other popular scripts which can be found on the internet.
  
• .htaccess - .htaccess is enabled on all our servers, so you can send commands to your directories and configure your 'server directives'.
• MySQL - On all of our packages, we give an MySQL database, this can be used to create blogs, forums, cms' and many other scripts which are based upon storing data in MySQL database(s).
  
• Sitebuilder - Coming soon
• Advertisements - Ad-free hosts sometimes don't allow you to put your own ads up however on our smallest package, 'Alpha' we allow you to put your own ads up; so you can make money off of your own website! Later if you want to upgrade you will be able to however this means placing our ads up, which may go against the terms of services of some of the ad-companies which are out there. So we give you the ability with the money you are making on your website to pay us a fee for the required ads to no-longer be required on your account/site! - This is what is called flexibility and we believe we certainly offer this.

We even backup your files...

We backup everything on our servers! Though most free hosts wouldn't do this, we take value in your data and by showing we make remote backups, we hope that you also get the gist that we care about your data, even though we are a free web host! These backups in includes the likes of your files, databases, emails and just purely everything! These backups are remote, so they are not on the same network as our provider who provides our servers for us, so if the server provider suddenly goes bankrupt, we will have all your data intact! Read more...