Number of Websites
This is the number of separate websites that you can host on this account.
Webspace
This is the space on our servers that you have access to.
Your monthly bandwidth is a measure of how much visitor activity your hosting will take. Our unlimited bandwidth allowance takes away any worry about going over your limit.
Each Email Account accesses a specific mail box. Mail Boxes store mail on our server until you download it using an email client like Windows Mail or Apple Mail.
Our mail servers support POP3 and IMAP. You can store up to 400 Mb of mail in a standard InternetM8 Mail Box. If you need more space then you can upgrade to a Premium Mail Box (details here) that will hold up to 2 Gb (2,000 Mb).
We offer powerful and flexible WebMail systems to all our customers.
click the icon to access your eMails online
Email Autoresponders allow an email address on your account to automatically respond with a specific message.
Email Mailing Lists allow you to have a simple form on your website with which your users can subscribe or unsubscribe their email address. You can then send an email to all members of the list using our simple system.
Email Forwarding allows you to forward any email address @yourdomain.co.uk to any email address you choose, for example a btinternet.com or gmail.com address. You can forward each address to up to ten different addresses.
Catch-All Email Forwarding allows you to forward ALL email sent to 'anything' (@yourdomain.co.uk) to any email address you choose, for example a btinternet.com or gmail.com address.
Junk Mail Filters use special technology to strip out junk mail before you receive it. This feature also allows you to set an address to send the junk mail to so that you can check to ensure that only junk mail is being caught.
The Email Summary lets you see all your email settings in one place.
Email Filter Logs allow you to send logs of your Junk Mail emailfilter activity, once a week, to any emakil address you chose.
You can store up to 2 Gb of mail in our Premium Mail Box. Our mail servers support POP3 and IMAP.
Increase your productivity and profitability by choosing business Email hosting solutions powered by Microsoft Exchange Email 2010. Our Exchange Mail Boxes come with a massive 10 Gb of space for just £12 per month.
Our software automatically updates every few hours so that it always knows about the latest viruses on the internet. Each virus scanner you buy will totally protect one specified domain no matter what email facilities you activate onthat domain. Don't wait until it's too late - activate Virus Scanning on your domains now!
Download your server Access Log and Error Log as zip files. You can then manipulate the file locally on yor computer to get any specific data you need.
Having your website listed on Google may be vital. Google has a special tool called Google Sitemaps which generates a list of all the files on your website and sends them to Google. This allows Google to ensure it finds all of your web pages and files.
The software to generate a Sitemap isquite complicated but we have made it really easy by integrating the software into our eXtend Control Panel.
Webalizer is a highly powerful and easily configurable website statistics package that analyses the access log files that we automatically create for your website.
AWStats is a powerful and fully featured tool that generates advanced graphical web server statistics.
This Graphical/Text Access Counter & Hits Logger in One allows you to add a plain text or graphical counter to your website. You also get a full set of statistics for the page the counter is on.
Whenever your website gets a visitor it uses bandwidth. Our in-built Bandwidth Statistics tool shows data on the badwidth used with daily, weekly and monthly graphs with no set up required.
All our hosting packages include a master FTP account for updating your website.
Additional FTP accounts are most commonly used to give others access to an account for the purpose of sharing a web development project but without giving them control over the entire website. By restricingg their access to a specific directory you canensure that they can only modify files within that particular space.
SSH Server Access allows you to login directly to the server hosting your website. You can manipulate your website files using Linux commands. This feature is for advanced users.
Our MySQL 5 databases allow you to store important information in a format that can easily be read by other programs and systems. You can use MySQL databases to store customer information or as the backend for a shopping cart system or with CMS packages such as WordPress and Joomla.
Manage your MySQL databases online using phpMyAdmin - an easy to use web based interface.
eXtend is an intuitive control panel that puts you in control of your web hosting account and all the features in it. eXtend is tailored for your hosting needs.
Using eXtend you can install scripts like WordPres sin seconds, manage your email, access WebMail, set up databases, view your bandwidth statistics, manage secure servers, download your log files, set up password protection, download free web templates, edit your files and much more!
You can use our Web Builder to create attractive, functional websites without the need for code. There are pleanty of designs and pre-built templates to chose from, speeding up your website development even more.
Sub-domains allow you to have new web addresses for separate areas of your website. For example, you could have a 'support.yourdomain.co.uk' and point this at 'yourdomain.co.uk/support/' directory. You can use sub-domains in conjunction with additional FTP accounts, in effect, creating simple hosting accounts with a sub-domain name and additional FTP account.
Our Online File Manager has a great range of features to help you manage your files and folders online including: editing, deleting, moving, copying and uploading files so you don't need to worry about using a separate FTP program.
Make a regular backup of your website by downloading it as a zip file. Essential for protecting against data loss. You can also restore your website from a backup file you have made using eXtend.
Password Protection allows you to password protect a directory on your website and add, edit and delete users and passwords.
With Scheduled Tasks you can run a program automatically on your server, setting it to run hourly, daily, weekly or monthly.
Domain mappings allow you to map multiple domain names to a web hosting package. For example, www.internetm8.co.uk is mapped to www.internetm8.net.
Domain mappings include full email facilities. Please remember that mapped domains always point at the main root directory of the website.
This feature allows you to block certain IP addresses from visiting your website.
Website Directory Indexing allows you to either show the content of your web directories as file listings or show them as a '403 forbidden' error message (to stop people seeing files in your directories).
This useful security feature keeps your FTP locked whilst you are not using it helping to safeguard your website against hackers.
You can choose the amount of time to unlock it for and unlock it by IP address if you wish.