1. WEB HOSTING
A Guide to Web and Email Hosting At Unlimited Fun
W W W. U N L I M I TEDFUN.CO.NZ
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2. SERVER AND
NETWORK
TECHNOLOGY
We operate our own network of servers which are fully administrated by us. We employ the
services and expertise of a professional server solutions provider. They maintain the
hardware side of the equation, while we look after absolutely everything else.
Each server on our network runs a powerful 64-bit enterprise-level linux distribution. Our
servers have oodles of memory and tremendous amounts of processing power to ensure
database-driven websites perform at ease.
We built our own fully functional DNS network too. This ensures that services operating on
your domain name can be found on the right server hosting those services. All you need to
do is designate our two Name Servers for your domain name and the ball rolls from there.
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3. WHAT CAN YOU
RUN?
Most websites can run on our network! Websites that won’t work will be those that
require servers running Windows. But for everyone else, and most likely you, our robust
linux platform will do the job better.
For the technical people out there, we run Apache2, PHP5 with FastCGI, MySQL5, and
Perl5.
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4. POWERFUL
CONTROL PANEL
Straight-forward and easy to use control panel for all aspects of server configuration. Adding
databases, managing your users, accessing logs and reports is an easy task, even a NANA
can do it. Simply log in from any net-enabled computer.
If you are unsure about anything simply shoot an email to our friendly support.
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5. AUTOMATED
BACKUPS FOR
BETTER DISASTER
RECOVERY
We understand the importance of keeping regular backups. Our backup system duplicates
all of your contents, every day, to our secure backup server without fail. Now, THAT is total
peace of mind!
✦ All files and folders
✦ All emails
✦ All databases
✦ All custom server configuration settings applicable to your account
If you ever need to request a backup of your website to be restored, simply contact support,
this can be initiated right away!
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6. THE HEART OF
BUSINESS
COMMUNICATIONS -
EMAIL
We don't restrict you to how many email accounts you have. If you need 5, then make 5, if
you require 100, then go for it. Unlimited email address alias, forwarding, and automatic
replies.
Flexible mail storage space - meet your company's needs by setting your own storage
space limits for mailboxes, based on the total space available for all users. You can split this
up however you please. More space can be added for just $1 per 100MB per month.
Flexible account management - use a tiered control panel system so administrators and
end users can take full control of their inbox configuration online.
SMTP, POP, and IMAP Access - secure connectivity to your mailbox using TLS and SSL
encryption.
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7. POWERFUL EMAIL
SOLUTIONS AT YOUR
FINGERTIPS
Email is a big part of hosting, believe it or not, email handling is more resource
intensive than serving webpage content.
There are more moving parts when it comes to email processing, so usually a whole more
can go wrong. Take out one wheel and the whole system falls over. Our email server is
robust and tested thoroughly. We have a backup mail server that will accept email destined
for you too, because all in case the primary server goes offline we can’t have email being
bounced back to sender can we?
With our IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and TLS/SSL encryption capabilities you
can now keep your email on the server and access it from anywhere. This is especially
useful if you have a computer at home, a laptop at work and an iphone on the go.
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8. IMAP EMAIL BENEFITS
If you use IMAP email access, you will never have to worry about locating or transferring
your emails if you upgrade, switch or lose your computer. Your emails are always
available from our server network and backed up on a daily basis.
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9. KEEPING THE BAD
GUYS OUT -
SECURITY
Each website living on our server operates under its own unique user/group permissions
and privileges. This means that should a security breach occur, the damage is limited to a
contained area minimising risk to other hosted websites and users on the server.
We employ a sophisticated Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS), which monitors
unexpected changes in all critical files and takes appropriate action. We also have an
advanced policy based firewall implementation, and a collection of custom scripts to detect
and take immediate action against threats.
Our system is also trigger happy. If someone ever wrongly guesses your email password
one too many times, BANG. We take security very seriously.
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10. SPAM AND VIRUS
FILTERING
Each email account is fully protected by our innovative and collective use of spam filtering
implementations and techniques. Our mail servers are configured and tuned to only accept
messages which conform to proper email standards.
All outgoing and incoming messages are checked for known viruses.
We also employ a very effective technique called greylisting. This spells death for many
spam messages coming from malicious mailservers. Failing that, we have an army of
aggressive checks and filters to knock them down.
Our customers hardly ever get a spam message in their inbox!
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11. SUPPORT SERVICES
Run into any trouble? Email our support desk at support@unlimitedfun.co.nz We consider
support to be an integral part of our business, so every single email sent to this address is
tagged and tracked (ticket number for every email). This enables us to efficiently read all
correspondence to any given issue and serve you better.
Automatically receive detailed visitor statistics on your website bi-monthly in PDF format (via
email)
Increase storage space and traffic allowances at any time.
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