• Bandwidth: The amount of data transferred to and from the website/server each month.
• Disk Space: How much space you get on the server for each plan.

Our Signature Hosting plans are all based on an Apache computing platform, which is part of the Unix family. Microsoft FrontPage extensions allow Microsoft FrontPage clients to communicate with web servers and provide additional web functionality.

With the Signature Hosting solution, you can submit your website url to 100+ Search Engines. You also get Spam Free Submission, which prevents your email box from getting crowded with Spam from people who find your Search Engine listing. Depending on your plan, your url will also be automatically resubmitted to the Search Engines.

The search optimization tools listed in this section are all designed to improve your search engine ranking. The Optimization Wizard will analyze your site and give you recommendations on what you can do to improve your ranking. The Check Position, Check Link Popularity, Keyword Analysis, and Keyword Popularity functions are all provided as part of the Optimization Wizard.

Banner ads are web advertisements that web surfers can click on to be taken to your website. The banner ad campaign tools listed below are provided to help you create your banner ads, post your banner ads online, and manage/report on the success of your banner ad campaigns.

This section lists the types of email services offered with each plan.

• Email Accounts: The number of individual email addresses included with each plan.
• Auto-responder: Customizable, automatic responses to an email.
• Mailing List: Lets you create multiple mailing lists for distribution.
• Mail Forwards: Automatic message forwards from one email address to another email address.
• POP and IMAP with SSL-TLS: The two most common Internet standard protocols (methods) for secure email retrieval.
• SMTP with SMTP-Auth/Start-TLS: The most common Internet standard protocol for securely delivering outgoing email messages.
• WebMail: A service that lets you access your email account online from any internet connection.

This section lists the email defense solutions offered with each plan.

• Spam Filtering: Filters common spam emails so they will not reach your email account.
• Virus Scanning: Automatically scans your incoming emails for viruses.
• Blacklisting: Allows you to block emails from a certain company, person or domain name (i.e. AnyName@KirlinConsulting.com).
• Whitelisting: Allows you to create exceptions to your Blacklist (i.e. you can allow incoming emails from Kirsten@KirlinConsulting.com, but block all other emails from that domain name).

This section lists the web services each plan includes.

• Podcasting: The ability to offer audio or video media files for people to download onto their portable media players and personal computers.
• Urchin: A web analytics solution owned by Google that studies the online behavior of your website visitors so you can use the data to improve your site.
• Raw Log File Access: The ability to view continuously updated, original log files on the server that track and report web and email server activity.
• CGI Bin (Common Gateway Interface Binary File) Capabilities: The ability to access and configure how CGI scripts (programs) are executed by the server (i.e. e-commerce, message boards, databases or any content that responds to web user input).
• SSH Shell (also called Secure Shell): A common network protocol (method) for remote administration of UNIX computers.

EasySite is a do-it-yourself website builder that helps you quickly create and publish your website. EasySite features for each plan are listed below.

• Number of Pages: How many website pages you can build using EasySite.
• Number of Templates: The number of customizable EasySite templates you can use to build your website.
• Flash Introduction: A Flash audio and/or video demo you can include on your website.
• Feedback Forms: Customizable online forms that visitors can fill out and submit back to you.
• Guest Book: A virtual guestbook that site visitors can sign to let you know they have been on your website.

This section lists the additional website features and functionality offered with each Signature Hosting plan.

• Counter: A tool that counts the number of people who have visited your website and the number visits to each page of your website.
• Site Search Tool: A search function that allows site users to find content they are looking for on your website based on the keywords they type into the search field.
• Message Board: An online forum for website visitors that allows them to post messages and talk with each other.
• Guest Book: A virtual guestbook that site visitors can sign to let you know they have been on your website.

This section lists the applications offered with each plan.

• WordPress Blogging Software: Allows you to incorporate a blog into your website.
• Gallery 1 Photo Gallery: Allows you to post and create virtual photo albums on your website.
• Web Calendar: Lets you create a calendar on your website.
• PHP MyAdmin: An open source tool that allows you to create and drop in databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage users and permissions, and manage keys on fields for your website.

This section lists the database functionality for each plan.

• MySQL: A relational database management system that allows multi-user access.
• Multiple Databases: Allows you to have more than one database for your website.

Verio offers three ShopSite Ecommerce packages that enable your website to handle monetary transactions: ShopSite Starter, ShopSite Manager, and ShopSite Pro.

This section lists the 'add-on' products/services you can purchase with your plan.

• Email Accounts: Additional individual email accounts beyond what your plan provides.
• Disk Space: Extra space on the web server.
• Data Transfer Overages: Incremental fees you can pay to increase your allotted monthly data transfer limit.