• General Specifications
• WWW Server
• FTP Server
• POP/SMTP Mail Server
• SSL (Secure) Server
• Server Management
• Virtual Hosting Capability

• Programming Tools
• Server Statistics & Logs
• ColdFusion & Active Server Pages
• Allaire Forums
• Server Connectivity

A Turtle Virtual Server is built to be extremely similar to a dedicated server, with only a few subtle differences. Although, we provide full customisation to suit different server needs, we have also simplified your choices by carving out 6 standard web hosting packages.

Budget

Small Business

Commerce

Commerce Pro

Design

Design Pro

Your Turtle Virtual Server comes installed with industry standard Apache (www.apache.org) Web Server. The server is also mapped with and without the "www" prefix meaning you can access your web site at http://www.yourname.com/ *or* just http://yourname.com/

Each web server comes with many customisable options, including full use of ".htaccess" configuration file, error files, system images, mime-types.

Your Turtle Virtual Server is installed with the latest NcFTP Server (www.ncftpd.com). NCFTPD is a commercial ftp server built for speed in file transfers and security. With NCFTPD and WebFTP (an inhouse developed tool), you as the administrator can create multiple FTP accounts to each sub-directory. Each FTP account comes with its own unique login and password. Each account is also independent of other FTP accounts and cannot see or modify what it is not supposed to access.

Your Virtual Server is also partitioned with an anonymous FTP server with your own incoming, pub, and other sub-folders. This allows you to create a large repository of files for your customers. Many of our clients use this feature to deploy their software (drivers, upgrades etc) to their own customers. Each Anonymous FTP server is also unique and independent of other virtual servers. You see *ONLY* your own files.

You can access your FTP server via ftp.yourname.com and yourname.com.

Turtle Virtual POP/SMTP Mail server provides the ability for each company to create multiple Email accounts where mail is either stored on the server (POP Account), or forwarded to your ISP mailbox (Aliases/Forwarding Account).

Together with WebManager, you can create multiple Email POP Accounts, Email Forwarding Accounts, Auto Responders and control all aspects of it on the fly. Set quotas, modify passwords, create *unique* POP usernames without Turtle intervention.

StrongHold Secure Server is provided free with your Turtle Virtual Server. With StrongHold, you can provide secure encryption. SSL Encryption will guarantee secure transactions over the internet without the worry over your credit card number getting stolen. In addition, PGP, an enhanced cryptology software, mostly for Email use is also fully supported.

WebManager is a web-based server administrative script that allows you to manage your Email & POP accounts, view server statistics, log files and more!

WebCGI is an online installer that comes with a host of ready to install CGI scripts ranging from counters, search engines, message boards and Shopping Carts! The webCGI installer allows even a novice user to quickly and easily install any of the CGI scripts onto your domain.

WebShell is a web-based file manager that provides you flexibility in managing your virtual server files via your favourite browser!

htProtect is a web-based utility that allows you to protect directories of your web server with unique passwords & logins so that only users with the correct passwords can enter.

WebMail is a web-based mail client similar to HotMail, but integrated very tightly into your Virtual Server to provide faster access to your email via the web.

WebFTP is a web-based ftp management system. With WebFTP, you can add multiple logins to your ftp server to different unique subdirectories. Each FTP account is restricted to his subdirectories and cannot wander off. FTP accounts added are real-time and can be used immediately.

Your Turtle standard range of Virtual Servers all support multiple virtual hosting support. This allows you to map both canonical domains as well as separate domains to each sub-directory on your Virtual Server.

For example, you can map customer.yourdomain.com, support.yourdomain.com to separate sub-directories on each virtual server. Each of these mappings can be fully controlled by yourself via WebManager.

For our resellers, you can also make use of this feature to map your client's domains (www.yourclient.com) to each sub-directory. This gives you an incredible edge across the competition. Turtle offers two types of Virtually Hosted Domains:

Script Based VirtualHosts

A script based VirtualHost is a low end entry-level web-only system.

A £20 setup fee applies for each domain that you wish to map. Script based VirtualHosts are very suitable and cost effective for small websites with one or two webpages. Script based VirtualHost however does not come with e-mail support. It also requires the use of relative urls to reference other web pages.

There is no monthly charge for Script Based VirtualHosts.
Canonical domains are totally free with no charge. (e.g. sales.yourdomain.com)

Host Based VirtualHosts

Clients may also opt to have their domains mapped as a host based VirtualHost that provides full mail & web capability for an additional £2.50 monthly (waived with Design Pro virtual server). Host based VirtualHosts come with a more advanced WWW server system that does away with the disadvantages of script based VirtualHosts.

For the advanced users, each server also includes multiple cgi-bin directories for executing your own scripts with access to common programming languages such as PERL, AWK, TCL, GCC, C and more. The servers also support Server Side Includes (SSIs) used by many common scripts.

Do you need comprehensive Web/FTP server logs and statistics? Your Turtle Virtual Server comes installed with Wusage log analyzers as well as complete WWW server RAW logs. In addition, you also get comprehensive FTP raw logs & statistics. To top it all off, we will provide you with analyzed logs for up to 4 weeks duration.

Do you need NT based databases like MS Access and Microsoft SQL? Turtle provides support for powerful web-database application development tools like ColdFusion & ASP. With these tools, you can develop applications driven by NT based tetechnologiesn as little as 15 minutes. And, to top it off, even our standard Unix based Virtual Servers can make use of a ColdFusion/ASP add-on. You can have the best of both worlds this way: the use of Unix for stability and access to thousands of CGI scripts and access to MS Access/SQL databases running on NT.

Allaire Forums is one of the best ColdFusion driven Web-Based Forum or Discussion Board. Allaire Forums is available as part of your server extensions for both Unix and NT Virtual Servers.

All our servers are located in Washington DC to provide the fastest connections. We are connected to the Internet via 8 T-3/DS-3 lines (Each T3 provides over 55 T1s bandwidth equivalent!) and a single huge FDDI connection in Washington, providing over 500mbps of total connectivity.

Direct coconnectivityo various US OC-48 backbones means data travels out to you much faster and in the best route so even if some connections were down, you'll still be up.

In addition, Turtle has multiple DNS servers, including offsite secondary dns servers. This provides both redundancy and increases the uptime of you web site.