ANhost is a web hosting provider in South Africa, offering discount web hosting, flexibility and professional support for all your Linux web hosting requirement.

Register your domain with us and park it on our servers. Domain parking is available for R 39 per month. Web hosting prices start at R69 per month and are aimed at small to medium business owners in South Africa and internationally, with a range of packages designed to meet every budget. We welcome web designers and Internet marketers and have put together a special reseller web hosting package to meet there special web hosting management and support requirements.

Payment for web hosting is by Moneybookers EFT or credit card, currently we accept AMEX, Diners Club, Visa and Master Card. Arrangements can be made for payment by Internet or bank transfer if payment is made for a full 12 months. 

ANhost is committed to providing you with everything you need when it comes to your web hosting features.  Below is just a taste of what we have to offer.  If there is something that you require that is not covered below, contact us.

Professional Website Builder

There are many website templates and an image library with lmany images to choose from. The best is that you try it and experience it yourself.

Fantastico DeLuxe

Fantastico DeLuxe allows you to install the below scripts instantly. To use fantastico you login to the control panel click fantastico,  then click one of the scripts to be installed.

Bandwidth

With Web hosting, the total size of files transferred by an account in a month.  Sites with a lots of graphics, downloads, or streaming audio or video and many visitors will require plans with more bandwidth.

Webspace

The amount of hard drive space on the server that is available for your websites.

Daily backups

A snapshot is a copy of your web site at a particular point in time. Hourly, daily, and weekly snapshots can be taken of your web site.

Domain and FTP Features

Subdomains

Known as a "domain within a domain", subdomains are individual Web addresses built upon a pre-existing domain name (such as clientname.your_hosting_company.com). As a reseller, you will have the option of assigning subdomains to clients if they do not choose to have a domain name.

FTP accounts

File Transfer Protocol - Mailnly used for uploading or downloading files to and from remote computer systems on a netwo. FTP accounts consists of a username and password, which is used to acces users FTP archives or to be able to access it with a software program (FTP client or a HTML editor).

MySQL Databases

MySQL® is considered the most popular open source database. Fast and powerful, it is perfect for high-traffic sites.

CGI

Short for Common Gateway Interface, is scripts that processes data taken from the user (such as from a form application).

PERL

Open source CGI scripting programming language. Written in 1987. Still one of the most popular web programming languages mostly due to its powerful text-manipulation facilities. A huge number of Perl scripts are available for download.

Cron

Crontab is a Unix command for scheduling jobs which will be executed sometime in the future. A cron is usually used to schedule a task that is executed periodically - for example, to send out an e-mail message to specified people every month. Being a daemon process, it runs continuously, waiting for specific events to occur.

SSI

Commands that can be included in web pages that are processed by the web server when a user requests a file. The command takes the form <!--#include virtual="/path/to/file"-->. A common use for SSI commands is to insert a universal menu into all of the pages of the web site so that the menu only has to be changed once and inserted with SSI instead of changing the menu on every page.

Frontpage

A set of server add-ons scripts and programs that enable the special functions of Microsoft FrontPage. 

Curl

Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.

Image Magick

ImageMagick is a set of command line programs that allow manipulation of images from the command line. It can be used from a script on your CGI server as well.

Streaming video and music

Playing multimedia files (audio and video) without requiring a full download. Audio and video are compressed but they still may require a lot of bandwidth. Most popular streaming media formats are Real Audio/Video.

GD

The GD libraries are the principle PHP module used for image manipulation

Python

Interpreted programming language, sometimes offered by hosts for server-side scripting. 

PHP

PHP is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP allows you to write many of the same functions as C and Perl, such as connecting to a database or reading and writing files.

E-mail

POP3 Accounts

You can send and receive your This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. email from your favorite email program (such as Outlook or Eudora) via POP and SMTP. (POP) is a protocol used to retrieve email from a mail server

Auto responders

An automated program that acknowledges receipt of an e-mail message, and then sends back a previously prepared email to the sender, letting them know it was received. Once you configure your autoresponder, it sends e-mail with no further action required on your part, making your web site interactive around the clock.

Mailing Lists

You can send one Email to a group of people, called a "Mailing List," making it convenient to Email the same group of people on a regular basis. You can name the mailing list then enter the many Email addresses that belong in the list.

Mail Forward

Automatically sends email messages from one email address to another email address. Web MailWeb mail is a web site you can go to and access your e-mail through your web browser instead of an e-mail program or client.

Spam Assasin

SpamAssassin(tm) is a mail filter to identify spam. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email.

SMTP

SMTP, or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is a protocol for sending email messages between servers over the Internet. 

IMAP

Internet Message Access Protocol. A method allowing a client email program to access remote messages stored on a mail server. The protocol includes operations for creating, deleting, and renaming mailboxes, checking for new messages, message parsing, searching, and setting and clearing flags. IMAP was originally developed in 1986 at Stanford.  

Control Panel Features

Hotlink protection

Hotlinking is when another web site owner links directly to one or more of your images or multimedia files and includes it on their web page. Not only is this theft of your intellectual property, you are paying for the bandwidth used by that site.

IP Deny manager

The IP Deny Manager enables you to block access to your web site from specific IP addresses. This is useful to remove nuisance surfers who use a large amount of bandwidth or to prevent hotlinking to your site

Search Engine Submittal

The program allows you submit your website (domain name) to search engines within a few minutes

Custom Error Pages

You can create personalized error pages to end visitor confusion and direct people to new pages. A "404 not found" page is displayed when a visitor tries to view a page that doesn't exist or has been moved. Instead of a generic "page not found" message, you can tell visitors where an old page has moved and how to find the new content.

Web Based FTP

Same as FTP but online via your web hosting control panel.

Password protected folders

Enables a webmaster to protect specific directories on his website with usernames and passwords - so that only authorized persons can view the web pages within the password protected directories.

phpmyadmin

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended specifically to handle the administration of MySQL over the Internet. It can create and drop databases, it can edit tables (create, drop, modify) and fields, execute an SQL statement, manage privileges and also export data into various formats.

Statistics

Webalizer, Raw Log Access, Referrer Log, Analog

Site Statistics allows you to view reports on your site traffic and performance. Available reports include a summary of page views over the last week or month; your total daily page views; profiles of your site visitors, such as which browsers or operating systems they use; and referrer information. You can use this information to make decisions about how to improve your site.

Ecommerce Features

SSL Certificates

Short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape to handle and protect confidential/sensitive information required for e-commerce transactions (like credit card numbers). SSL address usually begin with 'https'

ANHost is a privately owned Internet Service Provider

ANHost thrives in an industry that is constantly reinventing itself. With innovations in customer service, ease of use, and special features for our customers, we stayone step ahead of the competition. We strive to make the web easy and affordable to all.

ANHost's easy to use and powerfull Control Panel is an integral part of all our hosting accounts. It centers all of your web site functions into one powerful solution. You can maintain, add, delete and change all features, hence, giving you full control and saving you time and money. The Control Panel includes a easy, yet powerful site creation tool, site management with full statistics,  e-mail and account management with invoicing and full e-commerce capabilities.

Our Mission

It is our goal to provide you with fast and reliable hosting, web sites, and e-mail.
We want your web endevour  to be as easy and efficient as possible from start to finish.
We will supply you with easy-to-use tools to analyze and maintain your site while we take care of the technical side.

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