Get Your Own High Performance Virtual Server

Our web hosting accounts, listed above, all feature everything you need to enable your online presence. Whether you're a seasoned pro in the web business, or if you just want a website now with the minimum effort, instant activation ensures you can get started within seconds, and our unique flexible system allows unlimited websites on your account.

All of our accounts boast the following impressive features:

• A default domain of yourusername.users.digital-crocus.com.
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  This lets you host a site without a domain name, or just lets you test out your account before you transfer your domain over to us.
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• A simple yet powerful home-grown Control Panel.
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  Symposium control panel is written by us specifically for our system, it's not some inferior generic solution like CPanel. Having written this system ourselves, it works flawlessly on our server and you are guaranteed a stable and flexible hosting platform. Using it, you can attach domains to your account, view your logs, manage mailboxes and mail aliases, access our Knowledge Base and change your account settings, along with access to your Webmail.
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• Host an unlimited number of domains under one account.
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  With Digital Crocus you can host as many domain names as you want under your account, but unlike most hosting providers, with Digital Crocus you can choose to host a separate site under each domain name. You also have the option of pointing several domain names at one website. We give you true hosting flexibility by allowing you to manage several individual websites under one account with multiple domains pointing to each one if you want. Bandwidth and disk quota usage applies across all domain names.
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• Unlimited sub-domains for any domain attached to your account.
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  Just like with domain names, Digital Crocus gives you total flexibility by allowing you to add an unlimited number of sub-domains under each of the domain names you host with us. For example you could add a subdomain for blog.yourdomain.com and host your blog under it, separate from your main website at yourdomain.com.
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• Unlimited email aliases on all accounts.
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  This means you can forward anything@yourdomain.com to any mailbox on our system, or to an external address (for example your Hotmail of Gmail e-mail address). This gives you an advanced degree of control over how your e-mail is delivered; you can have multiple email addresses pointed at one mailbox and different email addresses pointed at another box, you can forward email for any address at your domain to your Gmail box, or any combination of the two.
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• FTP access for all accounts.
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  Your domains and subdomains appear as folders inside your FTP area, making it really easy to manage more than one domain attached to your account. FTP is the industry-standard method to upload your website to a host like us. It's supported by Macromedia Dreamweaver and just about every other web publishing program ever made.
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• No limit on file content or type uploaded within UK law.
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  We do not place any restrictions on your freedom of speech, with Digital Crocus you can upload anything you like to the internet as long as it is legal under UK law.
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• Detailed graphical visitor statistics.
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  This analysis gives you a powerful breakdown of who's been visiting your site, what countries they're from, what link if any they clicked on to get there, and many other fascinating statistics. For an example, click here.
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• Password protected folders.
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  If you want to put something online but only give certain people access to it - perhaps a members area for your website, perhaps you just want to upload some files to share with a friend but don't want the world seeing them; use our password protected folders feature to secure your online data and grant access to only the people you choose.
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• Email for all your domains collected into one of more separate email accounts.
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  Your email will be accessible through POP, IMAP and Webmail. This means you can use Outlook Express, OS X's Mail or any other email program to access your email. You can access your email from any web-connected computer through our Webmail. Also, you get yourusername@digital-crocus.com by default when you sign up, and you can just use this if you like!
  
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• Email is spam and virus filtered.
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  We know how annoying unwanted emails can get for any regular internet user. We use Spam Assassin and ClamAV mail filtering on all mail that goes through our servers. All messages deemed to be spam will be moved to a "Spam" folder, and those that appear to be viruses are moved to "Viruses".
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• Full, friendly, 24-hour email support.
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  Full, friendly, 24-hour email support with our intuitive, powerful ticketing system which lets many more than one member of staff contribute to help solve any problem you may encounter. To open a problem ticket, you email our support address and instantly receive an automated email in response. All our staff get notified by email, and as soon as we respond to your query, you get an email with our response. This way, dialog is initiated between you and us, allowing our experienced support team to immediately get down to the root of your problem. You'll also be able to view your entire support ticket history online from our Control Panel.
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And now some technical details; feel free to skip over this bit if you're not that way inclined:

• Based on the rock-solid FreeBSD operating system, with per-user chroots to ensure maximum security.
• Server Side Includes (SSIs) for simple template-based sites.
• PHP (with many available extensions) and Secure CGI (using Apache's suexec wrapper) for Perl, Python, and compiled executables.
• A number of MySQL accounts on our database server (this depends on your account type, see table above) and access through phpMyAdmin.
• Useful Apache modules including mod_speling (sic) which automatically corrects spelling mistakes and typos in URLs, and mod_deflate which compresses data sent to visitor's browsers, speeding up download times.
• Shell access via SSH through our secure but fully-functional chrooted environment, useful for everything from file editing with Vim to designing database structures with the MySQL client.

If you've got any more questions, you might like to check out our Knowledge Base. If this doesn't help, you're welcome to email our sales team at sales@digital-crocus.com who will be happy to help.