At Orbiting Solutions, we offer 3 great web hosting plans to meet your needs. If for whatever reason these hosting packages are not able to meet your needs please e-mail us to have a custom plan made.
The more disk space you have the more files, pages, emails, and more everything your account will be able to store on our server.
Bandwidth can be best described as gas for a car. If your website runs out of bandwidth nobody will be able to visit it. 1000MB of bandwidth is equal to over 100,000 hits. The average account with us uses less than 1000 MB of bandwidth a month. Your bandwidth number used will reset back to zero on the first of each month.
The Standard and Advanced hosting plans allow for unlimited domains to be hosted on just one single account. If you are looking to sell hosting services please contact us about becoming a reseller.
Our SiteBuilder website designer is so easy to use an eight year old could create a complete website in less than thirty minutes! Please note that Sitebuilder can only be used with the primary domain on shared accounts. This software is not available for Add-On domains.
We provide 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year via chat support as well as provide an e-mail based trouble ticket system that you can use to get higher level support.
Our control panel gives you to option to make an ‘instant’ backup of your entire cPanel account. It will archive your account and provide you with a link to download the backup. You can then use this backup file to restore your account on our servers if need be. Please note that accounts that do not provide a back up file or subscribe to our automatic back up service will be imposed a $25 fee for each restore.
All servers are backed up on weekly and we can guarantee that any particular content or settings will be present on our most recent pack up of your hosting account.
This backup gets everything associated with your account: e-mail accounts (including the passwords and messages still on the system), FTP accounts, add-on/sub/parked domains, databases, mailing lists, EVERYTHING that is setup with the account.
We have no contracts and no hidden fees! You are free to cancel your web hosting at any time without cancellation fees.
We guarantee that your site will be up 99.9% of the time we host it. This guarantee includes both network and server failures. If your site isn’t up 99.9% in any one month we will issue a credit on your account for one full month’s worth of service.
We guarantee that if for any reason during your first 30 days with us should you decide to cancel your hosting account, we will issue a full refund. Please note 30 day guarantee only applies to web hosting account. Domain names, script installation, web design, ssl certificates, dedicated ip addresses, site restore, and other service are not refundable due to cost/labor associated with the service.
All accounts have FREE setup, and will be created automatically in 15 minutes or less. All of hosting plans has $0 set up whether you choose to pay monthly or three years in advance.
The Standard and Advanced hosting plans allow for unlimited domains to be hosted on just one single account.
Anonymous ftp allows the public to download or view files in a specified directory. (no login required)
A normal domain name looks like www.domain.com a sub domain looks like sub.domain.com .
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. Having multiple FTP accounts will allow you to give friends and employees their own FTP account. This will allow you to give them as little or as much access to your website as you choose.
WordPress is one of the largest CMS and blogging platforms in existence. Orbiting Solutions is a premier web hosting company our users already trust our WordPress hosting to provide the performance their blog needs.
Don’t be limited to just one blog. With Orbiting Solutions you can host unlimited WordPress blogs on just one plan! You can literally install your site and blog with just a click of a button and start publishing content within minutes of signing up for Orbiting Solutions.
MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database. Many forums and other database driven programs require MySQL to run. We use version 5+ at this time.
CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. CGI is one method by which a web server can obtain data from (or send data to) databases, documents, and other programs, and present that data to viewers via the web.
More simply, a CGI script is a program intended to be run on the web. A CGI program can be written in any programming language, but Perl is one of the most popular. On our servers you will get a cgi-bin directory that your scripts should normally be uploaded to, however your CGI scripts will work both inside and outside of this directory.
What is FastCGI?
FastCGI is a method to improve the speed of almost any scripting language we support, including Ruby, Python, Perl, and PHP.
PHP is a server side HTML embedded scripting language. All accounts come with support for 5.2.0
What is Ruby on Rails?
Ruby On Rails is an open-source web framework that’s built for productivity.
Below are some of the gems we have installed with our setup.
Click here to read more about ROR.
We allow you to use the OpenSSH Protocol (using Jailed Shell) on all of our Shared servers to make it easier to develop and debug your files with such text editors as vim and nano. To request OpenSSH access, please fill out our SSH request form by Clicking Here
Perl is one of the most common CGI scripting languages used today. We have version 5.8.7 currently installed on our servers.
Python is a programming/scripting language that can be used on many different computers and operating systems.
Server Side includes, refers to Perl based HTML commands that direct a server to generate on-the-fly contact for web pages.
Crontab is a process in Unix systems that uses a Daemon called cron to execute commands for the user at a certain time.
We support all version of Microsoft FrontPage. Frontpage is a website creation tool that can be used to both create and upload your site when FP extensions are installed.
Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with url syntax.
GD 2 is an ANSI library dynamic creation of images. GD 2 creates PNG and JPEG images, among other formats. We stay up to date with the latest GD version.
ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, write, and manipulate an image in many formats. We stay up to date on the latest version.
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Need a special module for your program to work? We will review requests for custom modules within 24 hours.
This is the number of POP accounts you get. POP accounts are used to send and receive emails through programs such as Outlook Express or Eudora.
We allow you to use our servers to send outgoing mail.
cPanel will be your hosting control panel. cPanel allows you to monitor the amount of bandwidth used, space used, create e-mail addresses, sub domains, MySql databases, and much more instantly!
Fantastico DeLuxe will allow you and your customers to install over 50 scripts instantly. To use fantastico you or your client will just login to their control panel click fantastico, and then click one of the 50+ scripts to be installed such as…. Blogs, Portals/CMS, Customer Support, desks, forums, shopping carts, Image Galleries, Mailing Lists.
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Customer Support-
Discussion Boards-
E-Commerce-
FAQ-
Hosting Billing-
Image Galleries-
Mailing List-
Polls and Surveys-
Project Management-
Site Builders-
Wiki-
Other Scripts-
What is Soholaunch Pro?
Soholaunch Pro Edition is website creation software made for people of all experience levels.
Click here to read more about Soholaunch.
Hotlinking is when another site is linking to your images or files. Hotlink protection will stop them from stealing your bandwidth.
IP deny manager allows you to block whoever you want from being able to visit your site.
Allows you to make a custom error page for anyone who visits a not existant page of your site.
The below blogs (journals) can be installed with a click of the mouse.
Install the below portals instantly.
With a click of the mouse you have the ability to create a php nuke site.
You are welcome to install any forum you want with us. You will even be able to install phpbb, Invision, and Yabbse instantly using our control panel.
A guestbook that allows your friends to sign and leave messages.
Put a hit counter on your site instantly.
Formmail is a form that will email you all the info when filled out.
Lets you redirect pages of your site to any url you want.
You can upload your files directly from our control panel via the File Manager.
Password Protected Directories
Password protect a directory and nobody can view its contents without a password.
All accounts come with phpMyAdmin preinstalled. PhpMyAdmin allows for easy management of your databases.
1) No more waiting 24 hours for your stats to update. You can update them real time at the click of a button!
2) Get the most accurate Unique Visitors and Click Paths information in the industry.
3) See where your traffic is coming from – search engines, banner ads, referrals, email campaigns and more
4) Analyze downloads, bandwidth usage, errors, and much more that is only possible with software-based web analytics.
You can read more about AWStats here
Webalizer displays in depth traffic statistics for your site. You can read more on it here
You will have access to download your sites raw logs.
The referrer log will tell you what sites your traffic is coming from.
The error log will tell you if anyone is getting errors and where.
SSL encrypts confidential data such as credit card numbers and passwords. Either a shared SSL or a private SSL is required when taking credit cards off your site. Private SSL certificates require a dedicated IP address at $3.50/month. We can install a private SSL certificate you may already have for a $20 install fee. You can purchase a private SSL CRT from us for $150 per year including installation.
Available for just $3.50 per month.
We will provide your site with a self assigned shared SSL. SSL encrypts confidential data such as credit card numbers and passwords. Either a shared SSL or a private SSL is required when taking credit cards off your site.
osCommerce is yet another of the shopping carts we provide that can be installed with a click of the mouse. “osCommerce allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online store fronts with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved” You can read more at their homepage located at www.oscommerce.com.
Zen Cart is another of the shopping carts we provide that can be installed with a click of the mouse. “Zen Cart will deliver the ultimate online shopping experience to your customers. Navigating through your merchandise offerings is a breeze with Zen Cart, the program provides several “Spotlight” lists in addition to the traditional category to product links.” You can read more at their site located here.
Cube cart is another shopping cart that is free to use and can be installed instantly using our control panel.