Our shared hosting plans are ideally suited for personal and small business hosting. Your H-Sphere control panel offers state of the art technology and puts you, the site administrator in full control. Instant backups, free use of scripts, rock solid support and cutting-edge technology all add up to a winning combination.

Design and create your web site in minutes using the power of SiteStudio! SiteStudio is included FREE with every hosting account.

When It Matters - ASP (Active Server Pages), .NET or PHP Many web sites are developed using more advanced scripting languages than basic html, most commonly either ASP or PHP. While it is possible to run either language on either platform, typically PHP is associated with Unix while ASP is associated with Windows. After all Microsoft is the company that developed ASP. There is also a more advanced programming language from Microsoft called .NET which pretty much also calls for a Windows platform.

Databases..

When It Matters - Your Database of Choice Another common reason one may choose a Windows hosting environment over a Unix environment is their use of a particular database with their web site. A very common Unix database is MySQL. Most Windows hosting users will typically use either Microsoft Access or MS SQL Server as their database.

If You Had To Ask

In most cases, if you had to ask Windows or Unix then chances are a Unix plan is going to be the best choice for your website. In most cases Unix plans cost slightly less than Windows hosting plans and come pre-packed with a few more features like Additional FTP Users, scripts and easy to install applications that are based on the UNIX platform - although the difference between those two is growing less every day.

Site Management

Award Winning Multilingual H-sphere Control Panel

We include our easy to use H-Sphere control panel with every hosting account. You can control almost every facet of your hosting account in real time right from the Larry Fisher Hosting Control Panel. H-Sphere saves you valuable management time by allowing you total control over your website. You choose what options you want and what you don't want. Currently H-Sphere comes with the following languages: English, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, German and Portuguese.

Merchant Account Support

We have partnered with Associated Merchant Services to provide our customers with the lowest possible prices for a merchant account. Once you fill out this preliminary application an Associated Merchant Services representative will contact you shortly.

SiteStudio Site Creator

Building an attractive, professional website has never been easier! Introducing Site Studio, a robust, comprehensive browser based website creation suite. With Site Studio you can create dynamic pages, feedback forms, pages that are rich in content, and fully customizable in minutes with no html or programming skills necessary.

Dedicated 128 Bit SSL Certificate Support

You can easily install or purchase a new SSL Certificate for your website right from your H-sphere account control panel. This will allow you to securely access your site's contents at the https://www.yourowndomain.com/ URL.

Shared 128 Bit SSL Certificate

We offer a shared SSL certificate free of charge. Turn it on in the control panel and you'll instantly have a secure site under our domain. The shared SSL certificate provides the same level of security as the dedicated one and is used with the https://yoursite.ourdomain.com/ URL.

Custom Error Pages

Use this utility to define what will be done if a requested page on your site is missing or fails to open for any other reason.

Custom MIME Types

This utililty allows you to define file formats that are not defined in web browsers. This enables the browser to display or output files that are not in HTML format, just like it displays simple text files, .gif graphics files and PostScript files.

Microsoft FrontPage Extensions

Microsoft FrontPage Extensions help ensure that sites created with Microsoft Frontpage work properly and smoothly, supporting the advanced features of the web-authoring tool. The extensions can be turned on instantly from the Larry Fisher Hosting Account H-sphere Control Panel.

ODBC Support (Windows Only)

Open DataBase Connectivity is a standard database access method developed by Microsoft Corporation. ODBC makes it possible to access any data from any application by means of ODBC drivers - one for each database format. You can create DSN (Date Source Name) records based on ODBC drivers to access databases of different formats under Windows plan.

Password Protect Files and Folders

You can password protect directories and files with various user names and passwords from within your H-sphere Control Panel.

Scheduled Jobs (Crontab) (Unix Only)

The crontab is a long-running process that executes commands at specific dates and times. You can use this to schedule activities, either as one-time events or as recurring tasks. Normally you must set your crontab via the command line. At Larry Fisher Hosting, our customers can edit their crontabs right from your H-sphere Control Panel.

Server Side Imagemap (Unix Only)

This feature allows your server to regard files with a specific extension as map files. In other words, the server checks the file with the specified extension to define the links of an image (unlike a client-side image map, which uses the info inserted into the HTML code) and reports back to the browser where to go.

SSH Access (Unix Only)

Larry Fisher Hosting offers the secure form of telnet known as SSH for it's hosting packages. This allows us to provide extra security to our web servers, which in turn provides our clients with the best possible performance.

Throttle Resource (Unix Only)

This tool allows you to 'throttle' the use of traffic in your account by delaying or refusing requests to your sites.

URL Redirection

The Redirect URL option allows you to change the file that appears when a user enters a specific file's web address. Example: There are a number of old URLs for your site's home page that are no longer current, yet people still use them. You don't really want people going to those old URLs because either an outdated page will display or they'll get an error. Set up redirection for these old URLs, so that when users enter them into their web browsers, the file at your current URL displays instead.

WebShell File Manager

The Web Shell/File Manager program is a robust tool that can be used for a variety of functions. It can be used as an FTP Agent, a file organizer, a rich text, and CGI editor or especially useful for password protecting directories.