Web Hosting
Introduction
Runbox Web Hosting is Runbox' state of the art domain and web hosting service. The basic Runbox Web Hosting is included in all Runbox accounts at no extra cost. Runbox recommends that you use Runbox Email Hosting for your email and Runbox Web Hosting for your web and domain hosting. In the future the two services will be more closely integrated.
The basic Runbox Web Hosting includes:
- CPanel Control Panel (Version: 11.18.6-RELEASE, Build: 24255)
- 200 MB storage
- 4000 MB data transfer per month
- 5 FTP accounts
- 5 Subdomains
- 3 Parked Domains (additional domain names work as aliases for your main domain)
- 3 Addon Domains (use your account resources to host additional domains) NOTE: Each Addon Domain requires the use of a Subdomain
- 5 MySQL databases (MySQL version 4.1.22-standard)
- PHP4 (PHP version 4.4.6) phpinfo
- PHP5 (PHP version 5.2.1) phpinfo
- PERL (PERL version 5.8.7) Installed Perl Modules
- Frontpage Extensions
- CRON Jobs
- Web-based File Manager
- Web-based HTML Editor (may not work with all browsers)
- Web-based MySQL Database Manager (phpMyAdmin version 2.11.4)
- Apache Web Server (version 1.3.37)
- Linux Operating System
With the cPanel control panel you can easily install and set up your own applications such as:
- Content management systems
- Blogs
- Image galleries
- Discussion boards
- Customer relation software
- E-commerce applications
- Project management applications
- Wikis
- ...and much more
See the
cPanel Demo and
cPanel documentation for more information.
Signing up for Web Hosting
To sign up for a Runbox Web Hosting account you first need to subscribe to the regular Runbox email service and own/administer a domain name. Your Web Hosting account will be linked to your domain name.
Send an email to webhosting AT runbox DOT com with the domain name you would like to use. Runbox will set up the Web Hosting account for you and email you the details of your new Web Hosting account. Please let us know if you are using or will be using Runbox Email Hosting for your email.
You will then need to direct your domain's DNS settings to the Runbox Web Hosting servers by logging into the Domain Registrar where you registered your domain.
Please note that Runbox Web Hosting is different from Runbox Email Hosting. If you are also using your domain for Runbox Email Hosting you will need to update your MX settings in cPanel to mx.runbox.com after you have made the DNS changes.
Web Hosting Support
Runbox can only offer support on setting up your Web Hosting account, and not with any third-party applications you set up on the Web Hosting platform. Please refer to the following web sites for additional support:
Web Hosting Add-ons (paid annual subscription options)
Dedicated IP Address
Runbox Web Hosting accounts default to shared IP addresses. If you need to install an SSL Certificate for your domain you will need a Dedicated IP Address. You can subscribe to a Dedicated IP address for your domain from the
Runbox Payment Options page.
Extended Web Hosting:
Web Hosting Package A - Gives you more space!
If the 200MB of space of the basic web hosting account isn't enough, you can upgrade to a paid account that has 1000MB of space. You also get 5 Parked and Addon domains instead of the 3 included with the basic package. You can subscribe to a paid web hosting account for your domain from the
Runbox Payment Options page.
Hosting platform
Network Infrastructure
The servers run Dual Intel Xeon processors with 2-4GB of RAM and RAID protected hard drives providing the power, versatility, and reliability required for high end servers. The combination provides outstanding performance and headroom for peak workloads, resulting in faster response times.
Raid Disk Mirroring
RAID is short for Redundant Array of Independent Disks and used to mirror data on two disk drives simultaneously to ensure data integrity. Disk mirroring protects from loss of data by instantly switching to the other disk with no interruption in service if one of the disk drives fail without requiring data restoration from a backup.
Linux Operating System
We exclusively use the Linux (Enterprise/Fedora/CentOS) operating system on our servers. Linux is one of the most popular server operating systems in the industry today due to its scalability and track record as the most stable operating system on the market. It is constantly under active development which insures a reliable, secure, and robust platform for web hosting environments.
Datacenter
We operate out of the world class NAC datacenter with multiple tier one backbone providers including Level3, AboveNet, UUNET, InterNAP, Genuity and over 300 peering points and transit providers spanning three countries within North America and Europe.
More information:
Disussion on Emailaddresses Runbox forum:
http://www.emailaddresses.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43660
