Shared hosting takes advantage of the fact that the HTTP 1.1 protocol enables web servers like Apache to host multiple "virtual website", bringing to webmasters of small to medium sized website an advantage that used to be reserved for larger sites on dedicated servers.

From the point of view of internet users, each virtual web site running under Apache appears to be running on a dedicated server in that the URL for the site home page is simply domain-name.com (or .org, .biz, etc.). There is no need to require users to enter URLs such as domain-name.com/~something/, which can discourage many potential visitors to your site.

This allows webmasters to run website at a small fraction of the expense without sacrificing usability. pCyberhosting employs the technology to offer shared web hosting at an affordable price. We are investing in the latest software and hardware to ensure that each web site hosted with us is fast and reliable, allowing visitors to experience your site the way you intend - responsive and trouble-free.

Multi-domain hosting gives you the ability to host more than one web site, each with its own domain name and content.

The additional domains can be used for additional production sites, showcase or demo sites, or a place to test websites under development. Since cPanel makes it easy for you to password protect a directory, you can even control who can visit the additional domains if you need to.

Learn more about multi-domain hosting.

This is the number of websites that can be hosted with their own domain name. With multi-domain hosting you can consolidate a number of website under one account for simplicity, convenience and savings.

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All of our hosting plans give you access to the cPanel control panel with the clean user interface provided by the RVSkins cPanel theme. This allows you full and intuitive control over almost every aspect of your web site.

See the Control Panel page for more complete details.

All our hosting plans come with dozens of click-install web applications. Thanks to the Free Fantastico cPanel add-on, most of these install with a simple three-step process.

See the Control Panel page for more details about Fantastico.

There is no easier way to create a professional neat-looking web site than with our Web Site Builder. Learn more about this great new service from pCyberhosting.

This is a set of extensions that provides compatibility with website created using Microsoft's Front Page software.

This support can be installed or removed from your web site easily using the cPanel control panel.

Bandwidth is total amount of data you can transfer in one month with your account. It is a function of how many pages your account serves and the size of the pages, the number and size of emails and FTP transfers. It is entirely up to you how you allocate your bandwidth among your domains and subdomains.

You can track how much of your bandwidth you have used in any given month by going to your cPanel login and clicking on the Bandwidth icon.

Disk Quota is the total amount of disk space used by your account. It represents the total disk usage for web space, ftp, email and database.

You can find out how much of your disk quota you have used with a couple mouse clicks within cPanel

A database is essential for website that display dynamic content such as blogs, discussion boards, content management systems, or shopping carts.

Each MySQL database can have one or more user ids. These user ids can be authorized to add, view or update data on a table by table basis.

Database management is made much easier with phpmyadmin, which can be launched from the control panel. This software makes it easy to view, edit the data in your databases, issue SQL (Structured Query Language) commands, or add additional tables if you wish.

This is the number of subdomains that can be hosted on the account. Each subdomain can serve content from its own subdirectory on your account.

In this context, a subdomain is just a third-level domain name defined for a registered domain hosted on the account. For example you could define the subdomain "forums" for the registered domain "yourdomain.com" to get "forums.yourdomain.com" as the full domain name.

This is the number of email accounts allowed under each plan. These accounts may be accessed from an email client such as Eudora, Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird, or you can view your email on these accounts using only your web browser with Horde or SquirrelMail.

cPanel make is a snap to create and manage email accounts. Further, we provide tutorials on how to create these accounts and access them from your email client and web browser.

These are sometimes called email forwarders because instead for storing the email sent to them, they immediately forward email to another email address of your choice.

A common use for an email alias is to provide a email address at your domain name, e.g., myuser@yourdomain.com, but to have that email forwarded to your ISP email account, or other company email account.

Another use is to catch email from common misspellings of your email address. For example, you could define an email alias of shawn@yourdomain.net that forwards email to the sean@yourdomain.net account.

FTP stands for file transfer protocol, and is used to transfer files to and from your web site.

Okay, with that formality out of the way the interesting point is that you can use the cPanel FTP Manager to create ftp logins for any domain or subdomains hosted on your account. As with many site management tasks, cPanel makes creating and managing these accounts through the control panel quick and easy.

PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language designed for Web development. It is the language in which hundreds of open source web applications are written.

If you are unfamiliar with PHP, a good place to start would be this introductory tutorial.

CGI stands for "Common Gateway Interface", which isn't terribly enlightening by itself, but suffice it to say that CGI allows you to run a number of programs that can provide dynamic content or other functionality for your web site. Programs for CGI can be written as compiled C or C++ or interpreted script languages such as Perl or even one of the many shell script languages available under Linux.

Perl is a another scripting language with powerful text-manipulation functions. Combining features of command and programming languages, it has become increasingly popular for programming web applications, particularly for writing CGI scripts.

The name "Perl", is an acronym for "Practical Extraction and Report Language", which is a fact that you will probably never need to know, except that it emphasizes Perl's strength as a useful tool for parsing complex text-based data. To learn more about Perl you can start here.