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It’s easy to get your business online with Shaw for Business. From hosting services to web design tools we have the solution for you. Choose from three, cost effective Web Hosting plans designed specifically with your business needs in mind. Enhance your professional image and introduce your business to the Internet with a Shaw Business Web Hosting Services package today. With Shaw Business Web Hosting packages you have access to a number of advanced features:

Flexible packages with ample disk space and transfer limits

The ability to easily create a professional website

The ability to include an online store directly on your website

Access to email with advanced user features

Access to our award-winning online service

First three months on us

First three months on us

First month on us

Website Storage

500 MB

1 GB

3 GB

Business-Class Email Accounts

Email storage/per mailbox

1 GB

2 GB

Business Mail with SyncSuite

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Web Transfer Limit

10 GB

40 GB

100 GB

Shared Calendars

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Shared Contacts

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Shared Notes

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Shared Tasks

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Desktop Clients - Outlook, Outlook Express

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Mobile Clients - Blackberry (Windows
Mobile & Palm in development)

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Set-up Fee

COMPLIMENTARY

Same-day Set-up

99.9% Target Uptime Guarantee

Bandwidth-on-Demand

24/7 Network Monitoring

Autoresponder

Autoresponders allows users to reply automatically with a pre-written message to all or certain email messages sent to an email address. This function is most commonly used to alert senders when users are out of the office for a few days.

EasyMail™ Setup

EasyMail Setup is a full featured accessory that allows any novice user to easily manage their domain’s email account and configure various email account features. These accounts can be accessed by traditional mail reading clients as well as over the web with Webmail.

IMAP / Leave Mail on Server

IMAP is a method of accessing email messages on a server without having to download them to a local hard drive.

Personal Email Management

POP / SMTP

POP3 requires users to download messages to their hard drive before reading them. SMTP is the protocol used for sending email over the Internet.

Webmail

Webmail is a multi-featured, customizable, browser-independent email system. Some of Webmail's many features include online calendar, task lists, advanced contact management, personal folder management, autoresponder setup, spell checker, and HTML formatting.

Spam Filtering

Unlimited Catch-all

Advanced Template Gallery™

The Advanced Template application is for advanced website designers who want to use highly customizable templates that can be edited by applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash MX and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. NOTE: It is recommended that beginners, or intermediate-level website designers who are not yet familiar with the required software, use EasySiteWizard instead. EasySiteWizard provides a more guided process for template-based website creation, which does not require the use of any additional software.

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Announcer Pro - Email Packs Per Month (Advanced HTML Newsletter Application)*

Announcer™ Pro makes it easy to create compelling email newsletters and manage regular communication with your customers. Powerful design tools utilize HTML code, often used for website development, to create compelling emails that have the graphical flexibility of a web page. To view add-on Announcer packages click here

Appointment Scheduler

The Appointment Scheduler allows users or their customers to schedule appointments online. The scheduler is built through an easy-to-use wizard with the option to customize colors. Once complete, is easily linked from the user’s website.

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Advanced Blog Creation Application
(EasyBlogBuilder Pro™)

EasyBlogBuilder 2.0 is a web-based blogging journal powered by a self-publishing tool that enables the author to regularly and easily update and create new content. The blog consists of posts by authorized users and commentary from blog visitors. The number one criteria for blogging success is useful and fresh content, clean design and personality.

Business Chat Application (EasyLiveChat™)

EasyLiveChat allows users to set up online chatting to handle services such as technical support and general inquiries. Up to four chat agents can be set up, and each agent may handle up to four chat sessions simultaneously. EasyLiveChat includes comprehensive features designed to increase productivity, including:

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EasyStoreMaker™
(Free Shopping Cart)

EasyStoreMaker™ (Free Shopping Cart)

EasyStoreMaker allows users to set up a simple store on their websites, quickly and easily through an ultra-simple, user-friendly interface. Users do not need any programming or ecommerce development experience to create a store. Orders placed through EasyStoreMaker can be viewed securely online, giving users the ability to view the information needed to keep things organized (e.g. name, shipping address, products ordered, total price and credit card number). Users can enter product descriptions, set their own prices and tax calculations, and select the currency their store will use.

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FormMail

Located within the Plug-in Scripts application, FormMail automatically sends information completed within a form via email to the email address specified by the site user.

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Frontpage 2002 Extensions

If users wish to use Microsoft FrontPage to develop their website, they must first install FrontPage extensions using the FrontPage Manager. The FrontPage Manager function will automatically install the 2002 extensions. FrontPage extensions are particular elements that need to be installed into a user’s home directory that enables features that are created within Microsoft FrontPage to function correctly.

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Hit Counter

Located within the Plug-in Scripts application, Hit Counter tracks the number of people visiting a user’s website each day. The counter displays graphically the number of hits the website receives. The user can opt to make the counter visible or invisible.

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SSL Manager

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Support for Real-time Credit Card
Processing

Support for Real-time Credit Card Processing

For ecommerce websites, this application indicates the hosting package will support real time credit card processing and secure transactions.

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Website Checker

The Site Checker function allows users to:

View the structure of their website

Check their pages for broken links

List links pointing to external sites

View their website images

Get a run-down of problems sorted by author

Locate pages that may be slow to download

Show new and old pages

Show pages that have no title

Show links that are not checked

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Advanced Website Creation Application
(EasySiteWizard™ 7.0 Pro)

Advanced Website Creation Application (EasySiteWizard™ 7.0 Pro)

EasySiteWizard Pro is an advanced and flexible template-based website builder that allows users to create professional-looking websites without knowledge of HTML. An easy-to-use, wizard-driven interface offers users enhanced design and editing functionality including the ability to drag and drop design elements with pixel perfect precision.

EasySiteOptimizer

EasySiteOptimizer is an advanced-user tool to optimize sites for search engines. The intelligent browser-based application offers a suite of tools to select keywords for index pages, analyze site content and layout, and submit pages to today’s popular search engines.

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osCommerce

osCommerce Templates

This product features a gallery of professionally designed templates for online stores built using the popular osCommerce application. The suite of support apps also includes a built-in osCommerce installation wizard along with a tool that automatically configures the user’s MYSQL database for use with their store.

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Website Photo Album 2.0 Wizard

The Photo Album makes it easy for users of any level to set up an online photo gallery. Administered through a simple and easy-to-navigate interface, users can create and publish individual albums of specific events, linking to album from their core website or promoting individual album addresses.

Website Promotion Wizard

Site Promoter is an entry-level utility that lets users easily submit their site to select search engines to gain placement in search engine rankings. Note: EasySiteOptimizer, available in advanced packages, also allows users to submit their optimized site to search engines.

Access to Log Files

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Database manager

The Database Manager is a web-based MySQL client that allows users to create and manipulate a maximum of two MySQL databases. If a user requires more than two databases then they may utilize a different type of database such as: MS Access or MS SQL. Database Manager is best used for creating databases and tables. For populating a database, users should consider using a script (PHP, ColdFusion) or CGI..

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Disk Usage Meter

Disk usage is the amount of space a user has in the home directory. Disk usage will display the total number of directories within the domain’s online space and is calculated in kilobytes (KB). Disk usage also shows the entire directory paths in which files are contained.

DNS Manager

DNS Manager allows users to edit their domain’s zone file, including A (address) records, CNAME (canonical name) records and MX (mail exchange) records.

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File Manager

File Manager allows users to take full control of their website files. It is a safe alternative to full shell access for sophisticated users. Users can copy, move, delete, rename and edit files, create and remove directories, change file permissions, and upload files from their local computer to the server.

File Manager is best used to manipulate files that have been previously uploaded to a user’s website. To upload more than one file at a time, an FTP client is generally more efficient.

File Restore Application

File Restore allows users to restore their website’s content from a series of time-based periods (one hour, one day, etc.). While it is recommended that users always keep local copies of their content, File Restore offers a convenient method for restoring it without having to use their local backups.

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FTP Manager

FTP is a communications protocol that allows for easy, efficient, and accurate transfer of files from computer to computer across a network or, in this case, from an end user’s computer across the Internet to a webserver. FTP manager is a function that allows users to control access to Directory-specific FTP and Anonymous FTP.

Log Management

The Log Manager allows the end user to obtain raw server logs for their site activity and traffic. Users can view and/or delete, print, download, and date their log files. They may disable logging altogether to conserve their disk space.

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phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is designed to handle the administration of MySQL databases using a web browser interface. By using phpMyAdmin users can create and alter tables, add and delete fields and create and drop databases. Users can also execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields or privileges and export data into various formats

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Secure Shell (SSH)

Secure Shell, or SSH, is a UNIX-based command interface and protocol for securely accessing a remote computer. It is frequently used as a secure method to remotely access and manipulate files directly on a website. SSH uses a "command-line" interface, similar to DOS. A command-line interface does not use a GUI (Graphical User Interface); instead, all commands are typed at a command prompt in a special terminal window.

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Web Stats

Web Stats is a web server log file analysis program. It produces usage statistics from a user’s website server logs. This information details the traffic on the website and where it is coming from.

Website Security

Website Security is an application that restricts access to certain areas within the user’s website. These areas are protected by Hostname, IP address, or username and Password. A hostname is a unique name that would identify a computer through a network, and is known as site name. An IP Address is abbreviated for Internet Protocol, which identifies the sender and receiver of information across the Internet.

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ASP (Active Server Pages)

Microsoft Active Server Page (ASP) is a server-side scripting technology that can be used to create dynamic and interactive Web applications. An ASP page is an HTML page that contains server-side scripts that are processed by a web server before being sent to the user’s browser. ASP can be combined with Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) to create powerful interactive websites.

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ASP.net

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CGI-BIN

CGI-BIN is an interface standard, which provides a method of executing a server-side program (script) from a website to generate a web page with dynamic content. Scripts conforming to this standard may be written in any programming language that produces an executable file, but are most often written in Perl, Python, C, C++, or TCL.

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Microsoft® Access

Microsoft Access (usually abbreviated as MS Access) is an easy-to-use program for creating and maintaining databases. The Access database driver for online databases is often supported by web hosts using the NT hosting platform.

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Microsoft® SQL Server Support

MS-SQL (Microsoft SQL) is a comprehensive database software platform providing enterprise-class data management and integrated business intelligence tools. Rich XML and Internet standard support provide the ability to store and retrieve data in XML format easily with built-in stored procedures. Users can also use XML updategrams to insert, update, and delete data easily.

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MySQL

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Perl

Practical Extraction and Reporting Language (PERL) is a programming language often used for creating CGI programs.

PHP

PHP is a server-side scripting language. The PHP commands, which are embedded in the web page&s HTML, are executed on the web server to generate dynamic HTML pages

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