Web Software and Features

• Apache 2.0.latest and full Lighttpd support (Apache2 hosting and Lighttpd hosting) side-by-side
• PHP5-FastCGI-Suexec, mod_php5 and PHP4-FastCGI-Suexec supported side-by-side
• Full Ruby support including all Ruby libraries (including C fcgi and mysql extensions), RubyOnRails, Instiki and over a hundred gems
• Full Perl support with several hundred perl modules installed (including all those necessary to run Movable Type)
• Python CGI support
• Mod_speling [sic] autocorrection of misspelled URLs
• Mod_deflate compression (up to 98%) in-and-out
• WebDAV mounting of your web space as a drive in Mac’s Finder (same as .Mac’s iDisk) or Window’s Network Places/Internet Folders
• WebDAV iCal sharing
• As many Subversion repositories as you might need (with SWIG, Python, and access by http and https)
• Private, dedicated IP addresses with signed Geotrust SSL certificates available for $120/year extra.
• Wildcard DNS for *.domain.com and automatic mapping of http://sub.yourdomain.com/ to http://yourdomain.com/sub/

Content Management and Web Application Support

Our servers are perfect for running all major systems based on PHP, Perl, Python, Clearsilver and Ruby, including…

• Textpattern
• Wordpress
• Instiki (with proxying to port 80)
• Ruby on Rails
• Basecamp uploads
• Drupal
• Blogger (via SFTP upload)
• Trac
• Smarty
• Movable Type

Version Control Systems

• Subversion
• SVK
• Darcs
• Monotone
• Arch

Access

• Full shells are available with access to VIM, Mutt, databases and a full array of shell-based applications
• Default SFTP/SCP restricted shell that includes rsync, unison and tunneling abilities
• WebDAV
• Web-based control panel for managing email and SFTP users, and multiple domains (DNS, Web and Email).
• Immediate access to your account available at hostname.textdrive.com

Email

• Postfix SMTP with SSL/TLS available on ports 25, 587 and 465
• Furious spam/content/attachment filtering
• IMAP and POP mail with SSL
• Webmail (IMAP) over https
• Each email message is an individual file in your Mail Directory
• Number of email addresses is only limited by available space
• Forward to other addresses, scripts or programs
• Vacation and out-of-office autoreplies
• Domain-wide and individual Spamassassin 3
• Individual procmail filtering
• Spambayesian
• SPF support
• Tagged Message Delivery Agent available for incoming and outgoing email

Mailing Lists

• Mailman mailing lists with web accessible, public or private archives

Databases

MySQL

• MySQL 4.1 on multiprocessor servers
• Large MySQL query cache
• Large max packet caches
• PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python bindings
• Access via phpMyAdmin
• Remote access over SSH for use with desktop clients like CocoaMySQL

PostgreSQL

• PostgreSQL 8
• PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python bindings

SQLite

• SQLite 2 and 3
• PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python bindings

Berkeley DB

• Berkeley DB v4.2
• PHP, Perl and Python bindings