Web Hosting

Keeping Web Sites Accessible 24x7

Where there is a business, there's an e-business, and web sites have become indispensable to competing in today's e-world. Your web site helps you provide a new level of accessibility and interaction for your customers, partners and employees - but it has to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

G4 Communications supplies all the services you need to create, maintain and manage your site - from hosting your server on our network so we can manage it for you, to web design and media streaming through our partners.

G4 Communications also takes care of the details of establishing a web site from domain registration and IP addresses to data storage services.

Among the services G4 Communications provides to make your web site a strategic assets are:

FTP - or Frontpage-based accounts - for the flexibility to manage the content and security of your site.

Data storage and transfer - variety of business-class options that give you the data richness to make your site a more valuable resource.

Daily updates, hit counters and page banner capabilities to further develop and manage the functionality of your site.

Perl/CGI scripting support.

Daily back-up of servers.

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Email Hosting

Using the Internet as a Postal Service

Using the e-mail on G4 Communications Protected Service Network gives you the ability to retrieve e-mail from any browser connected to the Internet. You also enjoy the advantages of both availability and speed - vital when sending and receiving large files. And to ensure reliability, our servers are backed up daily by a redundant, fault tolerant system.

If you have selected to host your e-mail server internally, G4 Communications can provide a secondary mail server as a safety net to capture e-mail if your server is disabled and forward it when your server is back in service.

To handle a wide range of customer needs, G4 Communications has incorporated full mailbox administration functions and offers complete e-mail-hosting services, so you can benefit fully from the power of e-mail.

E-mail retrieval from outside the office via our web-hosting service.

Hosting e-mail on the G4 Communications network or at your own domain - and if your domain hasn't been registered, G4 Communications will do that for you.

Send and receive attachments - a must in today's e-centric business environment.

Secondary servers to ensure e-mail delivery when your own server(s) are down.

Daily back-up and redundancy to make sure important e-mail is not lost.

Management of hosted customer e-mail; lists with automatic subscription and unsubscription capability, as well as a full authorization control.

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Domain Name Service (DNS) Hosting

Computers Finding Computers on the Internet

DNS hosting is an integral part of using the Internet because it is how your customers and partners reach your web site or e-mail accounts.

Domain name servers convert domain names like www.xyzcompany.com into unique Internet (IP or Internet Protocol) addresses that look like 123.234.34.5.

G4 Communications handles all aspects of DNS hosting, including domain registration and secondary hosting, and maintains servers on our advanced, high-speed, IP Protected Service Network which is operated in our state of the art Colocation Internet Center.

The benefits of G4 Communications DNS hosting service include:

Easy, single-source solution to establishing and maintain a presence on the Internet.

Domain registration service with web addressing options to use your own domain or become a sub-domain of G4.net- www.yourcompany.com or www.yourcompany@g4.net.

Always-on service.

Uninterrupted service supported by fault-tolerant servers for hosting and back-up.

Security and reliability.

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IP Addressing

Your Individual Presence on the Internet

Computers use IP addresses to locate people through e-mail or to navigate the world wide web the same way the post office users street addresses to deliver conventional mail. Everyone using the web or e-mail requires a unique, individual IP address, and G4 Communications offers a service which handles the details for establishing IP addresses for all of you employees.

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DHCP

Automatically Assigning IP Addresses

Adding and deleting Network users on your internal LAN can be done automatically using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) that sets up new IP addresses and handles all of the maintenance chores - including logging and implementing changes.

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