Web Hosting Features

All our accounts offer a great selection of general features with varying amounts of storage space and bandwidth depending on the package which you select. Some include a free subdomain, while the mid range and advanced package also offer support for single and multiple subdomain hosting options. Depending on the account which you choose, you may also be able to host up to 10 different sites on just one hosting package.

These applications enable you to organise and keep a close eye on what's happening with your site - how many visitors do you get a day? Which pages are are being browsed most often? Which country is your largest market? You can find the answers to these questions and plenty more with our Website Statistics Features.

Our wide range of email features allows you to be completely in charge of your emails . With filtering applications, autoresponders, multiple mailbox options and more, you can create an easy-to-use, ordered email system - enabling your site and/or business to run as smoothly as possible.

All our packages come with a Master FTP account, and our Additional FTP Logins on more advanced packages allow you even more flexibility. Ranging from 2 to an unlimited number of accounts for your site, this feature enables you to have as many people as you need accessing and updating the live site at once.

We offer the industry standard MySQL 5 Databases with PHPMyAdmin as the web based user interface. This gives you total control over your databases and allows you full access, all the time. Number of databases per account ranges from 2 to unlimited.

The programming features we offer at LyricalHosting are PHP4 or PHP5, Perl and Python. These all come as standard with all our packages, giving you the choice of using whichever you need for your site. The default is PHP4, so if you need PHP5 please specify this when ordering with us.

LyricalHosting offer some advanced features with our packages, including Microsoft Frontpage extension support, an Online File Manager, Scheduled Tasks application for cron jobs and an IP address blocking feature. These features are suited for people who know exactly what they want from their hosting control panel, and need it all to work smoothly. With us, it does.

LyricalHosting can offer you a great range of web applications to help you set up your own online shop. Nice and easy to get to grips with, these applications will help you sell your products on the net. With three great open-source shopping carts to choose from, you will be able to find the right application for you and your products.

Blogging is an excellent way of informing and educating, and a fantastic tool for keeping visitors to the site updated on your work, on your development, or just your train of thought! Use these products to create a unique blog - you're able to personalise them to make sure they integrate smoothly with your site. With our Fantastico Deluxe service, installing the latest version of Worpress is as simple as just specifying where you want it, and clicking the 'install' button.

Set up your own forum for visitors and/or clients to get together and discuss your site, your business, or just get to know other like-minded individuals. Easy to manage and flexible, these are great tools to help create a loyal community for people who take an interest in your work. Again, comprising of opensource software, these applications can be fully skinned and integrated with your website.

Use these applications to showcase your own public photography, or to create an easy-to run, low-maintenance online portfolio to further your business. Putting your digital photographs on the net is simple with this software, and will provide you with a smart presentation for your work.

Wikipedia programs are becoming ever more popular - they're a great source of knowledge contributed to by internet users. Use these applications to coin your own terms, define your business and get your visitors contributing to the site. A great way to build up content over time and provide a valuable resource to your users.

Create your own mailing lists to keep your clients and visitors up to date with new products, upcoming events, updates to your site or your company. A great tool for keeping everyone in the loop and rewarding loyal visitors with special offers and news before anyone else.

We carry a range of content management software including the latest releases from Drupal, Joomla, Geeklog, and several others. All are built on the Fantastico Deluxe framework, and as such, can be installed with ease and simplicity. Great for community sites and portals, these features will help drive repeat visits through your site.

Using spreadsheets and calendar bookings that are accessible to multiple personnel, you can schedule and easily manage a project of any size. Ideal for sites with multiple staff so that you can all keep up to date with the latest developments and working schedules.

We offer a great site building application, while some charge an extra premium for this service - we include it free of charge with most of our packages, allowing even novice web designers to build a site quickly and easily with a point-and-click interface that's really easy to get to grips with.

We have state of the art datacentres located in BlueSquare's Reading facility, where every dynamic is monitored to the most minute detail. Even the floor temperature is kept within a constant 2 degree range to ensure that all of the equipment that we run is performing as you would expect it to.