SherpaHost.com Offers Start-ups Affordable Web Hosting and Domain Registration Services

HostReview.com
Monday, July 23, 2007; 12:39 AM

Web hosting provider SherpaHost announced it now offers cost-conscious business owners a selection of competitively priced web hosting support and domain name options.

According to research data provided by BizStats, the total number of US Businesses has grown to approximately 31 million in 2007----up 18.30% from 2002. Of the total, over 22 million represents self employed individuals, many of whom also have other full-time employment. SherpaHost focuses mainly on this segment of the business population, by offering web hosting plans such as unlimited external domains, subdomains, alias domains, and multiple web sites, which can be hosted on a single account.

SherpaHost offers free setup with all its Linux and Windows hosting plans, and no long-term contract committments. Web hosting features include Site Statistics, Firewall Protection, SSL Certificate, 24/7 Phone/Email Support, Forums, Blogging, Photo Gallery, and up to 2000 email addresses. Shared hosting plans, as well as virtual dedicated, and dedicated server plans, which allows customers to build their own servers, are available.

All SherpaHost hosting plans support MySQL, MS Access, and MS SQL databases, as well as the following languages: Server Side Includes (SSI), Frontpage Server Extentions, PHP4, PHP5, Custom PHP.ini/PHP5.ini, Perl w/FASTCGI, Python CGI, Java, Ruby CGI, Ruby on Rails w/FASTCGI, ASP v1.0/2.0, ASP.NETASP.NET AJAX, and ColdFusion.

Free features included in SherpaHost's Linux hosting plans are popular applications such as ImageMagick, Nucleus, Geeklog, pLog, Serendipity, WordPress, Gallery, Coppermine Photo Gallery, 4images, Joomla!, Mambo, Xoops, PostNuke,WWW Paint Board, SMF (Simple Machines Forum), Advanced Guestbook, Advanced Poll, phpCollab, SiteBar, Aardvark Topsites, paFileDB, phpMyFAQ, Noah's Classifieds, and OpenDB.

2.0 Personal, Web site Starter Kit, Free features included in SherpaHost's Windows hosting plans are popular applications such as MS IE Web Controls, WSE 2.0, ASPUpload 3.0, ASPJPEG 1.4, GUIDMaker, ASPCrypt, Community Server 2.0, DotNetNuke 4.0, ASP.NETASP.NET 2.0 Club Site Starter Kit, and ASP.NET 2.0 Time Tracker Starter Kit.

Optional plans include ecommerce shopping carts, podcasting capability, email marketing, traffic statistics, and fax via email.

SherpaHost.com is an ICANN-accredited domain registrar and web hosting provider, offering a complete product line, including comprehensive hosting solutions, Web site creation tools, Secure SSL certificates, personalized email with spam and anti-phishing filtering, e-commerce tools and more. SherpaHost.com offers competitively-priced products, and delivering them all with world-class 24/7 live customer service.