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BuilderWire Hosting and Email Features


WEB DISK SPACE
Bandwidth BuilderWire provides affordable web hosting and a a reliable Crystal Tech web hosting for your site with very high bandwidth through our Premier Plan. The plan offers 100 gigabytes of transfer which can serve as many as 50,000 customers per month. If additional bandwidth is needed in the future, a Plan upgrade can be done at only the cost difference of the  setup fees.
Daily Backups BuilderWire uses a SAN (Storage Area Backup) for backing up our hosting environment, and we back up data files nightly. Backups are retained for a 2 week period and restores of site files or databases are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (one-time $25 fee may apply).

While BuilderWire makes every attempt to keep exact, restorable backups of all files stored on their servers, there are times when data may become corrupted and unusable. Therefore, it is always a good idea for site owners/developers to keep current copies of all site files on their own systems in addition to the backups provided by BuilderWire. Also, while restores are available 24/7/365 there may be instances where a restore is not prudent at the time of request due to a variety of reasons (e.g. backup of the server is currently running, etc.) so some delay may occur.
BW Control BuilderWire's Online Control Center provides our customers with nearly 100% online management and request of their support issues, and administration of the Content Management System, web hosting accounts, mail management, access to web site statistics, and countless other features.

SITE STATISTICS
SmarterMail Professional gives you the important information you need about which search engines are finding your site, and the frequency with which your site is indexed.

Information includes:

  • Search Engines by Name
  • Keywords used to find your site
  • Key phrases used to find your site
  • Search Engine by keyword
  • Search Engine by key phrase
In addition, these reports are contained with the SEO Standard Report, or can be added to a custom report and emailed to a contact with daily, weekly or monthly frequency.
Search engine data Full visitor details

The next time someone touts the number of "hits" they get, ask them about the number of "visitors" they get. Anyone can build a site chock full of images and the like, thus increasing the number of hits they get, but people in the know judge the quality of traffic based on information about a site's visitors.
  • Check site activity by Hour, by Day, by Month and by Day of Week
  • Check the top browsers and Operating Systems used to view your site
  • Visitor information by country and state available
  • Find out where your visitors are coming from (referring sites, referring URLs, IP addresses, and more)
Search engine data 70+ Standard reports

Many log analysis packages give you a limited amount of information to work with. SmarterStats Professional offers users over 70 different reports you can use to fully analyze your site's traffic in minute detail. Using SmarterStats, you can see:
  • Visitor traffic by hour, by day, by week and by month
  • Where your traffic is coming from: IP address, referring sites, referring URLs, and more
  • Which search engines are spidering your sites and the keywords people are using to find you?
  • The number of views, visits and hits your site receives
  • What server errors, if any, your site generates (not simply 404 Page Not Found errors, but actual 5XX errors)
  • The top entry and exit pages to your site, as well as the top paths through your site
  • Full bandwidth stats, including top downloads, top bandwidth by page or file, etc.
  • Much, much more.
  • Why settle for less than you deserve?

EMAIL ACCOUNTS
Accessible through BuilderWire's Control Center, mail can be sent, received, and deleted through a Web Mail Interface. Other mail options that can be done through WebMail:
  • Compose/Reply Messages
  • Setting up Auto Responders
  • Setting Vacation Messages
  • Spam Filters
  • Creating/Editing/Deleting Email Accounts/Aliases
  • Search through Messages
  • Create New Folders
Spam Filtering    Using SmarterMail 2.0, customers have the ability to set their own spam filters, at both the domain and the individual user level. Create rules for spam, using any one or a combination of a number of different spam lists, reverse lookups, verify sender, and even Bayesian Filtering. SmarterMail gives you control over your inbox and allows you to only receive the mail you want.
Virus Scanning BuilderWire offers active, real-time virus scanning on all shared servers, including SQL, mail and backup servers. This means that not only are our servers virus-free, but we also scan all incoming and outgoing email in order to protect local machines of our customers.
Content Filtering Using SmarterMail 2.0, customers have the ability to set their own content filters, at both the domain and the individual user level. Using content filtering, you can direct specific mail to specific locations. For example, if you receive any newsletters, you can create a 'newsletters' folder and have SmarterMail send specific email directly to that folder versus having them sit in your inbox. Content filtering is an excellent way to organize your inbox, giving you the freedom to read the mail you want, when you want.
Alias Accounts
Often companies want to provide a support@yourdomain.com, billing@yourdomain.com, sales@yourdomain.com mailboxes but don't want to check each mailbox individually. Using Aliases, you can have mail sent to the above addresses actually route to one primary mailbox, either on your domain or on another domain. All plans allow for unlimited aliases as they are not actual email accounts that are created on a mail server. However, please be aware that mail that routes through an alias still may count against your total monthly messages sent allocation.
Auto Responders Auto responders allow you to provide a mailbox that will send an immediate response back to the sender. In some cases, you may want to automatically acknowledge you have received an email and respond to it later.
SMTP Authentication SMTP authentication helps ensure that mail sent from your mail accounts is actually sent by you, thus lowering the possibility of your domain, your IP or your mail server from being blocked by one, or more, of the various ISPs, spam lists, etc., that monitor mail traffic. Enabling SMTP authentication simply means that outgoing mail is validated against the domain the mail is sent from, and that the sender is an actual mail account attached to that domain. SMTP authentication is enabled by default on all hosting Plans.
Mailing Lists Using mailing lists, organizations or individuals can keep subscribers updated, pass on important information or allow discussion of topics relevant to virtually any topic. BuilderWire gives all Hosting Customers the ability to have up to 10 mailing lists for any single Plan, with no subscriber limits. Enabling mailing lists is $20/month, and, while there are no member limits, customers must follow the generous mail allocations provided for their Plan.