Telnet account services & prices

Internet Publishing

Using your Unix Shell account, or just plain old ftp, you can publish on the Internet.

WWW publishing features:

• Normal html;
• Hit counters
• CGI scripting with perl, tcl, scheme, etc;
• Embedded HTML programming with Miva, Meta-HTML, and/or PHP/FI;
• Image maps;
• Password-protection;
• Private search engine;
• Content negotiation;
• Self-service updates.

You can put files up for ftp in your own directory.

Virtual Hosting

Do you want your own domain?
With Virtual Hosting, you can have your own domain. Idiom's Virtual Hosting service includes everything that you need:
• Incoming email
  Email sent to your domain will come to your account. If you need multiple mailboxes in your domain, then an extra mailbox is in order. If you want some of the mail that comes to your domain to be sent to another site, it can be done for free using our web interface. Set up as many virtual email addresses as you want.
• Outgoing email
  When you send mail through Idiom, the return address is automatically rewritten so that it appears that the mail came from YOUR-DOMAIN.
• WWW server
  Your new web address is simply your domain name. www.YOUR-DOMAIN also works.
• FTP server
  Your new ftp address is simply ftp.YOUR-DOMAIN
• NIC registration
  The Network Information Center (NIC) is now charging $70 to register a domain. There is a further charge of $35 per year to keep it beyond the second year.
  
  Is the domain you want available? Please check using the whois command on the shell or with our domain checker at http://cgi.idiom.com/testdomain.

Unix Shell

• Telnet
• Internet Relay Chat
• Web clients
• Mail User Agents
• News readers
• Programming Languages
• Over 1,500 programs in all!

Email and Netnews

Read your mail with a unix shell or by using Eudora or Netscape.

Extra email accounts are available.

Idiom carries all newsgroups except binaries, pictures, and warez.

Reliable Service

We are commited to installing only the most reliable equipment. Any failures will be dealt with promptly and permanently.

Backups are performed almost every night. We will perform restores of files accidentally deleted. This service isn't free: $50 the first time, $200 thereafter.

Telnet account types

Shell Account

The shell account includes unlimited unix shell access via the Internet. It includes an email mailbox, an ftp directory, and a WWW home page. It costs nothing to setup and $20 per month to keep it. The shell account may be used for business purposes. The following usage fees apply:
• Dialup modem usage
  NO hours included. 50 cents per hour if you log in via modem anyway. If you log in multiple times via modem, the extra logins will be charged at $0.70 per hour.
• Disk storage
  20 MB included. 25 cents per MB per month beyond that.
• WWW and FTP bytes served on your behalf
  600 MB / month included. 2 cents per MB beyond that. Usage spikes are free (see policies page for details).

Business Shell Account

The business shell account includes unlimited unix shell access via the Internet. It includes eleven email mailboxes, an ftp directory, and a WWW home page. It costs $50 to setup and $70 per month to keep it. It includes virtual hosting and access to a secure web server. The following usage fees apply:
• Dialup modem usage
  NO hours included. 35 cents per hour if you log in via modem anyway.
• Disk storage
  80 MB included. 25 cents per MB per month beyond that.
• WWW and FTP bytes served on your behalf
  3,000 MB / month included. 2 cents per MB beyond that. Usage spikes are free (see policies page for details).

Telnet account extras

Extra mailboxes

Are you sharing your account? If so, please consider using separate email mailboxes for each person using your account.

An extra mailbox can be accessed if you are using a POP-based Mail User Agent like Eudora.

An extra, POP-only email mailbox is $20 to setup and $5 per month to keep. If multiple POP accounts are needed the setup fees quickly drop off to zero: $10 each for the 2nd and 3rd and then $0 for any more.

Virtual Hosting

Virtual hosting costs $50 to setup and $8 per month to keep. This charge does not include the fee paid to the NIC. You are responsible for paying the NIC yourself. They charge $70 setup and $35 per year after the second year.

If you wish to have Idiom to pay the NIC, we charge $100 extra setup (total $150) and $2 extra per month (total $10).

Secure Web Server

Do you need to offer documents with a secure transport so that eavesdropping isn't possible? If so, you need access to a secure web server.

Secure server access through www.idiom.com is included with business accounts. For other accounts, the charge is $15 setup + $10 per month.

Secure server access through you own domain costs $150 setup + $10 / month for business accounts and $150 setup + $20 per month for other accounts.

Extras

In addition to the base accounts, the following additional features and fees may be of interest: extra disk space; secure web server; packet filtering; file restores; account renaming; database hosting; domain reservation;