Telnet account services &
prices
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.
- 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