Beginner Questions - What's Included With My Hosting - Domain Hosting Nameservers - Terms of Service Questions - Questions - Is This Service Really Free

What is Web Hosting?

Web Hosting is a service to store and display your web pages on the internet.

When you build a website, you need to place it somewhere so it can not only be stored, but connected to the internet for others to see. Web Hosts provide servers, which combine the necessary hardware and software to display your web pages to visitors.

How Do I Publish a Website?

Web sites are "published" (ie made available on the internet) by uploading files from your PC to the web hosting server.

Most people use HTML authoring software such as Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver to design their web pages on their personal computers. More advanced (or old school) designers still work with raw HTML code using text editor such as NotePad. Once the web design process is complete, the pages are uploaded (published) to the web server to be made visible to the internet.

How Do I Upload Files?

Mostl web authoring software enables you to publish your pages by using FTP (file transfer protocol), Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver use a proprietary publishing mechanism. You can also use FTP Programs such as WS FTP upload your files.

At 5gigs.com, all accounts have cPanel which allows users to upload web pages and files using cPanels File Manager utility.

How Often Can I Update My Site?

You can update your site as often as you wish. In fact, having fresh web content will give your visitors a reason to keep coming back.

What's Included With My Hosting Plan

For Detailed information, please visit Hosting Plans.

How Much Disk Space Do I Get?

Sub-Domain Accounts get 80mb of disk. Domain Accounts get 100mb of disk space.

How Much Monthly Bandwidth Do I Get?

All Free Hosting Plans include 5gb of bandwidth, hence our name, 5gigs.com.

How Many Email Addresses Do I Get?

Each account comes with five (5) emails and webmail access.

Does the Hosting Include Databases?

Yes, each account gets one (1) MySql Database.

Do You Support PHP?

Yes, we currently support PHP Version 5.0.4

Does the Hosting Come With Pre-Installed Scripts?

Yes, we have dozens of the most popular scripts pre-installed in cPanel. This included PHPNuke, PHPBB, OSCommerce and more.

What Don't You Support?

We do not support Frame pages, Invision Board, Post Nuke, PHP Wiki, Word Press or CP Support. These features do not display properly when advertising is placed on users sites.

Domain Hosting Nameservers Information

If you purchased or transferred your domain name to Domains.5gigs.com there is no need to change the nameservers information as it is pre-configured to resolve to our servers.

What If I am Using a Domain Not Transferred or Purchased Through Domains.5gigs.com?

You need to go to your domain registers control panel and change the nameservers information to:

NS1.5GIGS.COM
NS2.5GIGS.COM

Terms of Service Questions

Where Can I find Your Terms of Service?

All account sign-ups agreed to our Terms Of Service when they sign-up for their account. You can find the terms of service by Clicking Here.

What Happens if the Terms of Service Change?

5gigs.com reserves the right to change the Terms of Service periodically. If the Terms of Service should become unacceptable to you, please contact us and your account will be closed.

Is This Service Really Free

Yes, this service is Free to our users, even though it costs us alot of money to operate.

How Can it Be Free?

We rely on sponsors to pay for some of the costs of this business. Our sponsors may display advertisement on users pages. This is a win-win situation for everyone. Our users get free web hosting and we get additional revenue to operate the business and improve services.

Can I Opt Out of Having The Advertising Displayed on My Pages

Yes, in the near future you can opt out for 2.7 cents per day ($10 per year). It currently costs us about $15 per year to host each active account, so even at this price we are losing a little money, but we think this is fair at this time.

We will provide opt-out information on the 5gigs Forums when this feature is implemented.