33 Reasons for choosing am.net for all your Internet Services needs

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1. Total solutions to your Information Technology problems

am.net is a division of AM Computers, a full-service Systems Integrator and Value Added Reseller in Northern California. AM Computers is an innovative company that uses the latest developments in computer and communications technologies to provide affordable, reliable and easy-to-use solutions to its customers' problems.

Unlike many other Internet Service Providers whose background is UNIX system administration at government or educational institutions, am.net's staff and associates are computer consultants with a wide range of expertise and great experience in providing computer solutions to businesses like yours. This means that we can integrate the Internet into your computing infrastructure regardless of your computer platform or network operating system.

2. Customer Service orientation

am.net is not just another faceless Internet Service Provider where you are one of thousands of users dialing into their system. We are an Internet Services Company. We are consultants and our focus is on you and your business. You can always reach us for questions and suggestions.

3. Focus on Business

Unlike many other Internet Service Providers, whose main focus is providing dial-up access to individual users, our focus is on business. The goal of am.net is to use the Internet to improve your business communications.

4. One-stop shopping for all of your Internet Services needs

am.net is your complete source of Internet services and solutions. Our services include:

• Consulting and training on the use of the Internet and online services for research, communications, and marketing.
• Complete connectivity services (dial-up, ISDN, frame relay) that give users on your network access to the Internet, World Wide Web, and e-mail.
• Setup of secure servers on your premises and training in its administration.
• Marketing/promoting your company on the Internet. Internet public relations and research activities for your company.
• Design of graphical sites on the World Wide Web and hosting sites on our server.
• Implementation of complex real-time database-oriented systems for the Internet and their integration with your in-house database services.

5. Partnerships with leading vendors of complementary services

am.net has partnered with many leading graphic and multimedia artists, marketing and public relations consultants, and experts in interactive interface design. These partnerships bring unrivaled combination of knowledge and experience into your Internet project.

6. Long-term partnership with you to assist your business in realizing its Internet goals

We are not here for the quick buck. If you are committed to using the power of the Internet to improve your customer service, market on the World Wide Web, or sell products or information online, we are here to be a part of your team. Having a presence on the Internet does not stop with designing a couple of pages and throwing them onto an Internet Server. It requires an integrated marketing plan, commitment from many departments in your organization, and constant ongoing management and promotion. We are ready to help you in designing your Internet plan, coordinating various departments and activities, and training your staff on Internet promotion, management, and measurement of success. You can also outsource some responsibilities to us.

7. We are dedicated to staying on the leading edge of Internet technology

By choosing am.net, you will benefit from the latest developments in the Internet technology. Research & Development is a major part of our business model. We are always up to date on all the recent software tools, techniques, standards, and protocols.

8. We have a no-risk trial period, 30-day money-back guarantee policy

We offer 30-day money-back guarantee on all our products and services. When you sign up for am.net web hosting service, not only will we refund all your money should you decide to move your site somewhere else within the first 30 days, we will also maintain an automatic redirect from your old location to your new location for up to one year!

9. Fair pricing

Many other Internet Presence Providers charge for things that really don't cost them anything, such as another e-mail box or running a script. Our prices are based on our costs. Our basic costs are hardware and bandwidth, and that's what we charge for.

10. We have the most complete set of web site hosting and related services

am.net's Web Site Hosting capabilities are listed below (please note that some are currently in development or depend on pending Internet standards):

• All the standard web site hosting features, such as image map support, support for CGI scripts, forms processing, etc.
• Mailing lists with remote graphical administration, e-mail autoresponders, multiple e-mail boxes, routing and redirection of e-mail.
• Bulletin Board services with threaded conversations in a web browser
• Real-time chat services using any web browser
• Support for secure transactions.
• Virtual servers with support for domain names such as www.abc.com (and not www.abc.com/abc).
• Fax services (for forwarding e-mail to fax, or for faxback of information).
• Paging services for notification of received e-mail, etc.
• Streaming video and audio services.
• Integrated into our Web Server are database services (much faster then other CGI-based solutions) for sites needing an online catalog or directory or transaction processing.
• Full-text search on all the pages stored on the server (with no indexing required on your part).
• Ability to interface to any ODBC/SQL-compliant database in real-time residing either on our server, on any other server on the Internet, or on your in-house server through an ISDN or Frame Relay link. (This capability is unique in the industry!)
• Ability to map your directory on our server in your File Manager/Explorer in Windows and copy files between your computer and our server in the File Manager/Explorer instead of having to use arcane UNIX ftp commands. (This utilizes Microsoft's NetBIOS over IP protocol.)
• Remote telephone access to your e-mail messages (the messages are read to you!).
• Online real-time credit card verification and processing (allows you to give access to an area on the server or to a piece of information after the credit card has been charged).
• Partnership with a fulfillment house that can take incoming calls, process credit cards, ship the product, etc. from orders coming from your web site.
• We are coming up with more things all the time!

11. Double Bandwidth Guarantee

Our unique Double Bandwidth Guarantee is your assurance that people accessing your site will be able to see your web pages quickly. Other Internet Service/Presence Providers brag about their particular bandwidth (the size of their connection to the Internet) but never say how much bandwidth your site will have available to it. If an ISP has capacity for 100 standard-speed (14.4 kbps) simultaneous connections, but has sold this bandwidth to the point where 300 people are using it simultaneously, then each of those people will have their connection at one-third of the standard speed (14.4).

At am.net, we guarantee that during 10 peak hours in any day, our total bandwidth will be double the actual used bandwidth at standard-speed. In other words, if all of our dial-up and web hosting clients together require 50 simultaneous standard-speed connections at peak time, we will keep our capacity at 100 simultaneous standard-speed connections. Translated into bandwidth in Megabytes, if 100 Gigabytes of data is transferred from our server to the Internet per month, then our total 10-peak-hours capacity will be 200 Gigabytes per month.

12. No Busy Signal

am.net maintains a 1:5 modem to dial-up user ratio, which provides for almost zero busy signal. Dedicated modem/line are also available.

13. The easiest to use and the most powerful Web Site Hosting service in the industry

We used the best Internet software products to put together our Web server, then we enhanced it with our custom SmartSiteTM software to bring you an unprecedented combination of ease of use and power. Plus we are continuing to integrate our Web server with third-party site management tools. Our web site has up-to-date information on different WebwareTM products and how to use them with our server (This (the WebwareTM site) is reason 13) Here is why our web server is the best:

14. AOLServer 2.x from America Online as the foundation of the server (http://www.aolserver.com)

15. AOLPress Integration for Remote Authoring, Collaboration and link management. AOLPress is a combination browser/editor that allows you to edit your pages remotely. Click on save and your page is saved to the server immediately! (Netscape Navigator Gold / Communicator has similar functionality)

16. Multithreaded (Fast and efficient handling of simultaneous connections (includes a complete C multithreaded programming API too!))

17. Illustra (now Informix) Object-Relational DBMS and Microsoft SQL Server DBMS.

18. A complete full text search system with support for advanced queries based on URL and full text

19. Hierarchical Access control allows you to restrict access to all or part of your Web Site through lists of users, groups, and/or client address

20. Powerful, extensible, and easy to use scripting language called TCL built in so you can build rich Web applications faster and easier than with ordinary CGI

21. HTML-forms based configuration

22. Server-side includes

23. Page trailers

24. Custom error responses

25. Native image map support (no scripts necessary, create maps graphically with AOLPress)

26. Hundreds of counter styles available

27. SmartSite^TM features include:
The ultimate forms processing engine. Easily configured in the form html file to insert submitted data into a predefined database table, send nicely formatted e-mail notification to the specified address, return a message to the user in the specified style matching your web site's colors, backgrounds, button bars, etc. You never have to write a line of code!

28. On-line account creation and modification.

29. Use predefined templates for a consistent look and feel

30. Tools for site management that allow you, for example, to change the background of every page, or to change the top button bar on every page, etc.

31. User tracking mechanism for creating server "state"; customizing the appearance or information for each visitor with or without registration (if they return to a bookmarked page); and determining effectiveness of certain pages or wording by analyzing a user session (for example on which page does the visitor finally decide to go the "Request more info" form)

32. Context-sensitive actions. For example, a visitor clicks on the help button and retrieves a page specific to the page he clicked the button on.

33. Many small niceties available to you at no extra charge, such as:

• If you get a domain name, your web site will be accessible under BOTH www.yourcompany.com and yourcompany.com
• You can use index.htm, index.html, index.shtml, home.htm, home.html, or home.shtml for your Home Page
• You can setup aliases for commonly misspelled or shortened versions of your site directory, to make it easier for people to get to you
• If someone tries to access a page on your site that does not exist, instead of getting an error message they will get a page that you can create if you have a virtual server or they'll get the list of all the sites hosted on our server, so that they can find you, plus they'll get an option to search the entire server for what they are looking for.
• If the power goes out, the server will run for a short time on the UPS power, but unlike other servers, every page going out of our server will have a message at the bottom warning that the server is about to shut down. The same thing would happen for a scheduled shut-down.
• You can access a specified portion of the server access log at any time, download it, and analyze it with any of the third-party site analysis packages (this is in addition to the standard monthly report that will be prepared for you)
• Use a browser to get a directory listing of any directory on the server with a twist: the graphic files will actually be displayed, and when clicked on, a sample page with that graphic file used as the background will appear!

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