What is a Virtual Server? You're looking at it! It is the easiest, fastest, and most powerful way to publish your Web pages on the Internet. In fact, everything you see on this Web site resides on a Virtual Server System (a Pro Server, to be exact).

Is there a Difference? Think there is no difference? The fact is that couldn't be further from the truth! The two terms may sound similar, but the power, functionality, and value of the two products are worlds apart.

Your Web site is an important part of your business, so you should understand the difference between Virtual Servers and Virtual Hosting. Once you understand exactly what ECUi offers you in terms of services, value, and price, the choice will be an easy one to make.

An ECUi Virtual Server isn't just another Web hosting solution. It's better! It's all the power of a dedicated Internet Server, at a price equal to or lower than standard hosting services. But, with an ECUi Server, you don't have to settle for standard Web hosting limitations.

Nearly 90% of Web hosting companies use an outdated technology called Virtual Hosting to put your Web site online. The hardware and the software responsible for your online success are controlled by a site administrator who is the only person who can modify the way your Web site is setup and configured. Unfortunately, you have little or no control over the way your Web server, FTP server, and mail services behave. With a Virtual Hosting solution, you're just like a tenant in an over-crowded apartment building, and the landlord not only tells you how to behave, but also controls the success of your business.

Now imagine a complete and true Virtual Server Environment, where you don't have to worry about the server hardware costs or maintenance, but where you do have complete control over how your server functions - including your Web server, FTP services, POP mail, SMTP mail, Autoreply, online databases, Web error pages and more! Our revolutionary Virtual Server environment gives you all that and more. The power to compete in a fast-paced and ever-changing virtual world and best of all, it gives you complete control over your online success, but in a straightforward and easy to manage way.

Simple enough for beginners, yet strong enough for experts. If you're new to Web server technologies, don't worry your server comes ready-to-use and preconfigured for standard Web serving applications. You just build your Web site (with Microsoft^® FrontPage^® 2002, Macromedia's Dreamweaver or any other HTML editor) and you're online! But if you're an expert who wants even more control, now you can change your own file permissions, add custom CGIs, dll or com objects and applications. Add virtual hosts, edit configuration files, include additional MIME types, analyze log files, manage email accounts, and finally, be free of restrictive virtual hosting. You'll have dedicated server power, at virtual hosting prices!

The idea behind the Virtual Server System is much like the idea of a city bus. Rather than forcing many people into many different cars, all trying to drive to work at the same time, a bus can fit a large number of people on board and make the same journey, at a fraction of the cost. You don't have to buy the bus, pay for gas, repair, scheduled maintenance, or pay the bus driver's salary. Because the cost of operating the bus is spread out among all the people who are riding, you get the same benefit (you get to work on time!), but you pay much less money than you would had you made the trip in your own car.

What does all that have to do with a virtual server? Plenty! Obviously, all analogies have their limits, but this one does a pretty good job of illustrating the fact that by spreading the cost of an expensive Internet Server across a few additional people, you can get full-server benefits at a fraction of the cost.

Just as if it were running on a dedicated system, each Virtual Server receives its own set of virtual Internet services that you can customize to fit your specific needs. And, just like a standalone system, each Virtual Server receives its own unique domain name and IP address, has its own individual log files, custom CGIs, and more!

And the best part of using a virtual server system is that all the physical maintenance of the hardware, connection, routers, and other troublesome chores are done by us!