These are the features and specifications for TextDrive’s shared, business and dedicated hosting plans in 2005. They apply to all three unless noted.
Web Software and Features
- Apache 2.0.latest and full Lighttpd support (Apache2 hosting and Lighttpd hosting) side-by-side
- PHP5-FastCGI-Suexec, mod_php5 and PHP4-FastCGI-Suexec supported side-by-side
- Full Ruby support including all Ruby libraries (including C fcgi and mysql extensions), RubyOnRails, Instiki and over a hundred gems
- Full Perl support with several hundred perl modules installed (including all those necessary to run Movable Type)
- Python CGI support
- Mod_speling [sic] autocorrection of misspelled URLs
- Mod_deflate compression (up to 98%) in-and-out
- WebDAV mounting of your web space as a drive in Mac’s Finder (same as .Mac’s iDisk) or Window’s Network Places/Internet Folders
- WebDAV iCal sharing
- As many Subversion repositories as you might need (with SWIG, Python, and access by http and https)
- Private, dedicated IP addresses with signed Geotrust SSL certificates available for $120/year extra
- Wildcard DNS for *.domain.com and automatic mapping of http://sub.yourdomain.com/ to http://yourdomain.com/sub/
Content Management and Web Application Support
Our servers are perfect for running all major systems based on PHP, Perl, Python, Clearsilver and Ruby, including…
- Textpattern
- Wordpress
- Instiki (with proxying to port 80)
- Ruby on Rails
- Basecamp uploads
- Drupal
- Blogger (via SFTP upload)
- Trac
- Smarty
- Movable Type
Version Control Systems
- Subversion
- SVK
- Darcs
- Monotone
- Arch
Access
- Full shells are available with access to VIM, Emacs, Mutt, databases and a full array of shell-based applications
- Default SFTP/SCP restricted shell that includes rsync, unison and tunneling abilities
- WebDAV
- Web-based control panel for managing email and SFTP users, and multiple domains (DNS, Web and Email)
- Immediate access to your account available at hostname.textdrive.com
- Postfix SMTP with SSL/TLS available on ports 25, 587 and 465
- Furious spam/content/attachment filtering
- IMAP and POP mail with SSL
- Webmail (IMAP) over https
- Each email message is an individual file in your Mail Directory
- Number of email addresses is only limited by available space
- Forward to other addresses, scripts or programs
- Vacation and out-of-office autoreplies
- Domain-wide and individual Spamassassin 3
- Individual procmail filtering
- Spambayesian
- SPF support
- Tagged Message Delivery Agent available for incoming and outgoing email
Mailing Lists
- Mailman mailing lists with web accessible, public or private archives
Databases
MySQL
- MySQL 4.1 on multiprocessor servers
- Large MySQL query cache
- Large max packet caches
- PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python bindings
- Access via phpMyAdmin
- Remote access over SSH for use with desktop clients like CocoaMySQL
PostgreSQL
- PostgreSQL 8
- PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python bindings
SQLite
- SQLite 2 and 3
- PHP, Perl, Ruby and Python bindings
Berkeley DB
- Berkeley DB v4.2
- PHP, Perl and Python bindings
Three things worth noting, twenty years later.
Textpattern appears first in the CMS list. In 2005, this was not alphabetical order.
“Mod_speling” is a real Apache module. The [sic] is Dean’s.
“Furious” is not a word that belongs in a technical specification. Dean put it there anyway. The spam filtering was, in fact, furious.
The original specifications page is preserved at the Wayback Machine. See also the hosting plans.