For a limited time, get a free domain when you order our monthly or annually gold or platinum plan! The TLDs eligible are: .com .org .net .info .biz .name .us The discount will automatically apply to your order, no coupon code required. New sign-ups only. If you cancel your hosting plan during this promotion, your regular $6.99 domain fee will apply. For monthly gold plan orders it will be your first month's hosting fee. LayerOnline offers the best in high performance forum and blog hosting for the community. If that isn't enough incentive for you to switch, we will buy out your remaining months from your old web hosting's contract! Simply email us proof of previous hosting account's cancellation and we will apply the credit to your account. We even provide service to move all your domains, databases and files over! Forum and Blog hosting with blazing speed. At LayerOnline we take performance seriously. Unlike other webhosts, we are proud to be the home of many high traffic forum and blog sites, which have tens of thousands of members and hundreds of concurrent active online users. Under the hood, our LAMP engine includes the latest in hosting technologies such as PHP 5.2.8 in fcgi mode with eaccelerator and zend optimizer, Apache 2.2.11 with sendfile and mmaping, mysql online defragmentation and optimization, kernel sysctl tuning, plus many other hosting optimizations. Our servers are able to handle insane amount of HTTP requests per second and at the same time with a typical load of below 0.8. Many of our satisfied customers are actually referred by friends. LayerOnline has a refer-a-friend program and offers the best in hosting support. We provide all the tools you need to build a successful website, including but not limited to free site builder and templates, free billing software, free premium cpanel skins, free ebooks, free site assistance service and 24/7 online/toll-free phone support. We also offers the best in security with our exclusive firewall and antispam technologies. Our Exclusive features include LayerSpeedâ„¢, LayerEdgeâ„¢, LayerEasyâ„¢, LayerCareâ„¢, LayerFreedomâ„¢, LayerWallâ„¢, LayerAntiSpamâ„¢ and LayerGuaranteeâ„¢. Q: What is LayerSpeedâ„¢? A: LayerSpeed is our proprietary technology to increase website performance up to 60 times or more. The end result is that your forum or blog websites are able to have more concurent online users and a much larger user base without slowing down your websites and the entire server. Q: What is LayerEdgeâ„¢? A: You always get more when hosting with LayerOnline! With each hosting package you get the latest in hosting technologies such as PostGreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Ruby Gems, Tomcat/JSP, Mono ASP.NET, Flex/BladeDS, FFMPEG, SVN, and more, exclusively at LayerOnline. Q: What is LayerEasyâ„¢? A: Hosting a website at LayerOnline is a piece of cake. Our hosting panel offers wizards for all hosting operations and a pleasant interface to work with. We also offer all the commercial tools you need to start a website at no additional cost, such as site installer (Fantastico), site builder (Click Be!), site templates (Template Express), accounting software (AccountLab Plus) and more. We also offer 32 HOWTO ebooks to help you get started with your online business for free. All the tools and ebooks are exclusively available at LayerOnline. Our support team is available 24/7 to help you with your websites. We also offer free installation service for supported forum and blog scripts, such as WordPress, Drupal, B2evolution, PhpBB, Joomla, and more. You just need to pick a domain, submit a ticket to us or email us and tell us what do you want to do with your website, and your website will be up in minutes! It is so easy, even a grandma can start blogging like a pro! LayerEasy also makes it easy for you to access your website's functions behind a company's firewall. Just use the specific subdomains for the service you want to use: CPanel: cpanel.serveraddress.com Webmail: webmail.serveraddress.com (Replace serveraddress with your real domain name) Q: What is LayerCareâ„¢? A: We offer extensive peace-of-mind support and services for our customers, exclusively at LayerOnline, at no extra cost. Our services include: * Free 24/7 Online and Toll-Free Phone Support * Free Video Tutorials and E-Books * Free Domain Registration Assistance with 60+ TLDs * Free Domain Full Services with DNS Management and Whois Privacy * Free Domain Email Setup Assistance * Free New Site Installation * Free Existing Site Transfer * Free Website Consultation * Free Basic Website Troubleshooting * Free Custom Module Installation * Free Website Software Updates * Free Website Database Maintenance * Free Website Security Management * Free Website Uptime Management Q: What is LayerFreedomâ„¢? A: Don't you hate to get suspended by your current webhost provider for hosting of your favorite anime fan site, hobby forum, news blog, or anything else just because your website is getting a little too popular? Come to LayerOnline. We do not care if your site get dugged or slashdotted. In fact, we are happy for you if you did, as long as your website is legit and ethical. With LayerOnline, you can sleep peace at night knowing that your website will always be up running no matter how popular it is. Q: What is LayerWallâ„¢? A: LayerWall is our sophisticated firewall system for detecting website hacking and intrusions. Our system automatically downloads security data from known security sites to instantly shield away from hacker sites. Our system also automatically blocks hacking attempts from unknown sources using our heuristic hacking detection technology. Q: What is LayerAntiSpamâ„¢? A: Don't you hate when one day you suddenly cannot send email because some spammer is using the same server as you to spam? At LayerOnline we stop spammers cold. Our system actively monitors spam-like activities and takes immediate action before they have a chance to spam. You also get a lot less spams in your hosting inbox when your domains are hosted with us, thanks to our AntiSpam filters. Q: What is LayerGuaranteeâ„¢? A: At LayerOnline we ensure that our customers are completely satisfied with our services at all times. We offer the following guarantees: * 30-day No-Risk Money Back Guarantee - If you are not satisfied with our service during the first 30-day after activation, we provide the full refund and no questions asked. * Anytime Money Back Guarantee - Anytime during your term with us, you are able to request full or prorated refund, even with an annual plan. * Lowest Price Guarantee - If you find another provider with the same package for less, we will price match and give you a month of free hosting. * 100% Server Uptime Guarantee - If our server is unexpectedly down for any reason we will provide full or prorated refund. Q: Is it really unmetered bandwidth? A: Yes. We are able to get great discount from our network providers. So we are able to pass all the savings on to you. You are free to host sites with thousands of hits per day and use as much bandwidth as you want. Q: What's semi-dedicated? A: With normal shared hosting services, customers are restricted to the type of sites which can be hosted. With VPS and dedicated server services, customers have more freedom. However, these services are expensive, they also require customers to have server maintenance expertise and licenses for all the software. With LayerOnline's semi-dedicated option, a portion of dedicated storage is allocated for you to host any type of sites, including file-based sites and streaming sites. You are also able to increase the amount of dedicated storage for a nominal fee. Our gold plan includes 5GB of dedicated storage and our platinum plan includes 10GB of dedicated storage. Q: My plan has unlimited diskspace but why is it shown 5GB in the panel? A: To prevent server abuse, we allocate disk space 5GB at a time. Users can request for a disk quota increase anytime when their disk usage is near capacity. This provides good housekeeping and prevents bad neighborhoods. Please note that unlimited diskspace only applies to regular websites. File-based hosting requires dedicated storage. The amount of dedicated storage for your account depends on the plan and option you choose. Q: What software are included and how to do I get them? A: The free software bundle include Click Be!, Fantastico Deluxe, AccountLab Plus and Template Express. Click Be! is an online site builder which is accessible from the software section of CPanel. AccountLab Plus and Template Express are accessible from the Fantastico Panel. All licenses are activated and can be used on unlimited domains. Q: What ebooks are available and how to do I get them? A: The 32 ebooks include topics on online advertisement, online business, online monetization, etc. You can download the ebooks from member download area. For new users who do not have a website, we offers 50% off on the first initial order, which can be the first month or the first year. Just use the promo code 50OFF when ordering. If you pay monthly with your current host, you will get one month free when you switch to us. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.layeronline.com.