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Disk space:(?) 400 MB 250 MB 700 MB
Transfer per month:(?) 10 GB 7.5 GB 30 GB
POP mailboxes: 25 17.5 62.5

Percentage of webhosting plans that include a given feature
(features with less than 1% are not included in the results)

Feature $0-$20 plans Over $20 plans Unix plans Windows plans
Control panel 93.99% 85.51% 82.71% 94.69%
Shared SSL 58.51% 73.47% 65.58% 64.75%
SSH or telnet 36.41% 46.60% 20.72% 48.33%
Shopping cart 53.79% 51.51% 39.41% 58.64%
Phone support 33.62% 41.03% 38.16% 35.93%
Daily backup 41.34% 46.04% 46.57% 42.10%
Weekly backup 27.54% 23.41% 25.23% 26.42%
Anonymous FTP 37.77% 40.80% 29.28% 43.15%
Access to raw logs 72.60% 72.58% 64.64% 75.93%
Usage stats (Webalizer, AWStats, Urchin) 85.41% 83.28% 74.61% 89.14%
Perl/CGI 90.20% 88.74% 81.78% 93.46%
Adult sites allowed 15.95% 16.39% 14.95% 16.42%
FrontPage server extensions 88.84% 88.18% 92.37% 87.78%
Cold Fusion 10.94% 19.29% 31.93% 7.28%
SSI 65.45% 58.97% 55.76% 66.17%
Active Server Pages (ASP) 30.40% 44.59% 90.03% 14.69%
Dedicated IP address 23.10% 47.38% 35.67% 30.99%
Streaming audio support 31.04% 42.81% 36.60% 35.56%
Streaming video support 30.54% 41.58% 36.29% 34.63%
PHP 4 88.13% 82.05% 74.45% 91.23%
Server Java VM 15.52% 21.63% 20.25% 17.22%
JSP 19.74% 23.86% 27.57% 19.01%
TCL 12.16% 16.61% 10.12% 15.56%
Server C/C++ 20.74% 30.10% 22.27% 25.62%
Python 34.84% 36.90% 22.90% 40.86%
Microsoft InterDev 7.08% 12.60% 23.05% 3.95%
Miva Empressa 5.58% 12.49% 9.97% 7.72%
Miva Merchant 5.65% 16.61% 12.15% 9.20%
Webmail 82.69% 74.80% 72.74% 83.15%
Spam Protection 59.94% 55.30% 48.44% 62.35%
Antivirus for email 39.20% 35.90% 38.01% 37.78%
Ruby 7.58% 11.04% 9.66% 8.77%
Domain parking 38.91% 36.23% 30.22% 40.86%
Private registrations 8.08% 12.26% 9.50% 9.69%
WebDav 5.36% 9.25% 10.28% 5.62%
WAP email 5.79% 8.25% 11.21% 5.12%
Reseller program 14.02% 18.17% 15.11% 15.49%
ASP.NET 20.31% 30.88% 73.21% 5.12%
Online support (chat/email/message board) 65.24% 65.22% 60.59% 66.98%
Password Protected Directories 63.02% 52.06% 44.08% 65.00%
SharePoint Services 2003 4.58% 9.92% 13.55% 4.07%
MS Access 15.02% 26.31% 55.61% 5.06%
Other Free scripts 67.38% 59.87% 56.07% 68.15%
Own SSL Certificate 12.52% 19.06% 16.20% 14.75%
FTP Accounts 47.71% 43.37% 41.59% 47.96%
Image Manipulation (GD, ImageMagik, etc) 30.62% 24.86% 19.16% 32.10%
Search Engine submission 26.54% 29.10% 25.39% 28.83%
Cron jobs 38.34% 32.78% 13.08% 45.31%
MySQL 4.x 31.33% 28.76% 34.89% 28.70%
MS SQL database 8.73% 12.26% 22.43% 5.25%
Multi Domain Hosting 29.90% 40.91% 28.19% 36.48%
Reseller Control Panel 11.37% 19.51% 12.93% 15.00%
Merchant Account 6.72% 11.15% 11.84% 7.28%
Cold Fusion MX 9.37% 14.72% 25.23% 6.11%
Website Builder 27.83% 30.43% 24.61% 30.37%
PostgreSQL 17.24% 20.18% 14.64% 19.69%
PHP 5 15.59% 12.71% 5.61% 17.90%
Ruby On Rails 5.08% 5.24% 1.40% 6.67%
MySQL 4.1.x 11.23% 8.14% 3.27% 12.53%
MySQL 5 8.01% 7.13% 2.49% 9.75%
IMAP 14.38% 12.04% 5.61% 16.48%
Form Builders/Processors 9.44% 5.46% 1.25% 10.62%
osCommerce 13.66% 8.58% 1.71% 15.62%
Zen Cart 9.01% 5.57% 1.09% 10.37%
PHPBB 13.88% 7.58% 2.49% 15.06%
WordPress 11.73% 8.14% 1.56% 13.89%
Simple Machines Forum 9.01% 5.57% 1.40% 10.25%
Gallery Scripts 13.30% 9.03% 2.49% 15.37%
Wiki 10.30% 6.80% 1.09% 12.16%
Free domain 6.37% 2.90% 1.40% 6.54%
Custom Error Pages 17.95% 11.04% 6.07% 18.77%
Autoresponders 19.31% 12.37% 7.32% 20.25%
GuestBooks 12.88% 7.36% 2.18% 14.14%
Project Management Scripts 9.51% 5.91% 1.71% 10.68%
Joomla 12.09% 8.47% 2.02% 14.20%
Mambo 11.87% 7.58% 2.02% 13.52%
Other CMS 11.37% 6.58% 1.56% 12.78%

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