"Scripts" are small web-based programs that handle the dynamic components of your site like order forms, shopping carts, search engines, customer databases, forums ("bulletin boards"), etc. They can dramatically improve your site, automate your business processes, and allow your customers and prospects to interact with your site, driving efficiency and increasing sales and profits.

Scripts can be written by you or your developer in any of the languages supported by LFC Hosting (such as Perl, PHP, Python, ASP, .NET 3.5, ColdFusion MX 7, JSP, etc.), or more commonly obtained from a free CGI script website (ex: ScriptSearch.com). Furthermore, the Scripts page of LFC's unique, proprietary account Control Panel provides easy navigation and the ability to automatically install popular website scripts.

LFC Hosting offers a private CGI-BIN with all of our hosting plans, allowing you to implement your own scripts to add dynamic components to your site automatically, anything from a simple order form to a full-blown member management or database management system. We fully support Perl 5.x, PHP 5.x, Python 2.3.x, and compiled executables (C/C++, etc.).

Many hosts limit you to only a few scripts supplied by them or at minimum either require permission to review your scripts (which often takes several weeks) and implement them in an inaccessible public CGI-BIN, or limit the disk space available to house your own scripts, restricting your ability to take full advantage of the advanced capabilities of the Internet. With LFC, you have the freedom to implement, modify, and delete your scripts instantly at any time through FTP. The disk space occupied by your scripts is limited only by the total disk space included with your account.

Your file permissions, by default, are setup in a way that is script-friendly. Furthermore, LFC Hosting takes script support beyond the level of our competitors by offering the ability to manage your file permissions instantly and automatically through a graphical directory interface included in your LFC Control Panel, and our network, although Windows 2003 based, was built in a way that accommodates both NT and UNIX scripts. All standard Perl and PHP modules are installed and, because we cater to businesses and developers with extraordinary requirements, we are glad to install any modules, MIME types, etc. that you require free of charge.

Finally, all scripts can be loaded securely through SSL simply by changing the URL that the script is called by.

But you're a Windows host. How do you support PHP, Perl and Python?

Enhanced PHP Performance with FastCGI

As part of our ongoing commitment to provide optimal performance and reliability, LFC Hosting is pleased support FastCGI which, for fans of PHP, comes as a welcome free addition to your hosting plan due to the performance advantage it offers.

Running PHP inside of IIS traditionally required a process to be generated for each new request. FastCGI, however, reuses processes to handle multiple requests, increasing the speed at which PHP can be processed on a Windows operating system and making FastCGI extremely effective for production purposes.