Aside from providing award-winning business web hosting services, LFC Hosting is dedicated to providing business tools designed to give you, our valued clients, a distinct advantage over those using more "bare bones" competing hosting services.

As part of LFC Hosting's mandate to offer its clients access to the best of both the Windows and UNIX/Linux worlds, we stand out by offering ISAPI Rewrite as an equivalent to Apache mod_rewrite on a Linux platform.

ISAPI Rewrite offers a highly effective method of simplifying web addresses (URLs) to make them more reader-friendly by hiding files and extensions, and is offered as standard with all of LFC Hosting's affordable business-oriented hosting plans, starting at only $9.95/month.

This means that a dynamically driven page can be made user and search engine friendly by simplifying the extensions to make it appear as if it were a static informational page. This valuable promotional tool offers the added advantage of not requiring any additional modification to your scripts.

Search Engine Optimization

Search engine spiders (or robots) rank sites according to how relevant they perceive them to be to the searcher. Many search engines will assign lower ratings to sites that appear to be dynamically generated, as they are considered less informative and more functional in nature. Dynamically driven pages are also sometimes indicative of sites designed for the purpose of generating search engine traffic for paid advertisements or search listings.

As such, these sites will rank lower on the search engine listings, as they are perceived to be less relevant to the searcher. However, because most dynamically driven pages are not created solely for the purpose of advertising, the problem of search engine recognition remains a concern for those using dynamically driven pages as a way of keeping their information current and timely. The answer to this dilemma can be found in ISAPI Rewrite, which allows users to customize their URL's to enhance Search Engine Optimization.

With LFC Hosting's support for ISAPI Rewrite, a dynamically driven page with a URL that looks like this:

http://www.yourwebsite/my_product.php?special_offer=December

Can now be simplified and made to look like this:

http://www.yourwebsite/December_Special_Offer/

This makes your web address more search engine friendly and easier for your customers to understand, making ISAPI Rewrite a valuable addition to LFC's business-oriented services.

Block Third Party Access

ISAPI Rewrite can also be used to block third-party sites from hot-linking data files and images from your web site. This is usually done by third-party sites to preserve their own bandwidth by drawing upon yours.

ISAPI Rewrite allows you to maintain a list of sources authorized to reference your files, and automatically disallow those who do not have permission. By taking advantage of this unique feature, you can prevent third-party sites from exploiting your bandwidth and reduce your costs.

Optimal Browser Delivery

Without having to employ additional programming languages, ISAPI Rewrite seamlessly delivers static (HTML) files compatible with multiple browsers, ensuring optimal delivery in the user's browser of choice.

Written in pure C/C++, ISAPI Rewrite is extremely fast and reliable, and provides the freedom to customize its features, delivering a distinct online advantage.