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So you want to know a little more about what we do? Below you will find a short list of the applications and services we are most often asked to provide or create. If what you are looking for is not listed below, contact us and chances are that we can accommodate your needs. If we can't produce what you are looking for, we may be able to point you in the right direction.

HOSTING SERVICES
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HOSTING SERVICES
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  • Apache Web Servers

    Lanex operates Apache web servers running on Suse Linux 10.1. The servers support CGI/Perl scripting, PHP, and the MySQL databases. The servers also support chat and forums services.

  • ASP Page Hosting

    Lanex offers both Microsoft IIS 4 on Windows NT 4.0 and IIS 5 on Windows 2000 server. ASP is a mainstream technology for serving dynamic pages connected to Access or SQL server databases. Lanex also provides servers with .Net capability.

  • ColdFusion Servers

    We operate Macromedia Coldfusion 5 and 7 MX web servers on Windows 2000 Server. ColdFusion is a rapid development platform, which can scale to clusters of servers and will operate on multiple operating systems.

  • Database Hosting

    Lanex can host Microsoft Access, MySQL, or MS SQL 2000 databases for your applications or web pages. We also have a dedicated Microsoft SQL Server 2000 server for larger or more complex databases and high volume dynamic Web sites. Contact us if you need SQL Server 2000.

  • .NET (Dot Net) Hosting

    Lanex hosts .NET 1.1 and 2.0 sites on Windows Server 2000 and 2003 based servers. .NET technology provides the ability to quickly build, deploy, manage, and use connected, security-enhanced solutions with Web services. Your .NET Web services can use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or other databases as your needs dictate.

  • Email

    POP3, Imap4, and Web based email and mail list services are offered using Smartermail on Microsoft Windows 2003 servers. Whether you require 1, 10, 100, or 1000 mailboxes we are happy to serve your needs. We offer virtual mail servers, which allow you to send and receive your mail on your domain, and dedicated virtual servers that allow you to manage your own virtual mail server.

  • Media Server

    Lanex has a dedicated media server that is able to serve Microsoft streaming media files for audio and video content. Streaming rates from 20kbps to 200kbps per session are supported. The server also supports multi-rate encoded files, so that a single content file will support a variety of bit rates.

  • List Server

    Our list server delivers tens of thousands of messages daily with tools that monitor the delivery success, how many messages are opened, etc. The solution is able to schedule mailings out as far as you like and pull content and addresses from databases. Many of our customers enter a years worth of daily messages in advance. Graphs and charts will show you how many messages were mailed, how many users joined and left your list, etc. In addition a threshold can be set so that a users address is suspended after they fail to open a number of messages selected by you. This purges your list of those who have changed addresses or are no longer interested in the content. Any subscriber can manage their account by clicking on a link included in each email. All subscriptions may also be sent a welcoming email with a button to click to confirm, if that option is specified.

  • Click Tracker

    You may subscribe our click tracker. To use this you will include a link in your page, email, etc and you may then view a chart that will show you how many times the link was clicked to allow you to judge the effectiveness of you mailing or content.

  • Online Testing and training

    Lanex has an industry leading testing and training solution. ASP tests is often integrated with online or offline training content. ASP Tests is also multi lingual, some of our customers support more than 12 languages. The server has a complete course management system and an application that allows customers to package their online content on a CD so that the content may be viewed off-line and the test administered on-line.

  • Web Site Log analysis

    All Lanex web servers offer log analysis. Our Windows based servers have AWstats and the Linux based servers offer Webalizer. Ask and we will be happy to set up the analysis package for your site.

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS)
This system allows users to change a web site's content on a regular basis without relying on a programming specialist to make the modifications. Such a tool can save significant time and money on an ongoing basis.

ECOMMERCE
An ecommerce site has items for sale and usually includes a number of front end and back end parts.
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ECOMMERCE
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An ecommerce site has items for sale and usually includes the following:

  • SHOPPING CART - Software that operates an online storefront. The "shopping cart" keeps track of all the items that a buyer wants to purchase, allowing the shopper to pay for the whole order at once.
  • CATALOG ADMINISTRATION - This allows you to log in securely online, add categories and products and upload photos for the product. The changes are immediately updated on the site.
  • DYNAMIC CATALOG DISPLAY - This is the standard way of displaying products, allowing your customers to personalize their shopping experience in many ways such as: "sort by price", "search by name, brand, or manufacturer", and "view related products",
  • SSL - This provides security for web transactions by scrambling data when it is being passed from one computer to the other. Most e-commerce web sites use SSL to process payment transactions. You will be able to tell if a site has SSL installed by seeing the little yellow lock on the lower browser bar.
  • PAYMENT PROCESSOR - This is the company that handles the technical end of processing of a credit card transaction.

We integrate your website with the payment processor's system and ensure that everything is working perfectly.

More advanced ecommerce projects may also include auto generated packing slips, order filter/forwarding for multi-point distribution, and integration with shipping software and customer service databases.

MAILING LIST
Subscription is handled through an online form where users can subscribe and un-subscribe. Our application offers the ability to manage multiple lists, conduct mailings, measure response, and manage users.

CONTACT FORM
A simple email link is the most user friendly way of connecting with your web audience.

BLOG
A blog is a journal that is available on the web. Blogs are typically updated every few days using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.

SITE SEARCH
If your site contains hundreds of pages of text, it is very likely that your viewers will need and use a site search feature.

STREAMING VIDEO
Media streams are more bandwidth efficient and provide a better user experience. When using streaming content the wait for buffering is eliminated or reduced, saving you bandwidth charges.

INTEGRATION
This is when a company's CRM package must talk to their ERP system and their ERP system must communicate with their financial, document management and accounting software packages. It provides greater levels of flexibility and productivity and saves time and money.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
We provide reliable and precise execution of project objectives and implementation including the initial scope of work, final product installation and support.

ONLINE COLLABORATION
Collaboration tools allow you to set up a private workspace to exchange materials, econference, and save information for future use.

SALES CONFIGURATORS
A configurator streamlines a complex sales process by using one or more databases to automatically identify and price the products and/or services that required for a given project.
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e-LEARNING
Our eLearning applications give customers the ability to deliver full-scale online training programs that include course registration, content delivery, testing and student achievement tracking, and class reporting.

CONSULTING
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  • System Optimization
  • Workflow Implementation
  • System Design
  • Site Survey - Analyze the current IT infrastructure and make recommendations. To include written deliverable.
  • System Deployment Analysis - Analyze and recommend general system implementation and rollout which would address hardware and software requirements, customization, bandwidth, storage, etc. To includes written deliverable.