We believe in the use of open standard protocols when it comes to offering our services. Most people don’t realize before it is too late that getting stuck on proprietary services will lock you into their service, making moving away from them a real headache. Imageway goes beyond most hosting providers by offering support for just about every open standard of communication to both web and email systems. For accessing your website we offer HTTP(s) and FTP(s) for source code file access. When it comes to dealing with email and calendar support, we offer SMTP(s), IMAP(s), POP3(s), CalDAV(s), CardDAV(s), and ActiveSync(s). Lastly, for our Professional Hosting package customers we also include support for SyncML(s), and WebDAV(s). The (s) designates a SSL encrypted connection is available for this protocol.

By using these open standard protocols we assure our web and email services will work with the largest range of devices (new and old), plus offer you the ability to move to or from our services from other service providers that support these open standards. If you use other proprietary methods like using MAPI/EWS with an Exchange email server, you then become locked into that specific Exchange server environment. The use of open standards is the best environment for having true ownership and control of your data.