Archive for January, 2010

HostGator Vbulletin Forum Hosting Review

January 27th, 2010 by admin

Vbulleting is a commercial web software written in PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor – the most popular web scripting language) for creating online communities (forums) produced by Jelsoft. Together with phpBB (php bulleting board) are the most popular forum software programs in the world. The latest version of vbulletin is 4 which comes with 2 more solutions – blog and cms (content management system) platform – all together called Vbulletin Suite. It offers many features: user registration with ability to edit users or add them from admin control panel, powerful permissions system for administrators, usergroups restrictions and permissions, moderators and forum users, forum and subforum based permissions, ajax editing, templating system, extension system (for add new features) and much much more. There are many templates and extension modules available. It is the best to date forum software available and it is very easy to manage . Only downside is that it is not free, but you get what you pay for!

Vbulletin on Hostgator

Hostgator account is perfectly setup so you can run vbulletin without any problems. I have it installed on forums.phpweby.com (hosted at hostgator) -  webmaster forums where you can see it live. It is fast and all features are supported. Signup with hostgator, buy vbulleting license and build your community today.

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HostGator Drupal Hosting Review

January 16th, 2010 by admin

Drupal and Joomla are the best free and open-source CMSs (content management systems) in the world, both licensed under GNU General Public License. Drupal like Joomla supports templating systems (hundreds of free drupal themes available), a module system (core modules – shipped with the standard official drupal package, available for download from drupal.org), core features worth mentioning here are user manager with powerful permissions system, content manager, RSS feeds, logging, administering the system, and thousands other modules (contrib modules) that add new features and functionality to Drupal. You can create any type of websites, anything between personal blogs/ web sites to social network or corporate websites and more. Drupal was originally created by Dries Buytaert (buytaert.net) in 2001 and in recent years have grown in popularity. Many websites are powered by Drupal, popular ones like michaeljackson.com, political – whitehouse.gov and many personal websites/weblogs. It have large community of developers and supporters making this content management system the next choice for your online presence an excellent choice.

Drupal on HostGator Review

Drupal runs perfectly and fast on HostGator. You can see live Drupal installation on rsmkd.com/drupal/ . I have installed drupal manually by downloading the package from drupal.org, but you can install it via fantastico. Installation via fantastico is not recommended because not always the latest version of Drupal is available immediately via Fantastico cPanel tool. Happy Drupaling with Hostgator!

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HostGator Joomla Hosting Review

January 2nd, 2010 by admin

Joomla is one of the most powerful open source content management systems (cms) around. Written in PHP, it is distributed under GNU General Public License. It is full of features that allow you to create any type of websites, whether it would be personal, corporate, blog, social network and more. Together with Drupal are the most popular cms in the world.

Joomla supports templating system that allows you to easily change the look and feel of your site. There are many free and paid professionally designed templates available. And most of them can be easily edited if you want to change some parts. In addition to templating system, this content management system supports extension system. The extension system extends Joomla functionality by adding new features. The so-called components add even more functionality to Joomla. There are more than 3000 extensions available in extension directory website.
List of features:
* User management – (add, edit users with various types of options and permissions)
* Media management – (manage media folders and files, configure MIME types, etc)
* Banner management – (rotate banners, add, edit, clicks etc.)
* Web Link management
* Content Management (publish articles, create static pages, edit content and more)
* Menu – manage menus
* Syndication and newsfeed

And much much more features. Check joomla.org website for more details on features, where to download joomla, support etc.

HostGator Joomla Review

I just installed Joomla on hostgator hosted website rsmkd.com. Works flawlessly and fast. You can access my joomla site at rsmkd.com/joomla/ . Though it is not advised to install Joomla via fantastico I installed it just for test purposes. Always install software manually, because the latest version is not always up to date on Fantastico one-click installer.

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