Modx content management software is a collection of PHP scripts that work together as a system. With this system you can create sites easily with few clicks of your mouse. With the website you can add content, photos, allow users to register, manage or view certain parts of website. But thats not all. With modx you can add new features via the addon panel, and change the design of the site with new templates. Everything is easy to manage and you have full control over what is on the site and what users can do. To create a community site it is very easy and free with Modx cms. All you have to do is install few addons. The core code will not be overwritten, and you can easily update the site later. As this cms is built with MySQL and PHP it is platform-independent. The best modx hosting environment is LAMP(linux apache mysql php). Hostgator is setup this way and the test results with modx were excellent.
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HostGator Xoops Hosting Review
Xooops is one of the oldest content management systems around and it
is quite popular in the online world. What is great about this cms is
that is free and can be used and modified for free. Many webmasters
use it to create various sites online. The admin interface gives you
plenty of options to maintain your sites, change or update parts of
the site, restrict users to certain areas, setup widgets, and many
other things. Also here you can change the design of the website very
easily with just a few clicks of the mouse. To add new features just
download the module that have it and install it into xoops. Both
templates and addons are completely separated from the xoops
programming code. And did I mentioned that xoops is platform
independed because is written in PHP and uses MySQL? So it is a great
choice for anyone who is looking to create a site with no hassle at
all. Technical knowledge is not required to use it. Xoops hosting
requirements are supported by HostGator and the cms runs perfectly on
Hostgator servers (we have tested this).
HostGator e107 CMS hosting Review
e107 is a content management software, that uses PHP – the most popular web programming language together with MySQL the most popular database system. All three products are open-source and licensed under such licenses that permit free use and modifying even for commercial purposes. Also great about them is that they are open-source. Open-source software is better than propriety software because the code is available to many more developers and testers resulting in better design and bug-free code. Open-source programs also tend to be more platform-independent and this is the case for these three powerful programs that allow you to create almost any type of website. e107 includes many features and it is very fast. In its standard package includes all the basic things you need of a CMS like content, user, theme management. If you want to extend it you can do so easily with the modules. They do not alter core code yet add new features to the system. Also the theme system allows fast and easy changing of the design of the website and it is separated also from e107 core code. HostGator like many other hosts support e107 and on our tests it performed extremely well. I strongly recommend Hostgator to be your e107 hosting provider.
Hostgator QuickInstall one-click installer
Hostgator in their blog post have announced that they have developed an in house script for oneclick installation of web software scripts. Because it is in-house faster updates are available. it is simular to Fantastico de luxe one-click installer. According to their post they offer free installation anyone having dedicated server or vps at Hostgator. Scripts included for fast installation are: blogs: wordpress, lifetype, b2evolution,, nucleus, content management systems: joomla, drupal, shopping carts: opencart, zencart, oscommerce and lots of other PHP scripts. Because it is still in beta stage youu may encounter bugs, for which you can submit ticket to hostgator support. As for user reviews, there are couple in host gator forum, showing good response.
http://forums.hostgator.com/quick-install-beta-f41.html
http://blog.hostgator.com/2010/07/30/july-2010-newsletter/
Hostgator OSCommerce Shopping Cart
On a hostgator account you can create an online store with Oscommerce script. Oscommerce is PHP (web programming language) script that uses MySQL (database system) as a storage engine, free and licensed under GNU GPL license which gives you much freedom. It offers many features to merchants including many gateways for payments, unlimited products that may be categorized in unlimited categories, international languages, many purchase options and more. It is one of the oldest shopping cart software. The new version 3 will include many options including a new object-oriented design of core code. There are several forks based of Oscommerce most popular one is Zencart.
On our test on Hostgator OScommerce run without any problems, and we have tested most of the features without any problems. Fast and easy installation can be done via Fantastico de luxe cpanel tool. SSL options are available also on Hostgator for your ecommerce site.
Hostgator SSL certificates
Hostgator supports both Shared SSL and dedicated SSL certificates. To access shared SSL use the following form:
https://server.hostgator.com/~cpaneluser/
where server is the name of the web server you are on. This is usually in this form gatorxxx where xxx are numbers, and can be found in your hostgator welcome email.
When you access the site this way a warning message may appear. Better option for you would be to buy dedicated SSL certificate from Hostgator. Hostgator sells Comodo certificates which are one of the most recognizable in the SSL industry offering up to 256 bit encryption and free installation. Please note that if you already have the business shared hosting plan you are entitled for free dedicated SSL certifacte as well as free dedicated IP address which is required for dedicated SSL. You may also buy SSL from third party but there is $10 installation fee.
SSL certificates
SSL certificates secure and encrypt the data that is traveling between your computer and the webserver. The standard way leaves the data in plain text and someone might read it while it travels. So if you have an online store or any other site where users enters important information (like credit cards, social number etc) you should have secure connection. SSL creates secure connection.
HostGator Dedicated IP address
Dedicated IP address
There are many reasons why yous should buy dedicated IP address. Some say that is good for Search Engine rankings (you rank higher than other sites), though this is not proven. Other use could be if you want to install SSL certificate for your website. SSL allows secure transfer between the server (where your web site is ) and the host (the user that access the websites). Installing SSL will allow https version of your site. HTTPS stands for HyperText Transfer Protorocol Secure. Ecommerce websites should have secure access to their websites because the customer when purchases some items it sends sensitive data like credit card, social security number and other.
HostGator Dedicated IP address
On Host Gator you can have dedicated IP address for $2/monthly. ($24 a year) shared and reseller hosting, $1 for VPS . On shared hosting you can have only one dedicated IP. The IP addresss will be assigned to the entire cPanel account (only your websites will shared that IP). Hostgator purchase IP form can be found at https://secure.hostgator.com/ip.php .
HostGator Ruby On Rails Review
Ruby on Rails (ROR) is Ruby programming language web framework for developing online applications for the world wide web (the Internet). It follows the MVC (Model View Controller pattern) for development of web applications. It is not popular as other programming languages but there are good number of developers who develop apps. Popular websites use Rails including: twitter.com (microblogging service), scribd.com (document-sharing website), github and many others.
Hostgator Ruby on Rails
Hostgator supports ROR on all its shared and reseller servers. The latest version (currently installed) is:
Ruby Version : ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i686-linux]
Gem Version : 1.0.1
Rails Version : Rails 2.0.2
Ruby on Gator it comes with the following gems preinstalled: actionmailer, actionpack, actionwebservice, activerecord, activesupport, bluecloth, builder, daemons, feedtools, gemplugin, gnuplot, htmltools, mongrel, mysql, payment, rake, sources, tidy, uuidtools, xml-simple and others. Refer to this forum post for more: http://forums.hostgator.com/ruby-rails-support-t13038.html
You will need SSH access to develop Ruby applications. Visit
https://secure.hostgator.com/sshrequest.php for more info on enabling SSH access on your account. You may also want to enable SVN (Subversion), you submitting a ticket.
HostGator Fantastico One-click installer
Fantastico de Luxe is commercial cPanel addon that HostGator offers for fast one-click installation of popular web applications. Included are: WordPress (blog software), Drupal – Content Management script (CMS), Joomla – CMS, shoppin carts – zencart, oscommerce, forums – phpbb, mybb, galleries, polls and other cool scripts. What Fantastico does is setup/create databases and users, create tables and setup initial settings and permissions for the selected software. Though Fantastico is popular one-click setup tool it is not recommended by most developers of the popular scripts mentioned. This is because the latest version of the software is not available always (or at least not immediately) after it is published. So you may end up installing old version with security holes and bugs. So the better way is to manually install the software. I use fantastico only when I am installing wordpress, and update it right after login with wordpress automatic update tool. Here is a screenshot of Fantastico:
HostGator Dedicated Server Review
Unlike shared hosting where you are limited by resources (CPU processing power, RAM memory) on dedicated server hosting those resources are dedicated only to you and you are only limited by the hardware. Dedicated servers are great if you have high traffic websites or you offer a web service where more CPU power or RAM memory is needed. You can host unlimited websites on your server (only limited by the hardware). If you have very popular website, you may buy additional server only for MySQL data processing and storage. What is important is the CPU Speed and type and the RAM Memory (the bigger the better). There are several popular CPU model are Intel Xeon Models.
HostGator Dedicated Server Plans
Hostgator offers Linux and Windows servers. Both are same with hardware. There are three four linux server plans: Basic, Standard, Elite and Pro. They differ in Processor, RAM Memory, Disc space, Bandwidth and price. There is no setup fee for any dedicated server, the contract is month to month and you can cancel at anytime. All linux servers are fully managed and come with CentOS Linux with Full Root Access (64-bit with 32-bit Compatibility), cPanel with WHM Control Pane), Apache Web Server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (on Rails), FFMpeg Support, Secured Server with IPTables Firewall, Free WHMCS or WHM autopilot client billing software, sitebuilder and many other features. Windows servers also come fully managed with Windows OS with Remote Desktop Access (64-bit with 32-bit Compatibility), Parallels Plesk Control Panel, IIS Web Server, MSSQL, Mysql, ASP, ASP.Net 1.1 2.0 & 3.5, PHP, Perl, Python, Secured Server with Windows Firewall & IPsec Policy and other features. The prices start at $174/monthly.