Web Hosting, Pre-installed Applications

A very helpful web hosting facility provided by web hosts is the pre-installed web applications which usually is an array of popular free applications such as Discussion Board (Forum), MailForm, Content Management System (CMS), Shopping Cart, etc. Integrating such application to your web site is very easy and quick. Pre-installed applications in Linux environment are usually different from the Windows environment. Below are the typical applications in the different platforms.

Linux Environment

Applications installed on Linux servers are mostly written in PHP. If database is required, commonly MySQL is widely choosen for its versatility and popularity.

Content Management System

Joomla
Drupal
PHP-Nuke
Mamboo Open Source
Xoops
Post-Nuke

Wiki

TikiWiki
PHPWiki

Image Gallery

Coppermine Photo Gallery
4 images Gallery
Gallery

Bulletin Board

phpBB2
SMF
YaBB
Vanilla Forum
etc.

e-Commerce / Shopping Cart

OSCommerce
ZenCart
CubeCart
CREloaded
etc.

Blogs

B2Evolution
Nucleus
WordPress
Serendipity
LifeType
etc.

Miscellaneous Scripts

PHPMyChat - Chatting
SugarCRM - Customer Relatioship Management
PHPSupportTicket - Customer Support
Moodle - PHP/MySQL Course Management System
PHPMyFAQ - PHP/MySQL Frequently Asked Questions System
PHPList - PHP/MySQL Mailing List System
etc.

Most of the above open source applications are bundled in Fantastico Deluxe, an application that manages the installation of the applications easier. Please check with the web host documentation for the pre-installed programs in the web hosting plan.

Windows Environment

Having the nature of commercial operating system, the number of pre-installed applications in the Windows environment is much less than in the Linux servers. Typical web applications included in the Windows servers among others are:

ASPEncrypt - data encryption
ASPJpeg - image resizing
ASPPDF - manage PDF docs
BV Commerce - online shop
FormMail - mailing form
ASPMail (commercial) - Form Mail