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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
- TikiWiki
- PHPWiki
- Coppermine Photo Gallery
- 4 images Gallery
- Gallery
- phpBB2
- SMF
- YaBB
- Vanilla Forum
- etc.
- OSCommerce
- ZenCart
- CubeCart
- CREloaded
- etc.
- B2Evolution
- Nucleus
- WordPress
- Serendipity
- LifeType
- etc.
- 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.
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