Web Hosting Software Guide

Before you start you have to decide which web hosting software is suitable for your website. The kind of business you provide and that best fits your needs to reach a large number of users should be your prime concern rather than craving for cheap web hosting. Another thing is the platform you want to employ. There are three main platforms - Linux, Windows and Apple. Where Apple and Windows are paid platforms Linux is free of cost.

Cpanel is a renowned, well developed control panel for website hosting. It has a simple interface with simple web hosting tools which help to manage your website as you wish. Abundant space and bandwidth with useful tools will definitely give your business a go. It supports applications like PHP, MySQL, Perl and Python and email supports like POP3, IMAP and SMTP. There is also auto installer like Fantastico which supports other web applications like Word press, Drupal, Joomla, phpBB, etc.

Business software’s in web cover different spheres like E-Commerce and CMS (Content Management Services). The major E-commerce software’s are OsCommerce, Ubercart and Zen Cart written in PHP under GNU Public License. Broadleaf Commerce and Ofbiz are written in Java under Apache license 2.0. The web CMS services preferred by web hosting providers are Joomla, Drupal in PHP, Windows Sharepoint Services in ASP.NET, OpenCms in Java and Movabale Type in Perl. These CMS services support specific programming language to create or manage dynamic web pages that are created in HTML using web design software’s like Front page or Dreamweaver.