One click Web Apps
One click web apps make it easy to add functionality to your website. Such as blogs, shopping carts, support tickets, content management systems and much more.
Fantastico is a module within the Linux control panel (called cPanel) that allows users to install a variety of useful web tools and add-ons (scripts) within a few mouse clicks.
With such a variety of apps the biggest challenge is choosing. Based upon customer feedback, industry reviews and our own experience, we've handpicked the 11 finest from a selection of 37 for you to use within your website including:
- Templates Express (Website Builder): A series of 56 professional static website templates. Perfect for new, inexperienced users who want to set up a website quickly and refine it further at a later stage. URL: http://sohotemplates.com
- Drupal (CMS): Widely recognised as the most powerful, easy to use and search engine friendly of the four main CMS's. URL: http://drupal.org/
- Joomla! (CMS): Joomla! is designed to enable even non-technical users to add or edit website content, update images, and manage critical data. URL: http://www.joomla.org
- Mambo (CMS): Mambo is a popular choice for the development of small commercial sites thanks to its attractive interface and easy setup. URL: http://www.mamboserver.com/
- PHP-Nuke (CMS): PHP-Nuke is both easy to configure and to use, making it a valuable addition to our select Fantastico scripts. URL: http://phpnuke.org/
- WordPress (Blog Creator): Blogs are essentially websites featuring diary-type commentary with links to articles or other websites. Feature-rich, very easy to use and with neat & professional site templates, if you want to start blogging, this is a great place to start. URL: http://wordpress.org/
- osCommerce (Shopping Cart): osCommerce is an e-commerce and online store management system providing a basic set of functionality that aims to address the common needs of online businesses. URL: http://www.oscommerce.com/
- phpbb (Forum): phpBB has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. It has a large and highly customisable set of key features including powerful permission systems, private messaging, search functions, a customisable template and language system, as well as support for multiple databases. URL: http://www.phpbb.com/
Email features
- Webmail - gives you an extensive, easy to use email interface with calendaring, memos and task management included
- Email forwarders/aliases - allows you to receive mail for more than one email address to a single mailbox with each account is allowed an unlimited number of email aliases
- Autoresponders - for each email account can set up auto-responders which send an automated reply when an email is received
Anti-Virus protection for email
All email destined for your Linux web hosting account filters out potential threats before they are passed to your inbox. Regardless of where the domain name is hosted, mail is passed through our virus filtering cluster which uses a powerful antivirus engine.
The anti-virus engine is updated multiple times every day, and contains hundreds of thousands of virus signatures.
Anti-Spam protection for email
In addition to virus scanning we also pass all email destined for your Linux web hosting account through a spam filtering cluster. The cluster identifies spam by matching each emails fingerprint against a matching list and, if found to be spam, rejecting it before it reaches your inbox.
On average, we as a web host reject over 2 million spam emails every week before they reach our Linux web hosting customers.
Anti-Virus scanning on Uploaded files
Active anti-virus scanning is performed on all text files uploaded to our Linux web hosting servers via HTTP and FTP. The active scanning of uploaded files can help prevent exploitation of an account by malware by moving suspicious files to quarantine before they become active.
In addition to utilising the same anti-virus signature database as our email gateways, the breadth of exploit detection includes:
- Over 3000 known exploit script fingerprint matches
- Regular expression pattern matching to help identify unknown exploits
- Filename matching
- Suspicious file names
- Suspicious file types
- Binary executables
The system has been tuned for performance and scalability in order to ensure your Linux Web hosting service remains responsive and reliable.
SSL certificates
An SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificate is a technology that can be integrated into a website to protect and secure confidential data. The key purpose of using a SSL certificate is you ensure visitors trust your website.
You need an SSL certificate if you conduct online transactions via your Web site, if you send or receive information of a personal nature via your website or if you just wish to inspire trust in those who communicate with you via your website.
By taking SSL certificate visitors to your website will see:
- “https://” at the beginning of URL address.
- a closed padlock in their browser to indicate that connection to site is secure.
- a Site Seal image, offering additional verification information when clicked on.
We can provide SSL certificates (Organisation Validated) for use with all of our web hosting packages, for more information please contact our Sales team on 01706 902000.