Some popular programs that operate on our servers

X-Cart Shopping Cart Software is one of the more popular ecommerce shopping cart systems on the web. For a little more than $100 you can have a busy online store with inventory management, gift certificates, multiple pricing and discount tools.
Fantastio deLuxe Software Intallation - while once a mighty giant in the automation of installing scripts on web sites, over the past few years the community that support the software has been neglected by the developers leaving software updates rarely completed. Hands-on Web Hosting switched to Softaculous and never looked back.
Magento Shopping Cart has taken the eCommerce community by storm and are rated one of the top FREE shopping carts on the web today. We have worked extensivly with Magento for the past few years and while there is a steep learning curve when starting out, the software can do everything you could imagine.
Wordpress Blog Software if you've heard someone mention a Blog before, then you've heard about WordPress. It is the number one rated Blog CMS Software on the web. WordPress software plays host to everyone from a multi-billion dollar company to a person describing how dirt tastes. It's the preferred blogging tool on the web.
cPanel is one of the popular control panels on the web. Plesk is the other popular choice for hosting companies. We've worked with cPanel for more than a decade and in our opinion (and our users), it's the best choice for web hosting control panels.
Apache is the web software that we use. The latest incarnation is 2.2.x. With a very long track record (first released in 1995) the software has lived up to the demands of the internet. There are no plans to change from the Apache HTTP Server software, however LightSpeed is a popular user choice for busy servers also.
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is one of the top scripting and programming languages designed to produce dynamic web pages. Developed in 1995, it has gone through many changes. The latest release (PHP 5.3) is incompatible with a lot of older software. For this reason, Hands-on offers both PHP 5.2 and PHP 5.3 systems to users.
MySQL is the database system that we use here at Hands-on. It is the most popular open source database system used by thousands of web hosting companies.
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