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PHP (short for hypertext preprocessor, personal home page tools as named first) is the most popular web scripting programming language for creating dynamic pages. It can be embedded into html code, and preprocessed by the PHP interpreter. PHP often comes in bundle with MySQL (the relational database management system) for storing data. It is extremely flexible, simple language and there are many scripts both free and paid out there. This blog is powered by one of the most popular PHP scripts – wordpress, a weblog (blog) software that is installed on more than 20 million websites, including many popular like engadget.com, mtv news room, smashing magazine and many others.

If you are looking for PHP hosting then you have come to the right place – IX Web Hosting. IXwebhosting supports PHP (the hypertext preprocessor) and MySQL to run your favorite CMS (content management systems like drupal, joomla, wordpress etc.), galleries, weblogs, forums (phpbb, vbulletin etc). Currently the latest version of PHP is installed. You can further customize some settings with PHP.INI if you need to, or are required like the register_globals that must be off for drupal. There are other options that can be changed, more info at http://www.ixwebhosting.com/index.php/v2/pages.faq_php .

Drupal is free open-source content management system (cms for short) created by Dries Buytaert. It is advanced web software able to create various types of websites, ranging from small personal websites to complex social and corporate web sites. It supports template systems where design is separated from the code. There are severa systems that are supported by Drupal: phptemplate, smarty and others, phptemplate being the most used, and it comes as default in the official installation package which is available for download at drupal.org. There are many free and professional themes available on the Internet, users can also publish their own themes on drupal.org.  Drupal also supports powerful module system (extension system) which extends the functionality of this web software by adding new functions that are not available in the distribution package. You can find free modules at drupal.org/project/modules. Many popular websites use this software as their content management system, even some goverment sites like whitehouse.gov have migrated to Drupal. This is not suprising because drupal is in the top 5 most popular cmss offering great features and security, and a huge community.

Drupal IxWebHosting Review

Drupal can run on IXwebhosting. The installation went smooth and website loadtime is good. One-click installation is available via the quick-apps tool, or if you are advanced user you can install it manually.

Everybody webmaster or internet surfer have heard of Joomla – the content management system. It is free, open-source licensed under GNU General Public License, powered by PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor, web scripting language more info: php.net website) and a database backend (MySQL or other). The primary feature of Joomla content management: text, posts, static pages, media, photos, but Joomla is much more than that. It is portal web software with lots of features like:
* Template manager (easily change the look of your website, there are thousands free and professional templates available on the internet)
* Extension system (extend functionality by add new modules, add features, also many free and professional modules available)
* User Management (create social website with user registration, add, edit users, setup permissions and advanced options)
* Menu menager (create, edit menus, menu blocks and more)
* Web link management (add links to external sites, or internal pages, etc)
* Polss (find what users want)
* Search function
* Internationalization – available in many languages
* Contact Management
* Banner Management (add banners to different parts of your websites, counts impressions, clicks, data on user etc)

and much much more. There are thousands more features available thanks to the module system. You can setup forums, blogs, galleries all within Joomla. Together with Drupal (drupal.org) they are the top two cms in the world. More info on joomla can be found on their official website joomla.org where it can be downloaded.

IX Web Hosting Joomla Review

I tested Joomla and it runs without any problems on IxWebHosting. I installed it with hsphere quick apps tool – one click install of many popular scripts. Here is a screenshot of the website: