Free Software for Your Linux and Windows Hosting Account

All of our hosting plans include a number of free server-side applications that you can use when developing and customizing your Web sites.

Preinstalled Application

This application is included with your hosting plan. There's no need to install or activate this component. You can use it as soon as your hosting account is set up.

ImageMagick is a powerful set of image manipulation utilities that you can access through your code to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.

Add-On Applications

Are you looking for more complete Web applications to enhance your Web site? These applications make it easy to configure and add functionality to your Web pages. Setup is a snap. You can use our hosting tools to automatically install and set up these add-on applications.

Set up a Blog

BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features.

  

Geeklog is a feature-rich PHP/MySQL blogging tool that you can use to set up and manage a fully functional dynamic Web site.

  

reBlog is an open source web-based RSS aggregator which allows you to filter and republish content within one application.

  

Serendipity is PHP/MySQL blogging tool that you can use to create a dynamic Web site. Serendipity includes an easy-to-use WYSIWIG editing interface.

  

WordPress is a personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. It supports multiple users, categories, comments, bookmarklets, RSS syndication, several APIs, and weblogs.com notification, among other features.

Share Images

Gallery is the next generation of open source photo sharing Web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own Web site whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Gallery to create personalized photo albums on their Web sites.

  

Coppermine is a photo gallery tool that enables you to arrange pictures in categories and albums, create thumbnails of images, search for pictures, and view slideshows.

  

4images is a Web-based image gallery management system where visitors can register and post comments about pictures in your gallery.

Build Dynamic Web Sites

Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to set up scores of different kinds of web sites.

  

Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

  

Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

  

XOOPS is a content management system (CMS) that allows administrators to easily create dynamic Web sites. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community Web sites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more. It can be installed on an Internet host with a PHP-capable web server (e.g. Apache) and a database (e.g. MySQL).

  

DotNetNuke is an open-source Web Application Framework ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, and custom vertical applications.

  

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. It can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.

  

Nucleus is a content management tool that enables you to set up and maintain multiple blogs. It supports multiple languages and includes a commenting system and search feature.

  

PostNuke is software that creates an impressive, dynamic Web site and provides the webmaster with a site they can administer with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge through a Web browser.

Play Games

WWW Paint Board is a dynamic painting tool that allows users to draw pictures online using Vector Markup Language (VML) technology.

Create an Online Community

Advanced Guestbook is a feature-rich PHP script that you can use to add a guestbook to your Web site.

  

Simple Machines Forum is an advanced community software package that enables users to set up and manage online forums.

  

Use Advanced Poll to create, place, and manage a polling system on your Web site.

  

phpCollab is a collaboration and project management system that enables you to set up and manage a projects and share files.

  

SiteBar is a multi-user, multi-group bookmark server that lets you view, add, import, and maintain bookmarks from any Internet-connected computer.

  

Aardvark Topsites is an advanced PHP script that you can use to create a list of Web pages that users can access and rank.

  

  

PHP Arena, Create and manage a database of files for download on your Web site.

Additional Applications

phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, database-driven FAQ-management system that you can use to create and manage an FAQ on your Web site.

  

Noah's Classifieds is a PHP-based general purpose application that allows you to upload, run, and manage classified ads online.

  

The Open Media Lending Database (OpenDB) is a PHP/MySQL inventory application that allows you to easily catalog DVDs, VCDs, CDs, VHS tapes, games, books, and laser discs.