Downtown Host Reviews and Hosting Features

Coppermire Photo Gallery

2009-07-22T08:24:00.000-07:00

What is Coppermine Photo Gallery
Coppermine Photo Gallery is a free image gallery system featuring arrangement of pictures in categories and albums, upload through web interface, full multimedia support, thumbnails and intermediate size pics, search feature, new and random pictures, user management (private galleries, groups), user comments, integration with bulletin boards, e-cards feature, slideshow viewer, etc.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Coppermine Photo Gallery through Fantastico.

Additional Help
Visit the official Coppermine Photo Gallery site for support forum, documentation, demo, tutorials, and plugins.

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4Images Gallery

2009-07-09T06:18:00.000-07:00

What is 4Images Gallery
4Images Gallery is an image gallery system featuring unlimited categories and subcategories, click statistics, database backup function, multi language support, RSS feeds, auto thumbnail, user ratings, protection against hotlinking, etc.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of 4Images Gallery through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official 4Images Gallery site for demo screenshots, and forum.

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phpCOIN

2009-07-08T06:47:00.000-07:00

What is phpCOIN
phpCOIN is a free billing and invoicing application that is able to handle clients, orders, invoices, notes and helpdesk. phpCOIN's usage is not restricted for reseller hosting.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of phpCOIN through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official phpCOIN site for demo, support forum and online manual.

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AccountLab Plus

2009-07-08T06:40:00.000-07:00

What is AccountLab Plus
AccountLab Plus is a hosting billing application. AccountLab Plus can auto-create hosting accounts, auto-create billing accounts and invoices, is able to setup unlimited hosting plans, accepts payments from over 15 payment processors, has a built-in support ticket system and many other features.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of AccountLab Plus through Fantastico

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FAQMaster Flex

2009-07-08T06:26:00.000-07:00

What is FAQMaster Flex
FAQMaster Flex is an FAQ system featuring unlimited categories/questions/answers and web-based administration.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of FAQMaster Flex through Fantastico

Additional Help
The official site for FAQMaster Flex no longer exists.

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vBulletin

2009-07-08T05:52:00.000-07:00

What is vBulletin
vBulletin is a powerful forum application featuring a template driven interface, custom user fields, extensive admin control panel, inline moderation, flexible plugin system and many other features.

Minimum requirements to install vBulletin
PHP and MySQL(preferably MySQLi). *Downtown Host offers PHP 5.2.9 and and MySQL 5.0.81 with MySQLi enabled.
Note: vBulletin is not a free software and you need to purchase a license to buy it. The license details can be found at the official site mentioned below.

Installations
Follow the steps outlined in the vBulletin manual.

Additional Help
Visit the official vBulletin site for license purchase, documentation, manual, support and forum.

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MyBB

2009-07-08T05:38:00.000-07:00

What is MyBB
MyBB is an open source forum application. MyBB features fulltext search capabilities, easy customization with templates and themes, conversion from other forum application using the merge system, forum statistics, extensibility via plugins and many other features related to members, posts, threads, moderators and administrators.

Minimum requirements to install MyBB 1.4.8

PHP v4.3.11 with XML extension installed. *Downtown Host offers PHP 5.2.9 with XML extension installed.
MySQL v4.0 or above. *Downtown Host offers MySQL 5.0.81.

Installing MyBB
Follow the installation guide.
Note: It's not mentioned in the installation guide but you need to manually setup the database for the MyBB forum. If not, you are likely to get stuck at the database configuration step.

Additional Help
Visit the official MyBB site for documentation, support forum, themes and templates, plugins, and demo.

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SMF

2009-07-08T05:30:00.000-07:00

What is SMF
Simple Machines Forum or SMF is a free forum application. SMF features a comprehensive template system, advanced permission and user management, topic trakcing, scalability, search, member navigation and authentication and various other features.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of SMF through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official SMF site for documentation, manual and support forum.

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phpBB

2009-07-08T05:24:00.000-07:00

What is phpBB
phpBB is an open source forum application. phpBB features a simple user interface and admin panel, various customization of key features, and scales well with any forum size.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of phpBB through Fantastico.

Additional Help
Visit the official phpBB site for documentations, tutorials, knowledgebase and forum.

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Support Services Manager

2009-07-08T05:20:00.000-07:00

What is Support Services Manager
Support Services Manager is a support desk application featuring a knowledge base management and CRM solution.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Support Services Manager through Fantastico.

Additional Help
The official Support Services Manager site no longer exists.

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Support Logic Helpdesk

2009-07-08T05:16:00.000-07:00

What is Support Logic Helpdesk
Support Logic Ticket is a support tickets system featuring multiple email addresses, admin/staff/user panels, canned responses, HTML tags support, email limit on a per user/day basis, attachments.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Support Logic Helpdesk through Fantastico.

Additional Help
The support and development for the application has been ended since a few years ago.

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PHP Support Tickets

2009-07-07T21:19:00.000-07:00

What is PHP Support Tickets
PHP support ticket is a simple, one-admin Support Tickets system featuring self-registering, emailing to admin, attachments, etc.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of PHP Support Tickets through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official PHP Support Tickets site for demo, wiki, forum and support.

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PerlDesk

2009-07-07T21:09:00.000-07:00

What is PerlDesk
PerlDesk is a feature packed browser based help desk and email management application designed to streamline the operation of managing emails, support tickets and customer communications, with built in tracking and response logging it is an ideal help desk solution for companies with one or more members of staff or for those who want to organize client communications.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of PerlDesk through Fantastico
Note: License purchase reequired

Additional Help
Visit the official PerlDesk site for demo, documentation, support and forum.

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osTicket

2009-07-07T07:24:00.000-07:00

What is osTicket
osTicket is an open source support ticket system. osTicket features email piping, auto respond, pop3 login, unlimited email addresses, support history, pager alerts for admin, etc.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of osTicket through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official osTicket site for documentation, wiki, support and forum.

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Help Center Live

2009-07-06T07:46:00.000-07:00

What is Help Center Live
Help Center Live is and open source live chat, support ticket and FAQ system. Help Center Live features unlimited operators and departments, visitors monitoring and footprint tracking, chat initiation, auto-save chat transcripts, canned messages, etc.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Help Center Live through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official Help Center Live site for documentation, screenshots, demo, support and forum.

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Crafty Syntax Live Help

2009-07-05T08:52:00.000-07:00

What is Crafty Syntax Live Help
Crafty Syntax Live Help is an open source live help chat system featuring visitor monitoring, multiple chat sessions, referrer tracking, multiple operators, chat transcripts and logs, typing preview, unlimited operators, etc.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Crafty Syntax Live Help through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official Crafty Syntax Live Help site for documentation, screenshots, support forum and additional modules.

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Xoops

2009-07-05T06:35:00.000-07:00

What is Xoops
Xoops is an open source Content Management System. Xoops is extensible through modules and features advanced access control layer, personalization, international language support and authentication.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Xoops through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official Xoops site for documentation, modules and support forum.

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Zen Cart

2009-07-05T03:12:00.000-07:00

What is Zen Cart
Zen Cart is an open source shopping cart and online store management application. Zen Cart features multiple language support, multiple customer modes, multiple sales and discounts, multiple display modes, ad banner controller, multiple shipping and payment options, quantity discounts, featured products and many other features.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Zen Cart through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official Zen Cart site for tutorials, forum, wiki and newsletter.

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TYPO3

2009-07-05T03:00:00.000-07:00

What is TYPO3
TYPO3 is an open source Content Management System. TYPO3 features ease of use, extendability and flexibility through extensions, modules, functions and interfaces.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of TYPO3 through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the TYPO3 site for documentation, tutorials, demo sites and extensions.

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SiteFrame

2009-07-05T00:48:00.000-07:00

What is Siteframe
Siteframe is an open source lightweight Content Management System. Siteframe is designed for rapid deployment of community-based websites where users can share stories and photographs, publish blogs, participate in group activities and send email to each other. Siteframe also features nice-looking templates, oriented toward document-sharing and clean interface.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Siteframe through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official Siteframe site for documentation, demo and support.

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Zikula

2009-07-04T07:54:00.000-07:00

What is Zikula
Zikula is an open source Content Management System and web application framework. Zikula features extensibility through modules, easy to use theme system, built in caching, word sensoring, built in search, WYSIWYG editor, statistics, polls and many other features.

Minimum Requirements to Install Zikula 1.1.1

PHP v4.1.0 or later. *Downtown Host offers PHP 5.2.9.
MySQL v4.1 or later. *Downtown Host offers MySQL 5.0.81.

Installations
Follow the installations instructions at the wiki.

Additional Help
Visit the official Zikula site for documentation, case studies, support, forum, and admin guide.

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PostNuke

2009-07-04T07:36:00.000-07:00

What is PostNuke
PostNuke is an open source Content Management System with focus on flexibility and security. PostNuke features extensibility through a variety of modules and blocks.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of PostNuke through Fantastico

Additional Info
The official PostNuke site has stated that the development for PostNuke has come to an end in 2008 and there will be no releases of PostNuke beyond 0.764. Users are recommended to migrate to Zikula.

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osCommerce

2009-07-04T05:42:00.000-07:00

What is osCommerce
osCommerce is an open source E-commerce and online store management application. osCommerce features online shopping cart, support for physical and downloadable products, email and newsletter to contact customers, invoices, packaging list, statistics, product reviews, secure SSL transaction, multiple shipping and tax functionality and many other features.

Minimum Requirements to Install osCommerce v3.0 Alpha 5

PHP v5.2.0+ (with MySQLi extension). *Downtown Host offers PHP 5.2.9 with MySQLi support enabled.
MySQL v4.1.13+ or v5.0.7+. *Downtown Host offers MySQL 5.0.81.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of osCommerce through Fantastico.

Additional Help
Visit the official osCommerce site for documentation, demo, live shops showcase and forum.

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Downtown Host Reviews (July 1, 2009)

2009-07-04T05:32:00.000-07:00

Review by magicrichard (Review date July 1,2009)
"Review: DownTownHost"
I've just bid farewell to my hosts DownTownHost. I've been with them for 3 years and during that time they have been excellent.

I remember when I was first starting to use them I had tons of questions - all of which were answered patiently. Then I wanted to add a domain (at the time very confusing) and they patiently dealt with me then too. There has been a tiny bit of downtime, but I think that's to be expected and it was only once really noticeable.

I've recommended them to a friend who runs his business sites off them and they have worked well for him too. They are noticeably faster than my friends who (badly) chose to go with GoDaddy.

They are friendly and helpful guys providing a great service. I wish them all the best in the future, and have no hesitation recommending them to people who need the specs that they provide.

My requirements are much lower now and I have switched to GeekSRV where Ed and Terri have already provided some excellent service, and I'll report back on how they are doing in a month or two!

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phpWebSite

2009-07-03T08:02:00.000-07:00

What is phpWebSite
phpWebSite is an open source Content Management System featuring document manager, a selection of WYSIWYG editors, menu manager, photo album, block maker, flexible layout control, web pages maker, polls, information categorizer, event calendar, link manager, form generator, etc.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of phpWebSite through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official phpWebSite site for documentation, support, and forum.

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phpWCMS

2009-07-03T07:54:00.000-07:00

What is phpWCMS
phpWCMS is an open source Content Management System. PhpWCMS features an easy learning curve, flexibility to separate layout and content, and lots of other powerful but simple to implement features.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of phpWCMS through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official phpWCMS site for documentation, and support forum.

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PHP-Nuke

2009-07-02T21:28:00.000-07:00

What is PHP-Nuke
PHP-Nuke is a news automated system and Content Management System. PHP-Nuke allows creation of community-based portals where users and editors can submit news and articles. PHP-Nuke features advertising management, encyclopaedia, forum, journal, avantgo(mobile version of last 10 news), statistics, web link, etc.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of PHP-Nuke through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official PHP-Nuke site for documentation, feedback and addons.

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Mambo

2009-07-02T08:40:00.000-07:00

What is Mambo
Mambo is an open source Content Management System featuring inline WYSIWYG content editors, newsfeeds, page caching, content syndication, advertisement management, trash manager, internationalization, statistics, content archiving, and extensibility through addons.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Mambo through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official Mambo site for documentation, screenshots, demo and support forum.

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Geeklog

2009-07-02T08:30:00.000-07:00

What is Geeklog
Geeklog is an open source blogging tools and Content Management System. Geeklog features support for comments, trackbacks and pingbacks, spam protection, internationalization, multiple syndication formats, language filtering and extensibility via plugins.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Geeklog through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official Geeklog site for documentation, demo and support forum.

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Drupal

2009-07-02T05:32:00.000-07:00

What is Drupal
Drupal is an open source Content Management System. Drupal features collaborative book, search engines friendly URLs, full content search, extensible modules, site watching, threaded comments, version control, blogging, polls, discussion forums, news aggregator, etc.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Drupal through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official Drupal site for screenshots, demos, modules, documentation, support and forum.

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Noah's Classifieds

2009-07-02T05:22:00.000-07:00

What is Noah's Classifieds
Noah's Classifieds is a classifieds system featuring categories and subcategories in unlimited depth, image upload for categories and classifieds, e-commerce enabled, variable fields per categories, internationalization, locking categories, classifieds approval, auto-thumbnail generation, classifieds management by user, own Ads submit field creation, etc.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Noah's Classifieds through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official Noah's Classifieds site for documentation, demo, support and forum.

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WordPress

2009-07-02T05:08:00.000-07:00

What is WordPress
WordPress is an open source blogging tool and Content Management System. WordPress features, ease of use, cross-blog communication, spam protection, authenticated comments, intelligent text formatting, easy importing from other blogging tools or sites and a huge selection of themes and plugins.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of WordPress through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official WordPress site for documentation, tutorials, showcase, extensions and forum.

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Nucleus

2009-07-02T04:57:00.000-07:00

What is Nucleus
Nucleus is an open source lightweight Content Management System (CMS). Its main usage is for blog management and it features maintenance of multiple blogs, support for multiple authors, drafts and future posts, design customization through CSS and templates, and extensibility through plugins.

Installations
Downtown Host offers installation of Nucleus through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official Nucleus site for documentation, screenshots, demo and support forum.

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OpenX

2009-07-01T21:36:00.000-07:00

What is OpenX
Previously known as PhpAdsNew and OpenAds, OpenX is an open source advertising application. OpenX allows users of servers installed with it to manage banners from different types of ad networks across as all websites. It allows banner rotation, banner capping, site based targeting, click limited campaigns, campaign prioritization, and performance review of campaigns.

Minimum Requirements to Install OpenX 2.8

OpenX has only been tested on Apache web server with Linux environment. *Downtown Host offers Apache web server that runs on CentOS Linux.
PHP 5.1.4 or higher. *Downtown Host offers PHP 5.2.9.
MySQL 5.0 is recommended. *Downtown Host offers MySQL 5.0.81.

Installations
Follow the install and upgrade admin guide. *It is recommended that you engage the help of the friendly Downtown Host support staff for installations help if you have trouble following the guide.

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Movable Type

2009-07-01T08:38:00.000-07:00

What is Movable Type
Movable Type is a Perl based open source blog management tool. Movable Type features unlimited blogs, online communities, interactive website, podcasting, social media, scalability and numerous plugins.

Minimum Requirements to Install Movable Type 4.261

Perl 5.8.1 or above is required. *Downtown Host offers Perl 5.8.8.
PHP4 is required, but PHP 5 or greater is recommended. *Downtown Host offers PHP 5.2.9.
MySQL 4.0 or greater. *Downtown Host offers MySQL 5.0.81.

Installations
Follow the quickstart instructions.

Additional Help
Visit the official site for screenshots, documentation, guides, forum and plugins.

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Moodle

2009-07-01T05:40:00.000-07:00

What is Moodle
Moodle is an open source Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) designed specifically to help educators create quality online learning courses. Moodle is available in 34 languages and features a WYSIWYG HTML editor, a flexible array of course activities (forums, journals, blogs, quizzes, resources,surveys, assignments, chats, workshops), activity logs and tracking, grading and many other useful organizational tools.

Installation
Downtown Host offers installation of Moodle through Fantastico.

Additional Help
Visit the official Moodle site for demo, support, forum, and documentation.

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Joomla

2009-07-01T05:26:00.000-07:00

What is Joomla
Joomla is an award-winning open source content management system, which enables users to build from simple web sites to complex online applications. Joomla is designed to be easy to install and use, simple to manage, reliable, and comes with extensibility and a powerful application framework.

Installation
Downtown Host offers installation of Joomla through Fantastico.

Additional Help
Visit the official Joomla site for online demo, support, forum, documentation and resources.

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Mediawiki

2009-07-01T04:49:00.000-07:00

What is Mediawiki
Mediawiki is a popular open source wiki that allows users to create collaborative websites and community web sites. Wikis allows site visitor to participate in content creation by allowing live editing of web pages using a relatively simple syntax, history of edits, reverting changes, etc. The most famous wiki, Wikipedia, is powered by Mediawiki.

Minimum Requirements to Install Mediawiki 1.15.0
1. Apache or IIS web server. *Downtown Host offers Apache web server.
2. PHP version 5.0 or above. *Downtown Host offers PHP 5.2.9.
3. Database server: MySQL 4.0 or above or PostgreSQL 8.1 or later. *Downtown Host offers MySQL 5.0.81
4. For thumbnailing images, ImageMagick or GD library is required. *Downtown Host offers both.

Installations
An installation guide is provided at the official site. The official site also contains extensive documentation about customizing mediawiki and numerous extensions.

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ImageMagick

2009-07-01T02:24:00.000-07:00

What is Fantastico
ImageMagick is a powerful software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats(over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. ImageMagick is also able to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.

Installations
Downtown Host has ImageMagick installed on its servers.

Additional Help
Visit the official site for documentations, resources and recommended books about ImageMagick.

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GBook

2009-07-01T02:04:00.000-07:00

What is GBook
GBook is a free PHP script to setup a guestbook for your website. GBook offers IP-banning, private messages, bad word filtering, spam protection, encoding of emails addresses against spam harversters, and look customization.

Minimum Requirements to Install GBook 1.6
1. Linux or Windows server. *Downtown Host runs on Linux servers.
2. PHP4.3.x or higher. *Downtown Host offers PHP5.2.9(downward compatible).
3. FTP access. *Which host doesn't offer it?

Installations
Download the script from phpjunkyard.com. Extract the zip folder, and follow the instructions in the readme file. The whole process should take less than half an hour.

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Gallery

2009-07-01T01:44:00.000-07:00

What is Gallery
Gallery is an open source web-based photo album organizer. It features albums within albums, thumbnailing specific picture area, captions, rotate, reorder pictures, album-based attributes, album mirroring, etc.

Installation
Downtown Host offers installation of Gallery through Fantastico.

Additional Help
Visit the official Gallery site for support, forum and a wiki documentation of the application.

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Fantastico De Luxe

2009-06-30T09:22:00.000-07:00

What is Fantastico De Luxe
Fantastico De Luxe is an amazing cPanel/PHP based Web application. It integrates with cPanel, which is the type of control panel offered by Downtown Host, to grant users the ability to automagically install popular Open Source Applications. With Fantastico the installation procedure of all of the following scripts takes only seconds and can be performed by novices without the need of setting up MySQL databases, importing structure, chmoding files and without the need of other tasks usually associated with installations.

List of included applications
Check out the latest list at http://www.downtownhost.com/scripts.html

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CubeCart

2009-06-30T09:11:00.000-07:00

What is CubeCart
CubeCart is an easy to use yet powerful XHTML & CSS valid shopping cart script. It features unlimited categories and products, multiple payment gateways, downloadable products and easily modified design.

Installation
Downtown Host offers installation of CubeCart through Fantastico

Additional Help
Visit the official site at http://www.cubecart.com/ for demo, tech-support and forum.

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b2evolution

2009-06-30T08:58:00.000-07:00

What is b2evolution
b2evolution is a powerful free and open source blog tool featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, file & photo management, advanced skinning, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs, detailed user permissions and third-party plugins.

Installation
Downtown Host offers installation of b2evolution through Fantastico.

Additional Help
Visit the official site at http://b2evolution.net/ for demo, documentations and forum.

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AgoraCart

2009-06-30T08:09:00.000-07:00

What is Agoracart
AgoraCart is a powerful free and open source online shopping cart & e-commerce system that offers a very wide range of "out-of-the-box" features.

AgoraCart comes with flexibility in full design controls through Cascading Style Sheets, template systems, customizable layouts, custom individual product category layouts and templates, customization of nearly all cart features for the code hobbyist, modular "drop in and go" code as well as AgoraScript, our own scripting language inside parsed HTML pages, that experienced programmers can appreciate.

Minimum Requirements to Install AgoraCart 5.2.x
1. Unix, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or a Linux based hosting account (or server). *Downtown Host runs on Linux servers.
2. Perl 5.8.0 or higher. *Downtown Host offers Perl 5.8.7.
3. These Perl Modules must be installed on your server or webhosting account: LWP::Simple, File::Copy. *Downtown Host offers free Perl Modules installation.
4. Recommended Perl Modules - Only needed if using Real-time Payment Processing Gateways or Shipping Rating Services: Net::SSLeay *Downtown Host offers free Perl Modules installation.
5. FTP or online file manager access with the ability to set permissions on files. *Which host doesn't offer it?
6. Run scripts under your hosting user ID, most servers offer this now, OR the ability to install wrappers (via SSH2/Shell or by your server admin at your request).
*Downtown Host Linux servers users have the ability to add and run their own CGI scripts.

Installations
Follow the instructions at the official wiki. Use the FTP/browser method.

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Downtown Host Hosting Features

2009-06-30T07:50:00.001-07:00

Keep in mind that if the desired hosting feature is not available via Fantastico scripts, you can always ask the Downtown Host support staff for installation help.

List of Downtown Host hosting features sorted by alphabetical order(the numbers in the brackets are the currently supported version)

4Images Gallery(1.7.6) - Image gallery system.
AccountLab Plus(2.8 r14) - Hosting billing software.
AgoraCart(5.2.x) - E-commerce shopping cart.
b2evolution(2.4.5) - Blogging tool.
Coppermine Photo Gallery(1.4.20) - Image gallery system.
Crafty Syntax Live Help(2.15.0) - Customer support software.
CubeCart(3.0.17) - E-commerce shopping cart.
Drupal(6.10) - A popular Content Management System with powerful capabilities.
Fantastico De Luxe - Script library offering easy installations of many open source applications.
FAQMaster Flex(1.51) - Customer support software.
Gallery(2.3) - Online image gallery.
GBook(1.6) - PHP Guestbook.
Geeklog(1.5.1) - Content Management System and blogging tool.
Help Center Live - (2.1.7) - Customer support software.
Joomla(1.5.11) - Powerful Content Management System.
Mambo(4.6.5) - Content Management System.
Mediawiki(1.15.0) - A popular wiki.
MyBB(1.4.8) - A newly popular forum application.
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Downtown Host Reviews (June 11, 2007)

2009-06-30T05:07:00.000-07:00

Review by Kenny Tran (Review date June 11, 2007 with 2 follow-ups)
"DownTownHost Review by A Happy Customer"
The sign-up process was very fast for me. After paying the hosting fee, I got my account set up and ready almost immediately. I found that they had the latest Cpanel (an award-winning control panel for web hosting). The interface is quite cool too in my opinion... Then I set up a mirror of this blog on DownTownHost server and started to test it. To my surprise, it was really slow. I was somehow disappointed, but I still hoped that it was just temporary, so I submitted a support ticket to see how. To my surprise (again), they responded to my complaint within less than half an hour. From there, they actively tested and exchanged messages with me for about 36 hrs. We exchanged around 40 messages in total, but my total waiting time (the time between sending a message & receiving a reply) was only 12h42′ (or 38′ per message on average)... I eventually found out that it was me who caused the prolem because I forgot to change some configuration when setting the mirror on DownTownHost server. After I fixed it, the mirror became very fast (much faster than my old host).

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Downtown Host Reviews (December 27, 2007)

2009-06-29T22:30:00.000-07:00

Review by maniakaz (Review date December 27, 2007, with various follow-ups)
"Downtownhost.com: review"
Signed today for a Bronze plan for 1 year... Then:
14:09 - DTH signup email
14:12 - wellcome email.
Later chatted with their support staf about possibility to restore y site from backup. I have to notice that prior to this their support told it would take 10 days (if I remember well) to move site from Cpanel to Cpanel. So, I decided it would take too long and took backup/restore option. Support tyold me I need to send email and they will do everything else for me. When I finished uploading, emailed them:
15:37 - autoresponder. "Request received"
15:40 - answer from their staff. Site fully restored. ALl they asked from me was not to change in Cpanel. But since there was no information, I did not change anything.
Later I wanted some information about multidomain and tried to reach support chat. Tried 3 times, nobody answered. Later I managed to catch Sebastian and he explained me everything in details. I am very satisfied the way Sebastian works and treats his company's customers.
Prior to this I have bombarded Jedito and DTH support with lots of questions, sometimes trying to get real help, sometimes just testing.
Overall, support is at least 9/10, speed - 10/10.

Follow-up #1:
First impression: site functions slower when compared to what is was at TCH.
Issues:
1. Some problems with my Joomla. At December 29 my Joomla crashed. I contacted support (2007 12 29. 07:58). Soon I was answered something was corrupt and needs to be deleted. The question was if I ok that. Some hours later (7, if I do recall it good) I received an answer telling that
Quote:
This message concerns your Ticket #FIH-215366. We have not received any response back from you in 48 hours
. I responded to support telling "Yes, I give ok on any action that would help to restore my site.". Site was restored, password was restored by first request.
2. Today my site crashed without any explanation. Lasted for maximum 20 seconds (or how long does it take to see Joomla's screen of death and log back into admin panel?). Did not contact support as it solved automatically.
3. yesterday tried to contact support some 3 times without luck. Later realised I had no need to do so - and did not answer to Jorge's email.
Issue number 2 is natural, I think + it did not cause any problems. Support, when is contacted, is allways top quality: the way it is accustomed at DTH and the way it should be anywhere.
Some technical problems remain, but they are my own requirements and has nothing to do with DTH. I think I will solve tyhem one day (untill now - no luck). After issue number 2 there has been no problems untill yesterday.
Overall, I am satisfied with them and I am staying with DTH. Money back? No, thanks.

Follow-up #2:
Negative: none. No downtime, no crash, nothing bad at all.
Jobs done: Installed Typo3 cms on subdomain - works perfectly. I thought there was an opportunity that Joomla will conflict with Typo3. No conflicts. Installed SMF forum - works nice. 2)Parked one domain (which I reveal later).
I am very satisfied with Downtownhost.com. Next month my Typo3 website will start working and getting some real traffic. That's going to be a kind of exam.

Follow-up #3:
One accident: forgot login/passw combination for main site. Tried several passwords and boom - site is gone. Did not ghet the point, bombarded support with "what happens?". It turned to be 100% my fault: after too many attempts their firewall blocked me. Soon everything was restored.
My fault, not theirs - and no more problems with DTH.
I finally have add-on domain (first time in my life!), www.monetos.net. Still in RC phase (Gallery does not work properly). First it functioned as sub-domain of my main website, now as normal domain. No problems found.

Follow-up #4:
2 problems arose:
1) both sites were unavailable 10 April from cca 18 o'clock. Do not know how long did it take, because my internet connection reappeared obnly at 19 o'clock and everything was doing fine. Asked at DTH forum and was told:
The server was momentarily "attacked" by "bots <...>indeed, [server]never was down, but it was overloaded
status: solved.

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Downtown Host Reviews (September 22, 2008)

2009-06-29T22:23:00.000-07:00

Review by dead captain (Review date September 22, 2008)
"10 month review of downtownhost"
In my ten months with them I dont recall ever having a moment of downtime or at least none that I was aware of. And I have never heard one peep from them about any issues at all.

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Downtown Host Reviews (October 9, 2008)

2009-06-29T22:16:00.000-07:00

Review by Pica$$o (Review date October 9,2008)
"Downtownhost 1 Year in Review"
I have been using a company called Downtownhost or DTH for short for over a year now... What stands out to me is the support that they offer, I have submitted a few tickets and they have respond within 5 minutes or less. I did not expect the service to be that quick, in most cases I’m use to waiting 24 hours or more but with DTH it seems that support is on top of any ticket or issues you may have. Beyond that the staff is very friendly always asking if anything else is needed or sometimes going out of their way to either solve your problem or explain something you may not understand.

In addition you will receive a stable and shared hosting plan, something that in the web hosting industry is hard to find. It doesn’t seem that they oversell their plans as the servers are as stable as you treat them. They offer CPANEL and all the software including fantastico is up to date.

However, I have had some downtime to speak of but it has been minimal and somewhat unnoticed. They do the best they can against DdoS attacks but when it comes to a technical issues on the server they are quick to take care of the problem.

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Downtown Host Reviews (November 29, 2008)

2009-06-29T22:12:00.000-07:00

Review by kaihao96 (Review date November 29,2008)
"DownTownHost review"
I am with DTH for almost 4 months and has been very satisfied. So, I thought I'd post a review here.
I am on their blog package, 1GB of space and 50GB of bandwidth at $5.99. I have to say their support teams are wonderful as they managed to solved every single problem I had every time, literally. Also, I love their 'Live Chat' on their website, once you click it, a conversation with them will start, the only bad thing is sometimes it takes longer than 2minutes which is acceptable
So far, the uptime and speed has been good.

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Downtown Host Reviews (December 11, 2008)

2009-06-29T22:08:00.000-07:00

Review by Arshad Vayani (Review date December 11,2008)
"5 months review of DownTownHost.com"
I am hosting my sites with DownTownHost since July 08 and i must say i am really impressed with their quality of service, uptime and site speed. I haven't experienced any major issue yet accept some server modules were not upgraded and were vulnerable so i reported them. Everything is fine now.

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Downtown Host Reviews (August 8, 2003)

2009-06-29T22:02:00.000-07:00

Review by RDX1 (Review date August 8,2003)
"My experience with downtownhost.com.."
Jorge has been very nice and reasonable to all of my requests, the speed has been superb 99.9% of the time, i have never seen any downtime but i have seen slowness a few times, and i understand no server is perfect.

The part i like most about Jorge is he is always fast to reply to my emails, one time he replied right away (% minutes) and the max time has been 4 days (See below) But usually takes him 2-10 hours to reply as he does sleep! But mostly around 3-4 hours at average.

Now, the only bad part as it has taken him a few days to reply due to him being sick, and a few others i can't remember, but either the problem was fixed before he replied, or it was a minor problem that needed to be fixed as there isn't many problems that acquire.

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Downtown Host Reviews (April 24, 2009)

2009-06-29T22:00:00.000-07:00

Review by Fastian (Review date April 24,2009)
"Downtownhost.com – A detailed review"
After being let down by HZ, I looked for my options and decided to go with DTH. Amazingly, the site that took more than 110% CPU at HZ was running without a glitch. ... I was so happy with DTH that I even got a reseller account and started hosting my friend's sites.

During that time, I also had an account with Hosgator (aka HG) for about 4 months that I used for hosting one blog. It was end of year 2007 when my blog started getting heavy traffic. Unfortunately, that was more than what HG servers were built to handle... And guess what, I moved that site to DTH reseller account and it worked there without an issue. Although, initially (without WP Cache) the CPU usage was as high as 20%-25%, my site worked without an error. Jedito was kind enough to let me tweak few things without shutting down the site. And when I was finally able to implement Cache, the CPU usage/load became 3.5%.

Hardware:
I am with DTH since August 2007 and so far other than two major issues, I haven't seen any other problem with them. One in January 2009, when there was a DDOS attack on the server and I experienced connectivity issue; and one in March209, when there was some server problem. I am happy that they were able to sort it out quickly.
DTH score: (9/10)

Support:
That's where DTH beats any other host any time of the day. Sometimes, I get the feeling that I am not using support desk but chatting with them. The shortest reply I got was in less than 1 minute. And it's not just one time; most of my tickets were responded in less than 10-15 minuets. I wouldn't say that ALL of my tickets were answered within minute. The longest response I got was in 4 hours. But I am still happy because instead of getting reply like "We will update you shortly"... I got the reply "It's done". Whenever I needed them, they were there to help out. For me, it's the best support I ever got.
DTH score: (11/10)

Billing/Sales/Customer Service:
With DTH, I always felt that I am a special customer rather than "just another customer" feeling. Whenever I asked for a "little" favor from billing/sales, I got more than I ever wished. I have never seen such a friendly host (and I have been with more than 8 hosts now).
DTH score: (12/10)

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Downtown Host Reviews

2009-06-29T21:42:00.001-07:00

All the reviews here are gathered from various reputable sources. Our policy here is to collect only reviews by verified downtownhost users. Web hosting review from review sites are not included as any users could post them without having to verify their identity.

All reviews, whether positive or negative, are collected, though so far we have found no negative reviews! Do a search on "Downtownhost review" in WebHostingTalk and you can verify it for yourself. In fact, Downtown Host is the only host where WHT forummers reply with "Another positive review for DTH..." .

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Review by Fastian (Review date April 24,2009)
"Downtownhost.com – A detailed review"
After being let down by HZ, I looked for my options and decided to go with DTH. Amazingly, the site that took more than 110% CPU at HZ was running without a glitch. ... I was so happy with DTH that I even got a reseller account and started hosting my friend's sites.

During that time, I also had an account with Hosgator (aka HG) for about 4 months that I used for hosting one blog. It was end of year 2007 when my blog started getting heavy traffic. Unfortunately, that was more than what HG servers were built to handle... And guess what, I moved that site to DTH reseller account and it worked there without an issue. Although, initially (without WP Cache) the CPU usage was as high as 20%-25%, my site worked without an error. Jedito was kind enough to let me tweak few things without shutting down the site. And when I was finally able to implement Cache, the CPU usage/load became 3.5%.

Hardware:
I am with DTH since August 2007 and so far other than two major issues, I haven't seen any other problem with them. One in January 2009, when there was a DDOS attack on the server and I experienced connectivity issue; and one in March209, when there was some server problem. I am happy that they were able to sort it out quickly.
DTH score: (9/10)

Support:
That's where DTH beats any other host any time of the day. Sometimes, I get the feeling that I am not using support desk but chatting with them. The shortest reply I got was in less than 1 minute. And it's not just one time; most of my tickets were responded in less than 10-15 minuets. I wouldn't say that ALL of my tickets were answered within minute. The longest response I got was in 4 hours. But I am still happy because instead of getting reply like "We will update you shortly"... I got the reply "It's done". Whenever I needed them, they were there to help out. For me, it's the best support I ever got.
DTH score: (11/10)

Billing/Sales/Customer Service:
With DTH, I always felt that I am a special customer rather than "just another customer" feeling. Whenever I asked for a "little" favor from billing/sales, I got more than I ever wished. I have never seen such a friendly host (and I have been with more than 8 hosts now).
DTH score: (12/10)

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Collection of reviews:
"Review: DownTownHost" (July 1, 2009) - Latest!
"5 months review of DownTownHost.com" (December 11, 2008)
"DownTownHost review" (November 29, 2008)
"Downtownhost 1 Year in Review" (October 9, 2008)
"10 month review of downtownhost" (September 22, 2008)
"Downtownhost.com: review" (December 27, 2007)
"DownTownHost Review by A Happy Customer" (June 11, 2007)
"My experience with downtownhost.com.." (August 8, 2003)

Downtown Host Uptime Monitoring

2009-06-29T07:56:00.000-07:00

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Statistics as of June 29, 2009(click here for the current statistics)

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Since June 29, 2009
Outages: 0
Total Uptime: 100.000%
Last Check: June 29, 2009 at 11:04 AM PST+3.0

Year	Outages	Uptime
2009	0	100.000%

Year	Month	Outages	Uptime	Downtime
2009	June	0	100.000%	0.000%

Average response time: 0.118 seconds

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Downtown Host Coupons (June 2009)

2009-06-29T02:26:00.000-07:00

Choose any one of the following coupon when you sign up for a new hosting account with DowntownHost.com

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Company Profile

2009-06-29T01:44:00.000-07:00

Owner	:	Jorge Catena
Email	:	support@downtownhost.com
		sales@downtownhost.com
		billing@downtownhost.com
		info@downtownhost.com
Mailing Adress	:	DowntownHost.com
		1455 Tallevast Road
		Suite L2210
		Sarasota, FL 34243 USA
Toll Free Fax#	:	1-866-442-0848
Emergency Phone	:	1-877-384-6781
In business since	:	2001
Whois Info	:	Downtownhost.com