Starting today, our Magento hosting package is equipped with an SSL certificate, which is issued for the domain name of the account. No more shared SSL certificates for your store and no more compromises with security.

Along with the free domain registration, free installation of Magento and Magento Mall, the free templates and extensions installation, we are now providing something, which is a real innovation in the web hosting industry — a free and private SSL certificate for each Magento hosting package.

Given the above for completely free, you have the full set of features to get your online business started easily, while cutting costs in the same time, improving the environment your store will be running into. Last, but not least — you have the time to focus yourself on managing your business and leave the technical management in our Magento professionals’ hands.

Do not waste your time — get started with Magento hosting now and proceed to building your online store with enhanced security!

The RED5 based, Java operated and Flash communication server driven utility will greatly help your Dolphin hosted social network to become very rich in terms of communication, digital content and entertainment.

Having RMS allows your visitors to run video chats with sound in real time, as well as to share files as the conversation goes on. They can also have Facebook-like chat, handy docked in a floating toolbar at the bottom of the screen. Your visitors will also be able to expand their comments behavior by leaving real time processed video comments with sound, as well as upload and share their favorite video clips, photos and music files.

In addition, you can benefit from the tons of Dolphin extensions, which use RMS to create a rich, content and multimedia driven community.

Stay tuned for the next set of great features, which we are about to release!

As of today, we are running an Extended Validation SSL Certificates, which gives high-security web browsers information to clearly identify a web site’s organizational identity. For example, if you use Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 to go to a web site secured with an SSL Certificate that meets the Extended Validation Standard, IE7 will cause the URL address bar to turn completely green (and not only partially, as with normal SSL certificates). A display next to the green bar will toggle between the organization name listed in the certificate and the Certificate Authority (Global Sign, for example). Firefox 3 and Google Chrome also supports Extended Validation SSL. Other browsers are expected to offer Extended Validation visibility in upcoming releases. Older browsers will display Extended Validation SSL Certificates with the same security symbols as existing SSL Certificates (usually a padlock).

In 2006, a group of leading SSL Certificate Authorities (CAs) and browser vendors approved standard practices for certificate validation and display called the Extended Validation Standard. To issue an SSL Certificate that complies with the standard, a CA must adopt the extended certificate validation practice and pass a Webtrust audit. The validation process requires the CA to authenticate the certificate applicant’s domain ownership and organizational identity, as well as the individual approver’s employment with the applicant, and authority to obtain the Extended Validation SSL Certificate. It is a bit tough authentication and verification processes, but it was worth all the efforts that our Security team put in it.

Here are screen shots of how the extended validation works with Internet Explorer. This is the Address bar, which as mentioned is completely green:

At the rightmost end of the Address bar, you will notice also the padlock sign and a clickable button named TMDHosting Inc. Clicking on it will provide you with additional information about the extended verification procedures we have successfully passed.

Here is how the address bar with extended validation SSL looks over Firefox 3.5:

At the leftmost (vice-verse to IE) corner, you can notice similar information regarding the validation. Clicking on it provides more detailed information:

Upon checking the website via a tool, such SSL Shopper, you will find the following data:

The SSL certificate that we have introduced and put in use today is available for the TMDHosting website, Client area, Billing Section and Order form. Now that we have performed this important step, we are planning even more interesting and useful improvements, more about which we will post later this month.

Since we have been founded,  one of our primary goals is always to run the latest software and maintain the best software available for our purposes. While the software it is relatively easy to maintain and, even force, the usage of the latest given version, its majesty, the hardware, requires a bit more time and human power to catch up the latest tendencies.

For years now, we have been collocating our servers in The Planet, however before we consider upgrading our server configurations with them, we decided to extensively research the market, since they were not fully meeting our business requirements and philosophy. Along with the great reliability we were seeking from our data center, we also wanted to find out a devoted and friendly support team, which runs the extra mile for us. Since the beginning of 2009, we have “discovered” SingleHop, which to date have met all our requirements and even exceed them every single time we need to do something with them. From the simplest process — ordering a new server, through the technical support they are providing, to complex tasks, such as racks and virtual private networks setup — they have been simply outstanding. In addition, we have two of their most helpful account representatives working closely and personally with us, which made us keen on switching even more. Until the beginning of 2010, we have been hosting only our dedicated servers with them, but the experience we have had was more than impressive enough.

In the first week of January, our VP of technologies Brandon Fiery, along with our CTO George Moody contracted SingleHop on delivering our new, state of art production servers. Their migration was completed last week and in the table below, you can see at a glance how the hardware behind our shared hosting plans changed after the transition:

As you can see, we have boosted all vital hardware features on our servers, which will also result in great improvement of your website’s performance. In addition to this, we have also added two new cool features to the package, which we will outline in a separate article. The first is the Softaculous script auto installer, which can be found in our cPanel’s “Software/Services” section and the second is the newest cPanel release, which addresses various bugs and glitches — 11.25.

To date, the new hardware is running just fine and we already see improvement in the load average numbers, as well as in the overall overhead and storage I/O stats. We will keep you posted on the development of the situation, which will definitely improve even more.

Stay tuned!

Our goal is to provide our new and present customers with as much as possible information about different open source applications to help you find the best platform for your website. Additionally, we have put all of our efforts to develop a fast and reliable hosting environment in order to experience top performance with enhanced security. Furthermore, we have combined these features with free premium support service and a large amount of free resources such as text tutorials, video tutorials, templates and one-click-installers to add even more value to our hosting solutions.

To help you find the most suitable platform for your website TMDHosting has recently released the Open-Source catalog which includes more than 250 free applications. You can find useful information about them  including application description, screenshots, customers` reviews and feedback. Additionally, we have prepared a fully-featured demos for all of the applications in order to provide you with first-hand experience at no cost. Free fully-featured front-end and admin panel demos are available for all applications — from the most popular one such as Magento, Joomla, WordPress and BuddyPress to the latest yet not widely-known scripts.

As soon as you find the most suitable open source platform for your website you can take advantage of our hosting services which will provide you with fully-featured hosting environment, specially optimized for your script. The full list of the support open source applications can be found here. All hosting packages includes free premium support which will save you a lot of time and minimize your expenses. You can always request a free application installation, upgrade, integration or a free website transfer and our technical support will be glad to assist you immediately.

To help you to the very last step in the process of building your website we have a large collection of video and text tutorials which are freely available. Additionally, for those of you who would like to have a nice-looking template we have also collected many free templates for different applications such as Magento, Joomla, WordPress, SMF, PHPBB, osDate and more.

Check one of the most popular demos at:

Magento, Joomla, WordPress and BuddyPress

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For any inquiries you might have, please do not hesitate to contact our experienced sales representatives – they are 24/7 at your disposal.

It is true that sites such as Digg.com and StumbleUpon have a large team of experienced web developers but you do not need to be an expert developer or have programming knowledge in order to create a similar website. In this article we would like to present one very interesting social publishing content management system which will provide you with all the features required to start our own digg clone website — the social publishing CMS Pligg.

Pligg was created as a social publishing CMS. While most content management systems are designed for only a handful of authors, Pligg CMS was designed to manage a site with an unlimited number of authors. All of these registered users are in control of the website’s content. It is a user driven CMS that relies on independent authors content and participation to manage news articles.

The Pligg Community features allows you to share articles with other members of a group who share a common interest in a topic, provides included a private messaging module, post, comment or rate already posted articles or comments. Additionally, Pligg provides extended user profiles for your members. Furthermore, you are provided with module manager allowing you to extend your website functionality as well as easy upgrade procedure to keep up to date your application and modules. Pligg social publishing CMS is also very well optimized for search engines in order to drive more traffic to your site.

You may review the official Pligg websites gallery here. It provides links to many real active Pligg social networks which you can review as demo. You can also check the official demo of Pligg here.

Our Pligg Hosting Package provides a great hosting environment specially optimized by the official server requirements provided by the Pligg developers. Furthermore, our technical support team will install Pligg CMS for you completely free of charge. On the other hand, if you have an active Pligg website you can transfer it to TMDHosting by requesting a free website transfer — our support team will perform the transfer professionally without any downtime or data loss.

For any inquiries you might have, please do not hesitate to contact our experienced sales representatives – they are 24/7 at your disposal.

Based on the standard WordPress blog platform the multi-user version extends the functionality to a whole new level providing you with the ability to create literary unlimited number of blogs. Additionally, your visitors may register and sign up for their own WordPress blog which will be created automatically without any actions required on your end. In other words, WordPress MU is the perfect application if you are looking for a blog-oriented community website. Our WordPress MU Hosting package provides all hosting features that will be needed, free installation and 24/7 expert technical support.

Related Posts: WordPress MU and BuddyPress hosting

BuddyPress is a set of WordPress plugins and themes which extend the multi user version of WordPress with many social network features such as extended user profiles, private messaging, friends lists and groups as well as user wall (wire). BuddyPress contains all the features you would expect from WordPress but emphasize on the members social interaction. If you are looking for a blog-community network but still you would like to emphasize on member profiles and groups BuddyPress is just for you. Our BuddyPress Hosting package is recongnized as the best on the marked due to the professional support and BuddyPress optimized hosting environment.

For those of you who are about to start their own BuddyPress website we have a special offer. If you sign up in the following 7 days you can get a special discount with PROMO CODE: BUDDY

Related Posts: WordPress MU and BuddyPress hosting

Pligg is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that you can download and use for free. Still, it is not like the other CMS applications and hardly can be recongnized as any other specific type of application due to its unique features. Pligg CMS provides social networking software that encourages visitors to register on your website so that they can submit content and connect with other users. Pligg creates websites where stories are created and voted on by members, not website editors. You can use Pligg to start your own Digg-like social networking community in minutes. If you are going to create your own StumbleUpon clone you will need a reliable and secure Pligg hosting solution. Our Pligg Hosting package provides hassle-free environment for your website needs on an extreemly afforable price.

Laconica (pronounced “luh-KAWN-ih-kuh”) is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which people to “follow” and receive only their friends’ or colleagues’ status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, Jaiku, and Plurk.

Related Posts: Create a Twitter Clone

Joomla Community Builder is an open-source community builder, working as an extension to Joomla. Community Builder integrates all features needed to make your site social and users getting active on your website. Community Builder is designed and tested for stability and performance, and runs on many large sites with concurrent member interactions. Performance audits and database optimizations have been made in cooperation with leading database experts to ensure large site operations. Our specially optimized hosting environment for Joomla websites is a great platform for building your community website using the Joomla Community Builder Hosting Package

Dolphin web community script is a universal software package that allows you to build any kind of online community. With a huge variety of features and options, you can quickly develop your own community, dating or social-networking site.

For any inquiries you might have, please do not hesitate to contact our experienced sales agents – they are at your disposal 24/7.

Outlook

We said “goodbye” to the old green and orange colors and introduced the cleaner, sleeker and more professional blue and black. Much more pleasant for the eye, with interactive elements and glossy menus and boxes, the new design of TMDHosting.com reflects the modern and professional essence of the company.

We changed the colors, but our friend R.O.B.O. is still here to guide you around the new website and help you find your way.

Functionality

With the sole purpose of easing our clients and visitors we have implemented a comprehensive Site Search Tool.  If you are having difficulties with finding any information on our website you can now simply type a keyword and our search engine will give you all the results in no time.

As you know our Sales Representatives are 24/7 available and now it is even easier to contact them for assistance. On the new website you will find a direct Live Chat Box on every page of the website and all that you need to do is type your question and click the send button.

Arrangement

On the new Home Page you will again be able to see our Amazing Hosting Package and additionally you will find links to all of the other parts of the new website. You will be one click away from all of our services, programs and promotions, useful resources and company information. Along with the new design we are introducing a new line of services. Now 3 different VPS Packages will be available to suit your hosting needs.

Despite the fact that we worked hard and we were devoted to create a website that is easy-to-use and resource-rich, we might have missed something out. Our Marketing and Design Teams are open to new suggestions and ideas and will be happy to hear what you have to say. Please feel free to leave us a reply!

It’s a sure thing that even without reading through statistics you can say that the number of people who register daily to use Facebook or Twitter is a huge one. And it’s true – popularity of those community websites is so great that it’s no surprise that the number of BuddyPress users is growing so quickly, too. Before going further in this article, we should say a few words about BuddyPress for those who hear/ read about it for the first time: BuddyPress is a set of WordPress plugins and themes which extend the multi user version of WordPress with many social network features such as extended user profiles, private messaging, friends lists and groups as well as user wall (wire).

In other words, using BuddyPress you can have your own social networking website. So, good news is that BuddyPress has become really popular these days. Our statistics prove that every single day – average number of MU and BuddyPress installations is higher than the number of any other free application. That is why we are very happy that our partners from BuddyPress do their best to satisfy their fans’ appetite. Latest most popular releases of BuddyPress designers are the Shouty and Facebuddy themes.

Shouty and Facebuddy themes are dedicated to all Twitter and Facebook enthusiasts. The great thing about those two themes is that they differ from the default BP theme to a great extent. Apart from the fact that they will give a nice, clean Facebook or Twitter-like appearance to your BuddyPress site, those themes will also make your private network users love your site as much as they like using Facebook and Twitter. Actually, we bet they will love your Facebuddy or Twitter-like site even more.

Here you can check out some sample sites of BuddyPress using Facebuddy and Shouty:

Facebuddy:

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Shouty:

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Well, Shouty and Facebuddy themes can not be used with the older release of BuddyPress but no worries about that. At TMDHosting we do not only offer free installation of WordPress MU and BuddyPress, as a part of our BuddyPress hosting plan, we also offer free upgrade services.

You need only to register for our services and you can start creating your own Facebook or Twitter clone site today. It’s true, it is that easy. No need to worry about installation, right setup, themes change, etc.

Moreover, in case you already have your BuddyPress site running, we will transfer it for free to us with no downtime and save you all the hassle on that process.

You can review our BuddyPress hosting plan offer and start now. For any inquiries you might have, please do not hesitate to contact our experienced sales agents – they are at your disposal 24/7.

What is Magento?

Since the very first stable release of Magento eCommece software thousands and thousands Internet users turned to this platform due to its great functionality, flexibility and almost unlimited features which pushed the eCommerce websites to a whole new level. Not a long time after a large community has been gathered and as a result the world of Magento is expanding every day with new extensions, themes and tutorials. This turned Magento into one of the most preferred and popular eCommerce platforms for people who want to create their own online stores and it is complete free.

Is Magento Mall (Multi Store) different?

Yes and no. Magento Multi Store is actually a standard Magento application which uses the same core files and database as the standard Magento installation. Still, the secret of creating an unlimited number of stores by only using a single installation is hidden behind the great configuration features in the Magento administrative panel.

By performing a proper configuration of Magento you will be able to create unlimited number of stand alone shops using only one installation of Magento store. These stores can be fully independent or different variations of your main store (different language translations for example). Furthermore, you can apply different domains, subdomains or subfolder URLs to every each of your stores created via the admin panel. This provides you with even further flexibility and literary unlimited possibilities when it comes to eCommerce site search engine optimization, URL-friendly links and product categorization.

One of the key features of using one core installation instead of multiple Magento applications is that all of your stores can be configured to use one SSL and check out process instead of ordering expensive wildcard SSL certificates or creating and configuring several check out forms and pages. Another not just a complimentary but a key feature is the available option to set different templates and layouts for different shops you create. Taking advantage of this option will allow you to create unique stores for different product lines you are about to sell.

Hosting for Magento Multi store

It is important to mention that you can setup different domains to different shops without the need of addon slots which are usually considered as extra feature and are a subject of additional fees. Magento Mall allows you to configure your domains as parked which should be provided free of charge by most hosting companies but still point the domains to the desired shops you have created.

Magento Shared hosting

If you are going to create 2 or 3 Magento websites using the Magento Multi store features you may consider a shared hosting account for your needs. A good, stable and reliable shared hosting environment should be fully enough for your needs. TMDHosting complete MagentoMulti Store hosting package and services will provide you with free installation and configuration as well as free Magento templates, video tutorials and text tutorials.

Magento VPS Hosting

If you are going to create a large number of independent stores using Magento Mall you will most probably need more than a shared hosting environment. We do understand that sharing is not for everyone and providing a quality service for your business is essential. Our fully customizable VPS hosting solutions will be perfectly suitable for your eCommerce website. Additionally, they can be further optimized to meet the specific needs of your website depending of the needs and resource consumption. This will assure the maximum performance without exceeding your hosting budget with unnecessary fees and upgrades.

Which hosting plan to choose?

You can easily choose the best hosting plan and start your eCommerce Magento Multi store website in a matter of minutes by contacting our friendly and experienced representatives via our Live Chat. They are 24/7 at your disposal.