Content management system (CMS):  This is a special type of computer application which is used to manage the work flow. This includes managing the work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of electronic text.

The CMS used for maintaining web sites is Mambo. If you think of websites, Mambo is actually the engine behind the websites that manages and simplifies the work for creating, managing and sharing the content.

Mambo is freely available Open source which is licensed under  GNU. CMS software with a simple web interface. It has gained a wide attraction of the user for the easiness of the use.  If we think of the Web host providers they generally provide the support for Mambo. According to the survey 2005 it is the most popular for blog-sites or for personal use, it is also widely used for portal sites, e commerce sites and community sites. However now corporate people and enterprises are moving towards it. It is very user friendly and provides the best features that the novice users can also use it. It offers an interface which is very friendly with point and click functionality such that novice can easily use it. IT has Admin panel to configure your site, no need to know HTML.

It has a support for product support. The development team is constantly changing or updating the website or product. The best thing is that the good hosting companies offer Mambo through their Control panel.

Features of Mambo:

It include the advanced features like Page caching, which is help full to improve the performance on the busy sites.
Advanced Templating techniques and a very robust API.
It has support for RSS FEED and can automate many tasks including the web indexing of static pages.
Printable Versions of the pages, news flashes, blogs , forums, polls, calendars, websites searching anad many others.
It is data driven and used for Dynamic web pages.

IF you think of installing this software , your system must have the following
Apache (Version 1.3.19 or above)  OR Windows IIS
MySQL (Version 4.x or above).
PHP (Version 4.3.x or above)

Many times Mambo is confused to be a “portal”  solution. It is mostly aimed to the squarely at the corporate websites or small and medium websites.

With Mambo you can gather your content and add it to your web site through the web browser interface. This content is added to the database. Mambo allows you to determine the way your content will be served to your site visitors. When the visitors come to your site then Mambo determines which content to display according to the request of the page and delivers the page.

When we talk about Mambo ” Dynamic” and “data driven” are the two words that comes into mind.  When we see the static web pages the content of such pages are hard coded into the page itself, however the Mambo stores the content in the database. The page does not exists until it is requested by the visitor. When the visitors request the page, Mambo determines which content should be presented and how to deliver it. This is how this technology is one of the best Content Management System.

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Day by Day increase in technological standard, the insecurity in the data is also increased. This gave rise to the methods to protect the data to unauthorized people.The data from any means, database, web pages etc. Many people steal the data from the web pages and it is quite simple. If you wish that the new website you have launched should be available to only some users or a group of certain authorized group, or a global access to the website but but restricted access to some of the web pages. You should immediately to password protected directories Service.

This password protected service is also referred as password protected areas, which is a service empowering a limited access to a certain web page or to the entire web site itself. This is done by using the a unique log-in credentials for a certain web page for a limited number of the users. It is very simple process or utility and a very important also. You just need to send the log-in credential to the user you wish to grant access to the specific directory.

How does it works?

The user has to select the directory or the web page or entire web site to be protected. When it is done, only the users having the authorized login credentials will be able to view the page or the site which is protected. When any visitor tries to view the protected page, he/she will not be able to view unless the necessary login details are provided.

Password protection with Host.co.in Hosting

Enabling this facility with a certain directories is carried with few easy steps. This facility is a provided through the password protected area tool which comes with all hosting plans. You need to provide some details, user name and password. Also the domain and the subdomain that is to be protected with the particular directory path. As and when you provide the details you can click on the ‘Enable protection ‘ Button to activate the protection.

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To take advantage of the FTP which is lying behind the fast and easy transfer of files over the internet, and as  the transfer over the internet is growing like a fire there exist a need to have some important things at hand, A FTP Client and an active FTP account.

Through this FTP Client tool the users will connect to the server, this connection is a real time connection. When the user tries to connect to the server through the Client tool the FTP account checks if the user which is trying to connect is having the authorization for that. If the FTP account allows to connect then the user can download or Upload the data from/to the server. This administration of the FTP accounts is executed through Specific FTP manager software.

The FTP area is responsible to deal with the tools that relates to set up and manage the FTP accounts, it manages the FTP sessions as well. FTP is a File transfer Protocol method by which you can transfer the files between computers, usually used over the internet. There is a large amount of information stored on the FTP servers, which can be accessed only through FTP.

You can use any software package for FTP. Many browser include some of its features as built in. for eg Internet Explorer. Many special  FTP applications are available such as CuteFTP, WS_FTP).

Cpanel allows you to set up FTP accounts so that many users can access a restricted part of the system. Cpanel comes with almost all good hosting packages. If the user is not authenticated or doesn’t have a right to access the full functionality on FTP server, he can use the anonymous FTP account to use the restricted part of the system. This Anonymous can be set up through Cpanel.

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