Joomla and Mambo Hosting

For those wanting more than a brochure-style website, Joomla / Mambo is the next step. A complete, award-winning CMS (Content Management System) with a very strong plug-in architecture, allowing non-technical people to be able to setup and run dynamic websites, that is you can host a forum, display the local weather, scrolling news, newsletters etc.

First a quick history lesson
Is it Mambo or Joomla? Joomla has it's origins in Mambo and the two projects are quite similar at this stage. Most modules, components and templates are interchangeable between the two projects. Joomla's team were the core developers of Mambo until November 2005 when the original creators of Mambo (who released the project into the Public Domain) wanted to begin profiting from the developers (volunteer) efforts. The team didn't appreciate their actions and the restrictions being applied to them and decided to take their skills and current codebase and create their own project - Thus Joomla was born!

Server Space Solutions offer full support for both Mambo and Joomla. We offer full support services from templating, updates, installation of components and modules, configuration and custom development work. You can rest assured when hosting your site with us, we have the capabilities to resolve an problems you may have.

PHPlist is a powerful web-based email tool for building and keeping relationships alive with your customers via email. It is a one-way email delivery system. It is great for newsletters, publicity lists, notifications, and many other uses. For both the small SOHO or Medium Enterprises, PHPlist is another tool in your arsenal for keeping your website visitors or customers plugged in to your business.

Some of it's main features:

• The Web Interface lets you write and send messages, and manage phplist over the internet.
• phplist keeps sending messages from your web server, even after you shut down your computer.
• 100 000 + subscribers. phplist is designed to manage mailing lists with hundreds of thousands of subscribers. phplist is excellent with smaller lists too!
• No duplicate messages. No 'forgotten' messages. phplist manages message delivery with a message queue, ensuring that every subscriber gets the email message, and that no subscribers receive two copies, even if they're subscribed to more than one list!
• Open/View Tracking tells you how many users opened your email message. This provides a minimum statistic, as many email clients with privacy or security policies block images (gmail, thunderbird, and others).
• Click Tracking tracks links and URLs. Statistics can be viewed by message, URL or subscriber.
• Multiple Subscribe Pages allow you to choose many different combinations of templates, user attributes and lists.
• Templates are completely customizable, and make site integration a breeze.
• Multiple Templates on different subscribe pages can intergrate phplist with several different web sites.
• Subscriber Attributes like 'name', 'country', and other personal information, are completely customizable. You can specify what information you need to get from users when they subscribe.
• User Specific Content. You can use Subscriber Attributes in message content to make each and every email message personalized with the subscribers name, country, or any other attribute.
• HTML email messages. Subscribers can be given the choice between text or html email messages. You decide whether subscribers can choose, what the default choice is, and what format a message is sent in: text only, html only, or both!
• The HTML Editor allows you to edit html messages from phplist using FCKeditor. TinyMCE is also available.
• Internationalization. phplist is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch and translation work is in progress for other languages.
• Easy Install via Fantastico, FTP upload, or SSH.
• Multiple List Administrators. The super-admin can assign lists to List Managers, who can manage their users and lists. The super-admin user can 'prepare' messages that can be sent by list managers to their lists.
• Subscriber Preferences. Every email message contains personalized URLs for subscribers to update their preferences or unsubscribe. Subscribers can update their own information and keep your database up to date. Unlike most other mailing list managers, in phplist subscribers can change their email address.
• The User Management tools are excellent to manage and maintain large databases of subscribers.
• Bounce Processing keeps your database clean of unused and non-existent email addresses.
• Advanced Bounce handling let's you teach phplist to distinguish between permanent and temporary message-delivery errors. You can define automated actions on receipt of bounce messages according to matches with your regular expressions.
• CSV Import and Export. Use CSV and tab delimited files to import your existing list of users or to export the users on the phplist system for use in your in-house database. phplist's database has a 'foreign key' to help keep multiple copies of databases synchronized without duplicating users.
• Attachments can be uploaded and included in messages for download.
• Send a Web page. Tell phplist the URL of a web page you want to send to your users, and phplist will fetch it and send it. You can even put subscriber-specific parameters in the URL.
• RSS feeds can be automatically sent to a mailing list weekly, daily, or monthly.
• PDF messages can be automatically created and sent as attachments to ensure that your message is seen the way it was designed by all your subscribers, regardless of their email message reader.
• Batch Processing is useful in shared hosting environments. Set the maximum number of sent messages in a given time period.
• Throttling can limit the load on your server so it doesn't overload.
• Domain Throttling limits the number of emails to specific domains to keep on the friendly side of their system administrators.
• Scheduled Sending let's you tell phplist when the message is to be sent.
• Repetition. A message can be repeated automatically to send updated dynamic content and attachments.
• Text from HTML. Text email messages are managed fluently in phplist. phplist will automatically create a text version of an html message. Optionally the message composer can create it manually.

Vtiger came to being as a fork from the SugarCRM code base. The SugarCRM team originally released SugarCRM under a license that permitted people to re-distribute as their own as long as they recognised the original authors. With that being said, they share a similar history and the base features are very similar. The Vtiger team have given the project a more community feel whilst the SugarCRM team have pushed the enterprise solution. Here at Server Space Solutions, we host and support both and recommend either one depending on the size of your business and independent needs.

Both have the ability to integrate with the Asterisk VOIP server and Microsoft Office.

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