Let’s say for example, a customer signs up to Top Hosting Center’s popular Cpanel Cloud Shared hosting plan. Aside from the value he gets from the advertised specs of the selected hosting plan – which includes generous disk storage, monthly bandwidth, free domain name and advanced web programming support – he is also entitled to receive software services such as extended data protection, web software installation, and many more. Some hosting companies offer these as separate paid services yet Top Hosting Center is offering them for free. Yep, they’re a huge bargain.

Top Hosting Center’s cloud computing data protection and backup services is powered by R1Soft. R1Soft provides continuous data protection tools that guarantees full data protection and fortify the stability and extensibility of Top Hosting Center’s cloud servers, cloud storage, and cloud shared hosting. Top Hosting Center follows a 15-day restore points of all web data with backups taken daily, and 15 days worth of backups of all databases with restore points available every 6 hours. Meaning, customers can restore a broken or an accidentally deleted database at any time upon request.

Customers who use MySQL as their web application’s database engine are also guaranteed to experience an optimum database support. Top Hosting Center’s support team are highly qualified – that’s why the company is accepted and a proud MySQL Enterprise Hosting Partner. MySQL database servers are routinely being optimized to maintain its zippy performance and high database server uptime rating.

You will only learn about how useful and how great these free services are once you’ve tried Top Hosting Center’s premium yet affordable cloud hosting and cloud server plans for your personal and business website needs.

For more information, browse Top Hosting Center’s products at: http://www.tophostingcenter.com

Today we’ll discuss about Drupal, its features and ability to run smoothly on cloud hosting.

Drupal as its official website explains, “is a free software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.” By “variety” it means that Drupal can be tailored to any website a user likes to build. It is a content management system (CMS) that can be used to create the following types of sites:

• Community web portals
• Discussion sites
• Corporate websites
• Intranet applications
• Personal website and blog
• Aficionado sites
• E-commerce websites
• Resource directories and
• Social networking sites

By the looks of its capabilities, it appears that it directly competes with another popular CMS called Joomla. And like Joomla, it supports add-ons and plugins to extend its functionality.

Drupal has a minimal installation disk space requirement of 3MB and approximately from 40 MB to 60 MB for usual installation including custom themes and plugins. Drupal also has been deployed successfully on both Apache and IIS web servers, which means it can run on any cloud hosting or cloud server package offered by Top Hosting Center regardless of the operating system installed on them. For its database server, Drupal can be powered by the most popular database platforms such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle – with MySQL being the most recommended engine that the Top Hosting Center supports.

Just like most free web software, Drupal’s basic requirements reveal that it can run quite well on all Top Hosting Center cloud hosting and cloud server plans. For new users, the Cloud CPanel Shared Hosting plans offer the easiest path as CPanel includes one-click automatic software installer called “Fantastico.” However, this is only recommended for users who are planning to build personal websites as Drupal recommends a manual installation for websites concerning production, business and security.

Top Hosting Center’s brilliant 24×7 support team assists customers who want to do a manual Drupal installation. The latest stable versions of the software as of this writing are Drupal 6.19 and 5.23.

Let’s explore that out.

Coppermine is multi-purpose and fully-featured web gallery software written in PHP and uses GD and ImageMagick as image library. It can run on any good web server (preferably Apache) and supports the latest version of MySQL database engine as its backend. All these requirements are successfully met by Top Hosting Center’s cloud shared hosting plans including Cloud Sites plans – so customers can opt to install this script should they want to have an image gallery integrated on their cloud websites.

Aside from the script’s zippy performance, Coppermine photo album is easy to implement and boasts the following specific features:

• arrangement of pictures in categories and albums
• picture information stored in database
• web interface or FTP upload methods
• full multimedia and thumbnailing support
• integrated search and advanced search modules
• last added and random photos
• user registration
• user management (private galleries and group permissions)
• tight integration of user management with various forum scripts such as phpBB, YaBB, Simple Machine Forums, Invisionboard and vbulletin
• searchable image meta information (caption, title, description, and user-defined fields)
• Multilanguage support
• User comments and e-cards feature
• Plugins API (allows e-commerce functionality) and themes
• Password-protected albums

Top Hosting Center customers who want to use this script may send a request to the support department to have the script installed on their website. For advanced users, a copy of the script can be downloaded directly from Coppermine’s website located at: http://coppermine-gallery.net/

The latest stable version of Coppermine as of this writing is version 1.5.8.

PSI DSS or “Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards,” as its name suggests, is a set of security standards set forth by PCI Security Standards Council, an organization founded by the five major credit card companies namely American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard and Visa. PSI DSS are the official security standards created by the PCI Council aimed to reduce payment card fraud.

Top Hosting Center’s implemented many security improvements on its credit card payment system to comply with the PSI standards.

As a PCI DSS compliant company, Top Hosting Center’s credit card payments and related transactions are now guaranteed to be fraud-free. The move underscores the company’s commitment to provide its customers the most secure environment for electronic payments in addition to the delivery of the best cloud hosting experience.

Customers now need not to worry about their online payments done on Top Hosting Center website. They can begin to purchase cloud hosting plans or additional cloud server add-ons in easier, flawless and hassle-free manner.

Top Hosting Center encourages its customers to check the updated Privacy Policy.

For cloud hosting customers who do not want to incur any cost, the company highly recommends popular open source image gallery applications that are free and easy to install.

On top of our list is the web software called Gallery 2, a photo album organizer that features support for unlimited images and albums (restricted only by the disk space available on your cloud hosting account), support for auto image rotation and thumbnails generation, slideshows, and RSS publishing.
Among Gallery 2’s comprehensive features are the following:

• Easy Installation and Upgrades
• 100% Multi-User Ready
• User and Group Management
• Support for Themes
• Comprehensive Permission Management (Album and Item Level)
• Extensible – Add / remove Features by Installing ‘modules’ and Change the Look by Switching ‘themes’
• Over 25 Integrations into CMS, Portal, Forum, Blog Software and other Systems
• Internationalized (Support for Foreign Languages)
• Community Building Features (User-Albums, Comments, User Self-Registration)
• Scalable – Manage Over a Million Items and Thousands of Users
• Image Firewall (Downloads are Protected Through Application-Level Permissions)
• Advanced Security
• Portability
• Multimedia Ready and
• Unlimited Number of Sub-Album Levels

The Gallery 2 application is written in PHP and uses MySQL database. It is compatible to all Top Hosting Center Cloud Shared and Cloud Sites hosting plans. The highly customizable and can be integrated with custom-coded websites.

Cloud hosting customers can install Gallery 2 by downloading the web software from its website and installing the software by themselves – or better yet – requesting Top Hosting Center’s customer support to install it for them either through live chat or ticket support. You would be required to provide your account username and the domain name on where the application will be installed and get notified when it’s ready to use.

The Gallery 2’s official website is located at: http://gallery.menalto.com/

The video tutorials are aimed for both End Users and Resellers.

For Top Hosting Center customers that use CPanel control panel – who are the subscribers of all plans of Cloud CPanel Shared Hosting – the availability of 29 video tutorials will be seen as excellent resources to make the management of cloud hosting websites easier and faster than what it already is.

Nearly all “how to” questions are answered surrounding CPanel control panel. From adding a domain name or sub domain, creating a database, setting up email accounts to using Webmail and customizing the CPanel interface, the broad coverage ensures new customers can master how to use CPanel in just a matter of minutes.

For Resellers, there are 30 available video tutorials that cover CPanel WHM. Advanced topics such as managing DNS Zones, bandwidth usage limiting, installing SSL certificates, and checking the server status are available along with many other topics. Top Hosting Center makes it easy for resellers not only to master how to use their products but to manage effectively their clients’ accounts.

The company plans to add more videos to cover the rest of its products.

With the advent of Top Hosting Center Wiki, customers now have more options than ever if they need help and support. Top Hosting Center already helps customers by assisting them through live chat, through phone support, and through its trouble ticketing system.

The launch of the cloud wiki underscores the company’s strong commitment in fulfilling its promise to give its customers the best cloud hosting and cloud server experience on the Web.

This time, the update changes the way its existing customers access the sites that allows them to configure their hosting, manage their email and FTP accounts, and tweak their websites. Top Hosting Center has setup a unified login portal page that includes all logins concerning the company’s Cloud Hosting, Cloud Sites, Cloud Servers, and Domain Name customers which direct them to the control panels of their subscribed services.

Customers no longer need to remember long and confusing URLs to manage their cloud hosting websites, to register or to transfer new domain names, or to review their cloud servers billing information.

The new login portal is accessible through the Customer Login link found in the website’s header section.

Customers can also access the login portal by the typing the following web address in their favorite web browser: http://www.tophostingcenter.com/login

The update makes it easier for customers to learn the full specifications and to sign up for any Top Hosting Center’s cloud server packages.

Just like its Cloud Shared and Cloud Sites hosting landing pages, website visitors and existing customers can now easily compare the specifications of the company’s four cloud server packages which are shown in a table.

The information shown in the specifications table includes the cloud servers’ core resources such as the number of CPU cores, disk storage space, RAM, elastic public IPs and monthly bandwidth.

Each cloud server’s free configuration features like the supported editions of Windows and Linux server OS and database engines are also shown in great detail along with the free network features.

Customers who wish to upgrade their new or existing servers will also find the price guide of extra services and add-ons to be useful.

For customers who are still planning to purchase a cloud server plan, Top Hosting Center highly recommends its best seller package, the Cloud Server C. The package has minimum specs of 100 GB disk space, 1 GB RAM, 10 elastic public IPs, and 1 TB bandwidth. It’s a decent cloud server for everyone that offers a favorable and secure hosting environment for websites of any type or size.

For further questions and inquiries, you may contact Top Hosting Center’s live chat support department using the sidebar chat buttons found on most pages at Top Hosting Center.

Individuals and companies can both benefit from the use of a cloud storage solution. Cloud storage is an Internet-based storage solution that is highly scalable and virtually accessible from anywhere at any hour.

Here are the 3 major benefits of cloud storage:

1. Savings

Cloud storage solutions aim to replace or complement the traditional storage solutions used by individuals and companies. With a cloud storage solution, individuals and companies need only pay for the storage they actually use. It also lessens the need to install an extensive storage infrastructure or to buy physical storage devices for office or personal use, therefore minimizing costs and achieving savings of both time and money.

2. Business Focus

Cloud storage takes away the need for companies to look for additional personnel to handle storage maintenance tasks such as data replication, backup, and monitoring. The service provider takes care of these tasks enabling them to focus their energy and time with their core business concerns.

3. Flexibility

Cloud storage solutions don’t just work the same as a local storage, they are accessible from anywhere and at anytime. Employed with secure authentication methods, companies and authorized individuals can download and upload data from and to their cloud storage in high speeds using popular data transfer protocols such as SCP and FTP. Cloud storage can be used as data storage for websites, can be used as personal data storage, or can serve as an Internet backup repository.

Top Hosting Center is a proud provider of affordable cloud storage solutions.

The company’s cloud storage plans accept any files as small as a few kilobytes to an enormous 5 GB file size. They can be used for many different purposes and by new and existing customers to complement their cloud hosting, cloud sites hosting, and cloud servers.

Its economic resistance is one of many vital factors that make it a reliable cloud hosting provider and a viable company for any serious web business investments. Customers can easily lose or affect their businesses when their service provider runs into trouble. It’s crucial that customers know the economic fortitude of a cloud hosting company to ensure the safety of their own business – and of course, in addition to other factors such the quality of hosting, security, support and affordability of products.

But how would you know how good a cloud host is? It’s fairly simple. In addition to the quality of its products and support, one must determine how long the cloud hosting company has been running its business and learn what their customers are saying.

Top Hosting Center, for instance, started as a local web hosting provider in 2003 and began accepting international customers in 2006. Since then it became a dominant provider of web hosting services. When the web hosting industry started to shift to cloud computing, the company became one of few providers of true cloud hosting and cloud servers when it launched its cloud products in early 2010. It appeared, since then, that the experience earned by Top Hosting Center allowed it to offer the best cloud hosting services with the most affordable prices.

It’s quite apparent when you read what their customers say in the website’s testimonial page. The following are just a few of what you will find:

“Top Hosting Center is definitely one of the best and most courteous of the many hosting companies I have worked with. A response time of a week used to be common in my dealings with hosting companies, but Top Hosting Center has put them all to shame. Not only did they help me get the best setup for my sites, but they did it so fast and at such great prices, I see no reason to go with anyone else.” – Levi DeHaan

“So far I have tried and worked with many hosting companies. But, I’m proud to say that even with these small short comings you are the best (as far as customer care and services are concerned) among all hosts which I tried and worked with.” – Hemachandra Ranathunga

“Thank you. Everything seems to be working just fine. I appreciate the extra effort on your part, and I am recommending your company.” – Chris Padgett

Top Hosting Center is also not foreign to economic and technical obstacles. However, as an experienced provider of quality cloud hosting services, it knows how to stay afloat and its backup services ensure full customer data protection. From its wide array of cloud shared hosting plans to its high-performance cloud servers and cloud storage solution, the company has proven successful to deliver its promises. And in most cases, customers receive more value than what they have paid for.