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Top Hosting Center today announces that the company’s online payment gateways are officially PCI DSS compliant.

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.

If you’re looking to build an image gallery website on your cloud hosting account, there are plenty of options you can look at to build one. Top Hosting Center supports popular web languages and database engines that give you more flexibility to choose a suitable image gallery system that fits your needs.

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/