DotNetNuke hosting

DotNetNuke hosting provides an open-source content management system which is perfect for powering corporate intranets and extranets, commercial websites as also online publishing portals. DotNetNuke can be installed and hosted easily and is built on the Microsoft ASP.NET Visual Studio platform. DotNetNuke hosting provides you with easy options to create and manage dynamic websites. No special development tools are necessary for creating web sites with DotNetNuke.

DotNetNuke hosting requires MS SQL 2005 or MS SQL 2008 database for the purpose of installation. Without the MSSQL database DotNetNuke cannot be installed as the free installation won’t work. The other requirements are Windows 2003 hosting with IIS 6 hosting compatibility and Windows 2008 hosting with IIS 7.0 hosting.

The following components are required for DotNetNuke hosting:

Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008,Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 are the various options that support DotNetNuke hosting.

Web Server: The Microsoft IIS 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, 7.0 or 7.5 can be used.

Database Server:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or 2005 Express
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or 2008 Express

.NET Framework

• 3.5 SP1
• 4.0

The following are the recommend components for DotNetNuke hosting

• Windows Server 2008 R2
• IIS 7.5 web server
• the database server SQL Server 2008
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Benefits of DotNetNuke hosting:
There are no licensing issues with Dot Net Nuke Hosting. The software can be incorporated, modified, and adapted for personal or business use without any legal worries. It is fully extensible. It can create highly complex content management systems completely with the help of its built-in features. At the same time it allows the administrators to work with the third party assemblies, add-ons and custom tools effectively. DotNetNuke hosting allows customization of the web site. It comes loaded with built-in tools which help in having good functionality. The site hosting, content, design, and the security and membership options can be easily managed and customized with these tools.

DotNetNuke is designed and well-researched so as to make it easy for users to manage all aspects of their projects in a simple manner. There is continuous user interface and various help icons and site wizards that make it all the more easy. The user base of DotNetNuke project has been consistently on a rise with more than 125,000 registered users, as you can noticed from the numbers of its forums users. It also enjoys an extensive support from its talented core team of developers. There are also various support communities all over. DotNetNuke hosting supports various portals or sites. It lets the administrators manage any number of sites each highly customised with their individual look and identity but all sharing a single hosting account.

The open source nature of DotNetNuke hosting allows the users to do whatever they want with the application framework, commercially as well as non-commercially. These programmers can bring in various modifications that they think are suitable, the only requirement being that the credit for the same has to be given back to the DotNetNuke project community. The webmasters can modify the source code, read and redistribute etc. DotNetNuke hosting supports multiple languages which lets the users translate their portals in various different languages.

More info:
Official DotNetNuke website
A large collection of DotNetNuke templates, modules and extensions