MODx hosting

MODx hosting is a type of niche hosting. It is a content management system but with its distinct capabilities it turns out to be much more than an average CMS. MODx offers extensive support for AJAX and its other features help the users to gain much more out of the search engine optimization. It is an open-source tool which is written in PHP; it has features that allow the users to create web sites as per the preferences of the users. MODx hosting is the best amongst the other hosting providers thanks to its diverse framework and its compatibility with many web technologies. It also offers a lot of flexibility in terms of usability and allows the users to create personalized applications.

The various features of MODx hosting plan include:

1. Web 2.0 Ready – MODx hosting provides the first free content management system based on PHP with an API offering and which enjoys a complete support for AJAX programming. AJAX programming is a highly powerful technology of the Web 2.0. era. This system gives the user the ability to choose from amongst jQuery, ExtJS, Mootools or any other preferred library.

2. SEO-Friendliness – MODx hosting is the most SEO attractive of any other available web hosting solutions. New modules need not be installed, since it allows the user to make user friendly URLs out of the box. The user can enhance the SEO efforts with the use of the add-ons that are supported. Apart from this the system also makes it easy to edit the metadata.

3. Custom Content – The MODx software allows the user to create personalized content. The MODx Documents feature which is built in is great for the conversion of style images, sheets and JavaScript applications into various documents, like the Word, XML or PDF.

4. User friendly Text Editors – MODx hosting has TinyMCE for downloads which are fast and easy to install. It supports several other text editors such as the FCKeditor tool.

The system requirements for MODx hosting

Server OS

• Linux x86, x86-64
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows XP or Mac OS X also works.

Web Server
Apache 2.2.x or IIS 7.0 are recommended. Otherwise the following are the minimum requirements.

• Apache 1.3.x or Apache 2.2.x
• IIS 6.0+
• Zeus
• lighthttpd
• Cherokee

Database

• MySQL 5.1.x (latest stable release). Minimum requirement is MySQL 4.1.20 or greater (excludes 5.0.51)
• Default table encoding of UTF-8 BOM
• SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, ALTER, INDEX, DROP, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES
• InnoDB and MyISAM table types
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008

PHP & Modules

• PHP version 5.3.3+ is recommended and minimum is 5.1.1+ (excluding 5.1.6/5.2.0)
• Running as FastCGI
• Opcode cache (APC, Wincache)
• zlib
• cURL
• JSON
• PDO, with database driver mcrypt
• mod_rewrite
• Imagemagik
• GD lib
• register_globals off
• PHP memory_limit 64MB or more while the minimum is 24MB
• SimpleXML
• safe_mode off
• magic_quotes_gpc off

MODx is a content management system which is feature rich and supports a lot of new web technologies as compared to other CMS. This makes it more famous amongst all other CMSs. It comes with a number of features that are complex and at times can take time to get used to. But all in all in all MODx hosting is a good choice considering its usability.

More info:
Official MODx website