Xoops hosting
Xoops is an acronym for eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. It is a program that facilitates the creation of dynamic websites and is a perfect tool for the development of a range of community websites, corporate and intra company portals, weblogs etc.
It is basically an open source content management system. The open source content management allows a large community of people who use it to work on it and thus it goes through a process of continuous improvement. This community of people can update new features; give good tips as also give advice on the internet on the various forums that are created specifically for this software. The Xoops hosting comes in a number of languages and thus can be used by a number of people around the world. Handling Xoops is not rocket science and even a novice can use it after going through the installation guides and reading a bit about html, PHP etc.
Xoops hosting can be used for personal weblog or journals, for medium sites as also for large company sites. A standard install is sufficient for the weblogs and the journals. As for the medium sites, modules such as the News, Forum, Download, Web Links etc can be 
used, to interact with members as well as the visitors. And for the large enterprise sites there are options to develop personal modules like the e-Shop.
Xoops hosting comes with features that give unlimited bandwidth and disk space which makes the problem of restricted space the least of your worries. Xoops makes use of the "Smarty" template engine which facilitates a perfect separation amongst content caching and business logic. Another good feature of Xoops is that it lets the user insert title and meta tags which help in enhancing the ranking of the page and thus the site can be found easily on the various search engines. Xoops also provides options that help in customizing the site as you want it. Users registered with Xoops can edit their profiles, select themes for the site as per their choice (the administrators as well as the users have a choice for choosing their preferred themes), upload avatars, and do much more! It is secured since the administrators can set permissions for access for the members.
XOOPS uses a relational database. Currently it is using the MySQL to store the data that is needed for running the content management system based on the web. Modules can be installed, uninstalled, activated and deactivated with the module administration system of XOOPS.
The software requirements of Xoops are as follows:
Server requirements: Apache, IIS, Roxen, etc
PHP version requirements: For the XOOPS 2.0.x, a PHP Version 4.1.0 or greater is required while for the XOOPS 2.2.x a PHP version 4.2.0 or higher is needed.
Database requirements: It requires a MySQL Database 3.23.XX or 4.X.XX.
Hardware requirements: There are no specific hardware requirements to run XOOPS smoothly. Many platforms have helped in the successful running of Xoops. These are Windows 98, 98SE, 98ME, Windows 2003 Standard, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows NT, Linux, Mac OS X etc.
More info:
Official Xoops webpage