Top 10 Elgg Web Hosting Companies

Elgg is an award winning social networking engine. However, Elgg web hosting is still rare these days. You will often find that the popular web hosting providers around do not have Elgg web hosting. Most claims that they support Elgg but when you have signed in to their service, you will find that your web hosting in them is harder and more complicated because they are not fully compatible with Elgg. So here are some of the fully compatible Elgg web hosting providers.

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Fully adheres to all Elgg hosting system requirements – Apache web server with mod_rewrite enabled, PHP5, Mysql5, GD, JSON, and Multibyte String Support ect 24/7 dedicated support, 99.9% uptime and 60 day money back guarantee Free automated installation of Elgg

4.00/mo

60 Days

What is Elgg?

Elgg is an award winning social networking engine that had helped schools, organizations, businesses, and associations to create their own fully functional social networking website. Elgg has powered popular companies like Wiley Publishings, institutions like the University of Florida, and organizations like the Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity. This software enables you to create post and edit blogs, build a social network, aggregate news, and share files. It is open source meaning they can edit the source code based on their liking to create a customized Elg-powered website.

Another unique feature of Elg is the spotlight feature where a specific content is flashed on the screen when a user goes online. Your contact updates are displayed in the activity stream and several notification options for messaging and email.

Elgg Web hosting

These are the Elgg Web hosting, if you don’t like them, here are the minimum system requirements for an Elgg web hosting:
The Apache web server needs to be installed with the following modules:

•     mod_rewrite
•     PHP 5
•     MySQL 5+ is needed for data storage
•     PHP 5.2+ needs to be installed as an Apache module (not in CGI mode or safe mode) with the following libraries:
•     GD and Freetype (for graphics processing, eg user icon rescaling and Captcha)
•     JSON (for API functionality)
•     XML (not installed/compiled by default on all systems)
•     Multibyte String support (for internationalisation)

Other notes:
Increase the memory available to PHP threads beyond the standard 8 or 12M, and increase the maximum uploaded filesize (which defaults to 2M).

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