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WEBppliance

An application that provides Web hosting services. When installed on a Linux server, WEBppliance is a robust Web hosting appliance that is easily managed through user interfaces.

WEBppliance is packaged with core Web hosting server applications, which allows the hosting provider to offer a full range of services, such as Web server, mail server, FTP server, DNS server, database capability, and site security to their customers.

WEBppliance also includes administration tools, such as a file manager, user manager, and backup and restore manager. WEBppliance provides separate browser-based user interfaces for different levels of users.

These interfaces allow users to easily manage all of their Web hosting administrative tasks.

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