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Indian Merchants and PayPal - Updated Policies

With effect from 1st March, 2011 PayPal requires its Indian Merchat to comply with the new policies as per instructions from the Reserve Bank of India..

For Indian Merchants

1. Any balance in and all future payments into your PayPal account may not be used to buy goods or services and must be transferred to your bank account in India within 7 days from the receipt of confirmation from the buyer in respect of the goods or services; and 
2. Export-related payments for goods and services into your PayPal account may not exceed US$500 per transaction.

For Indian Buyers

1. You can not send money from the balance from your PayPal account. However, you can link your credit card and make a payment from the funds in the credit card.

Receipt of confirmation:

As an exporter of products or services abroad, you need to ensure that your buyer has received the product or services as per specifications set out on your website. As an exporter of goods, you may withdraw the balance to your bank account in India upon reasonable consideration of shipping time and other clearances such as excise and customs for the destination country. As an exporter of services, you may withdraw the balance to your bank account in India upon receipt of payment from your buyer into your PayPal account.

Christmas and New Year Greeting Design For Anand Enterprises, Chennai

Anand Enterprises, a civil engineering and an architectural consultancy firm based in Chennai approached Consign IT to design an email flyer to send Christmas & New Year wishes to their stake holders.

Consign IT designed an elegant email flyer, converted it to a HTML email along with an animated header.

Free Tickets - Don Moen's Live Concert in Chennai, India

Don Moen's Live Concert in Chennai

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Free Software With Every Hosting Package

The Web Applications (aka Installed By Installatron)

Description Aardvark Topsites is an open source topsites system, and is the most-used free "topsites" script on the Internet. From the Author Aardvark Topsites is simply the best topsites script there is. Features include: pageview counts, hits in and hits out, members ranking, and customizable templates.	Script: Aardvark Topsites Website: http://www.aardvarkind.com Version: 5.2.1 Type: statistics Category: Surveys and Statistics License: open source Installer ID: aardvarkts
Description Advanced Guestbook is an open source guestbook system. From the Author Advanced Guestbook is a guestbook script, which allows visitors to your website to post comments. Features include: preview, templates, e-mail notification, picture upload, page spanning, html tags handling, smilies, advanced guestbook codes and language support. The admin script lets you modify, view, and delete messages.	Script: Advanced Guestbook Website: http://www.proxy2.de/scripts.php Version: 2.4.4 Type: guestbook Category: Community Building License: open source Installer ID: advancedguestbook
Description Advanced Poll is a free survey/poll system. From the Author Advanced Poll is a polling system with powerful administration tool. It features: multiple polls, templates, unlimited options, multi-language support, IP-Logging, IP-Locking, cookie support, comment feature, vote expire feature, random poll support and more.	Script: Advanced Poll Website: http://www.proxy2.de/scripts.php Version: 2.0.8 Type: poll/survey Category: Surveys and Statistics License: free Installer ID: advancedpoll
Description b2evolution is an open source blog system. b2evolution forked from the b2/cafelog project in 2003. From the Author b2evolution is a news/weblog tool. You enter your news items through an easy-to-use web interface and the updates will appear dynamically on your webpage. The script also handles archving and commenting. b2evolution is an extension of the 'b2' blog script.	Script: b2evolution Website: http://www.b2evolution.net Version: 3.3.3 Type: blog Category: Content Management License: open source Installer ID: b2evolution
Description CodeIgniter is a powerful, free framework system for the development of web applications. Development is achieved through the creation and editing of files. A commercial version named ExpressionEngine, which includes a web GUI, is available from the website. From the Author Code Igniter is an Application Development Framework - a toolkit - for people who build web sites using PHP. Its goal is to enable you to develop projects must faster than you could if you were writing code from scratch, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries. Code Igniter lets you creatively focus on your project by minimizing the amount of code needed for a given task.	Script: Code Igniter Website: http://www.codeignitor.com Version: 1.7.2 Type: framework Category: Content Management License: free Installer ID: codeigniter
Description Contact Form is a simple open source website contact form. From the Author Contact Form provides a simple way for visitors to contact you through your website. In addition to being a quick and easy way for visitors to contact you, this also helps eliminate spam by hiding your email address from spambots.	Script: Contact Form Website: http://www.installatron.com/itronscripts Version: 1.3mod Type: email Category: Miscellaneous License: open source Installer ID: contactform
Description Coppermine Photo Gallery is a popular open source image gallery system. From the Author Coppermine is a multi-purpose and fully-featured image gallery script.	Script: Coppermine Website: http://coppermine-gallery.net Version: 1.5.8 Type: gallery Category: Photos and Files License: open source Installer ID: coppermine
Description Coranto is an open source framework/cms that uses a flat file (text file) database. Coranto has a very small install size, with much of the functionality added through plugins, and is a CGI script. Coranto is the successor to NewsPro. From the Author Coranto is your everyday Content Management System (CMS). It's designed to be flexible, and you can easily expand Coranto's functions by the use of a multitude of "snap-in" addons. Whether you run a small blog or a fully scaled newspaper with millions of hits every day, you can rely on Coranto's fully browser-based environment to update your site. The script also has its own forums for your support, questions and ideas.	Script: Coranto Website: http://www.coranto.org Version: 1.25.2 Type: framework Category: Content Management License: free Installer ID: coranto
Description Crafty Syntax Live Help is an open source chat-based help system. From the Author Live Help is a multi-user, multi-operator, multi-department live Help support chat system that allows the operators of the websites to monitor their visitors as they are browsing the site and proactively open a chat session with the visitor. Features include auto-invite, referer tracking, page tracking, chat notification, user is typing message, multiple chat sessions, sound alert, leave a message if offline, push urls, quick responses, and multiple operators.	Script: Crafty Syntax Live Help Website: http://www.craftysyntax.com Version: 2.16.8 Type: support Category: e-Commerce and Business License: open source Installer ID: cslivehelp
Description CubeCart is a free e-commerce shopping cart system. A commercial version is also available from the website. CubeCart was previously known as eStore. From the Author CubeCart is an eCommerce script that allows you to setup a powerful online store.	Script: CubeCart Website: http://www.cubecart.com Version: 3.0.20 Type: e-commerce Category: e-Commerce and Business License: free Installer ID: cubecart
Description Drupal is an open source cms. From the Author Drupal is an open-source platform and content management system for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing purposes. Equipped with a powerful blend of features and configurability, Drupal can support a diverse range of web projects ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven sites.	Script: Drupal Website: http://www.drupal.org Version: 6.19 Type: cms Category: Content Management License: open source Installer ID: drupal
Description Feed On Feeds is an open source RSS/Atom aggregator. From the Author FEED ON FEEDS is an easy to use server-side news aggregator that supports RSS and Atom. A news aggregator allows you to subscribe to news sources and have new items collected together on a single page. The newest items appear at the top, and you can mark old news items read.	Script: Feed On Feeds Website: http://feedonfeeds.sourceforge.net Version: 0.5 Type: rss Category: Miscellaneous License: open source Installer ID: feedonfeeds
Description Flat Calendar is a simple calendar system. Flat Calendar was last updated in 2002 and is no longer supported by the author. From the Author Flat Calendar was designed for those of us who need calendar and event book functionality but do not have access to a database, or would simply prefer to store the data in a flat text file. Unlike most of the calendar and event book scripts available, Flat Calendar stores all its events in files on the server without any use of a database.	Script: Flat Calendar Website: http://www.circulargenius.com/flatcalendar Version: 1.1 Type: calendar Category: Community Building License: free Installer ID: flatcalendar
Description Gallery1 is an open source image gallery system. Gallery1 was succeeded by Gallery2, though is still updated. Gallery1 installs can be upgraded to Gallery2 via a Gallery2 plugin. From the Author Gallery lets you manage your photos on your own website. With Gallery you can easily create and maintain albums of photos via an intuitive interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy. Give accounts to your friends and family and let them upload and manage their own photos on your website!	Script: Gallery 1 Website: http://gallery.menalto.com Version: 1.5.10 Type: gallery Category: Photos and Files License: open source Installer ID: gallery
Description Gallery 2 is a powerful and popular open source image gallery system with a large install size. Gallery2 is the successor to Gallery. From the Author Gallery is the next generation of open source photo sharing web applications. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Gallery to create personalized photo albums on their websites.	Script: Gallery 2 Website: http://gallery.menalto.com Version: 2.3.1 Type: gallery Category: Photos and Files License: open source Installer ID: gallerytwo
Description GBook is a free guestbook system, with advanced spam-fighting tools. GBook is also known as PHP Guestbook. From the Author GBook is an easy to use PHP guestbook, which allows your visitors to post comments on your website. GBook includes advanced (and regularly updated) SPAM protection.	Script: GBook Website: http://phpjunkyard.com/php-guestbook-script.php Version: 1.7 Type: guestbook Category: Community Building License: free Installer ID: gbook
Description Help Center Live is an open source chat-based help system. From the Author Help Center Live is a fully-featured support system that includes FAQ management, a TROUBLE TICKET system, and LIVE CHAT.	Script: Help Center Live Website: http://www.helpcenterlive.com Version: 2.1.7 Type: support Category: e-Commerce and Business License: open source Installer ID: helpcenterlive
Description iTron Clock is a free real-time javascript clock. From the Author Installatron Clock is a simple script that allows you to insert a static or dynamic text-based date and/or clock display on your webpage. The display is highly configurable and is easy to insert into any webpage.	Script: iTron Clock Website: http://www.installatron.com/itronscripts Version: 1.1 Type: clock Category: Miscellaneous License: free Installer ID: itronclock
Description Joomla! is a powerful open source portal system, and is one of the most-used scripts on the Internet. Joomla! forked from the Mambo project in 2005. From the Author Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.	Script: Joomla Website: http://joomla.org Version: 1.5.20 Type: portal Category: Content Management License: open source Installer ID: joomla
Description LimeSurvey is a powerful open source survey system, with statistical analysis. LimeSurvey was formlerly known as PHPSurveyor. From the Author LimeSurvey (aka PHPSurveyor) is a leading Open Source Online Survey Tool written in PHP. LimeSurvey allows you to develop, publish and collect responses to surveys. LimeSurvey includes a wide range of built-in question types, and a range of flexible options. Your surveys can include branching, your own preferred layout and design (using a templating system), and can provide basic statistical analysis of survey results. Surveys can be public, or can be strictly controlled through the use of "once-only" tokens for each survey participant.	Script: LimeSurvey Website: http://www.limesurvey.org Version: 1.90 Type: poll/survey Category: Surveys and Statistics License: open source Installer ID: limesurvey
Description Magento is is a very popular open source e-commerce shopping cart system. From the Author Magento is a professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. With Magento, never feel trapped in your eCommerce solution again.	Script: Magento Website: http://www.magentocommerce.com Version: 1.4.1.1 Type: e-commerce Category: e-Commerce and Business License: open source Installer ID: magento
Description Mambo is a powerful open source portal system. From the Author Mambo Open Source Content Management System is the friendliest and most advanced CMS open source software available. Quite simply, MOS allows anyone to manage a web site. It is easily configured for personal sites, and powerful enough for large-scale commercial installations, perfect for non-tech webmasters and advanced programmers alike.	Script: Mambo Website: http://mambo-foundation.org Version: 4.6.5 Type: portal Category: Content Management License: open source Installer ID: mambo
Description Mediawiki is a powerful open source wiki system, and can be used from the web GUI although the advanced administrative tools require SSH access. Mediawiki was originally created to power the Wikipedia project. From the Author MediaWiki is a feature-rich wiki implementation, and is used to run Wikipedia and many other wikis.	Script: MediaWiki Website: http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net Version: 1.16.0 Type: wiki Category: Community Building License: open source Installer ID: mediawiki
Description Moodle is an open source course management system (education) script. From the Author Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. Moodle can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students.	Script: Moodle Website: http://moodle.org/ Version: 1.9.9 Type: education Category: Content Management License: open source Installer ID: moodle
Description Noah's Classifieds is a popular free classifieds system. A commercial version is available from the website. From the Author Noah's Classifieds is the Internets immensely and most popular Classifieds WebSite-Ware on the Web. We now have a software series with the most modern Web-2.0 feel, features, and amazing new feature variations and functionality and we have a truly created on on going and ever growing recipe for a great Classifieds Ads WebSite Software that is perfect for any project.	Script: Noah's Classifieds Website: http://www.noahsclassifieds.org/ Version: 4.0.1 Type: adverts Category: e-Commerce and Business License: free Installer ID: classifieds
Description ocPortal is a free Content Management system for advanced dynamic/interactive websites. From the Author ocPortal is a CMS with many Web 2.0 and community features, for building modern, sophisticated websites. ocPortal supports many types of content (galleries, news/newsletters, etc.) - and integrating rich media and advertising into them. Community features include forums, member blogs, chat rooms, WIKI, and content commenting/rating. ocPortal lets you decide how your site will look and behave. Features are plentiful, but also optional. Feature integration is at the core of the ocPortal philosophy - for example, the site-wide search engine, and the unified member profiles. Out-of-the-box your site will meet the highest accessibility and professional standards, and will appear higher in Google due to automatic SEO. Your website will automatically block and record hacking attempts, and you can control access in different ways such as via paid subscription. ocPortal is designed as the software that'll handle all your needs; you'll get much more than just a Content Management System.	Script: ocPortal Website: http://ocportal.com/ Version: 5.0.0 Type: portal Category: Content Management License: open source Installer ID: ocportal
Description OpenX is an open source advertising banner system, and is the most-used free banner system on the Internet. Openads was previously known as OpenAds and phpAdsNew, which forked from the phpAds project in 2000. From the Author OpenX is a free, open source ad server that is trusted by more than 30,000 web publishers in over 100 countries around the world. OpenX is a powerful ad serving solution that puts control over online advertising back in the hands of publishers.	Script: OpenX Website: http://www.openx.org/ Version: 2.8.5 Type: adverts Category: e-Commerce and Business License: free Installer ID: openads
Description osCommerce is a very popular open source e-commerce shopping cart system. From the Author osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution. Its feature-packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved.	Script: osCommerce Website: http://www.oscommerce.com Version: 2.2 RC-2a Type: e-commerce Category: e-Commerce and Business License: open source Installer ID: oscommerce
Description osTicket is an open source trouble tickets script. From the Author osTicket is a widely-used open source support ticket system. It seamlessly integrates inquiries created via email and web-based forms into a simple easy to use multi-user web interface. Easily manage, organize and archive all your support requests and responses in one place while providing your clients with accountability and responsiveness they deserve.	Script: osTicket Website: http://www.osticket.com/ Version: 1.6.0 Type: support Category: e-Commerce and Business License: free Installer ID: osticket
Description PHP-Nuke is an open source portal system. {installatron} also applies the latest PHP Nuke Patched security modifications. A commercial license can be purchased from the website. PHP-Nuke forked from the Thatware project in 2000. From the Author PHP-Nuke is an automated news system specially designed to be used in Intranets and the Internet. The Administrator has total control of his web site, registered users, and he will have in the hand a powerful assembly of tools to maintain an active and 100% interactive web site using databases.	Script: PHP-Nuke Website: http://www.phpnuke.org Version: 8.0(p3.4) Type: portal Category: Content Management License: open source Installer ID: phpnuke
Description phpBB is an open source forum system. phpBB is the most-used free forum script on the Internet. From the Author phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, helpful FAQ, and is the ideal free community solution for all web sites.	Script: phpBB Website: http://www.phpbb.com Version: 3.0.7-PL1 Type: forum Category: Community Building License: open source Installer ID: phpbb
Description phpCOIN is a free client and invoice management system. From the Author phpCOIN (Clients, Order, Invoices, and Notes) is an e-commerce/online-store solution that includes a variety of modules (store setup and display, customer management, invoicing, payment, and support) within a single interface.	Script: phpCOIN Website: http://www.phpcoin.com Version: 1.6.5 Type: invoicing Category: e-Commerce and Business License: free Installer ID: phpcoin
Description phpESP is an open source survey system, with statistical analysis. From the Author phpESP allows you to create and publish surveys.	Script: phpESP Website: http://phpesp.sourceforge.net Version: 2.1.4 Type: poll/survey Category: Surveys and Statistics License: free Installer ID: phpesp
Description php File Manager is an open source web file manager. A commercial version with newer updates is available on the website. php File Manager forked from a project on phpfm.zalon.dk (site is no longer available). From the Author php File Manager, based on the script written by phpfm.zalon.dk, is an open source, web-based File Manager.	Script: php File Manager Website: http://www.installatron.com/itronscripts Version: 0.2.5 Type: files Category: Photos and Files License: open source Installer ID: phpfilemanager
Description phpFormGenerator is an open source HTML form generator. From the Author phpFormGenerator is an easy-to-use tool to create reliable and efficient web forms in a snap. No programming of any sort is required. Just follow along the phpFormGenerator wizard and at the end, you will have a fully functional web form!	Script: phpFormGenerator Website: http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net Version: 2.09f Type: forms Category: Miscellaneous License: open source Installer ID: phpformgenerator
Description phpLinkDirectory is a free link directory script. From the Author phpLD is now the most widely used directory script on the internet. Our customers have tested the script on over 50,000 websites, and we have been able to produce a script that works in nearly all PHP hosting environments.	Script: phpLinkDirectory Website: http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/ Version: 2.2.0 Type: bookmarks Category: Miscellaneous License: free Installer ID: phplinkdirectory
Description phpLinks is an open source link management system, with search capabilities. phpLinks was last updated in 2003 and is no longer supported by the author. {installatron}'s install of phpLinks includes all known third-party fixes. From the Author PHPLinks allows you to run an efficient Link Farm with full search capabilities.	Script: PHPLinks Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplinks Version: 2.1.3.1 Type: bookmarks Category: Miscellaneous License: open source Installer ID: phplinks
Description phpList is an open source mailing-list/newsletter system. From the Author PHPlist is a web application that implements a personalised mailing list manager or customer relationship management (CRM) system. PHPlist is designed to assist you to stay in touch with your audience, without flooding them with information they don't want. PHPlist is an essential tool for anyone who is serious about creating, capturing and maintaining an offline audience, and will help you increase traffic to your website.	Script: PHPlist Website: http://www.phplist.com Version: 2.10.12 Type: email Category: Miscellaneous License: open source Installer ID: phplist
Description phpMyChat is an open source real-time chat system. From the Author phpMyChat is an easy-to-use multi-room chat script that supports IRC-like commands and has been translated to 33 languages.	Script: phpMyChat Website: http://www.phpheaven.net/ Version: 0.14.5 Type: chat Category: Community Building License: open source Installer ID: phpmychat
Description phpMyCounter is a highly-configurable free webpage hits counter. phpMyCounter was last updated in 2002 and is no longer supported by the author. From the Author phpMyCounter is an easy to use yet sophisticated counter script. It includes an administration interface that allows you to customize the counter appearance and it works with PHP, SSI, or plain HTML webpages.	Script: phpMyCounter Website: http://www.timlinden.com/blog/scripts/phpmycounter/ Version: 1.0 Type: statistics Category: Surveys and Statistics License: free Installer ID: phpmycounter
Description phpMyFAQ is a powerful free frequently asked questions system. From the Author phpMyFAQ is a multilingual Frequently-Asked-Questions system. phpMyFAQ also offers a Content Management-System, flexible multi-user support, a news-system, user-tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML-support, PDF-support, and a backup-system.	Script: phpMyFAQ Website: http://www.phpmyfaq.de Version: 2.6.8 Type: faqs Category: e-Commerce and Business License: free Installer ID: phpmyfaq
Description PHProjekt is an open source groupware system. From the Author PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group activities and to share informations and document via intranet and internet. PHProjekt components include calendar, project management, time card system, file management, and contact manager.	Script: PHProjekt Website: http://www.phprojekt.com/index.php?newlang=eng Version: 6.0.3 Type: groupware Category: Community Building License: open source Installer ID: phprojekt
Description phpShop is an open source e-commerce shopping cart system. From the Author phpShop is a PHP-based e-commerce application and PHP development framework. phpShop offers the basic features needed to run a successful e-commerce web site and to extend its capabilities for multiple purposes.	Script: phpShop Website: http://phpshop.org Version: 0.8.1 Type: e-commerce Category: e-Commerce and Business License: open source Installer ID: phpshop
Description Pivot is an open source blog system. Pivot is also known as Pivotlog. From the Author Pivot is a web-based tool to help you maintain dynamic sites, like weblogs or online journals.	Script: Pivot Website: http://www.pivotlog.net Version: 1.40.7 Type: blog Category: Content Management License: open source Installer ID: pivot
Description Invision Power File Manager is a free web file manager. Power File Manager was last updated in 2005 and is no longer supported by the author. From the Author Invision Power File Manager is a popular file management script that is extremely user friendly and gives you full control over all the users actions. Invision Power File Manager is completely free for both personal and commercial use, all that we require is that the small link back to Invision Power Inc at the bottom of the page is left intact.	Script: Power File Manager Website: http://www.rebelinblue.com/?fm Version: 1.0.1 Type: files Category: Photos and Files License: free Installer ID: ipfilemanager
Description PrestaShop is a lightweight open source e-commerce shopping cart system. From the Author The PrestaShop e-Commerce Solution was built to take advantage of essential Web 2.0 innovations such as dynamic AJAX-powered features and next-generation ergonomy. PrestaShop guides users through your product catalog intelligently and effortlessly, turning intrigued visitors into paying customers.	Script: PrestaShop Website: http://www.prestashop.com Version: 1.3.1 Type: e-commerce Category: e-Commerce and Business License: open source Installer ID: prestashop
Description The Search Engine Project is an open source website search system. From the Author TSEP (The Search Engine Project) is a search engine for a website. You can put a 'Search this site' anywhere on your website and let people quickly find what they are looking for.	Script: Search Engine Project Website: http://tsep.sourceforge.net Version: 0.941 Type: search Category: Miscellaneous License: open source Installer ID: tsep
Description Simple Machines Forum is a free forum system. Simple Machines Forum forked from the YaBBSE project in 2003. From the Author SMF is a next-generation community software package that is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources.	Script: Simple Machines Forum Website: http://www.simplemachines.org Version: 1.1.11 Type: forum Category: Community Building License: free Installer ID: smf
Description Simple Poll is a free (for non-profit use) survey/poll system. Simple Poll was last updated in 2004. From the Author Simple Poll employs a simple to use admin interface and template customizations for your poll so that you can easily adapt to the look and feel of your web site. Setup as many polls as you like.	Script: Simple Poll Website: http://www.free-php.net/detail/link-19.html Version: 1.2 Type: poll/survey Category: Surveys and Statistics License: free Installer ID: simplepoll
Description SiteBar is an open source link management system, with search capabilities. From the Author Access and manage your private, shared or public bookmarks from any computer and browser connected to the Internet! Create personal, family, team, company or enterprise-wide bookmarks with flexible access rules, permissions and customizable design!	Script: SiteBar Website: http://sitebar.org/downloads.php Version: 3.3.9 Type: bookmarks Category: Miscellaneous License: open source Installer ID: sitebar
Description Site Recommender is an open source "recommend my site" emailer. A commercial version with newer updates is available on the website. From the Author Site Recommender allows your visitors to recommend your site to one or more recipients. Default messages are easily modified and the look and feel is customizable via CSS stylesheet. You can choose to be notified when your site has been recommended, and email addresses are hidden so cannot be harvested by spammers. Also contains error checking.	Script: Site Recommender Website: http://www.installatron.com/itronscripts Version: 2.3 Type: email Category: Miscellaneous License: open source Installer ID: siterecommender
Description Soholaunch is a free website builder system. Additional features can be purchased from the website. From the Author Soholaunch Pro Edition Website Builder makes it easy for people of all experience levels to build and maintain a great website. {installatron} installs the free version of Soholaunch which includes a Quick Start Site Building Wizard and the 'Drag & Drop' page editor. (Server administrators can purchase advanced feature set licenses (including Calendar, Shopping Cart, Newsletter, and Blog) from installatron.soholaunch.com.)	Script: Soholaunch Website: http://info.soholaunch.com/ Version: 4.9.3r31 Type: cms Category: Content Management License: free Installer ID: soholaunch
Description SugarCRM is an open source customer relations management system. Commercial versions are available on the website. From the Author SugarCRM is a premier customer relationship management application. Sugar Suite brings a new and effective way to better acquire, sell, service and manage customers, helping companies increase revenue by being more organized. This is the free open source version of SugarCRM. More features are available in the commercial versions.	Script: SugarCRM Website: http://www.sugarcrm.com Version: 6.0.1 Type: support Category: e-Commerce and Business License: free Installer ID: sugarcrm
Description WebCalendar is an open source calendar script. From the Author WebCalendar is a web-based calendar application. You can configure it as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors.	Script: WebCalendar Website: http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php Version: 1.2.3 Type: calendar Category: Community Building License: free Installer ID: webcalendar
Description WebCards is an open source electronic greeting card system. From the Author Keep visitors returning to your site again and again with this powerful, efficient and easy to use e-card system. Featuring a full administration centre with a simple interface and full banning controls, visitors will enjoy communicating with their friends, bringing you more and more visitors.	Script: WebCards Website: http://webcards.sourceforge.net Version: 1.3f2 Type: e-cards Category: Miscellaneous License: open source Installer ID: webcards
Description Wordpress is an open source blog system, and is the most-used self hosted blog script on the Internet. Wordpress forked from the b2/cafelog project in 2003. From the Author WordPress is a state-of-the-art personal publishing platform/blogger with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.	Script: WordPress Website: http://wordpress.org Version: 3.0.1 Type: blog Category: Content Management License: open source Installer ID: wordpress
Description XMB is an open source forum system. From the Author XMB Forum allows you to build, manage, and promote your online community.	Script: XMB Forum Website: http://www.xmbforum.com Version: 1.9.11.05 Type: forum Category: Community Building License: open source Installer ID: xmb
Description Xoops is an open source portal system. Xoops forked from the PHP-Nuke project in 2002. From the Author Xoops is a dynamic-Object Oriented based open source portal script written in PHP. Xoops is the ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.	Script: Xoops Website: http://www.xoops.org Version: 2.4.5 Type: portal Category: Content Management License: open source Installer ID: xoops
Description Zen Cart is an open source e-commerce application. Zen Cart forked from the osCommerce project in 2003. From the Author Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. Zen Cart is developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.	Script: Zen Cart Website: http://www.zen-cart.com Version: 1.3.9f Type: e-commerce Category: e-Commerce and Business License: open source Installer ID: zencart
Description Zikula is an open source portal system. Zikula forked from the PHP-Nuke project in 2001. From the Author No matter what your needs, Zikula can provide the solution. Be that a corporate presence with ecommerce, a simple blog or a community portal, Zikula can do it all. It's your electronic toolbox, a set of tools allowing you to build a dynamically generated web site that five years ago would have cost thousands of dollars to launch.	Script: Zikula Website: http://www.zikula.org Version: 1.2.4 Type: portal Category: Content Management License: open source Installer ID: postnuke

Managed Dedicated Servers - An Overview

Software updates

Operating system updates

Firewall services

Backup services

Advanced technical support

Application deployment

Database management

Server monitoring and recovery

Anti-spam and virus protection

Security scans and audits

Telephone based support

Advanced configurations

Control panel software

Web Hosting Plans Comparison

Very often technical experts recommend small/medium companies for web hosting than the big players. This is because there are several advantages with smaller companies. A very small list of the advantages are discussed below:

Amount of web space

Big players usually advertise UNLIMITED web space. However, just like there is no free-lunch, there is really no unlimited web space without the tiny terms & conditions you might miss while signing up. These companies impose restrictions on various aspects such as the file sizes, number of files, etc. 

Perl and PHP

Perl and PHP are great programming languages for web applications. However, there are several dangerous functions that could be used to exploit servers on a shared hosting environment. Big companies with a huge client list, surely doesn't have the time to investigate/monitor any unusual activities on the server of each individual clients. The best way for them to secure the server is to disable these functions. Alas, if you were developing a custom application which required some of these functions, you will have a bad luck with them.

Bandwidth Allotment

Again, the unlimited bandwidth is the term that is used most often on the advertisements. Bandwidth is not free. Period. If you are offered unlimited bandwidth, i.e data transfer, there are chances your bandwidth, the actual bandwidth of the connection to your server is lesser. For eg, here is an example: You are offered 50 GB download limit on your ISP at the speed of 2 MBPS. When you have crossed this limit, your bandwidth is reduced to 256 KBPS, but you still have unlimited downloads. This trick is currently being followed by most of the internet service providers, so you might very well understand the concept behind this. BTW - ask yourself, why do you need unlimited bandwidth? 

The above are only a few disadvantages of choosing a big player, which is obviously an advantage when you choose a smaller service provider.

Now we look at the major deciding factor: The Price and customization! Smaller players understand you so well that they are always willing to customized the hosting package for your needs. The price is thus flexible and you are only paying for what you get. 

Consign IT offers various web hosting packages, which are packaged by our previous experience with our customers. We also offer custom web hosting packages based on your requirements. Please contact us today and get a free quote.

Comparison of hosting packages from the top Indian service providers

You can view complete details and order online from the linux web hosting page. 

PayPal - A nightmare to Indian users

Few months ago all the withdrawals from PayPal were blocked. Unfortunately they had imposed this after we made a withdrawal. So we couldn't get our funds either on the bank account or back on PayPal so we could use them to make some payments at least. Almost after a month the problem was sorted and we got our money on our bank account. They then made it clear that Indian users are not allowed to make any payments with the PayPal fund, but can only withdraw.

This morning we were shocked to see that PayPal was going to stop electronic withdrawals and only allow cheques. Now this is a pain to all Indian users, we are sure. Processing of checks take 4-6 days and that doesn't include the time to deliver the cheque. Clearing takes yet another "age". With all these problems, we are not sure how PayPal will survive in India. We can now only hope PayPal will sort everything very soon with the Reserve Bank of India.

Read more on funds being blocked before few months: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/02/an-open-letter-from-farhad-irani-on-the-situation-in-india/

Read more on the current situation: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/07/update-on-paypal-accounts-for-india-users/

Indian users are now quick to withdraw funds to their bank account before the option is disabled on the 29th.

Understanding Internet Payment Gateways

What are Internet Payment Gateways?

A payment gateway is an e-commerce application service provider service that authorizes payments for e-businesses, online retailers, bricks and clicks, or traditional brick and mortar. It is the equivalent of a physical point of sale terminal located in most retail outlets. Payment gateway protects credit cards details encrypting sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, to ensure that information passes securely between the customer and the merchant and also between merchant and payment processor.

How does it work?

A payment gateway facilitates the transfer of information between a payment portal (such as a website, mobile phone or IVR service) and the Front End Processor or acquiring bank. When a customer orders a product from a payment gateway enabled merchant, the payment gateway performs a variety of tasks to process the transaction:

1. A customer places order on website by pressing the 'Submit Order' or equivalent button, or perhaps enters their card details using an automatic phone answering service.
2. If the order is via a website, the customer's web browser encrypts the information to be sent between the browser and the merchant's webserver. This is done via SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption.
3. The merchant then forwards the transaction details to their payment gateway. This is another SSL encrypted connection to the payment server hosted by the payment gateway.
4. The payment gateway forwards the transaction information to the payment processor used by the merchant's acquiring bank.
5. The payment processor forwards the transaction information to the card association (i.e., Visa/MasterCard)
6. If an American Express or Discover Card was used, then the processor acts as the issuing bank and directly provides a response of approved or declined to the payment gateway.
7. Otherwise, the card association routes the transaction to the correct card issuing bank.
8. The credit card issuing bank receives the authorization request and sends a response back to the processor (via the same process as the request for authorization) with a response code. In addition to determining the fate of the payment, (i.e. approved or declined) the response code is used to define the reason why the transaction failed (such as insufficient funds, or bank link not available)
9. The processor forwards the response to the payment gateway.
10. The payment gateway receives the response, and forwards it on to the website (or whatever interface was used to process the payment) where it is interpreted as a relevant response then relayed back to the cardholder and the merchant.
11. The entire process typically takes 2–3 seconds
12. The merchant submits all their approved authorizations, in a "batch", to their acquiring bank for settlement.
13. The acquiring bank deposits the total of the approved funds in to the merchant's nominated account. This could be an account with the acquiring bank if the merchant does their banking with the same bank, or an account with another bank.
14. The entire process from authorization to settlement to funding typically takes 3 days.
15. Many payment gateways also provide tools to automatically screen orders for fraud and calculate tax in real time prior to the authorization request being sent to the processor. Tools to detect fraud include geolocation, velocity pattern analysis, delivery address verification, computer finger printing technology, identity morphing detection, and basic AVS checks.

Security

1. Since the customer is usually required to enter personal details, the entire communication of 'Submit Order' page (i.e. customer - payment gateway) is carried out through HTTPS protocol.
2. To validate the request of the payment page result, signed request is often used - which is the result of the hash function in which the parameters of an application confirmed by a «secret word», known only to the merchant and payment gateway.
3. To validate the request of the payment page result, sometimes IP of the requesting server has to be verified.
4. There is a growing support by acquirers, issuers and subsequently by payments gateways for Virtual Payer Authentication (VPA), implemented as 3-D Secure protocol - branded as Verified by VISA, MasterCard SecureCode and J/Secure by JCB, which adds additional layer of security for online payments. 3-D Secure promises to alleviate some of the problems facing online merchants, like the inherent distance between the seller and the buyer, and the inability of the first to easily confirm the identity of the second.

(credit: Wikipedia)

Different Gateways for Indian Merchants

There are many service providers on the internet who offer Merchant accounts for Indian Merchants. Consign IT recommends the following:

CCAvenue - Exclusively for Indian Merchants with many payment options including credit/debit/atm/cash cards, online banking,etc

PayPal - Multi-currency processing. Does not accept donations, personal transfers, etc. Can also be used to make payment online.

2Checkout - Accepts INR. No virtual terminal. Payment settled through wire or debit card. Does not accept donations, personal transfers, etc