Alfahosting

Alfahosting has been providing hosting solutions to thousands of business and personal web sites since 1999. Their internet hosting package helps businesses and individuals get high-powered service at a fraction of the cost.After having searched the market for new developments and services to add value and bolster its product offering for consumers, Alfahosting selected the CM4all OnlineDrive and CM4all WebsiteCreator Consumer Edition in 2008.

With the CM4all WebsiteCreator Consumer Edition, Alfahosting now offers their customers to create private, family and professional web sites intuitively and without complexity. Thanks to a variety of wizards, no special technical knowledge is required. Customers simply choose from a variety of topics to theme their web sites and each category produces professionally designed templates to match. The web sites include easy navigation and innovative Web 2.0 features such as the Community Media Album, Multi-Author Video Blog, Microsoft® Maps and Directions, Flash animations, guest books, feedback forms, online forums and voting tools. Photos, videos and music files are easily uploaded to the website and community-friendly contribution features allow family and friends to participate in the creation of dynamic private groups.

The CM4all OnlineDrive is the ideal complement to the CM4all WebsiteCreator. As a file manager, viewer and sharing application with data center levels of file protection and Web 2.0 file management, the CM4all OnlineDrive also offers drag & drop; an ActiveX uploader for multiple image files or ZIP archives, an image editor, comprehensive file presentations, extensive file searching options and file sharing profiles with filters.

Due to the positive experiences Alfahosting made with CM4all products the company decided to expand the prospering partnership in 2010 and launched the CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition.

The CM4all WebsiteCreator Business Edition provides Alfahosting’s business clients with a powerful marketing tool in today’s competitive markets. Especially small and medium sized businesses benefit from sophisticated features such as premium maps with route and location planners powered by Microsoft Bing™, a database module, and live statistics. The business media album and the business blog help users to easily manage and publish various multimedia file formats in a graphically appealing way. The software also comes with an eCommerce version including PayPal^®and a SEO tool set which allows web site owners to enter global and page specific keywords, to automatically generate a sitemap.xml, and to incorporate 3^rd party web statistic systems. In a single step, the website can be published in html and W3C accessible versions by a click of a mouse.

All three user interfaces are adapted to Alfahosting's corporate design and installed with a German language interface. CM4all administers the software remotely, safeguards its availability with 24/7 support and continuously updates both the Operating System and all applications.