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Manila™ Hosting (Now only $3/mo!)

What's so special about Manila™ Hosting?

You don't need a Ph.D. in HTML to keep your website up-to-date and fresh.
Click the "Edit this Page" button, and you're ready to add stories, news, and pictures right from your browser.
Work on your site alone, or with a group of contributors.
"Blog" Away! Use ideaForest.net for your Weblog. Use your browser to remotely edit your site directly or Radio UserLand to edit your site remotely.
Built-in syndication features allow readers to subscribe to your site and receive automatic notification when you make changes.
Discuss stories, news items or pictures with your site members, and with the public.
UserLand Frontier content management system fuels the Manila offerings here at ideaforest.net.

Sign up for a 30 day Free Trial of our Manila hosting services today!

Apache Private Domain Hosting $20/mo

We also offer private domain hosting using Apache Web server. This allows the greatest flexibility to a Web author and enables them to provide a wider range of services to the public.

Access your site through FTP or WebDAV. We offer PHP server-side preprocessing technology, MySQL and PostgreSQL database services, and Jakarta Tomcat Java server capabilities. All of this and we don't skimp on storage; you get 500MB of storage and an allowance of 20GB of bandwidth a month through our private domain hosting plan which only costs about $20 a month.

Take a look at our Services for details on our hosting packages.

News Headlines

Updated to Manila 9.5
We are proud to offer all of the wonderful capabilities of Manila 9.5 to our ideaForest.net subscribers. There are too many new features to list here in detail, but some of the more exciting new features are:

Version Control,
Custom Templates, and
Podcast Support

- Manila news

Comment Spam Countermeasures
In an attempt to curb spam comment posts in our Manila services, ideaForest.net now makes use of Dave Winer's myCommentSpamBuddy Manila enhancement. Feel free to contact us (admin@ideaforest.net) if you find that your site is receiving spam comments. - Manila news

RSS Enclosure Support
ideaForest.net Manila hosted sites now support Dave Winer's Manila extensions that allow hosted Manila sites to include enclosures in their RSS feed. - Manila news

Block/Unblock Members from Profile Pages
When logged in as a managing editor, you can now block or unblock members while viewing their profile page, by clicking the Block/Unblock Member button at the bottom of the page.

This is especially useful for sites with many members, where finding the member via the member stats page may be time-consuming. [UserLand Software Updates] - Manila news

New Theme - 'Brushed Adament'
'Brushed Adament' is a modern template, which features accommodations for a second top-navigation, modules, and an open area where you can insert your own logo by simply modifying the background image. This theme was created by Bryan Bell and is now available on ideaForest.net. - Manila news

Advanced Email Services

All of our hosting options include Email services using latest technology in Email servers. ideaForest.net chose NetWin's SurgeMail Email server due to its outstanding spam and virus countermeasures, and because of its ability to provide failover mail delivery to ensure that mail always gets through.

All of the modern amenities are available with ideaForest.net email services: Webmail, Secure POP/IMAP, SMTP services, and RAV Antivirus (as an option).

Manila hosted accounts come with one email account and four forwarding email accounts. With our Apache Private Domain hosted accounts, there are no limits on the number of email accounts you can set up for your domain.

Read more about our Email Services.

UNIX Reliability

Reliability and customer satisfaction are key ideals here at ideaForest.net, which is why we chose Apple Xserve and its UNIX based environment to host the services we offer to the public. It's a win-win with stability, flexibility and a wide feature set that Mac OS X provides.

Contact sales@ideaforest.net for more information, or leave us feedback right on our Website.