Elgg Hosting

Open source social engine platform
Elgg is an elegant, open source platform for online communities. Equipped with must-have social networking features, Elgg gives users access to a comprehensive site activity stream, blogging tool, flexible activity notification methods, collaborative group discussion facilitation, and much more.

Elgg has a wide variety of plugins capable of flexing and extending the application to meet your community’s needs. Since 2004, active users and independent developers have created dozens of add-on modules that let you to incorporate message boards, social bookmarks, and privacy controls on your website, just to name a few.

As an open source solution, Elgg’s code is freely available for anyone to use or adapt. Unfortunately, this means hackers have easy access to the code too, giving them an open invitation for exploitation.

As a secure web host, webRulon is the perfect hosting solution for open source web applications like Elgg. Our top-of-the-line hardware and network environment coupled with a worldwide content delivery network (CDN) ensures your Elgg-powered website loads quickly and reliably every time.

Elgg Hosting Features:

• Multi-Level Intrusion Prevention
  • Every webRulon web server uses special intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS, IPS) to block malicious network, application, and operating system-level activity. We detect and mitigate overly active hosts, bad logons, inappropriate content, and other network-layer events on our clients’ websites every day.
• Application Protection
  • webRulon uses an enterprise web application firewall (WAF) to protect online applications such as Elgg from sophisticated hacker attempts like SQL injections and XSS (cross-site scripting) attacks. webRulon helps prevent data theft and information leakage from open source web applications such as Elgg.
• Fully Managed Elgg Hosting
  • webRulon Secure Hosting has everything you need to keep your hosted Elgg installation running smoothly, including self-healing servers, online backup, and burstable bandwidth.