NuBlue Hosting Partners

There's no way you can be the best Web Hosting Provider in the world if you don't have good relationships with quality providers of hardware, software and all the web applications in between. We've formed partnerships with many companies for just this reason and you can read more about them below.

Magento is an award winning, open source eCommerce platform. Featuring multiple store support, open source architecture, one click checkouts and upgrades, powerful marketing and SEO optimisation and with over 450,000 downloads in the first year, Magento provides you with a professional eCommerce solution - without the price.

We're big fans of open source but that doesn't mean commercial solutions should be disregarded, particularly with Interspire's Shopping Cart. The cart is incredibly easy to use, and the entire appearance can be changed with a few clicks - or by dragging and dropping the contents in your web browser! Will a full list of integrated components and powerful features, Interspire is our preferred commercial eCommerce platform.

ExpressionEngine is one of our favourite web applications. A content management system available in free and commercial additions depending on the project, ExpressionEngine allows powerful sites to be constructed from a simple interface. With a vibrant community and a rich feature set, it is our CMS of choice.

Movable Type is a blogging application offered by SixApart. What stands Movable Type out from the crowd is the ability to manage multiple blogs from a single installation - allowing you to manage a whole blogging community within one domain. It also functions as a content management system in its own right, and is available in free or commercial versions according to your needs.

Drupal is an open source, non-commercial content management package that can be used to build a wide variety of web sites. Capable of handling web portals, blogs, eCommerce sites, forums, content management and more, Drupal has a large user base from personal users to large companies, and a community of over 350,000 members and 2000 direct contributors.

With over 11 million domain registrations, eNom is the second largest domain registrar in the world. With a powerful online presence, the ICANN accredited registrar allows full control over all aspects of domain registration, maintenance and renewal, and has an active and dedicated support network. eNom is the only registrar we use for our domains.

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualisation and automation software, and provides the Plesk Control Panel that we use exclusively for our Hosting Customers - as well as the Virtuozzo platform we use for our VPS service. Parallels products are famed for their powerful features embedded into a simple to learn and easy to use graphical interface.

We use Dell for all our hardware, from our Shared Hosting servers to our office desktops. Dell are one of the leading global providers of IT products for a reason; we're constantly impressed with the quality of our IT purchases. On top of that, their commitment to be carbon neutral by the end of 2008 and their recycling initiatives fit our green outlook nicely!