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The award-winning Community Server 3.0 platform allows you to create an online community, and is included with all our Windows and .NET plans free of charge. More information about Community Server 3.0 is available here.

Giving you all the tools you need to create your own community site, the Community Server 3.0 platform includes chat, blogging and photo gallery features, along with user profile management, advanced permissions, an extensible theme engine and much more:

• Increased security. Secure 'out of the box', companies can securely share data with highly granular permissions and an unrivalled control of all user actions. Auditing capabilities show you what is happening in your applications at all times.
• Easy to install, set up and use. The installation wizard, administration and management are all Web-based, designed to support multiple languages, and built completely in .NET code for easy management and use.
• Customization and scalability. Theme-driven customization using style sheets to drive look-and-feel, and designed from the ground up for multi-server configurations, it enables simple customization and scaling as the organization grows.
• RSS, email, and news server support. Variety of simple ways to deliver RSS and Secure RSS Community Server information. With a News Server add-on and an email add-on, your Community Server system can easily be accessed online or offline with any email or news reader client.
• Highly customized searches. Tunable searching and weighting algorithms enable more rapid and accurate searches, as well as filtering results based on user permissions.
• Free MS SQL 2005. Comes with 50MB SQL database for your content. Extra space available on-demand.

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Community server 3.0 is included free with all our Windows and .NET plans.

Customers can install Community Server via their HostPilot Control Panel by going to the "Community Server" area of the "Website Tools" section ("Web/FTP Server > Web Server > Website Tools > Community Server") and selecting the directory where it can be installed, then clicking on the "Install Community Server" button.