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# Software Recommendations

Some additional software packages will speed up your web site or offer enhanced features. You may wish to install these packages.

* It is very strongly recommended that a properly configured & working email subsystem (for example, SendMail, QMail, ProcMail, etc) is installed on your server. Most hosted sites will provide this subsystem. It is beyond the scope of this document to cover the installation and configuration of this software.

* phpMyAdmin (http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net) -- recommended only if the site will be using the MySQL database system -- phpMyAdmin is a cross-platform free utility that can manage an entire MySQL server, but also a single database. Many users may not have root (administrator) access to their database. If that is the case, you will need to create the database using an online tool such as phpMyAdmin.

* Enabling GZIP compression within PHP is an easy way to add some speed to your site.

* PHP Accelerator (http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk) -- PHP Accelerator is free, able to deliver performance gains and load average reduction to rival or exceed the very best alternatives, and is the intelligent choice of script caching solutions for PHP based sites.

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