A. HoTMetaL Application Server provides a complete security framework. Security can be set globally, by group, by domain, or at the individual user level. Both Hosting Services and Corporate Website administrators can retain full control over the configuration of their servers. For example, administrator can sandbox CPU usage, memory usage, disk space, and stacks space by domain as well as set execution priority. In addition, an authorization file is used to restrict user access for creating programs.
Users can only read and write files to directories underneath their home directory.
To eliminate rogue scripts that could otherwise take up system resources and bring down a server, HoTMetaL Application Server uses a global time-out feature. Application Server supports ODBC, providing access to legacy databases and corporate applications. It also comes with a built-in native database that makes it faster, more secure and easier to use than ODBC for many typical web applications. This allows files to be moved across different platforms without any conversion procedures. The location of the native database files is configurable on a per-domain basis.