Web hosting provider Hostopia announced on Wednesday its initial licensing of Web site templates to the service provider market, focusing on large hosting providers with strong reseller networks. Web hosting reseller Hostgator is among the first to have licensed Hostopia’s full inventory of site templates for distribution to its customer base.

Web hosting provider HostGator has recently been asked by the Tampa-Florida office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to drop one of the Web sites it hosts that supports calls to kill Muslim children.

Hackers recently exploited a flaw in the cPanel hosting control panel to gain access to four Web hosts including HostGator, and take control of Windows-based machines using Internet Explorer, in an attack that lasted from late Thursday to Saturday afternoon. The hackers placed an iframe script in Web sites that directed some visitors to malicious addresses that would infect them.

Web hosting provider HostGator announced on Friday it is offering PHP 5 and MySQL 5 support with all its shared hosting plans at no additional cost.

Web site template provider Template Monster announced on Tuesday it has partnered with Web hosting provider Hostgator to provide Hostgator resellers with Web site templates.