AIT, a web hosting company, today announced that it has added free utilities to all of its hosting plans.

The company is making available to its customers a series of open source tools ideal for database administration, e-commerce, and sites stats, plus a content management system that includes blogging, chat, web mail and RSS feeds. These utilities are available at no cost and can be provisioned through the AIT control panel, creating new options for the company's hosting customers.

The package includes TikiWiki, PHP-written content management groupware and extranets. Its capabilities include blog and newsletter creation, image galleries and calendars, and forums and chat rooms. Additionally, it offers osCommerce and AgoraCart, PHYMyAdmin and AWStats, a website traffic analysis utility that charts number of visitors, where they came from, how long they stayed, what they looked at and authenticity of the visit.

"As technologies mature, it's incumbent on us to give our customers as much horsepower as possible for managing their websites and those of their customers," said Clarence Briggs, AIT's Chief Executive Officer. "And with open source products, consumers get the ongoing benefit of continuous updates and improvements on each item."