An example of a certification process for an application to be made available to a plurality of Hosting Customers within a Web Hosting Community starts with a partner, from a Partner Web Site, submitting the application to a Hosting Provider. The Hosting Provider may perform a test on the application to verify the application conforms to a predetermined standard. The Hosting Provider may perform one or more manual or automated test and look for viruses, worms, Trojen horses, adware, malware, reliability/compatibility issues or other problems with the application that may adversely impact the Web Hosting Community. If the application passes the test, the Hosting Provider may make the application available to the plurality of Hosting Customers. In preferred embodiments, the Hosting Customer may purchase the application thereby triggering the Hosting Provider to automatically make the application available for use by the Hosting Customer's Hosted Web Site.