Hosting
Starting in late 2008, WebLion will offer a hosting service to our partners. We will provide servers to house your site and provide most or all of the system administration.
Availability
A by-invitation pilot in summer 2008 will smooth the ruffles from the system. Following that, the hosting service will be available to all WebLion partners. Watch this space for updates.
Benefits
While Plone is fairly simple to install for development work—on a laptop, for instance—setting up a production-worthy environment can be a complex undertaking. We have automated installation, security, routine upgrades, backups, and more, so that you save weeks of your system administrator’s time and gain an industrial-strength web presence that can stand up to the traffic volume and abuse that hit a public-facing site.
Better than other hosting services
While there are many companies offering Zope and Plone hosting or simply raw virtual machines, few provide our performance, flexibility, and quality of service. With WebLion Hosting…
- Your site gets a gigabyte of RAM all to itself.
- You never share a Zope instance with other customers. This means you get to choose the add-on products you need, without being held back by the limitations of other sites or your hosting provider.
- Industry-class caching comes standard, serving hundreds of hits per second.
- You leverage the expertise of the world-class Debian security team and our well-tested package respository to get automatic and timely security updates.
Cost
- To be determined
Technical details
Hosted servers run on VMWare ESX virtual machines (VMs) with redundant storage and nightly backups. The operating system on the VMs is Debian Linux, and Debian’s package management system is the primary conduit for updating the machines. For the technically minded, our WebLion Hosting wiki page gives a more detailed preview of our infrastructure.
