February 25, 2010
Drupal is a free open-source content management script and a framework for creating web sites. Created in 2001 by Dries Buytaert, have become very popular in recent years. Many websites are powered by drupal, ranging from personal sites to larger corporate and government sites (whitehouse.gov). It is programmed in PHP the most popular web programming language and uses database system like MySQL for storing data, permissions and settings. Many features are included in the drupal core the official drupal distribution package: content management (text and media, content types like blogs or static pages, and you can create your own content types with custom fields and settings!), powerful user management with permissions, RSS feeds, modules (extensions that add new features without editing the core code), template system (change the design of the entire site, separated from PHP code), multi-site support, caching, search and lots of other features. It is available in 45 languages (including Engilsh) at the time of writing this review, and it have large community of developers. Support is provided on the official website: drupal.org, including forums, mailing lists, irc channels and rss feeds. Also many modules and themes are available. So if you choose drupal to create your next site you will not make a mistake.
DreamHost Drupal Review
All drupal requirements are satisfied. Dreamhost have the latest PHP and MySQL version, and support for PHP.INI (for changing register_globals if needed). I installed drupal and the installation went without any problems. After running some tests I can say that Dreamhost is very good drupal host.
February 17, 2010
Joomla is both Content Management System and web application framework programmed in PHP programming language, and uses MySQL database system for storing data and settings. Joomla is very popular free open-source script and you can create almost any type of website (blogs, polls, forums, social networks and others) with it. Thanks to the large community of developers and users many features are available and bugs, vulnerabilities are fixed very fast. New features are added via the extension system, while the base package includes standard features like: content/media management, blogs, RSS feeds, search, internationalization (available in many languages), user management with powerful permissions system and many others. The template system separates logic from design, and webmasters can change the layout of the entire site with a single click. Support is also available for free at their community forums. There are also many extensions available in the official joomla directory. Today many websites are powered by Joomla, and according to Open Source CMS Market share report Joomla is the most popular Content Management Script. You can run Joomla on Dreamhost easily because every requirements are satisfied. In my test it did run perfectly.
February 8, 2010
Dreamhost have been great host for me! I have been almost two months with them and I am happy with them. So today I will share some dreamhost coupon codes to get the best discount when you signup with dream host (these coupons never expire):
“SAVE57″ – save up to $57 depending on hosting plan and payment (montly or yearly)
“UPTO97OFF” – save up to $97 depending on payment type and hosting plan.
“FREEDOMAIN41″ – free domain name and $41 off – any hosting plan
“FREEIP21″ – Free dedicated IP address and $21 off
“COUPONMAX” – maximum discount on any hosting plan.
Some of these coupons give you free features like Free IP address or domain name. So choose the one that suits you the best. My next post will be about dreamhost uptime. They guarantee 100% uptime, and this is true. All my uptime monitoring reports say that this blog have been up 100% !