Archives for the 'Plone' category

New installer for Plone 4

Posted Sep 2 at 10:20 CDT by Daniel in Plone - 0 comment(s)

After many months of hard work, the Plone team has released Plone 4 and we've already whipped up a new one-click installer which you can use on the control panel right now:

Plone one-click installer

Plone 4, an open source CMS product for Zope, comes with a bunch of improvements but perhaps the most prominent new feature is the beautiful new default "Sunburst" theme:

New Sunburst Theme

In addition to the new theme, the latest version of Plone features numerous other improvements, like faster performance, better searching, more efficient attachment storage, and the TinyMCE WYSIWYG HTML editor:

TinyMCE content editor

The Plone site has complete coverage of all the new features. So give Plone 4 a try today and if you have any questions, join us in the forum.

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Latest news

Posted May 28 at 12:17 CDT by Remi in Django, Drupal, Email, General, Memory, Plone, Python, Software, WordPress, Zope - 8 comment(s)

Here is a quick update on what's been happening lately at WebFaction:

New Webmail interface: Squirrelmail served us well for all these years but it was time for something a little more modern. We've setup a new webmail interface (AtMail) at https://atmail.webfaction.com and we'll make it the default at https://webmail.webfaction.com in the near future (we'll still keep Squirrelmail at https://squirrelmail.webfaction.com for people who want to keep using it).
New backup system: In the last few weeks we've rolled out a new backup system on all of our CentOS servers. The new system is a lot faster and lighter on the server and as a result the load on the server isn't impacted when it's being backed up.
Mail platform improvements: We keep improving our mail platform and we now have better spam detection than ever and we're able to enable new servers within seconds if mail traffic increases.
New installers: We regularly add new software or new versions to our one click installers. Lately we added the latest WordPress, Drupal, Django, Plone, Joomla and more.

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Changes to Zope/Plone installers

Updated Sep 2 at 10:04 CDT (first posted Aug 23 at 16:15 CDT) by Sean in Plone, Zope - 0 comment(s)

We've recently rolled out the following changes to our Zope/Plone application installers

Plone core products are installed in a "PloneProducts" subdirectory - this makes it easier for you to upgrade your Plone installation, since you won't have to sift through a single "Products" directory to figure out which products you need to replace. More information is available in this forum post.
Your Zope app's logs are now created in ~/logs/user/ and are rotated daily. More information is available in this forum post.

These changes won't affect your existing apps, just new ones. The forum posts include instructions for updating your existing apps if you want to take advantage of these changes.

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New one-click installers

Posted Jan 23 at 10:50 CDT by Remi in Joomla, Plone, Rails, WordPress, Zope - 5 comment(s)

If you frequently create applications in the control panel you might notice that the drop-down where you select the application and the version keeps getting longer :)

This is because we're constantly adding more tools and more versions. Today we just added the freshly released TurboGears-1.0.4.2 and Joomla-1.5.

Other installers we added recently include the latest versions for Rails, WordPress, Zope, Plone and Trac.

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Plone 3.0

Posted Aug 22 at 09:48 CDT by Remi in Plone - 2 comment(s)

We've just added the newly released Plone-3.0 to our one-click installer. It gets installed on top of Zope-2.10.4.

New features of this Plone release are listed on the Plone 3.0 released page.

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Django-0.95.1, Zope-2.10.1, Plone-2.5.2-1

Updated Feb 9 at 04:21 CDT (first posted Jan 22 at 08:05 CDT) by Remi in Django, Plone, Software, Zope - 4 comment(s)

We've just added Django-0.95.1 and Zope-2.10.1 with Plone-2.5.2-1 to our control panel.

Note that if you have an existing Django app and wish to upgrade the recommended way is to manually replace the django module in $HOME/lib/python2.4 as described in the forum.

This is because right now you can't use the one-click installer to install two different Django versions (because they both reside in the same $HOME/lib/python2.4 directory). If you want to run two different Django versions you have to install one of them manually as a custom app

Update: Since Plone-2.5.2-1 is not compatible with Zope-2.10.1 we reverted back to Zope-2.9.6 for now.

Remi.

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BIG holiday present !

Updated Dec 29 at 09:34 CDT (first posted Dec 22 at 05:06 CDT) by Remi in Django, General, Plone, Python, Rails, Shared, TurboGears, Zope - 14 comment(s)

Well, here comes our BIG holiday present to everyone:

We've added one long-running process and 40MB of RAM to all plans !

This means that Rails, Django and TurboGears hosting is now available on our "Shared 1" plan, starting at $7.50/month. Zope is now available on our "Shared 2" plan and Plone on our "Shared 3" plan.

But that's not it: we've doubled the diskspace and quadrupled the bandwidth included in each plan !

Also, a private IP address is now only $5/month and an extra 40MB of RAM is only $7/month.

Happy holidays everyone :)

Remi.

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Zope and Plone screencast

Updated Feb 19 at 06:16 CDT (first posted Jul 31 at 05:35 CDT) by Remi in Help, Plone, Screencast, Zope - 7 comment(s)

We now have a screencast showing how to install a Zope and Plone site on our servers. Check it out here.

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Django-0.95, Zope-2.9.4, Plone-2.5, Mongrel for Rails

Updated Dec 29 at 09:34 CDT (first posted Jul 31 at 05:15 CDT) by Remi in Django, General, Plone, Python, Rails, Software, Zope - 1 comment(s)

Just a quick update on what's been happening lately:

Django-0.95 is already in our one-click installer, less than 24 hours after its release !
Zope-2.9.4 and Plone-2.5 are also in there now
All new Rails application are now setup to run with Mongrel by default (much faster than WEBrick)

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