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There are some distinct advantages to hosting on the WebEnabled platform. Today I'll discuss a few.

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Per-vhost (or per "dev env") mysqld instances. This is very uncommon with shared hosting (I think that maybe 1% of providers do it), so it truly makes us different... better. This improves security and reliability of our customers' databases through a level of isolation beyond that typically available on shared hosting.

WebEnabled is proud to announce support for the Yii Framework. Users of WebEnabled can now build apps with the Yii Framework pre-installed and ready to be used.

The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework Yii is a high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications. Yii comes with rich features: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.

WebEnabled has released new plans that include Shared Production Plans starting at $9.95/month, VPS Plans starting at $19.95/month, and Enterprise Plans starting at $395/month. The full details are available on our pricing page.

With one account you can have multiple VPSes, shared plans, and enterprise plans. Each VPS integrates into the Dashboard so you can clone a site from one VPS to another without the hassle of using the command line, ftp, copying databases, and what not. It's simple and easy using the WebEnabled interface.

WebEnabled now supports it's first Ruby app: Redmine. We've got lots of new things coming out over the next month and Redmine is one of our favorite additions.

Redmine is a project management tool that has become popular in the last year due to its ease of use and compliment of addons.

Some of the features that are supported include:

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Multiple projects support

Flexible role based access control

Flexible issue tracking system

Gantt chart and calendar

Below I'm going to demonstrate how to upgrade your Drupal site (core, modules, and themes) from Drupal 6.16 to Druapl 6.17 without any tools except the WebEnabled Dashboard point and click interface.

WebEnabled now supports payments using PayPal and eCheck. Many of our users (and prospective users) have requested these payment methods over the last several months.

We also support credit cards that include Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover.

Enjoy!

Today we are proud to announce that we support language selection when creating a new Open Atrium based app. It let's you select from the list of available apps from the WebEnabled Dashboard. Below are a few screenshots.

Creating an Open Atrium app and selecting a language

WebEnabled added support for WordPress 3 beta 1. We'll be updating the app as new versions come up (beta 2, 3, etc). Please feel free to create an account and try this new version of WordPress.

Some of the cool new features in WordPress 3 include:

1. Choose your Username and Password
2. New Default Theme!
3. Custom Background Support
4. Multi-site Capabilities and WPMU Codebase Merge
5. Custom Post Types
6. Custom Taxonomies
7. Easy Menu Management

Hello everyone. WebEnabled is proud to announce that we now support CiviCRM running on top of Drupal 6.x.

Please take a look at the WebEnabled application page for CiviCRM.

More information from the CiviCRM website below.

The Free and Open Source Solution for the Civic Sector

Yesterday I was at Drupalcon in San Francisco and one of the panels I attended was called "Monetizing Drupal". A question was asked "How do I find good developers?" Well the answer for me really comes down to three characteristics. I read a quote from Warren Buffett several years ago that gave me this notion, but unfortunately I cannot find the exact source now.