Open source content management systems are beginning to gather quite a reputation and customer base lately thanks to the recent announcement by the White House of its move from proprietary solutions to open source CMS heavyweight, Drupal. Full service hosting provider NeoSpire has been a long time advocate of open source software and specializes in solutions incorporating Drupal.
Do It With Drupal Seminar
From December 9th to 11th, 2009 in New Orleans, the Do It With Drupal Seminar will take place and NeoSpire is not only one of its top sponsors but will be exhibiting as well. The seminar promises to have some of Drupal’s top developers on tap to teach more about the program as well as information from community building experts.
Patrons of the event can expect to see successful Drupal sites and meet with like-minded professionals, developers, designers and more all intertwined within the Drupal community. The event will allow interested participants the chance to see the actual workings behind the architect and building of a Drupal web site. Topics such as building and growing successful web sites with Drupal will be covered.
The cost of this three-day event is $1195 until December 8th. Thereafter, walkup registration is $1295.
NeoSpire
NeoSpire managed hosting provides a number of hosting solutions designed to meet the demands of organizations needing a 100% guaranteed up-time. NeoSpire has been in the web hosting business since 1999 and continues to provide extremely secure and reliable solutions for their hosting customers. The hosting provider offers several managed hosting options, co-location services, application hosting and more.
One of the more interesting offers by this company is its Drupal CMS Hosting. NeoSpire offers fully managed Drupal hosting that covers everything from simple web sites to load balanced and redundant set-ups. The company even has a specially dedicated Drupal support team that are considered the best server admin and tech support people in their field. Not many web hosting companies available on the Internet sport the same offering or specialized support team. It is a testament to the security and reliability of both NeoSpire and Drupal.
Drupal
Drupal is an open source CMS program that was initially created in 2000 by an enterprising man, Dries Buytaert. What initially began as a small news site allowing friends to leave notes to each other gradually grew into the full-blown content management system available today.
The Drupal CMS is extremely extendable with several hundreds of modules to add onto the main program and hundreds of themes to change the overall look. As an open source project, many third party programmers are heavily involved with the project creating new and innovative modules almost every day. Drupal users can expect to be able to find just about anything they require within the Drupal module download area. Administration, e-commerce, file management, statistics, and spam prevention are just a small percentage of what can be found.
Conclusion
A world-class open source CMS program coupled with a world-class hosting solution provider is a dream combination. NeoSpire and Drupal are, indeed, doing it.
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