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 go 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 Colloquium
From December 9th to 11th, 2009 in New Orleans, the Do It With Drupal Colloquium will take house and NeoSpire is not only one of its top sponsors but will be exhibiting as well. The colloquium promises to have some of Drupal’s top developers on tap to lecture more in this area the curriculum as well as in rank 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 on the rise 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 grant 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 fascinating 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 public 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 wellbeing and reliability of both NeoSpire and Drupal.
Drupal
Drupal is an open source CMS curriculum that was initially produced in 2000 by an enterprising man, Dries Buytaert. What initially started as a small news site allowing friends to leave clarification to each additional 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 curriculum and hundreds of themes to change the overall look. As an open source project, many third party programmers are heavily involved with the project making new and innovative modules nearly every day. Drupal users can expect to be able to find just in this area anything they require within the Drupal module download area. Administration, e-commerce, file management, data, and spam prevention are just a small percentage of what can be found.
Conclusion
A world-class open source CMS curriculum coupled with a world-class hosting solution provider is a dream combination. NeoSpire and Drupal are, indeed, doing it.
