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EllisLab Inc; formerly called pmachine, is a privately owned technology company which is based in Oregon and specializes in building PHP applications. The company is instrumental in developing advanced, state-of-the-art web publishing software and also offers quality hosting to organizations or companies and thousands of individuals around the world. Since its inception, it has thus far released three programs and projects. The first was the pmachine Pro, which is a piece of web log software that was made available in both free and licensed versions. The second was the ExpressionEngine, which is a web publishing program written in object-oriented PHP and using MySQL for storing data. The third, CodeIgniter, is an open source Framework.
The pmachine Pro is no longer under development. However, it is still available for use free of cost.
The ExpressionEngine is a content management system, which is highly reliable, powerful and possesses robust features. This web publishing system offers the perfect solution to make website management easy and organized. All of the websites in the EllisLab Network run on a single ExpressionEngine installation. This is due to the “Multiple Site Manager”. From managing the membership, running blogs, community forums, the knowledge base, wiki, contact forms, search engines, ExpressionEngine handles everything. For the ExpressionEngine to run successfully; the user’s web server must meet the following requirements:
In order to access the image thumbnailing feature the user’ server must support one of the three image manipulation protocols: GD, ImageMagick, and NetPBM.
Basic understanding of HTML and creation of a website is required and preferable in order to create a site with ExpressionEngine. Minimal knowledge and familiarity with the process of uploading files to the server via FTP is an added bonus. It offers a wide array of features which are highly flexible and comprehensive and broad-ranged. Below is an overview of the features offered by ExpressionEngine:
1. Web Publishing:
2. Comments and Trackback Feature: This feature enables a powerful interaction within the community via discussions, comments etc. The sub features of this category include:
3. Typography: Typography is the art of composing type and printing from it. EE offers advanced typography tools; which includes enticing features like:
4. Tracking: Users can track all happenings on their website. The following can be accessed though this feature:
5. Template Engine: The powerful template engine allows its users to create quality and content driven websites. Users get access to the following features under this category:
6. Communications: Organizing and managing mailing lists and sending mails has never been easier:
7. Search Tool: EE offers a powerful and reliable search and query tool. Following features are offered under the search tool category:
8. Powerful Spam Protection:
9. Powerful Utilities for better website management:
10. Comprehensive range of Add-on modules and Plug-ins: EE features 22 add-on modules and over 100 plug-ins:
11. Easy Membership Management:
12. Data Caching: This feature reduces server bloating while allowing users to still retain the imporatant information: Template caching, Query Caching and Tag Caching.
13. Security features include:
The CodeIgniter is an uncomplicated, reliable and powerful open source PHP framework; built especially for PHP coders who want all the related advanced features and a sophisticated toolkit to create advanced web applications. CodeIgniter simplifies the entire process related to PHP programs and offers state-of-the-art, exceptional performance. This web application framework is ideal for users who are looking for a broad compatibility with standard hosting accounts that run a variety of PHP versions and configurations or prefer a framework that requires zero configurations. With this, users need not adhere to restrictive coding rules. CodeIgniter obviates the need of large scale, astronomical libraries like PEAR. CodeIgniter offers a fairly simple framework, free of any complexities that could otherwise be daunting for a first time user. The focus of this Application Development Framework is to help users develop projects much faster by providing a rich set of libraries, a simple and user-friendly interface and an organized structure.EngineHosting is another advanced service offered by EllisLab. This service offers load balanced and high performance hosting solutions perfectly tuned for dynamic websites and applications. The key features and advantages of this service include the following:
Load-Balanced Technology: This technology enables groups of servers to work together in order to handle web, e-mail and other vital services for the clients. The F5 load-balancers track the performance of the servers in each cluster, and send new traffic requests to the server that is currently handling the least number of requests, and is also responding the fastest to new requests. This way, requests are handled efficiently, faster and accurately.
Monitored and Tuned Performance: The shared and dedicated hosting solutions are constantly monitored to ensure its functioning in peak performance.
Scalable: The client is offered the flexibility to easily migrate from the simple shared web hosting to a complex load-balanced dedicated web server solution seamlessly.
Fast Networks: The data centers are equipped with redundant GigE/OC12 or greater connections to the net through top transit providers and their own servers are all interconnected with, at a minimum of, GigE Ethernet.
Business Availability: With the Tipping Point Intrusion Prevention Systems, F5 Network load-balancers, and Netapp storage arrays, down to the high-quality rack-mounted servers from Sun, IBM, and Dell, everything within the network is designed to offer optimum performance and availability. So users need not worry about huge traffic or load and continue to avail uninterrupted services event in the event of a hardware failure.
In-House Support: The company staff directly handles all emails, support requests and queries. All this is done by a dedicated and trained staff that has all the facts and figures related to your website, the servers and network. EngineHosting offers 3 main hosting plans which include:
Load Balanced shared hosting, Load Balanced Shared Hosting Pro and Load Balanced Dedicated Servers. All plans include the following common features:
The network system at EngineHosting comprises of three data centers, each tailored to provide specific services, maximum performance, and the lowest latency possible. The 24 monitoring stations ensure peak and consistent performance of the network. Their data centers are located at Minneapolis, Minnesota; Edina, Minnesota and Fremont, California. The monitoring stations are located at Hong Kong, China, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Houston, Texas.