Concrete5 hosting

Concrete5 hosting provides solutions that make the task of managing small to medium sized web sites very easy. It is based on the principle of what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG).  The software installation process is relatively easy and less time consuming. The concrete5 web site can be up and running in as less as ten minutes.  The administrative interface provided by concrete5 is quite straight forward and there is no need for hard core technical knowledge for developing the web sites. This makes the job easier even for novices without considerable html knowledge.

Concrete5 application is an open source project that can be downloaded for free. Concrete5 hosting was actually initiated as a closed source, commercial content management system. It has become an open source product in the recent times and enjoys a huge community support now.  Concrete5 hosting software can be downloaded and installed with ease on the user’s server. The user can also run a hosted site on Concrete5.

Concrete5 hosting allows the user to change the content and the structure of a website as per his choice. A range of things can be done with a simple click and edit from the tool bar. Anything ranging from school sites, business sites as also personal sites is possible with the help of concrete5 hosting. The concrete5 hosting also comes with a search engine optimization. Thus the web sites have a better ranking across all the major search engines.

Concrete5 allows the users to customize their sites as they want. All that is required to be done is registering with the Concrete5 Market Place which is free. The concrete5 web sites can be designed by the users personally. If designing is difficult for the users all they can do is download the themes that are available in the concrete5 market place. Most of the themes available here are free. Some themes are available at minimum prices. Concrete5 hosting application includes a RSS/ATOM feed add on. This add on makes it simple to provide live content on the web site.  Apart from this there are also free Flash, YouTube, Google Maps, and a number of other free add ons. Concrete5 hosting also enables page revisions. This makes it easy to roll back to a previous version of a page at any point of time. Concrete5 hosting is simple and manages to handle a majority of the user’s needs.

The recommended Concrete5 hosting system requirements are as follows:

• PHP 5.2.x
• Python 2.2
• MySQL 5.x or greater.
• Apache 1 or 2 are the recommended servers. Microsoft IIS will also run on the system but is not recommended by the concrete5 hosting developers.
• Python 2.2 which is required only when comparing page versions using HTMLDiff
• GD support

Following are the minimum requirements (Concrete5 hosting however, runs more efficiently on the above mentioned recommended system requirements)

• MySQL 4.1
• PHP 5.1.x, including
• GD support
• The MySQL extensions to PHP
• SimpleXML support