Movable Type hosting

Movable Type hosting is a platform for bloggers which comes for free and can be easily managed by novices and also proves to be a professional platform and a full-fledged content management system for a number of applications. Movable Type hosting, lets the user create blogs and web sites which are based on blogs as also allows for the development of various social networking sites. This platform is a good tool for those who want to create a private blog and also for people who want to have corporate web sites for online marketing purposes.

It comes with a simple framework which makes managing it very easy for everyone. There is no need for having extensive programming skills and knowledge for maintaining the web site. For the advanced users whose needs are more have a number of opportunities to develop functional web sites with unique and new designs. It is very easy to publish and share information with Movable Type Hosting. Movable Type hosting has made the task of managing an entire web site, blogs, etc very easy.

Benefits of the Movable Type Hosting:

• It includes an entire package for blogging
• It can create any number of blogs and plug-ins with just a single installation
• It can publish static as well as dynamic web pages
• Movable Type hosting comes with a flexible templates system which allows the generation of Word documents, slideshows, PDF files etc.
• It makes use of a simple template language with the syntax which is similar to HTML. This lets the webmaster change the look of the blog easily as bring in changes in its functionality.
• The users are assured of a reliable protection system against spam
• There are over 40 templates and designs which are ready to use
• It can create new blogs that are based on the same settings and templates like the one that are already there.

Basic Requirements:

1. For the installation purpose it needs server access via FTP, SSH, or telnet
2. It requires a web server which can execute CGI scripts written in Perl
3. A web browser with an enabled Java script

Hardware requirements:

1. 1 GHz CPU
2. 512 MB of RAM
3. 100 MB disk space for the purpose of application and the dependencies.

Operating System

1. Mac OS X
2. Solaris, SunOS
3. RedHat Enterprise, Fedora and CentOS
4. Linux
5. BSD
6. Windows Server 2008
7. Windows IIS 7

Web Server

1. Apache 1.3x or 2.x
2. Windows Server 2008

Perl

1. Perl 5.8.1 or higher.
2. Active Perl 5.10. on the Windows servers

Movable Type hosting can run on any platform which supports Perl version 5.6.1 or greater, but only the Perl version 5.8.1 or higher is officially supported by Six Apart.

PHP
Movable Type hosting supports both static as well as dynamic publishing for which it requires PHP. Movable Type hosting version 4.x provides support for PHP4 and 5 both. Movable Type version 5.x requires a minimum PHP5 or higher.

Database Requirements

1. MySQL 5.0 or greater

For Movable Type hosting version 4.x

1. MySQL 4.0 or higher or SQLite
2. PostgreSQL 7.x or PostgreSQL 8.x
3. Oracle 10g and 11g
4. Microsoft SQL 2005 Server

Web Browser

1. Mozilla Firefox 3.5 or greater
2. Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater
3. Safari 3 or higher
4. Opera
5. Chrome etc.