Umbraco hosting

Umbraco is an open source project which was launched in the year 2000. Initially it did not start as an open source project but became an open source project in the year 2004. Today Umbraco hosting has grown and stands among the top fifteen most popular .NET applications which are open source.

• It has a user friendly interface which keeps it simple for everyone
• It comes with an integrated what you see is what you get editor
• It supports editing in Microsoft Word
• Versioned and scheduled publishing
• It fully supports own .NET controls
• Has a documented API
• Any .NET Language such as c# or VB.NET can be used
• It is open source and a full source code is available
• There are no restrictions on the designs and can be personalised as per the users choice.
• The template engine is very simple
• Full support for the web standards as well as accessibility standards
• It comes with English and Danish user interface. But there are options to add more languages by editing a simple XML language file.
• There are no restrictions on customization and almost any part of the user interface can be customized. New functionality can also be added using the .NET language by simply implementing few tiny interfaces.
• It comes with a unique macro technology that lets the user create functionality to the site by either transforming the Umbraco content with XSLT or by making use of the .NET controls.

Umbraco hosting Requirements
The users need to make sure that hosting package has a new database of MS SQL 2005 or MS SQL 2008 for the installation purposes. Without the MSSQL database, the free installations do not work and so the Umbraco hosting softwares cannot be installed. The other requirements include Windows 2003 along with IIS 6 hosting compatibility, and Windows 2008 with the IIS 7.0 hosting compatibility in the ASP.NET web hosting plans.

System requirements for Umbraco 4.6.x (it’s Codename is JUNO) and for Umbraco 4.5x

• IIS 6+, the preferred choice is IIS 7
• SQL Server 2005 or higher
• ASP.NET 4
• Can work in Medium-Trust but Full-Trust is still preferred
• It has the ability to set permissions for files to include create/read/write (or better) for the user who "owns" the Application Pool for the site. This typically includes NETWORK SERVICE.
• Can be run in virtual directory, but this is not recommended

System requirements for hosting Umbraco 4.0.x

• IIS 6 or higher
• SQL Server 2005+
• ASP.NET 2.0+
• Full-Trust is recommended, High-Trust is the minimum requirement; Medium-Trust won’t work
• It has the ability to set permissions for files to include create/read/write (or better) for the user who "owns" the Application Pool for the site. This typically includes NETWORK SERVICE.
• It does not support Virtual directories

The Umbraco manages to work in almost all modern browsers. Nevertheless, following are the preferred choices:

• Firefox (current version)
• Chrome (current version)
• Internet Explorer 7 or higher

In order to develop with Umbraco hosting, the following will be required:

• Visual Studio 2008 or higher
• .NET Framework 3.5 or higher
• SQL Server or SQL Express
• IIS 6 or higher