Re: [tlug] recommendations for user friendly CMS (with VMware?)

[scott <scott@example.com>]

Hi again,

Replying to my own mail- I guess not many people are using these pre-
packaged CMS software bundles as you all can create your own sites from
scratch in Ruby on Rails ;-) 

Anyway after looking around a bit I'm thinking of going with Plone
because it has so many plugins and looks very flexible. But I'm also
thinking that it would be really cool to just set up this webserver as a
virtual host using vmware because I don't have a spare server right now.
I think it would be cool to use one of the existing servers we have now,
and perhaps bind the 2ndary ethernet adapter to the virtual m/c itself,
put it on a different subnet and vlan etc. Plus it would be handy to be
able to take snapshots of the virtual m/c, and then possibly migrate it
to a dedicated server when the chance comes up. My concern is: will
there be a performance hit? Because our office is small, I'm not
expecting more than 30 simultaneous web connections... 

Has anyone tried running a webserver on vmware? 

Thanks again for any advice in this. Wish me luck.

Cheers,
Scott VanDusen
Tokyo


On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 17:14 +0900, scott wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Joy of joys! The company where I work is sadly almost 100% Microsoft,
> and up until now I haven't had much of a chance to use Linux here
> outside of my own personal workstations. However my boss has just sat us
> down and asked that we develop an internal website for our branch
> office, and because he is interested in emerging technologies and open
> source, I've got the green light to build our homepage with Linux. I'm
> thinking of following the standard LAMP setup on Centos, but I'm not
> sure which CMS to go for. I've been using Joomla for a few years but I
> want to make it so site content can easily be uploaded by the end users
> here (some of whom are ironically not too gifted in I.T. despite working
> at an I.T. company) so I'm wondering if there isn't an easier CMS. We're
> planning on having a wiki, gallery2, blogs and possibly streaming
> content via flash objects. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any
> advice. Finally some fun at work!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Scott VanDusen
> Tokyo
> 
>