Rochen at the Joomla! World Conference

Last weekend five Rochen colleagues from around North America, including our CEO Chris Adams, CTO Ben Johnson, our Enterprise Solutions Group Leader Tom Canavan, Support Staff member Mike Hamanaka, and myself, had the pleasure of attending the Joomla! World Conference  in Boston. What is Joomla! World Conference? JWC is a gathering together of like minded Joomla! folks for three days of fun, camaraderie, and much valuable education and sharing through various sessions led by experts in the Joomla world. If you're in to Joomla, and haven't been to one of the previous two events, I highly recommend going…

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Are You a Rochen Affiliate Yet?

Rochen has been in business for over a decade and over the years we've built a solid foundation and customer base that can be attributed to our lightning fast hosting infrastructure, our exclusive features such as Rochen Vault and Joomla! Utilities, our 24/7 customer technical support and also our contributions to the open source world, most notably Joomla! While we're proud of what we've accomplished and the services that we're able to offer, we can also boast that we have the BEST customers! As I monitor the Rochen sales desk ([email protected]), I hear from a lot of…

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An interview with Rochen’s Chief Developer

In today’s Joomlasphere you have a wealth of options, that includes many fine extensions and services companies that can help build out your Joomla!® website. One challenge for administrators of ANY software in use is the natural upkeep required. Sometimes upkeep takes the form of simple maintenance, other times that upkeep involves a great deal of urgency due to security reasons. When we talk ‘security’ in the Joomla!®  space, we often think of patching or removal of malware placed by hackers. However, that is only one part of ‘security’.  As an example, in the enterprise business space,…

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Creating a Joomla! staging site

If you're a Rochen customer or regular reader of this blog, then you're well aware of the exclusive to Rochen cPanel plugin, Joomla Utilities,  which makes installing and managing Joomla an absolute breeze.  In the last 12 months we've brought you features such as one-click installations, security tweaks, file and directory permission fixes, super administrator password resets and even mass management of multiple installations for Rochen resellers.  The features work for all Joomla 1.5, 1.7, and future releases. We work continually on these features to make Joomla management through your Joomla hosting as easy as possible for…

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Introducing Joomla Utilities WHM Tool for Resellers

If you're a regular reader of this blog then by now you've heard about our Joomla Utilities cPanel tool for easy upgrading, security fixes, permissions fixes and site migration among other features available for our Joomla Hosting customers. Recently we've taken all of the great cPanel plugin features and integrated them into WHM (Web Host Manager) as an extra convenience for our Rochen Reseller Hosting customers. The WHM plugin will allow you to easily upgrade all core files for Joomla 1.5 or 1.6 installations that are hosted on your Reseller account right from WHM instead of having…

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