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Rochen Host Celebrates Five Years with Joomla!

September 1st marks the five year anniversary of the open source software project, Joomla! In August of 2005, a group of 20 people from around the world formed the founding Core Team of the Joomla project. On September 1st they launched joomla.org which was hosted by Rochen. Five years later, Rochen is proud as ever to be the leader in Joomla hosting. We currently host tens of thousands of Joomla sites including joomla.org and it’s ever evolving family of sites including the popular Joomla forums and the busy Joomla Extensions Directory. We have developed our infrastructure and…

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September 1, 2010

Joomla

Joomla 1.6 and Rochen Joomla Hosting, We are Ready!

One of the most anticipated releases from the Joomla Development team is almost here. Joomla 1.6, already in Beta is developing quickly and if you are comfortable with testing out software, this is one release you should take for a test drive. Here at Rochen we've done the work for you behind the scenes to ensure that Joomla 1.6 will run as smoothly and securely as any previous Joomla versions on our servers. So, what is new in Joomla 1.6? The best way to find out is to test it out for yourself (grab the latest beta),…

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August 3, 2010

Joomla / Security / Web Hosting

Joomla and WordPress Hosting and Security Presentations from CMS Expo. Rochen Discount Code Extended.

Last month Martin, Adam and I from the Rochen team attended CMS Expo in Chicago, IL as Diamond Marquee Sponsors. It was a fantastic event where we got to meet a lot of our existing customers, potential customers and connect with various people in the Joomla, Drupal and WordPress communities. We're a technology services company that primarily deals online but nothing beats meeting face-to-face. While at CMS Expo Adam and I delivered two 90 minute presentations on "WordPress Hosting and Security" and "Joomla Hosting and Security". I have linked both of these below in PDF format in…

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June 3, 2010

Joomla / Web Hosting

Rochen @ CMS Expo: Submit your questions, $550 free tickets giveaway and more.

Next month is going to be extremely exciting. Members of the Rochen team (including myself) are going to be attending CMS Expo in Chicago, IL on May 3rd, 4th and 5th. This will be my first time attending CMS Expo but my fourth visit to the beautiful Windy City. Chicago is my second favourite city in the United States after San Francisco. CMS Expo is the leading business and learning conference in North America for content management systems including (but not limited to) Joomla, Drupal and WordPress. As you may already know Rochen is huge within the…

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April 12, 2010

Joomla

The Rochen Engine Room: Joomla! Extensions Site Hosting

Recently, while starting off my Melbourne JoomlaDay presentation I asked the following question: "Which of the Official Joomla! Sites is the busiest?" A number of people correctly answered: "The Joomla! Extensions Site!". I thought I'd use this blog post to provide a little background information and figures we at Rochen have gathered with regard to the hosting of this site. Website URL: http://extensions.joomla.org Nickname: JED (Joomla! Extensions Directory) March 2010 Visits: 3,126,157 March Avg Visits/day (approx): 104,000 March 2010 Pageviews: 18,006,573 Total Data transferred (in/out): 2554 Gb Most popular page (after the home page): http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/photo-gallery Bandwidth Graph for the…

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April 7, 2010