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Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

What’s a content management system (CMS)?

A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them. Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don’t have to.

What Joomla! can do?

Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:

* Corporate Web sites or portals
* Corporate intranets and extranets
* Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
* E-commerce and online reservations
* Government applications
* Small business Web sites
* Non-profit and organizational Web sites
* Community-based portals
* School and church Web sites
* Personal or family homepages

How Infrenion Hosting is Best for Joomla Hosting?

In a recent article by Joomla developers — How to secure Joomla –They have mentioned some security tips –

1) Register_Globals ON — This is big security hole — Infrenion has all servers with register_globals OFF.

2) Permission Issues — (A common issue with hosting companies running PHP as Apache Module)

Infrenion runs php in secure environment for joomla accounts — We have installed suPHP which completely resolves permission issues.

What is suPhp ?

With non-suPHP configurations, PHP runs as an Apache Module it executes as the user/group of the webserver which is usually “nobody”, “httpd” or “apache”. Under this mode, files or directories that you require your php scripts to be able to write to need 777 permissions (read/write/execute at user/group/world level). This is not very secure because it allows the webserver to write to the file, it also allows anyone else to read or write to the file. Under suPHP configurations, PHP running as a CGI with “suexec” enabled (su = switch user, allowing one user to “switch” to another if authorized) - Your php scripts now execute under your own user/group level. Files or directories that you require your php scripts to be able to write to no longer need to have 777 permissions. In fact, 777 permissions are no longer allowed, having 777 permissions on your scripts or the directories they reside in will not run and will instead cause a “500 internal server error” when attempting to execute them, this is done to protect you from someone abusing your scripts. Your scripts and directories can now, only have a maximum of 755 permissions (read/write/execute by you, read/execute by everyone else).

Joomla AchTube Video Component

Infrenion supports joomla AchTube Component — Video Broadcast component for Joomla!. You can make a youtube or myspace site in a few minutes with this component on Joomla. You can use all Joomla! Features and youtube features on your site. This component is not for embed code or any other that working on the original location of video.
This component can upload video to server and encoding video to flv inside. Like youtube and myspace.

A video sharing service allows individuals to upload video clips to an Internet website. The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view this video. The website, mainly used as the video hosting service, is usually called the video sharing website.

There are plenty of opensource and paid video sharing scripts available in market, You must consider some important points before you select video sharing script for your business.

Script Security

When you talk about uploading video files that itself makes it clear — hackers have option to upload malicious scripts and hack the script or server in large.

Make sure the script that you select is professionally designed and well coded to nullify the hacking attempts. Now its not just script it could be hosting environment too which can allow hackers to gain access for example —

1) Register_Globals ON — This is big security hole — Infrenion has all servers with register_globals OFF.

2) Permission Issues — (A common issue with hosting companies running PHP as Apache Module)

Infrenion runs php in secure environment for joomla accounts — We have installed suPHP which completely resolves permission issues.

Script Functionality

Please check if the script has all functions that is needed for video sharing website for example the core functions of any video sharing script are uploading video files, converting videos to flash, displaying videos.

Script Scalability

Video Sharing sites generally attracts large internet traffic - If your video script is poorly coded it can cause high server loads. You should make sure the script you select is scalable and can sustain high traffic loads.

Script Performance

Script performance depends mainly on hosting plan that you choose. Double check the script technical requirements if they are satisfied by your host.You should select reliable host with good uptime guarantee and knowing its video site you should choose plan with large space and bandwidth. Video sharing sites requires large resources as it takes uploading files, converting to flash & displaying it. That’s a hefty task for a server.