We’ve been part of the Joomla community for a long time now, and we’ve been involved with many Joomla! Day events and Joomla! User Groups. In fact, our company was born out of events like these. We know that JDays and JUGs offer great opportunities to meet fellow Joomla users and enjoy good company, but they also promote discussion, spark ideas, and spur innovation. We appreciate JDays and JUGs so much, we’re offering free lifetime hosting for any JDay or JUG site out there.

If you’ve got an upcoming event or need a permanent home for your group, you can either launch a demo site and we’ll upgrade it for as long as you need it, or we’ll help you migrate an existing site into our network free of charge. We appreciate the valuable work you do and we want to support you any way we can. We’re the preferred web host for sites like Joomla! Day Chicago, Joomla! Day Ethiopia, and Joomla! Day North Carolina, among many others. We’d be proud to add your group or event to the list. Once in the network, you can experience our one-of-a-kind Cloud Control Panel™(CCP) for managing your Joomla site, and you’ll even be able to submit support tickets to get help from time to time.

There are so many fish in the sea, and you deserve the most committed hosting provider out there. If you’re not married to your current host - if you’re not absolutely head-over-heals in love - you can save 25% on any of our hosting & support Service Level Agreements (SLAs). If you’re a demo client we’d love for you to join us in hosting matrimony by upgrading today.

Our highly devoted support team has an unwavering passion to help you build your online home. We’ll help migrate your site or upgrade your demo account, and we know you’ll fall madly in love with our entire platform. Remember, you need only purchase one SLA - after that, each additional site is only $5 per month.

We cherish all of our clients, and whether you desire a Standard, Business or Pro SLA, we’d love to create a perfect union with you. Experience our industry-leading level of faithful support. You won’t be disappointed. This is a limited time offer valid through Saturday, February 15th.

There’s been a little hullabaloo this week about Joomla 1.5 security and other hosting companies threatening to suspend hosting services for 1.5 clients. We’re offering free migrations and continued support for any customer wanting to transfer their Joomla Instance to CloudAccess.net.

Why pick CloudAccess.net for your 1.5 hosting needs?

• We’ll migrate the 1.5 Joomla Instance for you absolutely free of charge.
• We immediately apply security patches provided by Joomla.
• We will continue to provide online ticket and phone support for Joomla 1.5.
• We have a custom-built security feature that allows you to lockdown your Joomla instance files and database files at the server level, leaving it unhackable. This tool, not offered by any other hosting provider, can let brochure Joomla 1.5 sites live indefinitely.

CloudAccess.net provides the highest quality hosting environments available, our pricing plans are straightforward and we offer an industry-leading level of Joomla and hosting support. It’s true that Joomla 1.5 has reached its end of life, and you should consider upgrading at some point. Until then, we can keep you safe. There is no reason for your hosting company to pressure you into upgrading or threaten to cancel your service. When you’re ready, we’ll even help you with the upgrade process. To get started, click on the button below and follow the steps. Our team will follow up with you if we have any questions.

You're invited to attend a free webinar and save 50% off Watchful, one of the most popular Joomla extensions in 2013. Winner of the Innovation of the Year award at JAB13 and the Best Joomla App award at CMS EXPO 2013, this is one webinar you do not want to miss. Watchful gives site admins the power to:

• update and backup Joomla and Joomla add-ons remotely
• [EXCLUSIVE] supports commercial add-ons for Akeeba, NoNumber and ACL Manager
• utilize powerful activity logging
• receive notifications when important site files are modified
• manage all of your Joomla websites in one convenient location
• save time by ensuring that critical maintenance tasks are implemented consistently

When: Friday September 27th @ 9:00 a.m. EST

Thank You, Joomla!

We are a company that was born out of Joomla it is a great honor to be part of the Joomla community. We're passionate about contributing to the project, and we're lucky to be a part of it. We have so many great employees that comprise our company - people who are committed to our goals and the community. Please watch the thank you video below.

Access Control Lists (ACL) is one of Joomla's most popular features and a draw for a lot of new users. ACL controls what site users can do and see on a website. The robust core ACL enables administrators to create tiered levels off access to different areas of the site for thousands of users. ACL is complex, and it raises a lot of questions.

We've scheduled two upcoming webinars to help answer some of those questions. The first webinar is Joomla! 3.1 ACL Explained. Hosted by CloudAccess.net Operating Manager Jonathan Gafill, this webinar will focus on core Joomla ACL. Jonathan will:

• offer a definition of basic ACL terminology
• create new User Groups
• assign Permissions
• add new Users and assign them to User Groups
• create Access Levels
• Create Categories, Articles and Menu Items specific to a User Group
• test ACL front end functionality

The second ACL Manager Webinar will be presented by Sander Potjer, a leader in the Joomla community and the developer of the ACL Manager extension. Core Joomla ACL can be difficult to comprehend and that’s where the ACL Manager comes in! Available in 28 languages, the ACL Manager features tools to help users easily understand and manage Users, User Groups, Permissions and Access Levels. During this one hour webinar, Sander will discuss:

I am a member of the Joomla Extensions Directory Team and I was fortunate enough to receive an invitation to attend J and Beyond 2013, which was held in Noordwijerhout in the western Netherlands from May 31st until June 2nd. Before the conference began I experienced the Netherlands a bit and I tell a few stories below, but there was a moment on the first official night of the conference when I grasped just how wonderfully global and diverse the Joomla community really is.

After a very funny keynote presentation from Peter van Westen, attendees migrated to one of the fabulous restaurants at the NH Conference Center Leeuwenhorst. I sat down to dinner with Saurabh Shah, my colleague from India and a member of the Joomla Social and Events Teams, and OSM Board Members Javier Gomez from Barcelona, Spain and Ofer Cohen from Tel Aviv, Israel. Four guys from four countries on three different continents talked about Joomla and recent strides the community has made to reach more users worldwide. Saurabh shared his passions for marketing Joomla internationally. Ofer told a story about Eden Orion, an Israeli who was making Joomla more accessible to Hebrew-speakers. Javier talked about the importance of people like Guillermo Bravo, who won a J!OSCAR Personal Contribution Award earlier in the night for his work promoting the JCM to Spanish speakers.

Red Sage Communications, Inc. is an award-winning web services company based out of Decatur, Alabama. They provide everything from graphic design to branding, website development and marketing. They are really a one-stop-shop for brand building, marketing, SEO, and web development, and they have a very broad client base. CloudAccess.net is proud to call Red Sage a partner, and the story behind that partnership is quite interesting.

Red Sage was founded in 2006 by Ellen Didier. When they opened, the company used a proprietary product, ExpWeb by SunGard for website development. At the time ExpWeb made building sites efficient and relatively easy for the staff of novice programmers. However, SunGard eventually chose to package ExpWeb with some of their other products and it was no longer a stand-alone piece of software. At that point they stopped supporting it with even basic functionality and support patches.

With that little shove from SunGard, Red Sage decided it was time to circle the wagons and review other options. After a few days of looking at various choices the team narrowed it down to three: Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla. After many pro/con lists and discussions, they settled on Joomla due to the large community that was behind the project. Teresa Smith, Red Sage Web Products Coordinator, said, “we were able to find extensions that did things our clients needed, both effectively and at a great price point.”

With that decision behind them they began looking for seminars and classes to help get through the learning curve as well as become involved with the community to find out things like what hosting companies were best, which ones to avoid, etc. With the support of Ellen (aka Dragon Lady), Teresa traveled to the CMS Expo in Denver in November 2008 to learn about Joomla and hopefully meet some people in-the-know, and in a twist of fate, it’s there where she first met Gary Brooks, then the founder of MichiganMedia.net, an ISP in Northern Michigan.

Teresa said, “I don’t know how we would have gotten to the point where we’re at without Gary’s hand holding. He spent lots of time with us, walking us through the Joomla installation process, explaining the content management system and sharing resources to help us get started.” Happy with their choice in Joomla, Teresa returned to Red Sage to share what she had learned. They contacted Steve Burge at OSTraining for additional Joomla training and from there set out to find a suitable host for their newly developed Joomla sites.

They found a host in late 2008, at which time MichiganMedia.net hadn't yet evolved into CloudAccess.net. Red Sage was developing in Joomla 1.5 and building with hired front end development talent through MichiganMedia.net, taking Photoshop designs and having them custom programmed for Joomla through the Real Design Process. They were hosting on a dedicated server elsewhere, but weren’t completely satisfied with the level of support that hosting company provided. In the meantime MichiganMedia.net had become CloudAccess.net and began to offer hosting services.

Once again, positive change is brought about by necessity when Red Sage began to create a plan for all the 1.5 sites they were hosting. They knew their current hosting company wasn’t going to be of much help in the migration process and they knew what great support they had received from CloudAccess.net in the past. So, a conference call with Gary Brooks was scheduled to discuss options.

Gary took the time to talk Ellen and Teresa through the options of hosting with CloudAccess.net as well as the pros and cons. The CloudAccess.net Partner Program was the perfect fit! Great support, great pricing, and a relationship with someone they knew they could count on! The next challenge was to move the existing sites from their current server to CloudAccess.net, as well as take the 1.5 sites through the upgrade process to Joomla 2.5. CloudAccess.net was able to assist in the migration as well. Red Sage ultimately moved 49 websites from their previous hosting company to CloudAccess.net and have since upgraded most of those sites to version 2.5.

Teresa said, “if you’re hosting a Joomla site, there is no other better solution. As a client of CloudAccess.net, you’re treated with respect, and they’re great at solving problems.” The Red Sage team is pictured above.

You can learn more about Red Sage Communications, Inc. by visiting www.redsageonline.com . CloudAccess.net has several partner types, and Red Sage is a Reseller. Resellers offer a redistribution of CloudAccess.net hosting services, but they support and bill their own clients for that service. It's kind of like setting up your own hosting company. We supply our Resellers a drastically reduced monthly shared hosting cost, and they sell that hosting service for any price they choose and they do their own billing. For example, if you're a web developer, you can bundle hosting with development together into one package. Resellers pay the low flat rate for hosting and provide their own support, but they have access to our 24/7 Insane Support.

In April, Xen became a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project and unveiled a new community site at xenproject.org. Xen Project leaders worked closely with CloudAccess.net in the development of their new online home, built using Joomla.

The Xen Project is the open source community of developers that have contributed virtualization technologies licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). In the last 10 years, the Xen Project has produced many cloud technologies and “is the leading open source virtualization platform that is powering some of the largest clouds in production today. Xen powers Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Public Cloud and many hosting services.” CloudAccess.net is one of the countless cloud-based companies that benefits from Xen technologies. Thousands of users launch free trials of the Joomla CMS through our platform every month and the Xen Hypervisor is at the center of it all. It's the critical component that provisions compute and allows for Joomla application virtualization. 

Featured as a “Best of the Midwest” Growth Company at the Midwest’s Premier Venture Capital Conference

Ann Arbor, Mich. – May 13, 2013 – CloudAccess.net today announced that it has been selected to present at the 2013 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium. The company, an industry-leading Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering hosting and support for the Joomla! Content Management System, is among a roster of 36 promising, high-growth companies from the Midwest and beyond seeking funding in the next 12 months. CloudAccess.net will deliver its 10-minute presentation to attending investors, which include nearly 100 regional and top national venture capital firms, on Wednesday, May 22 at 10:30 a.m.

The Michigan Growth Capital Symposium is the oldest university-based venture capital fair and the premier Midwest networking event for leaders in venture capital investment to connect with emerging growth companies actively searching for partners and funding. Since 2001, the Symposium has provided nearly 400 companies with the opportunity to present to investors. Roughly 70 percent of these have raised capital totaling $1.7 billion in investments and nearly 20 percent have realized successful exits. More than 70 companies applied to present at the 2013 event and CloudAccess.net was selected following a rigorous review process.