Last November at the Joomla World Conference in Boston, our CEO and founder Gary Jay Brooks sat down for an interview with Peter Bui at the Joomla Beat. This is super cool news because we like to tell our story, but we’re also super big fans of the Joomla Beat - it’s one of the great resources that has come out within the last few years for sharing Joomla news and such.

In the podcast, Gary tells the story of CloudAccess.net from the very beginning, and, although it’s been captured before, Peter did a great job getting Gary to reveal a few new details. Listen to the entire podcast below.

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.

We take great pride in our customized Cloud Control Panel™(CCP) that is simple, intuitive and powerful. The CCP is at the heart of our platform and the main interface between CloudAccess.net clients and team members. You won’t find a better control panel at any other hosting company. Today we are launching a new version of our Joomla-specific, feature-rich CCP and we know you'll enjoy your new client experience.

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.

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.

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