WebEnabled.com is a platform for developing and selling web applications and websites.
WebEnabled.com, itself built on Drupal, is now offering a FREE Developer Sandbox and unlimited website hosting under Developer and Agency plans. Seed applications include Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress to name a few. Agency plan includes SVN and environment sharing with multiple developers.
Developer Benefits
We set out to give developers an easy to use, portable, and flexible platform to build upon. For developers, we're offering:
- Developer Sandbox: A FREE virtual machine image that runs on a Windows, Mac, and Linux systems and offers a simple mechanism to download and install any/all of the seed applications... No registration required. Registered developers can to sell their apps in the WebEnabled marketplace.
- Developer Hosting: Host as many development applications as you want. Sell apps and ongoing support to customers.
FREE 30-day trial period. - Agency Hosting: Host unlimited development applications. You get 10x more disk space than the Developer Plan. You get your own SVN hosting for all your projects. Share application access with other developers for team development.
FREE 30-day trial period.
Seed Applications
We currently provide seed applications for developers to build upon including Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. We'll leave it for developers to sell their own recipes. We also offer infrastructure apps for developers, like Mantis and Project Pier. This should help developers and agencies manage projects and client interaction. New seed applications will be added upon request.
Customers and Businesses
We currently offer customers the ability to submit Request for Proposals (RFPs). Registered developers can respond to the customer needs.
Infrastructure
We offer affordable production hosting, Amazon EC2 support, our Server Link image, and downloadable support for applications.
- Production Hosting: Host purchased applications on WebEnabled production platform. We offer a Production Plan for a single hosted application. We also offer a Scalable Plan (VPS) which can host an unlimited number of purchased applications.
- Server Link: Easily deploy and manage purchased applications on your on machines located anywhere you prefer.
- Amazon EC2: Need unlimited scalability? We have an Amazon EC2 image that allows you to deploy and manage purchased applications.
We're looking for feedback. Give us a try and help us build an infrastructure that you can use.
WebEnabled is offering a 30-day FREE trial for Developer and Agency Plans. The Developer Sandbox is always FREE.
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Comments
Run away from this host!
I've been using these guys for several months now and can't say I recommend them. Can't wait for Pantheon to open to the public!
Their vhost setup is weird. They run Apache as the account owner so if you want to remove file write permissions for Apache (as you should) you also have to remove permissions for yourself which means any time you want to do an update or add a file or whatever, you have to go and change the file permissions. Their facility for updating modules is terrible and the Drush interface won't work if the permissions are tightened as above. Note, the Security Review module barfs because of this issue as well. There's a button for Drush core update but what they don't tell you is it also updates every single module! WHOA! Not cool. So I just end up doing updates the old fashioned way.
Your website will have a 2nd URL that is an internal server address, but accessible from the web. I had to ask how to setup .htaccess so that webcrawlers wouldn't get confused by this. What a pain to fix.
The standard file manager is eXtplorer which in its own right is just fine, however it's not something you'd want to leave active on a live site. It is a PHP app that lives in the root of your site. At least cPanel ran separately on my previous host.
There's no way to determine how much disk space you have used. I have two Drupal sites configured, yet I cannot do a backup of the environment because I get an insufficient space error - on a 35GB account - huh? Also, if you do a backup/restore it effectively clones the site and in the process changes all the passwords and the internal site address, so you have to go and edit the changes you made to .htaccess, noted above. What a mess.
On top of all that, they are extremely poor at responding to issues, including twice now in one month where the server just stopped responding because allegedly I ran out of RAM (1.2GB burstable to 2GB) when there was virtually no activity - not at all a high volume site to begin with. They never responded to most of the issues outlined here - just flat out no response. On one issue, two people responded with opposite opinions.
Their servers are quite fast however. WebEnabled looks good on paper, but the whole idea is to offer a "push button" environment to save the headaches of Drupal server management and they fail miserably at that.
If Pantheon doesn't materialize soon, I'll be off to Linode. I could always use project Mercury there.