Open Source Apps

Azure App Service is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) on Microsoft’s cloud platform that allows one to easily provision a managed environment with the dependencies you need to easily deploy a web application from a Git repository or Docker…

Mastodon for Journalists & Media Organizations

Open Source Apps

, Fediverse, Mastodon

The banning of journalists from Twitter for linking to a Mastodon account publishing public data, incidentally the ADS-B coordinates of Elon Musk’s private jet, has resulted in a growing interest in a Twitter alternative. After all, as the so-called “Forth…

Mastodon for Marketing / PR Professionals

What Marketing/PR Pros Need to Know About Mastodon

Open Source Apps

, Fediverse, Mastodon

If you’re a PR and Communications professional, you’re almost certain to be on Twitter, the microblogging platform described as “the world’s town square” or the 21st century’s news wire service. From its founding in 2006 until now, Twitter has been…

Exciting Updates to the Mautic Reseller Program

Open Source Apps

Agency Partner Program, Mautic 3, Open Source Marketing

Updated Autoize™ Mautic Reseller InfrastructureThe Autoize™ Marketing Automation Infrastructure has been refreshed with Mautic 4 or 5, Portainer 2, and Traefik 2. Click the “Learn More” button to be taken to Autoize.net, where you can read about the features and…

Performance & Feature Enhancements in Nextcloud

Open Source Apps

Cloud Performance, Cloud Storage, NextCloud

Highlights of Nextcloud 21 File Sync & Share and Groupware Solution Revamped Nextcloud Hub 21 New Whiteboard app Improved Text, Talk, and Groupware (Mail, Contacts) apps PHP 7.3 or 7.4 required, PHP 8.0 recommended Discontinued support for MySQL 5.7, MySQL…

Prevent Shadow IT by Modernizing Internal Services

Open Source Apps

MailCow, NextCloud, Privacy Protection

In 2020, both digitally native and traditional enterprises had to rapidly upgrade their internal IT services to meet the needs of an all-remote workforce. Prior to this year, many enterprises already had the trappings of the tools that would enable…

Community Document Server vs OnlyOffice NextCloud App

Open Source Apps

NextCloud, ONLYOFFICE, Open Source

The inclusion of the Community Document Server that could be installed with one-click from the NextCloud App Store was a key highlight of the launch of NextCloud Hub with NextCloud 18. It was also met with much controversy as a…

Zammad Open Source Helpdesk Software vs SaaS

Open Source Apps

Customer Service, Helpdesk, Technical Support

Companies that are able to deliver the standard of service & support that their customers expect, even with a distributed team, will pull ahead of their competitors who are slower to adjust to a distributed work environment. While a shared…

Magento Self-Hosted E-Commerce vs E-Commerce as a Service

Open Source Apps

E-commerce, Magento, Self-Hosted Apps

Magento v1 was sunsetted at the end of June 2020 making way for Magento v2 as the standard for launching new Magento stores, or migrating existing Magento v1 stores to. Previously, Magento v2 was known as the Magento Enterprise, but…

Why Move Open Source Applications to Oracle Cloud

Open Source Apps

Cloud Platforms, Cost Optimization, Oracle Cloud

Oracle and open source together in the same sentence may give the “old guard” of technologists pause, but the Oracle of today is a dramatically different behemoth compared to when the Oracle DB system stood in a class of its…

Protect Against Ransomware & Malware with Secure Cloud Storage

Open Source Apps

Cloud Backup, Cloud Benchmarks, NextCloud, Virus Scanning

Organizations have known for years that they have to be vigilant with email attachments, but when’s the last time you emailed a document, instead of simply sharing a link to your cloud storage? Dropbox, even its paid plans such as…

High Performance Mautic with Apache Event, NGINX, and PHP-FPM

Open Source Apps

Cloud Performance, Mautic, Server Administration

Most novice Mautic users deploy Mautic using Apache and mod_php but higher performance and more scalable configurations do exist. Apache is a general-purpose web server that by default, runs in mpm_prefork mode. MPM stands for Multi-Processing Module, describing the way…