JumpBox for the Movable Type Blogging Platform

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Application Version: Movable Type 5.01
Open Source Project: Movable Type
JumpBox Version: 1.1.13 (release notes)
Short Name: movabletype
OS Version: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Added: June 11, 2008
Updated: January 19, 2010
Download Size: 208 MB (system requirements)
EC2 AMI Available: Yes (via cloud gear)
OVF Available: Yes (premium subscription req)

Movable Type is Six Apart's flagship blog software product, launched in 2001. Today, this robust social publishing platform powers the websites and blogs of many of the world's largest media companies, Fortune 100 businesses, small and medium sized businesses, and power bloggers. Movable Type is a fully integrated, scalable, proven social publishing platform upon which to build highly interactive websites, blogs and social networks.

This open source version of Movable Type was designed as an extensible open platform that software developers can use to build and develop websites and blogs. Fast, strong and secure, Movable Type is the most robust open source blog software on the market. The core Movable Type platform has API's that make it easy to add new features and functionality. To see a sampling of the many plugins available, visit the Plugin Directory at plugins.movabletype.org.

The JumpBox provides a basic installation of Movable Type setup with a single blog on the root URL of the system. It's highly recommended that you keep that blog and customize it for your needs rather than starting from scratch. From there you can add other blogs fairly easily.

This JumpBox is based on the 1.1 JumpBox Platform and includes a backup system that supports archiving the state of the JumpBox to NFS, Windows File Shares and Amazon S3.

JumpBox takes the pain out of server software deployments.

A JumpBox packages an application's software, dependencies, and application data into a single virtual appliance that deploys locally, or hosted to major virtualization, and cloud computing platforms. Deploy on Windows, Mac, or Linux using virtualization platforms like VMware, Xen, Parallels, Virtual Iron, Microsoft Virtualization, and Amazon EC2.

Among other enhanced features, a JumpBox provides:

  • An intuitive user interface to quickly guide users through deployment.
  • A web-based control panel for simplified management of system functions.
  • A backup system that enables data security and portability.

There are over 50 applications available as JumpBoxes and more than 100,000 have been deployed worldwide.

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Movable Type is a registered trademark of Six Apart Ltd. Trademarks, product names, company names, or logos used within this site are the property of their respective owners and references do not imply any endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation with JumpBox, Inc.