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Today, I am excited to announce that Joel Watson will be our ContentBox Evangelist.  Joel has been contributing to not only ContentBox but ColdBox for many years and his enthusiasm for the projects and great ideas have really made an impression on the software that we all use today. &nb...

Just in case you have not heard, the site for Into The Box 2014 is now live and ready for your order!  Into The Box is a 1-day, 2-track event with speakers from around the world presenting on topics surrounding the Ortus Solutions product stack, CFML and web technologies. It will be held 1 day before the biggest ...

Merry Christmas, ContentBox v1.6.0 is here!  You can either download the updates or use our auto-update panel to upgrade.  Please note that you must first update to version 1.5.7 and then you can auto-update to 1.6.0.  We have also created a patches section in our download page, so you can download individual patches and install them if needed.

• ContentBox Source: To deploy in any CFML engine (Adobe or Railo)
• ContentBox WAR: To deploy in any J2EE engine
• ContentBox Express: To deploy in any machine

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We are excited to announce another hosting provider for ContentBox Modular CMS: Kickass VPS.  We have partnered with them to not only bring you ContentBox Hosting but the VPS offering are certified by us and they are also built and tuned according to our production servers.  You can find them in 3 distinct flavors and you can even purchase them with Ortus Support ho...

We are so excited to announce our partnership with KickassVPS to bring you some great hosting offerings for ContentBox Modular CMS. These VPS offerings are certified servers by Ortus Solutions, built to our standards and tuned as well. Enjoy!

KickAssVPS offers ContentBox virtual private servers for all of your needs and budget sizes. These VPS servers come wit...

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We are so excited to announce the general availability of the Ortus FuseGuard module for ContentBox.  FuseGuard is a software application firewall that will enhance your ContentBox installation with real-time protection.

Features in a Nutshell

Apart from the standard features of the Foundeo FuseGuard F...

We are so excited to announce the availability of FuseGuard, the application firewall for CFML, as a ColdBox and ContentBox Module.  We teamed up with Pete Freitag at Foundeo and have create an awesome module that can protect your ColdBox and ContentBox ...

We are very excited to partner up with the great folks at Couchbase to bring you an awesome webinar on November 19th, 2013.  Myself, Brad and Tug will be presenting on the amazing features of the Couchbase NoSQL server and how it can be leveraged for scalability with CFML applications.  Here is a synopsis of the webinar:

Scaling ColdFusion (CFML) Applications with Couchbas...

The folks at Jelastic have published an excellent article about how to deploy ContentBox in their Jelastic Cloud and scale it for distribution.  Here is the article as well:

Introduction

Today we’ll show you how to deploy ContentBox to the Jelastic Cloud. In this deployment, ContentBox is powered by Railo, an open source CFML engine that can be deployed to any Java Servlet Container. Moreover, you’ll see how to use its embedded Railo CFML cluster cache by the Memcached implementation and how it can help to create a fast and scalable caching layer for ContentBox.

In our case, the clustered cache offers shared session storage for all servers in a cluster. You can then store all the sessions in this cache that are available from all servers in the cluster. In other words, we’ll use Memcached for session replication. So let’s take an easy example.