Alfresco Cloud Hosting

Quick, Simple, and Scalable Alfresco Cloud Hosting

What is Alfresco Cloud Hosting?

Alfresco Cloud Hosting is a service we offer at Steadfast Networks that allows you to use Alfresco’s open source software through our Cloud Platform, which starts at $20/month. Alfresco is an enterprise content management system that can be used for both Unix-like operating systems and Windows-based systems.

Alfresco was developed using Java technology as a way to manage web records, documents, images, and collaborative content development. Our clients love Alfresco because it includes a number of useful features such as:

An out-of-the-box web portal framework that helps with the use and management of standard portal content
Multi-language support
Support for clustering
A content repository (with repository-level versioning similar to Subversion)
Repository access via CIFS/SMB, FTP, WebDAV, NFS and CMIS
Lucene indexing
Auto-generated XForms with AJAX support
Desktop integration with Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice.
File system compatibility between Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems by using a CIFS interface
Browser-based GUI (with official support for Internet Explorer and Firefox)
Activiti workflow
Multiple Database support: MySQL, PostgreSQL (Community Edition), Oracle Database, IBM DB2
A web content management system that has the ability to virtualize webapps and static sites through the use of Apache Tomcat
Transparent overlays (similar to unionfs)
Integrated Publishing
Federated servers
Portable application packaging
Pluggable authentication: NTLM, LDAP, Kerberos, CAS

How Can You Get Alfresco Cloud Hosting from Steadfast Networks?

One of the best things about being a Steadfast Networks Cloud Platform user is our ongoing relationship with Jumpbox. Through Jumpbox, we offer our clients a wide array of useful open source software, including Alfresco.

All Cloud users need to do to use Alfresco is select the Alfresco JumpBox template. To do this, go to Operating System and select Ubuntu, then choose JumpBox Alfresco. You’ll be able to start using this great open source software without any complex setup and installation processes.

System Requirements for Alfresco Cloud Hosting

When running a virtualized version of Alfresco via our Cloud hosting service, the default installation requires only a maximum of about 512MB, but as the number of people using Alfresco grows, more memory will be needed.

Operating System
Mac OS X, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Linux
CPU
Minimum 1 GHz
RAM
Minimum 1 GB (depending on the application, each JumpBox you run on the same system is going to require 512MB – 1GB of additional RAM)
Disk Space
15 GB
Dynamic IP addresses are also recommended

Tips, Tricks, and Documentation

Tips and tricks to help you better utilize Alfresco’s open source software can be found in a variety of places online. Alfresco.com offers quite a few helpful things, from their forums and videos to their blog, which includes access to an Alfresco webinar. Documentation specific to using Alfresco through a Cloud service can be found here.