Comments on: Maneno: the future of CMS (hopefully)

By: Global Voices dalam bahasa Indonesia » Kenya: Maneno-Fasilitas Blog Multi Bahasa bagi Pengguna Blog Afrika

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:13:25 +0000

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By: Global Voices Online » Maneno: A Multilingual Blogging Platform Built For African Bloggers

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:08:57 +0000

[...] hopes Maneno becomes the future of Content Management Systems: So imagine my joy when I came across Maneno last week. A CMS blogging platform designed [...]

By: Miquel

Miquel — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:07:49 +0000

Well, the site will need to be moved at some point. At that point, I want it to be in Europe and yes, I do believe it will make a difference. My GMail drags like a dying animal when I access it in Europe. In talking to a fellow who works on GMail, apparently whatever country you’re in when you sign up is the server that you account will sit on locally. This explains why my account is sluggish outside the US and why my wife’s (who signed up while in Europe) is much faster when we’re working side by side. Long story short, the physical difference matters in where a site is being hosted. Latency is an issue. It also happens to be convenient to be able to have the server (and support staff) running on GMT which is what we have our site running on.

By: jimjepps

jimjepps — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:54:21 +0000

Miquel, Yeah, I was going to ask what you meant when you said it wasn’t a CMS – I certainly think that CMS component is essential in terms of widening who potential users are likely to be.

I was chatting to someone in the office today who thought that moving your servers wouldn’t have much of an impact, which seemed interesting to me. Do you expect the move to significantly increase your upload times?

By: Miquel

Miquel — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:53:19 +0000

Actually, I should clarify that it’s not a CMS in the traditional sense. There is a CMS component built in to it, but that’s not its primary objective.

Hit the submit button too quickly…

By: Miquel

Miquel — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:49:38 +0000

Jim, I’ll let you know when we get to the big question of hosting. At the moment, we’re still steeped in development and I prefer doing that on a slightly crappy server so that everything is optimized fully

Um, in regards to this Frog thing, Maneno is absolutely not a CMS. It’s a platform for citizen journalism and information dissemination.

-miquel

By: silicon loop

silicon loop — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:12:45 +0000

Thanks for writing about Maneno. I’d never heard of it before.

Another great option is Frog CMS.

http://madebyfrog.com/

Free, simple to use, and blazing fast!

By: jim jay

jim jay — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:59:31 +0000

Hi!

What kind of server are you looking for in Europe? Maybe we can help.

By: Miquel

Miquel — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:08:12 +0000

Hi there Jim, thanks for the positive words on Maneno. Since it’s a volunteer effort on the part of all of us involved at the moment, it means a lot to hear that people are really getting in to it.

One minor correction though, since I don’t want to give any false information. Our server is on the East Coast of the US at the moment. It’s pretty average box that’s running other sites as well as Maneno, so the performance is significantly slower than it will be once we move it to a new machine that’s just for it. I’m looking to have the future server be based somewhere in Europe which will further reduce lag to the African continent.

-miquel