Silverstripe Cloud Hosting

Quick, Simple, and Scalable Silverstripe Cloud Hosting

What is Silverstripe Cloud Hosting?

SilverStripe cloud hosting from Steadfast Networks is our way to provide our customers with access to an innovative content management system focused on easy content authoring.

SilverStripe is content management software specially designed with content authors in mind. Other CMS applications might require content editors to know HTML or other programming languages, but SilverStripe makes it easy to edit your website content using intuitive drag & drop functions and a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface. SilverStripe also offers a huge range of themes and widgets, making it easy to customize your website, too.

Built on a PHP-based Sapphire framework, SilverStripe utilizes MVC architecture to keep code separated from web designers and content editors. Because SilverStripe utilizes code instead of a complicated graphical user interface, programmers have a website-building experience that's just as intuitive as SilverStripe's content editing process. And because SilverStripe is open-source and developed using open standards, a wide range of user-created modules are available to enhance your SilverStripe experience. See the Modules page for a complete list.

With over 500,000 downloads and counting, SilverStripe is the most intuitive tool available for users who want to keep code out of the way of their website content editors. How simple is the application? If you can use Word, you can edit website content using SilverStripe.

How to Get SilverStripe Cloud Hosting

Steadfast Networks Cloud Platform users get access to SilverStripe, a free JumpBox application, as part of a range of Cloud Platform plans starting at only $20 per month. JumpBox makes it incredibly easy to install SilverStripe. All you have to do is select Ubuntu as your Operating System, then select JumpBox SilverStripe.

SilverStripe System Requirements

Disk Space
215MB Download Size
Hardware size varies based on website size and traffic (48MB is recommended for each PHP process)
Memory
2GB RAM recommended
Operating System
Linux/Unix/BSD
Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2
Mac OS X 10.4+
Web Server
Apache 1.3+ (with mod_rewrite and "AllowOverride All" set)
IIS 5.x+ (Version 7.5+ and URL Rewrite Module recommended)
Other web servers, such as Lighttpd, may be supported
Content compression (for example with mod_deflate) is recommended for greater speed
PHP
5.2.0+
Database (one of the following)
MySQL 5.0+
PostgreSQL 8.3+ (requires "postgresql" module)
SQL Server 2008 (requires "mssql" module)
Support for Oracle and SQLite is currently in development

See the System Requirements page for further information about required modules and specific configurations.

Video: How to Install SilverStripe Content Management System

Tips, Tricks, and Documentation for SilverStripe Cloud Hosting

You can find Documentation on the SilverStripe Help Page. An active user Forum is also available on the SilverStripe website. Stay updated on the latest software developments with the SilverStripe Blog.

In addition, the following websites are great resources for learning more about SilverStripe cloud hosting: