For those of you new to Jamroom (and even Jamroom veterans who are new to Jamroom 5), I wanted to post about a new "Udemy" course that Michael has been working hard on building over the last month or so:

Start Your Own Online Community

This is a video course that covers many, many different aspects of running and using Jamroom - everything from using FTP to upload the initial files to your site, to customizing a skin to suit your needs.

It is broken up into smaller "Sections", and within each section are "Lectures" that are just the right length even if you're busy - you don't have to sit through everything at once, and can even jump around and pick and choose those topics that interest you.

With Jamroom 5 we've been doing a lot more video guides, so make sure and check out our YouTube Channel :

https://www.youtube.com/user/jamroomdotnet

With dozens of video guides online, there's surely something new for you to checkout

We hope you enjoy the videos, and thanks to Michael for all his hard work on putting these together!

- Brian

I wanted to take a look at the similarities and differences between Jamroom and Wordpress.  I tried to do it in a blog, but I just like the documentation module more.

So here it is:

https://www.jamroom.net/michael/documentation/jamroom-vs/1456/jamroom-vs-wordpress

This is only going to run through Sunday - once it is gone it is gone!

Make sure and check out the Black Friday Promo announcement in the forums:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/announcements/2814/jamroom-black-friday-promo-code

Get 25% off any Jamroom Network item , and use it up to 3 times!

We hope you all have a great holiday weekend, and we look forward to seeing you online!

- The Jamroom Team

I know a lot of our customers have been asking for a detailed, step-by-step guide on running Jamroom on your own server or VPS (Virtual Private Server), and I have just wrapped up work on an in-depth guide to creating, configuring and running your own VPS server on DigitalOcean called:

High Performance Jamroom on DigitalOcean

This guide covers everything from signing up on DigitalOcean, to creating your VPS (called a 'Droplet"), to installing and configuring Apache, MySQL, PHP, email and more.

So please feel free to provide feedback via the comments on any page you might have questions about and I'll do my best to help, but please do not post questions about the guide in the Support Forum, as it is not something provided by the Jamroom Team or "officially" supported.  The guide is geared towards intermediate to advanced users, as it does require understanding how to use SSH, etc. - make sure and checkout the intro for all the details:

https://www.jamroom.net/brian/documentation/guides/1188/high-performance-jamroom-on-digitalocean

Note that this guide is on my personal Jamroom page - it's not part of the mainline Jamroom documentation.  Running your own server is really not in the realm of Jamroom, so it's more appropriate to be on my profile.  With that said I'll do my best to respond to comments and questions, but it's not something that is "officially" supported by the Jamroom Team.

I hope you enjoy the guide!

- Brian