After several weeks of beta testing, Jamroom Hosting is now live for everyone!

If you are looking for high end Jamroom Hosting that doesn't slow down , Jamroom Hosting has you covered.  Built from the ground up to be 100% tuned for Jamroom you can run your Jamroom site with confidence knowing the platform is fast AND you're covered by VIP Support .

You'll find the new "Hosting" option right in your profile menu - it is the bright orange button when viewing your profile that says "Hosting" - simply click on that to get started with full featured Jamroom Hosting:

• All Servers are fully managed and backed up daily .
• Create as many Jamroom Domains on your server as you like.
• One click install of any Jamroom Distribution (Jamroom Core, Genosis, Site Builder, etc.)
• Unlimited Modules and Skins for Jamroom domains on your server(s).
• Instant setup on our cluster of fast, dedicated Media Conversion Servers.
• Easy to use Control Panel for managing all your servers.
• Mailgun integration for super reliable email delivery.
• SFTP Access to Jamroom on your server for direct file access.
• Priority Ticket support for help with your Jamroom questions.

I want to thank all of the feedback our beta testers have provided so far, and while we're now "out of beta" that doesn't mean we're done thinking of ways to make Jamroom Hosting even better, so if you have feedback please let us know.

Make sure and checkout out the Jamroom Hosting documentation for guides on getting started and how to use Jamroom Hosting:

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/jamroom-hosting

We're excited to launch what we consider the "next chapter" for Jamroom!

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I'm really excited to announce something that our customers have been asking for for years - Jamroom Hosting !

Hosting is something we've long been asked to do, but have always deferred it to hosting providers that we felt were better equipped to handle the myriad of options that you can get in a hosting plan.  However, one thing that seems to be getting harder to find is high quality and high performance hosting .  Hosting has pretty much been a "race to the bottom" in price, which in turn almost always leads to a decrease in performance.  While dedicated servers and VPS's have also become cheaper, if you are not a system administrator these types of options are not usually viable.

So we've been hard at work here building a new type of hosting for Jamroom - one that is 100% dedicated to running Jamroom about as awesome as you can run it.

This means we have included some really cool stuff:

• Every Server is a dedicated, fully managed VPS that is 100% dedicated to you.
• All Servers are fully managed and backed up daily .
• Create as many Jamroom Domains on your server as you like.
• One click install of any Jamroom Distribution (Jamroom Core, Genosis, Site Builder, etc.)
• Instant setup on our cluster of fast, dedicated Media Conversion Servers.

This last one is awesome - all your Audio and Video media conversions will be handled by our cluster of dedicated Media encoders - this frees your server from having to do media conversions at all, which can be very CPU intensive (and if you are currently on a low end hosting platform you know it can take A LONG time to convert large video files).

We've built a custom Control Panel that runs here on Jamroom.net and gives you access to creating new Jamroom Domains on your server(s) as easily as clicking a button.  This makes it a perfect setup for those that are running multiple Jamroom sites (web design firms with clients, savvy webmasters that run multiple sites, etc.).

It's also perfectly setup for development, as each domain is mapped to a secondary domain - this allows you to create your site on the secondary domain and when you're ready to "go live" all it takes is a click of the button to swap to your "live" Jamroom domain.

UNLIMITED MODULES AND SKINS

The other awesome part of hosting with Jamroom Hosting is that for all domains on your servers, you can install unlimited modules and skins!   As long as you are hosting with us, there's no charge for any module or skin you would like to install on any domain on your Jamroom server.

Have a lot of client sites you want to setup?  No problem - you can set them all up on your server with whatever modules and skins you need.

OPTIMIZED FOR JAMROOM

All servers that are created in your account have been optimized for running Jamroom - this includes:

• custom MySQL settings for the size of your server
• custom PHP settings to allow much larger uploads
• optimized PHP cache settings to make Jamroom fly
• Mailgun SMTP for super reliable email delivery

One thing that is important to point out is that these servers are 100% dedicated to Jamroom - there's no "Cpanel" or "WHM" or "Plesk" control panels here - these types of control panels offer hundreds of different hosting options and choices, and almost always make the server they are loaded on much slower.  So if you need Cpanel hosting, or the ability to run non-Jamroom scripts on your server, you'll want to stick with a "normal" hosting provider.

COMING SOON

Right now we are in the process of putting the final set of features and touches in place to get Jamroom Hosting released to everyone - our goal is to go live by the end of February.

If you would like to get involved earlier with us, we're looking for a few beta testers who want to give us feedback on how things work, and also want to get a special deal on pricing.  If you'd like to be involved in beta testing Jamroom Hosting, please contact us at support [at] jamroom [dot] net.

We're really excited to get this rolled out as soon as we can - if you have any feedback or questions, please let us know in our support forum .

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I'm really excited about a new Jamroom module that has just been release - Profile Domains :

https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/networkmarket/195/profile-domains

Long time Jamroom users know that this is an idea that is many years old, and was kicked around as far back as Jamroom 3.  Unfortunately the architecture of Jamroom 3 and 4 didn't make it possible to support this type of feature.  With Jamroom 5 we now have a single entry point for all URL routing, and with the advanced events and listeners that are built throughout the Jamroom Core, the time has come where Jamroom can now support this !

The Profile Domains module is an advanced module for Jamroom sites that want to map domain names to profiles in your Jamroom.

For example - you might have an artist that wants their own domain name, but they don't want to run their own site.  Ideally they would just point their own domain name to their profile running in YOUR Jamroom.  This is what the Profile Domains module brings to Jamroom.

You can host as many different mapped domains as you would like, and the module will properly remap the entire profile so the URLs are all updated with the mapped domain.

Combine this with the Profile Tweaks module and you can create an entire "site within a site" for your users.  And with Jamroom's flexible Quota system this gives you a feature that can really enhance your premium subscription offerings.

Note that this module is considered an "advanced" module, since it requires you to have shell (SSH) access to your Jamroom server, or at least the ability to edit the Apache config for your domain.

If you have any questions about the Profile Domains module, make sure and join us in our  Support Forum and we can happily answer any questions you might have.

Thanks for reading!

We've just taken the wraps off the new Jamroom.net design, and we hope you like it!

As many of you know we have several "Jamroom Projects" going on such as Site Builder, Ning To Jamroom, Genosis, etc. that take the Jamroom Core and extend it in new ways. 

We wanted to make sure these Jamroom Projects were highlighted in a better way so they could be more easily found, so the new design features the Jamroom Projects prominently right on the front page.

We also are excited to announce our newest Subscription, which those of you who run several Jamroom sites will find exciting.  Going forward we now offer a VIP Premium Unlimited Subscription:

https://www.jamroom.net/subscribe

This new subscription allows you to install as many free and paid modules on an unlimited number of domains you control for a single monthly price.  You no longer have to purchase licenses for individual modules and skins - instead just install whatever skins and modules you need for your site.

For the next month we are offering this new subscription at only $44 per month - which is $5 less than the normal price of $49.  If you manage multiple Jamroom sites and would like to use Jamroom for even more of your clients and customers, this deal is awesome - it even includes Priority Ticket support!  So for an extra $15 per month above the VIP Support plan you can unlock unlimited modules and skins!  Note that this only includes modules and skins by us (The Jamroom Network) and does not include 3rd party modules or skins.

We hope you enjoy the new look and wish you a happy 2015 - we hope the new year is a great one for you!

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