Jumpbox is a great application from Jumpbox Inc. They offer a virtualized solution of some of the most used web applications on the Internet. It allows quick deployment to servers through various virtualization platforms such as Xen, VMWare, Amazon EC2 and many more.
A version of Jumpbox created for Joomla has been released for free courtesy of the company. It currently uses Joomla version 1.5.15 and utilizes the Linux based Ubuntu 8.04 LTS which is maintained till the second quarter by Ubuntu.
The Jumbox for Joomla is optimized and enhanced to ensure that the security and many other things are in proper condition. In fact, most of the things are configured properly by Jumpbox that the user can start working on the site once virtualization has started.
Jumpbox is also available for other scripts such as Magento, SugarCRM, ProjectPier and many more. However, there are only a handful of applications that are free and the ones mentioned before are not. Users will have to subscribe to Jumpbox for a subscription fee of $299/year. They will then gain access to all Jumpbox applications.
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