BitNami
BitNami is an open source cloud solution for building, deploying and hosting open source web applications. BitNami is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) product that provides users with development, testing and production computing environments in the cloud.
The BitNami platform supports both private and public cloud application deployment, which is achieved by leveraging Amazon's cloud infrastructure. BitNami supports over 30 applications including Drupal, Wordpress, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Redmine and many others. In addition, BitNami supports multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux and MAC OS X.
BitNami Overview
BitNami provides the following functionality to its users: • Cloud Hosting – Many different types of open source applications can be hosted using BitNami. Content management systems, image management applications, ecommerce applications, report servers, integration servers, testing platforms, bug tracking applications, project management applications, file sharing applications and other cloud based applications are supported by BitNami. • Cloud Development – A number of widely used open source front end and back end software development environments and components may be instantiated on the BitNami platform. Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, Django, Memcached, Nginx, Subversion, Git, Sqlite, Tomcat and Java are a few of the advertised development tools that are available via BitNami Cloud Hosting. • Cloud Management – BitNami provides a number of tools that enable more efficient management for hosted cloud applications and platforms. Automatic backups, one-click restoration of server images, server availability scheduling, elastic network resource management, network resource performance monitoring, application deployment (open source & commercial) and cloud cost estimating tools are all built into the BitNami Cloud Hosting Platform.
BitNami Features & Pricing
BitNami is a comprehensive cloud hosting and management solution that is powered by Amazon Web Services. BitNami features multi-account management, which allows users to easily move servers across AWS accounts and availability zones with a single click. BitNami also advertises “no lock-in” for its users, meaning that the cancellation of your BitNami account won't result in a loss of your AWS account settings or server backup images.
BitNami can also be extended, using add-ins, that provide additional applications and functionality to the platform. PostgreSQL, Tomcat, JBoss, Varnish, Solr, Redis and OpenOffice are some of the applications that can be added to the BitNami platform with a single click.
BitNami offers a free account to developers that provides cloud hosting capability for a single server instance. Paid accounts include a Basic Plan that includes cloud hosting for up to 3 server instances. Business and Enterprise Plans are also available with cloud hosting for between 3 and 50 server instances. All paid plans are billed monthly, with flat rate pricing based on various ranges of alloted server instances. BitNami Cloud Hosting subscriptions do not include the cost of hosting your applications, as those charges are billed to each user directly by Amazon. BitNami can be accessed online at http://bitnami.com.