Tag: Lucee Hosting

Becoming A Developer With Purpose Greater Than Money

This is a Flashback Friday mashup. Supporting your stack and approaching development with a purpose greater than money. This might sound like an appeal to create for your favorite charity. But it’s not. We’re talking about the ethereal experience when how you do things is buzzing nicely. Tools, Tricks & Hack Your Way Happy The first time I saw someone using emacs (a living text editor) my heart skipped a beat. Did I learn how to use it? No. But it looked unreal when used by a knowledgeable developer. The same thing happened with Vim, and lately markdown (text styling) and Sublime...
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The Benefits & Myths of Lucee Hosting

When someone brings up the conversation of trying Lucee as a supplement to their Adobe ColdFusion development there’s some awkwardness. They’ve heard about Lucee, want to try it but it’s also mysterious and new. They aren’t convinced yet. And I don’t blame them. Lucee Hosting can be a shortcut to overcoming those barriers. Usually if someone get’s a chance to get familiar with Lucee, they are hooked (PS: Lucee Hosting makes this easy vs a worrying about local environment). You can get a pre-setup Lucee VPS much less than a equally equipped Adobe ColdFusion VPS. Or shared Lucee Hosting plan for $5. Debunking...
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Why Hostek Chose Lucee Hosting (You Should Too)

We originally chose to make Railo a hosting option, but that was before the rebranding to Lucee. It’s the same product, different stakeholders, same caretakers. We were one of the first to have certified Railo Administrators on our team, I’m one of those originally certified. Railo – Named after a StarTrek creature, the correct pronunciation would be Ry-Low. Lucee –  Named after the movie Lucy and Beatles song. Why We Chose To Offer Lucee Hosting? Hostek has supported Railo, now Lucee, for many years. We appreciate the open source aspect. For most businesses and end users seeking Lucee Hosting, price is...
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Adding domains to your Windows VPS has never been easier!

Having the right tools for the job is often the key to getting a job done successfully. Providing you with the right tools is a key goal for us.  Below I will outline a few new enhancements you will notice to the Control Panel for our Windows VPS plans. Customers often tell us we have the best Control Panel.  The feedback you provide helps us keep making improvements and adding new features. Based on this feedback, a few new enhancements are outlined below: Windows VPS Add Domain To accommodate new features and to make adding domains to your Windows based...
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