Webiva, a Boston-based open-source content management company, has launched a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) hosting platform for web professionals.
Webiva.com allows web professionals to build websites on a load-balanced, backed-up and replicated cloud without the hassle of installing and maintaining a Ruby on Rails installation.
Webiva is a web 2.0 open-source website building system (WBS) that allows web professionals to build custom websites that look and operate the way they want them to.
Webiva CEO and co-founder Pascal Rettig said the CMS has been available as an open-source system, but what’s been launched is a SaaS platform that allows people to build sites with Webiva without having to install the system.
"Until recently there were two CMS options: a blog engine that’s user-friendly but limited, or a full-stack CMS that’s powerful, but complex to manage," Rettig said.
"Webiva offers the best of both, a Rails-based system with the accessibility of a blog engine and all the features of a big CMS on the back-end."
Webiva’s extensible module system allows additional functionality to easily be dropped into the system and offers support for forums, e-commerce, social networking other mediums needed by web professionals building top-of-the-line websites.
Webiva features a user-friendly interface similar to a blog engine with all the features of a open-source CMS; provides web designers with full control and easy access to site HTML and CSS with built in editors; and with a single install user can build and deploy dozens of sites.
