JumpBox for Joomla! Content Management System v1.5.x 1.1.11

JumpBox for Joomla! Content Management System v1.5.x 1.1.11 is known as an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) which is designed to help you build websites and other powerful online applications. It's one of the most popular Open Source applications around and the JumpBox for Joomla is a huge time saver. It captures the experience of a skilled IT admin in a package that's very easy to use and provides a production quality Joomla! installation in no time flat. 

A JumpBox packages an application's software, dependencies, and application data into a single virtual appliance that deploys locally, or hosted to major virtualization, and cloud computing platforms. Deploy on Windows, Mac, or Linux using virtualization platforms like VMware, Xen, Parallels, Virtual Iron, Microsoft Virtualization, and Amazon EC2.  

Deploying an application as a JumpBox provides a dramatically-reduced path to getting started with the software. Aside from installation benefits it yields other advantages such as portability across computing environments and simplified ongoing maintenance of the application. 

Key Benefits: 

• Self-contained deployment means easy to move or delete - it won't scatter files all over your operating system.
• New versions of the JumpBox contain updates to each component in the software stack so there's no patching web servers, application servers, databases, dependencies, etc.
• A web-based administration console simplifies the management of your application including SSL certs, email relaying, SSH, backups and more.
• Once you know how to install a JumpBox you can deploy any of 50+ other JumpBoxes and take advantage of a growing library of conveniently-packaged Open Source software.

Major Features:

1. An intuitive user interface to quickly guide users through deployment.
2. A web-based control panel for simplified management of system functions.
3. A backup system that enables data security and portability.

Enhancements:

• Joomla 1.5 has been updated to version 1.5.12. Restoring from 1.0 and newer Joomla 1.5 Jumpbox backups should work.
• This is a security and minor bugfix release update.
• Three minor security flaws were fixed in this release.

Requirements:

• Computer running any of: Mac OS X.
• Virtualization software. 
• For easiest use: a network that assigns dynamic IP addresses. (Most do)
• 3 GB Free disk space
• Minimum 1 GB System RAM (Each JumpBox you run on the same system will need 256-512MB of additional RAM)
• Minimum 1 Ghz CPU.