Moving away from Software as a Service
For some time now I’ve had the luxury of having many of the websites using eWrite CMS on the same servers. This has allowed me to develop the eWrite CMS in the model of software as a service (SAAS).
The eWrite content manager was located on our own website. Clients could visit our site, log in and view their own pages for editing. In the background eWrite would update the ‘remote’ database with the updated content.
With the newer eWrite Lite, I continued this approach as long as possible to allow for easier development and maintenance on my part.
For various security and connectivity issues I will be moving eWrite Lite away from this approach and following the approach used by Wordpress. eWrite Lite will be a set of files a user can upload to their site, run a setup wizard which will create a basic website and log the user into eWrite Lite to begin creating their first pages and managing their files.
It will mean a little more work for me deploying new files or updates for eWrite Lite to users websites, but Im looking forward to to the change in approach.
Until now, eWrite was quite limited in getting users to be on servers we could control. With this new approach I will be making it as easy as I can for a user to pay for eWrite Lite, download a copy and install on their site quickly and easily.
Wish me luck!
July 31st, 2008 at 10:18 am
Hey Gordon, just a thought, aren’t you worried about your code being stolen, copied or reused with this new approach or are you taking steps to prevent that and if so what are you thinking about?
July 31st, 2008 at 10:25 am
Hi Ciaran,
Yes, I am quite worried about this. In short, its a problem im looking forward to facing.
Keeping the software too close to my chest as I have done prevents the software from growing in my opinion.
For example if I happen to be using terrible coding practices I would prefer to get the software out there and learn from people that will take the time to look at it.
In the long run, I’d love to have a free and open source version of eWrite products and the sooner I get out there and get my hands dirty the better.
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