Pleso netNews solution
About
Pleso NetNews is an web-site engine, designed and developed for online-media sites with high attendance. Developed since August 2006, in production since December 2006. Well-tested, easy to support and customize.
License
Commercial. All components, that are used for developing, are under public licenses.
Technology
- Programming language: Python
- Operating System : OS Independent (Written in an interpreted language)
- Framework used: Django - high-level Python Web framework
- Supported databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle
Other sites based on the same technology
- LJWorld.com - An industry-leading newspaper site
- Washington Post U.S. Congress Votes Database - Lets you browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991.
- Toronto's city magazine
- music.aol.ca - AOL Canada's music site offers free music online to all Canadian music fans
- The Big Art Mob - The UK’s first comprehensive survey of Public Art
See more on Django-powered sites
Sites on Pleso NetNews engine
Rupor.info - Top-20 Ukrainian news portal. Front-end site design given by customer.
- 13,000 unique visitors per day (hosts), 33,000 pages generated per day (hits)
- public counter: top.bigmir.net
- server configuration:
- hardware: Intel Pentium D 3Ghz, RAM: 1Gb, HD: 2x160Gbm, software-RAID level 1 (mirror)
- operation system: Linux Debian 4.0
- split into 2 virtual machines (openvz)
- additionally on the server - ads management software, site forum, minor sites and applications.
Features and components
- General:
- flexible template system; integration with any design solution
- internationalization support
- cache system (memory, database, file system)
- native user-friendly URLs support (like '/publication/2007/12/06/new-engine-release/')
- Sitemap Protocol support for better indexing by search engines
- multi-user administrative interface with distribution of access rights (groups, add/change/delete rights over each component)
- FCKEditor - rich-text editor for administrative interface. Build-in images, files and flash upload and management
- site errors are reported to administrators by emails - no output to the visitor
- Components:
- publications (news and articles) component:
- categorization
- keywords (tags)
- RSS/Atom export
- custom RSS(XML) export templates (for external aggregations with customized file format and internal fields)
- publication images automatic crop and resize
- AJAX-based comments component for any publication or page with anti-spam protection (captcha), available for moderation through administrative interface or site-front end to login-in users
- AJAX-based polls component
- banners management
- search component
- web-conference component
- mail-list component
- mail form component (contacts page)
- static pages component - to create general information pages (about, etc)
- publications top component (build according publication date and views counter)
- "quote of the day" component
- publications (news and articles) component: