Create a free site on Radiant CMS and DB2
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A great thing about this configuration is that it uses an Amazon micro instance, and Amazon lets new customers try out micro instances for free for a year. I talk a lot about free cloud offers, but usually I mean that our software is free while you are still paying someone for the hardware. In this case, the hardware is free too.
Radiant is a content management system (CMS). Other popular CMS software includes Drupal and Joomla, with blogging tools like Wordpress increasingly gaining CMS-like features.
In my experience, the hardest part of running a website is maintenance. Keeping the content up to date while posting new things can be a challenge. A CMS like Radiant makes this a lot easier by separating your content from the sites structure and appearance, so one doesnt distract you from the other. From the point of view of a site owner, a CMS-drived website really is far superior to the traditional hand-rolled websites of yesteryear.
Whats this got to do with the glory of the free DB2 Express-C database? Well, thats where your content gets stored.
So, I dare you -- launch a site on Radiant CMS and DB2 today.
Cheers,
Leons Petrazickis
DB2 Community Team
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