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After several months in private beta, we’re excited to announce that BitNami Cloud Hosting is now available! BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications in the cloud.

• One-click Application Deployment: Launch servers with one or more applications or development stacks from the BitNami library in one click. Currently available applications include: SugarCRM, Alfresco, JasperServer, Drupal, Wordpress and many others. You can view a list at: http://bitnami.org/cloud/apps
• Automatic Backups and One Click Server Restores: BitNami Cloud Hosting offers automated backups that can … more

We would like to thank BitNami user @mmarschall for putting together a great tutorial on migrating your WordPress blog to a BitNami EC2 (Amazon Cloud) image.

If you’re interested in running your WordPress blog or other open source applications on the Amazon EC2 Cloud, sign up for the (free) beta for BitNami Cloud Hosting.

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As you may know, we recently released BitNami RubyStack 2.0, which includes a number of updates and enhancements. The primary changes are the addition of Ruby Enterprise for OS X and Linux and Phussion Passenger configured by default with Apache and Nginx. We have also improved performance and streamlined the deployment process. If you haven’t experimented with Ruby on Rails yet, BitNami RubyStack makes it incredibly easy. Just visit the download page and choose from a native installer, a virtual machine image, or a cloud template (for Amazon and GoGrid). Regardless of the deployment option you choose, you … more

We just received word that Wordpress MU 2.8: Beginner’s Guide is now available from Packt Publishing. Since we know a lot of our users are running Wordpress, we thought the book might be of interest. We haven’t had a chance to review the book, but Packt sent over a sample chapter that we have posted for download. Here is their summary of the book: “WordPress MU enables you to build a complete, professional blog network. Each user gets their own blog, and can choose their favorite templates and plug-ins, and develop their own content. WordPress MU powers … ”/article/wordpress-mu-28-beginners-guide-now-available-sample-chapter-for-download">more

There is a great post up on Techsnot (yes, a somewhat unfortunate name :) on how to install Wordpress on a Mac in under 5 minutes using the BitNami Wordpress Stack. Although the author (‘dogsnot’) installs the Stack on a Mac, the steps are the same on Windows or Linux. In a future article, the author will explain how BitNami Modules work. If you are using BitNami and want to help us out, writing tutorials like this is a great way to contribute. Thanks to Dogsnot for his article! … more