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

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• 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