OFBiz tutorials, Contegix and OFBiz management

OFBiz tutorials are a fantastic way to broaden your knowledge of OFBiz and enterprise eCommerce. Whether you're looking to move to the Apache OFBiz platform or already a user, OFBiz tutorials help you to understand the platform and why OFBiz is the industry leader.

Managed hosting is an important part of your OFBiz experience. Hotwax Media partners with Contegix (managed hosting). In this OFBiz tutorial we'll discuss how Hotwax and Contegix manage OFBiz installations.

1. It all starts with infrastructure Support | OFBiz Tutorial

Contegix has implemented just about anything you can think of. They have never shied away from a difficult setup request and in fact they generally improve on proposed architecture and give it the same attention they give to their own development projects. The company was built by developers so they are well versed in thinking out of the box and offer valuable insight to any solution you may be interested in.

2. Deployment Matters | OFBiz Tutorial

Hotwax has seen OFBiz development go through many phases over the years from using a vendor branch per customer, to using only the trunk with patches to custom pieces of the code, to working directly off of releases, to using a single vendor branch for all customers, and so on. Because of OFBiz's flexibility and adaptation, I am sure this will continue to change as we develop software. Contegix manages ALL of our staging and production deployments which reduces any confusion or crossed lines as phases of OFBiz are streamlined or modified.

Hotwax provides them with URLs to the branch, trunk, version, etc of OFBiz – and our components – and they not only maintain the files necessary to run the framework (entity-engine configuration, ofbiz-containers, etc), but they do this across the variety of deployment styles and individual instances that were put in place along the way. Contegix works directly with our OFBiz engineers to make sure that there is continuity between our work and theirs.

3. Expert, knowledgeable 24 x 7 Support | OFBiz Tutorials

There are many developers that can do minimal support, but if you really want to feel certain that any catastrophic disaster can be handled your developer needs to have the expertise and willingness to fix any problem. Contegix employs experienced developers who know their tools better than just about anyone. Add in the fact that they are monitoring your application all the time and can preempt your customers from noticing any glitches in the system. This type of proactive support is what sets them apart.

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