Fotango UK, a leading creator of software solutions for
professional developers, has today announced CNAME support for Zimki,
enabling customers to host their own domains on Fotango's JavaScript
application development platform.
Zimki is a pay as you go, end to end JavaScript web
application development platform that takes away all the repetitive tasks
encountered when creating web applications. Things like setting up a server,
security and backups are all done automatically by Zimki, enabling developers
to get on with doing what they enjoy: developing applications.
The Zimki platform has always allowed businesses and
individuals to host their own sites and applications, however until now they
were required to use the Zimki domain name. With the latest release,
customers are now able to use their own domains for their hosted applications
and websites.
According to Koby Amedume, Chief Marketing Officer for
Fotango, "CNAME support is something that our customers have been asking for
and we have listened. It has always been a roadmap item and we have delivered
it ahead of schedule."
Amedume added, "One of the things we particularly like is that
customers can use their existing domains with Zimki. This means that there is
no lock-in to Zimki and the customer retains ownership of their own domains."
James Duncan, Chief Information Officer at Fotango said, "We
built the Zimki platform to be extremely scalable and as such we've found
that many of customers want to host their entire site with Zimki, and this
development allows them to do that."
About Fotango UK
Fotango ( www.fotango.com) is a leading UK software and systems development
business, building cutting edge technology solutions aimed at professional
developers and SME businesses. The company has been a wholly owned subsidiary
of Canon Europe Limited since 2001 and is recognised as a highly innovative
software and systems development business building cutting edge technology
solutions aimed at professional developers. Fotango has its roots in the open
source community. It runs the systems that it builds within its own
organisation and has a company philosophy of 'building for others what we use
for ourselves'.
About Zimki
Zimki (www.zimki.com) is Fotango UK's flagship end to end JavaScript web
application development platform that takes away all the repetitive tasks
encountered when creating web applications. Things like setting up a server,
security and backups are all done automatically by Zimki, enabling developers
to get on with doing what they enjoy: developing applications. It is a 'pay
as you go' platform; this pay as you go model enables developers to build and
deploy applications without incurring any start-up costs. In essence a
utility based computing platform.
CNAME - Short for canonical name, also referred to as a CNAME
record, a record in a DNS database that indicates the true, or canonical,
host name of a computer that its aliases are associated with. A computer
hosting a Web site must have an IP address in order to be connected to the
World Wide Web. The DNS resolves the computer's domain name to its IP
address, but sometimes more than one domain name resolves to the same IP
address, and this is where the CNAME is useful. A machine can have an
unlimited number of CNAME aliases, but a separate CNAME record must be in the
database for each alias.
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