Paid Content Host SubHub Pivots To Be A Drupal ‘App Store’
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Instead of charging customers its £50 monthly subscription for use of its hosted publishing software, developed in-house, SubHub is now becoming a re-seller of the popular Drupal CMS, for which it is introducing a paid “app store”. “The pure open source crowd don’t like the idea, but the majority believe WordPress’ success has happened since Matt Mullenweg launched Automattic (the commercial arm which commercialises deployment of the blog software). Indeed, Dries has launched Drupal Gardens, which is also a software-as-a-service version of Drupal.” SubHub publishing clients who charge for access to their writing include InsideBeer and The Drum Channel. Aside from just its own hosted sites, SubHub claims to have developed an API that sits between remote installations of the Drupal CMS and available modules, allowing them to be charged for. “Most of our competitors like SquareSpace still charge for packages of functionality – Bronze, Silver, Gold – based on bandwidth, disk space and features,” Galliford says.
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