Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Small group checklist Updated Markdown page
One checklist for a club, society or volunteer-run group on Exponential - planning, volunteer editing, events and news, forms, data protection, operations, launch, the monthly routine and the yearly handover - each item…
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Small group site planning Updated Markdown page
How a club, society or volunteer-run group plans a site on Exponential that survives changing volunteers - what the site is for, the few pages it needs, the shipped classes that cover them, who does what, where the…
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Businesses FAQ Updated Markdown page
Short answers, each with its source, to the questions owners and managers ask before they run their business on Exponential: cost, license, hosting, support, stores, apps, languages, data protection, migration and what…
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Businesses glossary Updated Markdown page
Plain-language explanations of the words used in the Businesses section, from siteaccess and section to cache, Velocity, REST API, VAT type, country group, RTO and total cost of ownership, each with a link to where it…
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Businesses reading path Updated Markdown page
The order in which to read the Businesses section, in four stages (understand, decide, plan, run), with a short path for busy owners and longer paths per kind of organization.
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Businesses: start here Updated Markdown page
The landing page for organizations that run their internet, intranet, extranet and mobile web applications on Exponential to earn money online: why they rely on its stability, how it keeps them available to customers…
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Choosing hosting and partners Updated Markdown page
The landing page of the choosing section. How a business chooses hosting, a hosting model, an implementation partner and a support arrangement for Exponential, how it works with 7x and the project, what to put in a…
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Choosing a partner Updated Markdown page
How a business finds and selects a company to build, host or support its Exponential site - the kinds of partners the program names, where to look, what evidence to ask for, how to compare offers fairly, and the warning…
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Choosing hosting Updated Markdown page
How a business chooses hosting for an Exponential site - what the site needs (PHP, database, web server or Velocity, cron, mail, backups), the five questions that decide, what to ask a host, and a decision record to…
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Contracts and SLA basics Updated Markdown page
What a business should cover in a hosting, development or support contract for an Exponential site - scope, service levels (availability, response, recovery, updates), how each is measured, exclusions, data protection…
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Hosting models compared Updated Markdown page
Shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, managed hosting, platform as a service, containers and Kubernetes compared for a business running Exponential - what each allows, who does the work, the risks and which kind of…
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Questions to ask a partner Updated Markdown page
A copy-ready list of questions for interviews and requests for proposal with implementation, hosting and support partners for an Exponential site - experience, approach, hosting, security, data protection, updates…
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Switching to Exponential Updated Markdown page
What a business needs to know before moving a site to Exponential 6 - from an older release of the eZ Publish years, from eZ Platform or Ibexa, from another host, or from another system such as WordPress or Drupal - the…
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Working with 7x and the Exponential project Updated Markdown page
Who stands behind Exponential and how a business works with them - 7x, the company that leads the project, and the Exponential Foundation, the nonprofit that operates it; free community help, paid services, issue…
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Costs and return on investment Updated Markdown page
The landing page of the costs section. What it costs to own and run a website application on Exponential, what you do not pay for, and how to work out the return on investment with your own figures.
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Budgeting for upgrades and maintenance Updated Markdown page
How to plan a yearly budget for keeping an Exponential site current and safe - 6.0.x releases, PHP and server updates, extension updates, checks and restore tests - with what each kind of work involves, a calendar, and…
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Cost of downtime worksheet Updated Markdown page
A worksheet to work out what one hour offline costs your organization - lost sales, idle staff, recovery work, contract penalties and wasted marketing - with a worked example built from example assumptions, a blank form…
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Hosting cost drivers Updated Markdown page
Which technical choices make hosting an Exponential site cheaper or dearer - hosting model, database, engine, number of sites and servers, storage, caching, optional services, backups and staff time - with the facts…
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Return on investment of stability Updated Markdown page
How to express the value of a stable platform as a return on investment - avoided downtime, fewer emergency fixes, predictable upgrades - with the facts about Exponential that support each benefit and a worked…
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Total cost of ownership Updated Markdown page
The cost lines of a website application on Exponential over its whole life, which of them the software makes smaller, and a worked five-year calculation to copy with your own figures.