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Old 05-22-2008, 10:50 PM  
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Originally Posted by PBucksJohn View Post
WOW, MAS shot from 0 to 14 votes pretty quickly. Guess all the MAS users woke up!
Number 15 here.

Every one of the CMS's available have had their pitfalls and their high points.

From a server administration stance, my experience with Carma in late 2006 / early 2007 was horrible:
  • It needed a custom old version of ffmpeg with older hard-coded command lines; OS updates and new features would cause it to break.
  • The installation I inherited would arbitrate the database for every page view instead of making a static page, and lacked the ability to cache well; but that may have been a bug in the support libraries.
  • Slooow and massive CPU use.

I've gotten out of an awful custom CMS and had most of the functionality required added directly into MAS. Ross has modified a few pre-existing functions for my own specific requirements, which took MONTHS, but it works 100%, and I highly doubt he's going to leave Mansion in the next year or two.

I spent less on my MAS with custom features - and support - than was spent on the old custom CMS that doesn't know it's ass from it's elbow and had absolutely no features but 'search' and 'watch'.
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