If you need to set up a mailing list, I will suggest two choices:

• http://www.phplist.com/
  An open source email campaign manager, with an hosted option
  The Free account has an unlimited number of contacts,  but a 300 message per month limit.
• http://www.mailchimp.com
  Commercial hosted solution. Very nice site, with a strong appeal. Free Up to 500 contacts, so the first seems better.

PHing Is Not GNU make; it’s a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP “task” classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. Features include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template transformations), file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, CVS operations, tools for creating PEAR packages, and much more.

via Phing.

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After about two years with Rimuhosting, I can summarize their feature here:

• They have a very good  entry-price for a virtual hosting
• System aministrator has a very prompt response: on every issue I get support in 24 hours, also on Sunday
• Rimuhosting uses a Xen virtualization mechanism which is very effective. I have tried other virtualized solution, which are worst.
• Java hosting works well, without problems.
• The default Bandwith is very huge (30GB). There is also  an automatic backup and a remote web-based shell out-of-the-box.
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At Gioorgi.com we have no time. So we was very happy to find out a blogging platform which can be configured, tuned and rolled out in short time. If you are watching for such thing, you are welcome.
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