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    CrafterCMS Enterprise Authoring (Ubuntu x86_64)

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    CrafterCMS Authoring contains Crafter Studio, the authoring component of CrafterCMS.
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    CrafterCMS Enterprise Authoring (Ubuntu x86_64)

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    Overview

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    CrafterCMS is a cloud scalable, open source enterprise-class web and digital experience platform. CrafterCMS is the world's first and only Git-based dynamic web and digital experience management software. Crafter Studio is the authoring component of CrafterCMS.

    Highlights

    • Git-based enterprise, dynamic Content Management System (CMS)
    • High performance dynamic, personalized content as markup or APIs
    • Elastically scalable, globally distributable

    Details

    Delivery method

    Delivery option
    64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    Latest version

    Operating system
    Ubuntu 18.04

    Typical total price

    This estimate is based on use of the seller's recommended configuration (m5.2xlarge) in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. View pricing details

    $6.32/hour

    Pricing

    Free trial

    Try this product at no cost for 30 days according to the free trial terms set by the vendor. Usage-based pricing is in effect for usage beyond the free trial terms. Your free trial gets automatically converted to a paid subscription when the trial ends, but may be canceled any time before that.

    CrafterCMS Enterprise Authoring (Ubuntu x86_64)

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    Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time. Alternatively, you can pay upfront for a contract, which typically covering your anticipated usage for the contract duration. Any usage beyond contract will incur additional usage-based costs.
    Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator  to estimate your infrastructure costs.

    Usage costs (48)

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    Instance type
    Product cost/hour
    EC2 cost/hour
    Total/hour
    t3.xlarge
    $2.968
    $0.166
    $3.134
    t3.2xlarge
    $5.936
    $0.333
    $6.269
    t3a.xlarge
    $2.968
    $0.15
    $3.118
    t3a.2xlarge
    $5.936
    $0.301
    $6.237
    m5.xlarge
    $2.968
    $0.192
    $3.16
    m5.2xlarge
    Recommended
    $5.936
    $0.384
    $6.32
    m5.4xlarge
    $11.872
    $0.768
    $12.64
    m5a.xlarge
    $2.968
    $0.172
    $3.14
    m5a.2xlarge
    $5.936
    $0.344
    $6.28
    m5a.4xlarge
    $11.872
    $0.688
    $12.56

    Additional AWS infrastructure costs

    Type
    Cost
    EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes
    $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage

    Vendor refund policy

    Refunds issued for cancelled software charges accruing within seven days of a conversion from a free trial.

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    Delivery details

    64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

    Additional details

    Usage instructions

    Access the application via a browser at http://public_dns/studio:80. To connect to the operating system, use SSH and the username ubuntu and your perm file. Example: $ ssh -i ./PATH/TO/PEM/keys.pem ubuntu@IP-ADDRESS

    The default user name to the application is "admin". To get the initial admin password for Crafter Studio execute "sudo get-studio-password.sh" this will return the randomly generated password.

    Support

    Vendor support

    Customer Support portal and call center for production content authoring and delivery issues. Customer portal https://craftersoftware.zendesk.com/ , Email supportATcraftercms.com

    AWS infrastructure support

    AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.

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    18 external reviews
    External reviews are sourced from G2  and are not included in the star rating for this product.
    Alex S.

    Awesome Multi-Channel Digital Experience Platform

    Reviewed on Jun 20, 2023
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    CrafterCMS is exceptionally versatile. It enables us to serve any content to any type of digital experience and integrate with any external system we need to.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    We have not encountered any negatives or things that don't work well for us.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    We're using CrafterCMS as a content and integration hub for our digital experiences. CrafterCMS makes integrating our timing, scoring and media with our web, mobile apps and digital signage simple and easy.
    Higher Education

    The author experience is good. The developer experience can use some work.

    Reviewed on Feb 01, 2023
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    The authoring experience is pretty good. I like that Crafter puts a lot of thought into content management and makes developers and authors focus on how that content is managed within the system. I have seen other CMS systems where the CMS turns into a swamp of content.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    While I like that Crafter handles everything via Git repositories, sometimes the underlying Crafter repository seeps its way into my developer's processes -- the Crafter repository is a leaky abstraction. The code forward/content back model proposed by Crafter is good in theory. But dealing with DEV/STAGE/PROD release cycles can get messy very fast because the content is getting created at all three levels, DEV/STAGE for testing and PROD for the real content. Then if you have to change the configuration files in one of the upstream environments (STAGE or PROD) -- a hotfix config change -- that makes merging your code from DEV messy. I would like to see more effort put into improving this developer experience.

    I don't like the fact that groovy is the only programming choice for most things in Crafter. We should also have the option to use Typescript/Javascript throughout.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Crafter allows our content creators to create and publish changes outside our normal product release cycles. Once the developers have enabled the in-content editing, there are now large parts of the application developers don't even concern themselves with. This allows our developers to focus on our sites' more dynamic, data-oriented features without worrying about managing large blocks of static content. Our developers are also recommending new content areas that authors can manage, which means they are starting to understand the benefits of content modeling.
    Information Technology and Services

    Crafter CMS from Ops Perspective

    Reviewed on Jan 26, 2023
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    Crafter CMS has a great support team that is very helpful during challenging times. Logging options are very flexible which helps to quickly diagnose problems. Updating content, deploying the changes across the cluster are very simple tasks. From a development & deployment perspective, Crafter is a dream.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    My biggest dislike is the way Crafter syncs data between repos. I suppose Git is a better than the old option of Alfresco, but Git working across clusters has been prone to conflicts which are sometimes a mess to work through. There's got to be a better way.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Crafter continues to upgrade their products to be more user-friendly. That allows me to spend less time troubleshooting Crafter servers which is very helpful.
    Online Media

    Industrial strength and open standards-based

    Reviewed on Jan 26, 2023
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    I like that the delivery (website in our case) is separate from the authoring environment, which means we can deploy releases at any time without impacting the end user.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    The version that we currently use requires an instance of Elastic that is outside of the Crafter environment and our internal security policy makes that difficult to maintain.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    We are using CrafterCMS to store and maintain content related to a public website. The information served on the site is a combination of video-on-demand, live-streaming video and articles. A consolidated platform to maintain access to this content is beneficial.
    Terry D.

    Easy To Configure

    Reviewed on Jan 26, 2023
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    I like the way content types can be created with ease, and how various pieces of content can be embedded in any content type. The ability to create multi-lingual content is very helpful as well.
    What do you dislike about the product?
    We're still using version 3.1.27, yet to upgrade to 4.x, but I find that earlier versions don't have the ability to edit content on mobile devices. The only way to access the context menus from the sidebar is with a right-click.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    Crafter allows us to integrate content from various external sources for video-on-demand, live streams and resources from AWS S3 buckets. It offers a better way to manage all of our content, components, pages, and scripts in one place.
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