Fotango Provides CNAME Support in Zimki JavaScript Development Platform

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Tuesday, November 7, 2006; 05:25 AM

Fotango UK, creator of software solutions for professional developers, has announced CNAME support for Zimki, enabling customers to host their own domains on Fotango's JavaScript application development platform.

CNAME is short for canonical name, also referred to as a CNAME record, a record in a DNS database that indicates the true, or canonical, host name of a computer that its aliases are associated with. A computer hosting a Web site must have an IP address in order to be connected to the World Wide Web. The DNS resolves the computer's domain name to its IP address, but sometimes more than one domain name resolves to the same IP address, and this is where the CNAME is useful. A machine can have an unlimited number of CNAME aliases, but a separate CNAME record must be in the database for each alias.

Zimki is a pay as you go, end to end JavaScript web application development platform that takes away all the repetitive tasks encountered when creating web applications. Things like setting up a server, security and backups are all done automatically by Zimki, enabling developers to get on with doing what they enjoy: developing applications.

The Zimki platform has always allowed businesses and individuals to host their own sites and applications, however until now they were required to use the Zimki domain name. With the latest release, customers are now able to use their own domains for their hosted applications and websites.

According to Koby Amedume, Chief Marketing Officer for Fotango, "CNAME support is something that our customers have been asking for and we have listened. It has always been a roadmap item and we have delivered it ahead of schedule."

Amedume added, "One of the things we particularly like is that customers can use their existing domains with Zimki. This means that there is no lock-in to Zimki and the customer retains ownership of their own domains."

James Duncan, Chief Information Officer at Fotango said, "We built the Zimki platform to be extremely scalable and as such we've found that many of customers want to host their entire site with Zimki, and this development allows them to do that."