About Perch
Perch has been created for those situations where you, or your client, would like to be able to edit text on a website without rolling out a full content management system. It’s an inexpensive and quick to deploy solution for when you need something that is inexpensive and quick to deploy.
There are all sorts of very powerful large content management systems on the market, and lots of sophisticated blogging tools. Perch is different – it doesn’t want to be like those big systems when it grows up, because it doesn’t want to grow up. Perch is for small sites with simple content management needs.
Requirements
You install Perch on your own server, with our very simple installation process. We’ve designed Perch to be easy to install on inexpensive shared hosting accounts so the requirements are very basic and most hosts offering PHP should work. You will need PHP 5 (any version of PHP 5) and MySQL 4.1 or better.
In order to resize images, you’ll need either GD or ImageMagick support on the server, both of which are very common. Perch can operate without these, but images will not be resized.
Some older web hosting accounts still offer accounts with PHP4 to cater for customers with very old applications. PHP4 has been officially ‘end-of-lifed’ so if you still have a PHP4 account your host should be able to upgrade you.
Compatibility Test Suite
Before buying Perch please download the Compatibility Test Suite. Upload this script to the server that you would like to run Perch on, and then view it in your web browser. If you get a pass from the script then you should have no problems running Perch on this server.
Even if you have never installed a script before we think you will find Perch easy to get up and running. If you have any problems then there is additional help available via our support portal—raise a ticket there and we will try and solve any issues you may have.
About edgeofmyseat.com
Perch is brought to you by edgeofmyseat.com, a specialist web development agency. We know a lot about content management systems – we have our own fully-featured solution and we’ve been building custom CMS solutions since 2001. However we know that not every website needs a full-blown CMS solution and so we have developed Perch for those situations. If you do need something more than Perch offers then visit our site and get in touch—we’d be happy to chat to you.
