Some of you may have noticed in the last month or so that the mojoPortal Mono Demo site (mono.mojoportal.com) was not performing well and was offline frequently and I'm afraid that was giving the wrong impression that either mono or the mono version of mojoPortal was unstable. But I assure you this was not the case. The problem was that I was hosting the site over a cable modem on a dev machine. Not exactly robust.

I think it was not the best way to make a good impression for people new to mono and not exactly fair either.

Before the 2.0 .NET framework came out, this site was hosted on Mono for about a year with excellent uptime, performance and stability at GrokThis.net and now thanks to their gracious sponsorship, the mono demo site is hosted there. GrokThis.net, hosts quite a few mojoPortal sites on mono and everyone I know has been very happy with their sites running there. I think having the mono demo site hosted there will make a much better impression.

It is only natural that it will take some time for the mono project to catch up on the 2.0 .NET implementation but progress is being made. It is only a matter of time and the 2.x version of mojoPortal will run on mono and we will be back to having one version of mojoPortal that runs on all platforms.

In the meantime I'm shooting for a release this weekend of 2.1 for Windows/.NET 2.0 which has some very exciting new features I'll blog about soon and a 1.0.2 maintenance release for linux/mono or 1.1 NET