Open source development

Most of our current work is proudly done using Drupal, a proven, enterprise-grade framework in widespread use at Yahoo!, IBM, Sony, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Warner Bros., and thousands of other organizations throughout the world. Drupal allows us to build powerful applications that are open, flexible, and designed to evolve as your needs change and technology advances.

• Why we love Drupal
• The freedom to extend and innovate
• A thriving eco-system of developers and end-users
• Hundreds of high-quality, pre-existing modules
• Powerful applications at a fraction of the cost
• Unparallelled flexibility
• We rarely have to say NO to client requests
• Open APIs and extensive documentation
• Complete ownership of your code and data
• You are not tied to any one developer or company

We have been using open source solutions for nearly all of our work since 2003-04. With the release of Drupal 5 in January 2007 we finally found our development Nirvana: a framework where the only real limit is your imagination. With the proper architecture in place Drupal can scale to handle some of Internet's largest sites (it famously powers theonion.com) and is a platform that you can safely invest in for the long haul.

Enterprise hosting

We provide enterprise-grade hosting for all clients on dedicated or Virtual Private Servers (VPS) living in a Tier 1 data center (Equinix) in downtown Chicago. All hosted clients get the full benefits of our application support, source code versioning control (SVN), automatic updates, redundant backups, security audits, server hardening, and more.

Our Virtual Private Servers are provisioned on enterprise-grade hardware with the following specs:

• 750GB/mo data transfer
• 1GB dedicated RAM
• 50GB SCSI storage

Our belief in openness and flexibility extends to our hosting. We do not require a long-term contract and you are free to move hosts at any time for any reason. We can also assist with in-house installations or work with other third-party hosting providers.

Note: most clients fit quite comfortably on our standard VPS set-up. Dedicated and multi-tiered architectures are also available now in or in the future based on need.

Full application support

We offer the following service for all hosted clients:

About Electric Jet

We are a small development company in Minneapolis, MN with a simple focus on creating powerful web applications that are easily managed by non-technical users. Our expertise is hard-won and we have been thankful to work with a diverse range of great clients dating to 1994 when the web was in its infancy.

Electric Jet Interactive officially incorporated as an LLC in 2001 by Tim Broeker and Patty Remes. Tim is a former founding member of the core Joomla development team and was a co-founder of UrbanPlanet LLC in 1999. He manages the technical side of Electric Jet. Patty is a strategic consultant and business analyst, with a long background in user interface and design. She has been helping guide web strategy and planning as a consultant to General Mills since 2006.

In addition to co-founding Electric Jet, Tim and Patty are happily married and are the proud parents of two darling girls. We often work with a variety of talented consultants and contractors in Minneapolis and beyond to assemble full-service web teams. We are a stable, profitable company that believes in our clients and hopes to develop lasting relationships where we can grow and build upon our previous successes together.

So, how much does it all cost? :-)

If you have read this far you are likely wondering just how much it costs to build out an open source website to serve as the foundation for your project. This is a very difficult question to answer. Yet it drives us crazy too when we want a general idea of what things cost and can't find the answer online.

The short answer is that most of our development projects fall somewhere between $20K-$50K depending on complexity and scope. The long answer is that we have done many smaller projects for less, and a lot fewer for more. We believe in what we build, and no matter the size of your project we will deliver great value with a passion for our work that is matched by few.