The Beginning

Studied and eventually become mechanical engineering (Teknik Mesin) in Indonesia can be so hard. We studied seriously about thermodynamic, Structure, mechanical fluid, force, production, metallurgy and vibration but sadly people always related us to car mechanic, thus the question "can you fix my car" have become the most irritating question for us mechanical engineer.
Although that's nothing wrong for being car mechanic, we just concern with the reality that many people just doesn't have the right information.

that's why back when we're still in college, we are always anxious to give the right information to Indonesian people, thus magazine or similar publication will be a logical solution. Of course like (almost) every ambitious plan that take place during college year, nothing real plan nor even a single publication attempt really come out.

The Start

Fast forward to present day. With the popularity of blog including their several blog engines technologies and the rising of new alternative media, We finally found a breakthrough in actually building and making a publication about mechanical engineering using these new technologies. Thus at October 2007, we finally purchase themachinery.org domain and along with this, the new publication was born, an Online Magazine dedicated to discussed all things mechanical but in the same time still carrying the core value of simplicity.

The Run

TM.org Currently running a NucleusCMS on its backbone. We Choose nucleusCMS because its so small and so simple to use, backup with numerous plugins to expand the capability beyond our imagination, and so stable it's handle query after query in the most elegant way. choosing nucleusCMS simply the best decision we ever made, period.

The Host

We hosted our website in one of servers own by singcat. Elegant local hosting provider here at Jakarta. by choosing singcat, we exposing our self to around-the-clock support, reliable up-time and great level of scalability. All of this packaged in no-nonsense pricing scheme. What more can we ask?
In the end, we learn valuable lesson when putting some expectation toward other. We decided to go to to other web hosting (this time Qwords), the one that really offer reliability in top priority. Moving domain and hosting from one company to other is difficult and tiresome, but we moved eventually, just for you know how bad the situation.

theMachinery.org crew

There are several dedicated people that run the backend of TM.org. From Lead Developer, editors, or even Illustrator. You can find out more detail in here.

Contact Us

If you want to contact us for any question about sponsorship, opinion or maybe even critic, you can do it here.