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Beatz is an online social networking community script that allows you to start your own favourite artist band website. $5/month

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Beatz is a social networking platform that you can install on your own hosting server to create a community. It is specifically designed for music based websites, especially artist websites that want to incorporate many social features. It is made by a company called cogzidel technologies, which also creates a variety of other systems for users to make. They say it is a PureVolume clone system, and it is free to use.

As a niche platform it is one of those options that will either perfectly meet your needs, or be essentially useless to you. This review is being written specifically for people who do have a need for a music based social network.

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Beatz Pros

Niche Focused
Having a social network that is focused on the music niche can be very helpful for bands and other musical artists who want to build a community.
Price
This is a free system.
Well Supported
This system gets updates fairly regularly with some very nice features.

Beatz Cons

Features
Almost all the features are focused on music, with only limited non-music related features.
Ajax
The menus and tabs use Ajax coding, which is not really a good standard for today.
SEO
There was clearly little thought put into SEO for this platform.

Beatz Review

Initial Install
Getting this platform installed and configured is very easy. They clearly made it for people who weren’t necessarily web experts, which is nice. You can add in your own MP3 players, music videos and more without any trouble. The settings are simple and well-explained to make everything quite easy.
Plugins
They have some nice plugins to add additional features for you to use. As with the main site itself, just about everything is focused on music. These plugins are easy to use and install.
Themes
There are some nice templates available to choose from to create your own music focused social network. Since most people who use this will be in bands or other musical groups, personalization is very important. The themes allow you to have a base template off of which you can build your own custom page.
Customization
There is quite a bit of customization available. Some of it us through the use of plugins and themes, but even just with the built in settings you can make your site look unique. It is easy to make changes, add in pictures, videos and audio for your audience.
SEO Friendly
It doesn’t look like they did much to help build up the rankings in a search engines for people who use this platform. While SEO is not always important for social networking pages, it would be nice if there was at least some SEO plugins to help improve rankings.
Cost of Running
This is a free platform that you can use as long as you want. They do offer some premium services like custom install and changing of themes, but for just the system itself, it is completely free. Most people will use this just for a fairly small community, and it runs efficiently, so you won’t need anything more than a shared hosting server from InterServer. If you add a ton of images and videos, however, you may want to upgrade to a VPS, which is still very affordable.
Other Programs Like it

If you don’t think that Beatz is the right option for you, consider one of these other great social networking platforms. They are all available with one-click installations when you have an InterServer hosting account:
- Dolphin
- Jcow
- Elgg
- Oxwall
- Etano

Final Thoughts

If you have a band or other music group and you want to build up a social community online, this is a great option to consider. It is easy to use, affordable and will give your users a great overall experience. If you aren’t into music, however, this is clearly not the right platform for you.