[Ubuntu-SG] TUSG website

[C David Rigby]

On Monday 17,May,2010 03:28 PM, Ho Yi Hao Pipat wrote:
> Okay, this may not sound good but what we can do as alternative is to 
> run the blog, forums and wiki differently. I agree this would be a 
> chore since we would need to log in multiple time. But I personally 
> think that by having them on different places or on different platform 
> would ensure that on of the service is up when the other need to be 
> down for maintainance.
>
> And yes, wordpress is multi-user and should be able to handle it quite 
> well?
>
> With regards,
> Yi Hao
>
Greetings Yi Hao,

Yes, the administrative overhead for multiple sites on multiple hosts 
would be significant. Multiple accounts for the users could also be 
somewhat tedious, though the burden can be eased by using CMS packages 
that support OpenID.

I would be less concerned about up time issues. Our problem at the 
moment stems from using hosting provided by a member who is no longer 
able to work with us due to other commitments. The server is obviously 
still there, since it is showing the off line maintenance mode message. 
Using a large service provider such as Amazon would further insure 
reliability, I would think. Still, outages are rare even for the smaller 
shared hosting services I've used in Singapore.

Cheers
David

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> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Prakash Advani <prakash at ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:prakash at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Monday 17 May 2010 12:49 PM, C David Rigby wrote:
>>     On Monday 17,May,2010 03:16 PM, Prakash Advani wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Monday 17 May 2010 12:26 PM, C David Rigby wrote:
>>>>     On Monday 17,May,2010 02:47 PM, Ho Yi Hao Pipat wrote:
>>>>>     Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>     I got a few question though. Must the site be on drupal? I can
>>>>>     help maintaining if the site was on wordpress or something.
>>>>>
>>>>>     Hello Yi Hao,
>>>>
>>>>     I freely admit to being a Drupal partisan. Yes it is harder to
>>>>     learn, but it provides much more functionality and is far more
>>>>     customizable. It is designed to be a CMS for building online
>>>>     community sites.
>>>>
>>>>     I am not wedded to it, though. If we, as a group, want
>>>>     something else, fine. Wordpress seems to me to be primarily a
>>>>     blogging-oriented CMS, but I admit that I do not know it nor
>>>>     the full extent of its capabilities. AFAIK, we could get a free
>>>>     WordPress blog on the wordpress.com <http://wordpress.com>
>>>>     site. Does that meet our needs?
>>>     I have used Wordpress, its easier than most other content
>>>     management systems. Use it if you are happy with blogs/static
>>>     pages and photo album.. but don't need any more features (wiki, etc)
>>>
>>>     However drupal and other content management systems will offer
>>>     more features like Wiki Modules.
>>>
>>>     Whats important is also who is managing the site and what tools
>>>     they are comfortable with.
>>>
>>>     I am quite comfortable with Wordpress and run my own Blog:
>>>     http://cityblogger.com . I am happy to help.
>>>
>>>     My suggestion is as follows.
>>>
>>>     - We can leverage some cloud instances offered by Amazon to host
>>>     the website.
>>>
>>>     - I have shared hosting on Dreamhost and I also also provide
>>>     some hosting space.
>>
>>     Hello Prakash,
>>
>>     Thanks for the input and the offer of support. Can you point me
>>     to links on the Amazon service?
>     Amazon EC2 offer cloud services.
>
>     Kingsley Wood (copied) from Amazon is offered free credits to
>     people attending my talk.
>
>     Can we given them credit in terms of putting their logo of they
>     provide this?
>
>     My blog space is still available.
>
>     BTW Wordpress is multi user..
>
>>
>>     As far has hosting on your account, that is great. We would not
>>     need a great deal of storage.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     David
>>
>>>>
>>>>     What sorts of maintenance tasks would you be comfortable doing?
>>>>     In other words, to you want to write articles, do
>>>>     administrative work, some combination there of?
>>>>
>>>>     Cheers
>>>>     David
>>>
>>>
>>>     -- 
>>>     Prakash Advani |http://cityblogger.com
>>>        
>>
>
>     -- 
>     Prakash Advani |http://cityblogger.com
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