[Ubuntu-SG] TUSG website
C David Rigby
c.david.rigby at gmail.com
Mon May 17 07:42:10 UTC 2010
On Monday 17,May,2010 03:36 PM, Ho Yi Hao Pipat wrote:
> What I was thinking is that, if we were to decide to bring a part of
> the site down for some issues, we would still have the other site up?
>
> Well, that is just my opinion.
>
> With regards,
> Yi Hao
>
> +65 98574690
> yihao.ho at gmail.com <mailto:yihao.ho at gmail.com>
> yihao at statick.sg <mailto:yihao at statick.sg>
>
> Store Admin,
> Statick.sg,
> Singapore's Premier Entertainment site.
>
>
Hello Yi Hao,
OK, point well taken. That is indeed the case here.
Cheers
David
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:33 PM, C David Rigby
> <c.david.rigby at gmail.com <mailto:c.david.rigby at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>> +65 98574690
>> yihao.ho at gmail.com <mailto:yihao.ho at gmail.com>
>> yihao at statick.sg <mailto:yihao at statick.sg>
>>
>> Store Admin,
>> Statick.sg,
>> Singapore's Premier Entertainment site.
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>
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