[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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>>              
>>
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