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Rep Power: 15 | Hi all (again), I've been asked to create a website for two schools and I have three options. 1. I can use the space provided by the BGfL (Birmingham Grid for Learning) which is free, but doesn't allow server side scripts such as PHP, so all I get is the equivilant of a geocities webspace without adverts. 2. I can host the sites on the school servers, which I really don't want to do because the BGfL are not the most reliable ISP to say the least and I don't trust our servers to be powerful enough either. Also, if it gets hacked, i'd hate it to be a school server they have the potential to trash as opposed to a dedicated webserver. 3. I can get the schools to pay for webspace with some provider such as fasthosts. This is the option I would prefer, as I would like server side scripts to work. My question is, for those who had created commercial and/or school websites before, whats the best but not too expensive way of getting webspace? If it's the third option, which company is recommended? Also, does anyone have any other advice, mistakes maybe which they have made in the past or anything that makes designing the website easier? I have only ever created domestic websites before and obviously domestic and commercial are very different. Cheers |
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Rep Power: 15 | Okay, thanks. I'll look into purple cloud. Joomla is popular around here, no? I'll be designing a lot of the school website myself, but certain pages will be designed by the young kids using some (vile) kids website design software that creates terribly messy code. Is Joomla a CMS where I can upload standard HTML pages (the ones created by the kids) and it will merge it with the templates used by the rest of the site? I need to plan this very carefully because if i jump into a CMS and design the site, then find that one simple thing like this doesn't work well, i'll be in trouble lol. |
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Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 99 | plugsocket.co.uk host russdev.com/edugeekconference.net + few other sites very good (if go with them let me know and will give code to get you 10% off). Russell |
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Rep Power: 0 | In April I switched my personal web sites to a UK based hosting company called CS New Media. I have been so impressed by the service (support is the best I have came across by far) I am planning on moving the school web sites I maintain over to them. CS New Media Regards John |
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Second option joomlaclone have an windows program provide ftp details and install it all and then you just run install script. Third option in few weeks should have a autoinstall could use on your site. But installing joomla very easy takes less than 10 mins time is uploading files via ftp once done that you run install and done... Plugsocket joomla works fine installed joomla many times on plugsocket hosting and had no problems.. Russ Russ | ||
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Rep Power: 74 | Small note on the auto-install side of things. Be careful going this route if you intend to apply mods (modifications - otherwise known as "hacks) as many of them tend to get overwritten or borked by the auto-installer when a patch or new release gets applied. For all the learning curve in installing and later maintaining PHP scripts I'd actually recommend you go the manual install route. It takes a little longer but it gives you greater control and flexibility if anything should go awry with the auto scripts. But that's just my opinion. I'd stongly recommend keeping your webservers firmly away from your schools LAN as well or you end up with a whole slew of additional security and technical issues to deal with. Keeping it under a good provider is definitely the way to go. |
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This mitigates a lot of the security concerns as the only thing exposed is apache, php and moodle. As long as I keep those up to date (trivially done with 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' on Ubuntu) I fail to see a problem. We get the added benifits of having single sign on for moodle on/offsite and a significant performance boost when using moodle internally. Something we specifically failed to achieve (resulting in us settling for this setup in the first place) when using Moodle hosted by our RBC or an external provider. | |
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