[Wiltshire] Looking for Joomla expertise (and possibly hosting)

[John Carlyle-Clarke]

Hi-

A friend of mine works at a local school and their website is hosted by 
a small IT shop in Dorset.  They don't get great service from them. 
They also pay way too much for the hosting, which would fine if the 
service was amazing but it ain't.

The site has been hacked for the second time, and the reason is that the 
Joomla platform is very out of date, is not fully patched, and is no 
longer supported anyway.  They don't have any kind of admin or file 
access to their site so they assumed the hoster was taking care of this 
but apparently not!  The host co says it's not part of their job.

The host co. say they are repairing the damage caused by the hack (they 
say this in a way which implies they have no backups) but that the site 
will come back with the vulns still there.  They want to charge two 
grand to port the site to the latest version of Joomla.

I think the school needs to move away from this host urgently.  Whether 
that's just to a good quality big one like 123-reg (which is cheap and 
has one-click Joomla installation) or to a small, local business that 
can offer a good personal service I don't mind.  They will definitely 
need someone to coerce their existing database data and config into 
something that a current Joomla version can use.

If anyone is interested in the work, or knows someone who might be, 
please respond off list.

Thanks!

John