[Wylug-admin] Getting the site moved - wordpress.com ?

[James Holden]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:32:47AM +0000, John Leach wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 20:10 +0000, Tom Hall wrote:
> 
> > After a brief private exchange with Mark we have decided to stop using
> > the University as a venue in future. I hope we still see Mark down at
> > future talks and am grateful for his continuing the arrangement for so
> > long after Jim and Dave stepped down.
> > 
> > Going forward, I propose:
> > 
> > * Move the site, who has the domain name etc? Volunteers?
> 
> James Holden is the man to go to for domain stuff, so we'll tap him up
> once we've made a decision (though I'm sure he'll have some input before
> then)

/wakes up ... New baby, very little time for lists, mail at the moment,
but still alive. Incidentally, the best way to get my attention is by
text message: http://jamesholden.net/send-sms

Yes - I'm WYLUG DNS bloke.

> MX records for mail go to lug.org.uk, so that can remain.
> 
> Regarding hosting, I'm recommending we use a 3rd party, rather than host
> it between us.  As a proof of concept I exported the data from the
> current site and imported it into a hosted blog at wordpress.com:

Agreed. Emphatically. Hosting sites is a mugs game these days.

> http:// wylug dot wordpress dot com
> 
> This is just a *proof of concept* and is set not to allow indexing by
> search engines (and you'll notice I didn't like to it above) so we by no
> means have to go with it.
> 
> We can still give editorial access to whoever needs it and the whole
> thing is obviously managed by the Wordpress people - so we can just
> concentrate on the content (which of course will still belong to us).
> 
> It supports pointing domains at it (properly, no redirects or
> anything). 

Good.

> However, it does "occasionally serve ads".  Ads can be disabled for
> about ??2.5 a month if we're not happy about that (and I'm sure a group
> containing so many IT professionals can afford that :)
 
Yes, I'm sure we can afford that.

> It comes with 3gig for uploads (in our case most likely photos and
> slides) and more can be purchased - though we might want to consider a
> separate service for photo sharing (there are so many available).

Flickr is quite awesome for this. There should be a WYLUG group anyway
so that people can drop photos into it from their own accounts.

> Some might argue that we're losing some freedom and control going this
> hosted service way (and rms would agree with you :), and they'd be right
> - but I think it's so minimal and the benefits good (nobody likes
> maintaining Wordpress ;).
> 
> Anyone disagree?

Nope.


James
> 
> John.
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