On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Tamar wrote: > We provided a Joomla! training session a few months ago for a small business > development center. Participants were mainly non-technical small business > owners. During the day long session, we had the students create sites on USB > flash drives. While we provided instructions after the session for moving a > site from a flash drive to a live site, using Joomlapack, the procedure was > too complicated for most participants. > > Question - Assuming we have a decent broadband connection and not more than a > dozen participants, what is the best way to have students develop a site > online, where they can easily make the site 'live' when they are ready? We > have another training session scheduled for May. > > Some students already have a static site that they want to replace, some have > no site and no domain, and some have registered a domain name but have no > site. > > We looked into having a single account with a hosting company and using > subdomains for each participant, but there doesn't appear to be a simple way > to move the site to another account after. We could also talk to hosting > companies about setting up multiple trial accounts each with our custom > Joomla! install to start off with - that the students could decide whether to > keep. The sites are not built completely from scratch - we install some > extensions and do some configuration before students start.
You could also build your own server, using scripts you could also automate all the database setup and Joomla installs. Then you could just have the server at the office on your local network or colo it somewhere with a provider (if you colo offsite, you will have to make sure its secured). -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
