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From: "Norman Dunbar" <nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:23 PM
To: <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com>
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Websites
I'm late to the party again!
I use these http://www.5quidhost.co.uk/ who will give you a whole heap of
"stuff" for £5.00 per month, discounted by paying a year in advance.
Support is excellent, emails enquiries are promptly answered, servers are
UK based in the main.
They have a free setup, £5 per month and £10 per month. You can install
anything (legally!) you wish when you have set up your account.
My own web site (http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk) is hosted on a no-longer
available plan costing less that £5 but I'm serioulsy considering
upgrading due to the amount of "stuff" that now lives on my host server.
This is mainly thanks to George updating the QDOS/SMSQ stuff on my web
site.
For £5 you get 1,000 MB disc, and an infinite number of the following:
Email accounts, MySQL databases, Add on domains, sub-domains, FTP accounts
(including, if I'm not mistaken SFTP) and unlimited bandwidth.
There is also a packaged installer in your control panel, where you can
download backups of your entire site, databases, etc, Install numerous
blogs, forums (fora), Content Management Systems, E-commerce, etc - over
200 different applications are supplied included in the price. (Some of
these are not available on the free hosting though, that has other limits
too)
One of the CMS systems is TYPO3, which is, as far as I remember, the very
one used by Quanta.
I'm only a happy customer, not involved with these people at all.
Thanks for this constructive contribution. In fact, thanks to everyone who
has responded. The discussion has taken place unemotionally , which is what
need if we are to solve the problems. And a fully functioning website is
vital for the survival of Quanta.
There are two problems to be solved:
1: We cannot afford to pay £346 for a web host. When you do the arithmetic
you realise that the subscription - even with this year's increase - is far
too low for Quanta to be financially viable and has been far too low for
about 10 years. We should think in terms of a subscription of up to £25.
2: The 6 - 7 year history of Quanta's failures to update its websites. On
the whole Quanta has had competent Web Masters, but they have never had the
consistent support of the officers, whose duty it is to provide the updated
content.
I would like to add an anecdote.
One of the reasons I have a lot of sympathy for Quanta's Web Masters is my
own experience of running dedicated pages on my website for the QL2004 and
QLis21 shows.
With one exception I was always able to update the non-Quanta QL2004 webpage
within 24 hours. The exception was when Sjef v.d. Molengraaf asked me to
hold fire for a couple of days because he had heard that a hotel we were
recommending was about to close for renovation.
Updating the Quanta QLis21 webpage was a nightmare. It could take up to a
week to get the officers' approval, which was frustrating in the last month
before a show. I still do not know if it was downright inefficiency or
sheer bloody-mindedness to put me in my place. If you think I am being
paranoid by the last sentence you have not seen how hierarchically minded
Quanta's officers, present and past, are,
Best wishes,
Geoff
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