Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-25 Thread Johnny Cupcake
Brilliant, this is almost exactly what I was looking for. On Feb 24, 8:28 am, Christian Leskowsky christian.leskow...@gmail.com wrote: Here's something I haven't read yet but was written by a guy who knows his stuff... http://boagworld.com/websiteownersmanual/

Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-25 Thread Johnny Cupcake
Do go on...is there a Cake-friendly method for automated daily DB backups? How do you accomplish it? On Feb 24, 8:26 am, Christian Leskowsky christian.leskow...@gmail.com wrote: For backups you should be taking full mysql backups of your database nightly - at least while that's feasible - and

Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-25 Thread Johnny Cupcake
I am most concerned about legal issues because I am least equipped to handle those myself. While I do not necessarily expect to be sued, frankly I do expect to be threatened with lawsuits in short order, and I want to know exactly where I stand before that happens. (I intend to create a

Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-25 Thread Christian Leskowsky
Not that I'm aware of - I think you're pretty much on your own when it comes to backing up -but don't worry it's not terribly exciting or nerve-racking when you're small. We've written a custom php script that exports, compresses and uploads our db to S3 with a datestamp embedded somewhere in the

Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-25 Thread WebbedIT
@Christian: How much does the Amazon S3 service cost you? I just took a look at their calculator and all of the examples shows $64 a month upwards for the S3 service http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html @Johnny: I have no experience in the legalities of such a site, but can see where

Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Leskowsky
For backups you should be taking full mysql backups of your database nightly - at least while that's feasible - and storing them offsite. (S3 is what I personally use.) Keep at least a week's worth of backups in case you accidentally drop table or something equally terrible happens. Make sure you

Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Leskowsky
Here's something I haven't read yet but was written by a guy who knows his stuff... http://boagworld.com/websiteownersmanual/ http://boagworld.com/websiteownersmanual/ Some good material in there for ya. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Christian Leskowsky christian.leskow...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-24 Thread WebbedIT
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Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-23 Thread WebbedIT
Is your website's subject matter a particularly sensitive/illegal one? If not then I'm unsure what you're worried about? There's possible compliance with Disability Discrimination Act, Distance Selling Regulations and a few terms and conditions to state that user contributed content contains the

Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-23 Thread WebbedIT
I think the OP put the main emphasis on legal requirements himself, but fair point he did mention running the site as well as administrative and technical issues. I think the subject matters are little too general to be able to recommend a selection of books that will be ideal for you. I am

Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-23 Thread Chad Smith
Since everyone is taking the legal avenue with this post I'll take the one that I think the author is more interested in. It's the Where do I go from here after I bake a site? The short answer to that is you customize. Baking only gives you a lot to work with, but is your site ready for the big

Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-22 Thread Martin Westin
Avoid getting sued? Stop being an american work like a charm. ;) (sorry, I could not resist) On Feb 22, 8:39 am, Johnny Cupcake sparklew...@hotmail.com wrote: OK, so after we have successfully built our modern, interactive CakePHP website...where can we learn how to actually /run/ the

Re: After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-22 Thread Johnny Cupcake
Seriously though, surely someone can answer this question? If you can't point to a particular book, then what, in your experience, are the 3-5 most important points when first launching your Cake site? (Aside from stop being an American that is.) On Feb 22, 7:24 am, Martin Westin

After the Cake is baked...

2010-02-21 Thread Johnny Cupcake
OK, so after we have successfully built our modern, interactive CakePHP website...where can we learn how to actually /run/ the website? Can you recommend any books or forums that provide a good introduction to all the legal, administrative and technical issues? For instance, best practices for