[Market-farming] website development

Willie McKemie mf at austinfarm.org
Fri Feb 1 21:31:27 EST 2008


On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:21:34PM -0500, Brigette Leach wrote:
> Regards to the list,
> 
> Many of you have very well done websites, and I'm envious of you who 
> have indicated that you did the work yourself.  Are any of you willing 

I can't be proud of the content of
http://austinfarm.org/homegrown
but I just haven't been up for a major revision.  In about ten years.  
It's all hand edited html with a text editor.  There are a number of 
Linux html editing tools, but I have never put forth much effort to 
learn one.  Updating is very straightforward; I keep a mirror of the 
website's filesystem on a local system and ftp local files that I 
have changed or added.

My host of several years is http://webhostingbuzz.com 
About $50/year for more disk space and bandwidth than I can use.  I 
chose WHB mainly because they offer mailman, which is pretty rare.  
Then, last year, they instituted a 200 per hour limit on outgoing mail 
and one of our mailman lists is just over 200.  To handle the 200+ 
maillist, I had to install Dada which allows one to control the output 
rate.  All in all, I'm still happy with WHB.  OH!  WHB recently 
installed a mailfoundry box.  The spam that comes through 
austinfarm.org has gone to very near zero; mailfoundry does a terrific 
job.  No extra charge.

As one guy pointed out, there are many content management systems out 
there; most to all hosts support them as well as MANY other neat php 
things.  Many of those php things, like Dada, are Open Source and 
free.

I would recommend choosing a host that offers Linux servers; they are 
likely to be cheaper as well as more reliable.

-- 
Willie, ONWARD!  Through the fog!
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