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  • From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] website development
  • Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:31:27 -0600

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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