On Wed, Feb 19, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> These sites shouldn't need any third party plugins and to be honest
> if it wasn't for the fact that he'd have no idea how to later edit or
> add pages, they could be static HTML.
>
> Most appealing I have found so far is:
>
> http://www.rochenhost.co.uk/joomla-hosting
>
> which although doesn't keep the Joomla core up to date for you, does
> at least purport to have "one click upgrade", so if I drum it into
> him not to use third party plugins and to hit the upgrade button
> every time it is available, he may be okay…
And if he's not ok, it's not one of your servers that's been compromised
of course :)
It's not clear at a quick glance what the backup mechanism is on that
site (eg can you restore it to another provider), but the one
third-party extension I'd recommend is a good backup system. When I used
to run a couple of Joomla sites, I used the following, which is nice and
easy both to back up but also to restore (and it survived every upgrade
I did without a problem):
https://www.akeebabackup.com/products/akeeba-backup.html
I used to quite like Joomla as a system, but there's no doubt about its
willingness to be compromised.
