£6 a month, = £72 a year, the other one £10 per month = £120 a year WOW!
he has 3 sites between them I don't know what data use or disk space, but
he would be better off getting a VPS, finding someone kind to set it up for
him with everything on auto update etc. Backing up is so simple, don't need
any of the fancy software just a cron job backing up the database and
making a tar.gz backup of the files.. back up and restore in an instant. I
have found it the easiest and quickest way. I have moved Joomla sites
between servers so easily doing that. Again stuff like ZBBlock, fail2ban
and so on gives security equal to WP. I reckon.
On 19 February 2014 12:04, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:56:22AM +0000, Ian wrote:
> > I haven't touched Joomla in a while, but I think you're right: third
> > party stuff can have problems long after issues with the main releases
> > are sorted.
>
> 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...
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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