19 Feb
2014
19 Feb
'14
12:20 p.m.
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.