19 Feb
2014
19 Feb
'14
1:22 p.m.
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On 19/02/14 12:47, Andy Smith wrote:
Andy,
Just to be clear, *all* of the current Joomla software has one click
upgrade.
Ahh.
In that case it would almost be worth me hosting it for him, since
£10+VAT a month for an install of Joomla with no added extras aside
from hardware support seems rather steep.
*Almost* - I've no interest in doing the constant vigilance that PHP
web app hosting requires, that this host won't be doing either?
Fair enough.
I did suggest 34sp.com, who are a good webhost and have a £4.95 (inc
VAT) 'professional hosting' package. They include a 'one-click' install
for Joomla and once Joomla is going it's just click to update with in
the major version. Even if the one click doesn't work, you'll just have
to do a few more clicks to do it 'manually'. 34sp support is good and
I'd hope that they have a decent security setup on their servers.
They're also doing 2 months free at the moment.
http://www.34sp.com/installers
http://www.34sp.com/professional-hosting-specifications
Currently the newest version is 3.2, which will move up to 3.5 (as their
LTS style offering). The current LTS is 2.5.
Moving from 2.5 to 3.2 is a fair bit of faff (mainly as you normally
have to make fairly major changes to your template). Going from 3.2 to
3.5 is less faff.
I can see why Joomla might be the best for this chap. But warn him to
be vigilant.
Cheers,
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Matthew Moore
Surgical Materials Testing Laboratory
System Administrator
Telephone: +44 (0)1656 752165
Email: matt(a)smtl.co.uk
It's still horrible software and even if
you're totally up to
date, you can still get hacked. I got hacked on a core component
when totally up to date.
<snippy>
So, in terms of actually getting his sites out there, he may still
be better off getting the guy he knows now to put some imperfect
Joomla sites up, as opposed to losing the guy he has, having to
start from scratch and giving up for another year.
And I doubt your user will have no 3rd party
plugins for long.
Not my user. Just someone asking me for advice. :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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