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Owen Densmore

Hosting + CMS?

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We're looking into which Hosting service to use, and what web Content
Management System to use for our new Santa Fe Complex. Several of us
have used HostGo and a variety of blog/cms software that they support.

But we may be outgrowing HostGo for The Complex.

Does anyone have suggestions and/or experiences?

One system I'm particularly interested in is Joyent (who bought
TextDrive), which has built a really interesting system on Ruby on
Rails + Open Solaris. They clearly have their heart in the right
place (support open source, make their own code open source, and even
give away free accounts), but I'm not yet sure if they'd fall down in
some areas we'll need.

-- Owen

Robert Holmes

Hosting + CMS?

Please not HostGo! Otherwise I'll never get any email from you guys (bounce,
bounce, bounce....)

One thing we discussed over lunch a week or so ago - how about hosting it
yourself? You'll probably be able to identify and repair problems faster
than the typical ISP's customer (non-)service. Plus you get to use whatever
open-source CMS you like (Joomla, Drupal etc) without any constraint imposed
by the ISP.

Robert

On 2/17/08, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:

>
> We're looking into which Hosting service to use, and what web Content
> Management System to use for our new Santa Fe Complex. Several of us
> have used HostGo and a variety of blog/cms software that they support.
>
> But we may be outgrowing HostGo for The Complex.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions and/or experiences?
>
> One system I'm particularly interested in is Joyent (who bought
> TextDrive), which has built a really interesting system on Ruby on
> Rails + Open Solaris. They clearly have their heart in the right
> place (support open source, make their own code open source, and even
> give away free accounts), but I'm not yet sure if they'd fall down in
> some areas we'll need.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>

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Alfredo Covaleda-2

Hosting + CMS?

Maybe it's what you are looking for. Is one of the choices I'm
considering to change my current hosting service. Furthermore
it's not expensive.

http://www.a2hosting.com/

Server run on Linux not in Solaris but offers:

Ruby & Rails
Perl / CGI-BIN
PHP 5
Zend Optimizer
Python (CGI)
SQLite 3.x
SQL Databases: MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
SSI (Server Side Include)
SSL (128-bit encryption)
Shell Access (SSH)

They also have Mambo, Drupal, Joomla and other PHP built on CMS.

Robert Holmes wrote:

>Please not HostGo! Otherwise I'll never get any email from you guys (bounce,
>bounce, bounce....)
>
>One thing we discussed over lunch a week or so ago - how about hosting it
>yourself? You'll probably be able to identify and repair problems faster
>than the typical ISP's customer (non-)service. Plus you get to use whatever
>open-source CMS you like (Joomla, Drupal etc) without any constraint imposed
>by the ISP.
>
>Robert
>
>
>On 2/17/08, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
>
>
>>We're looking into which Hosting service to use, and what web Content
>>Management System to use for our new Santa Fe Complex. Several of us
>>have used HostGo and a variety of blog/cms software that they support.
>>
>>But we may be outgrowing HostGo for The Complex.
>>
>>Does anyone have suggestions and/or experiences?
>>
>>One system I'm particularly interested in is Joyent (who bought
>>TextDrive), which has built a really interesting system on Ruby on
>>Rails + Open Solaris. They clearly have their heart in the right
>>place (support open source, make their own code open source, and even
>>give away free accounts), but I'm not yet sure if they'd fall down in
>>some areas we'll need.
>>
>> -- Owen
>>
>>
>>
>>============================================================
>>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>>lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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>
>============================================================
>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>

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Ingeniero Agr?nomo
Programador
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Robert J. Cordingley

Hosting + CMS?

In reply to this post by Owen Densmore

Owen,

For a commercial service I use Network Solutions (NS). They have 24x7
live support. You can check out their basic hosting packages at:

http://www.networksolutions.com/web-hosting/compare.jsp?showBuyNow=true

I notice they offer the open source tools of WordPress, Gallery and
Tikiwiki as well as offering Blog tools and ImageCafe to build your own
web site without coding HTML. I haven't tried out any of these but am
using their PHP and MySql in my current 'Web2.0' project. NS are one of
the domain name registrars too so you may also get a free domain name
with an account. For about $120/yr it seems a good deal to me. If you
get into capacity problems there's some serious upgrade options.

Here's what their site says about TikiWiki:

Tiki CMS/Groupware (Tikiwiki) is a powerful open-source Content
Management System (CMS) and Groupware that can be used to create Web
Applications, Sites, Portals, Intranets and Extranets. Major features
include articles, forums and newsletters. You can use Tikiwiki as a
forums site, a chatroom, for poll taking, customer support site and much
more... For additional information on Tikiwiki, visit:
http://www.tikiwiki.org <http://www.tikiwiki.org/>.

Thanks and good luck in your search.
Robert
PS Separately I sent you an invite from my NS account to your
backspaces.net account. R

Owen Densmore wrote:

> We're looking into which Hosting service to use, and what web Content
> Management System to use for our new Santa Fe Complex. Several of us
> have used HostGo and a variety of blog/cms software that they support.
>
> But we may be outgrowing HostGo for The Complex.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions and/or experiences?
>
> One system I'm particularly interested in is Joyent (who bought
> TextDrive), which has built a really interesting system on Ruby on
> Rails + Open Solaris. They clearly have their heart in the right
> place (support open source, make their own code open source, and even
> give away free accounts), but I'm not yet sure if they'd fall down in
> some areas we'll need.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
>

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James Steiner

Hosting + CMS?

In reply to this post by Owen Densmore

I use hosting matters (www.hostingmatters.com) for turtlezero.com and
others (e.g. www.peephaiku.com)

They offer "fantastico" for easy install of an assortment of
opensource cms and other apps,, plus you could install others at will.
Has all the usual stuff: php, perl, mysql, etc..

I find their support staff to be very responsive and have had no
problems with them in the 3 or so years I've used them.

Also:, inexpensive.

~~James

On 2/17/08, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:

Alfredo Covaleda-2

Hosting + CMS?

Certainly, Mambo and Joomla CMSs are so easy to customize.
Modules and Components can be easily built and thanks to the
recently incorporated OOP capabilities in PHP, these CMSs are becoming
powerful and easy tools. I don't know how to customize drupal an
other CMS included in Fantastico (nice word, ah!, Fant?stico ) but it
must be so simple too,
finally all of them are made in PHP.

Would be nice if somebody develops a CMS in Python or in Ruby.
?Why not, why not?. Sure they already exist.

ACV.

James Steiner wrote:

>I use hosting matters (www.hostingmatters.com) for turtlezero.com and
>others (e.g. www.peephaiku.com)
>
> They offer "fantastico" for easy install of an assortment of
>opensource cms and other apps,, plus you could install others at will.
> Has all the usual stuff: php, perl, mysql, etc..
>
>I find their support staff to be very responsive and have had no
>problems with them in the 3 or so years I've used them.
>
>Also:, inexpensive.
>
>~~James
>
>
>
>On 2/17/08, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
>
>
>>We're looking into which Hosting service to use, and what web Content
>>Management System to use for our new Santa Fe Complex. Several of us
>>have used HostGo and a variety of blog/cms software that they support.
>>
>>But we may be outgrowing HostGo for The Complex.
>>
>>Does anyone have suggestions and/or experiences?
>>
>>One system I'm particularly interested in is Joyent (who bought
>>TextDrive), which has built a really interesting system on Ruby on
>>Rails + Open Solaris. They clearly have their heart in the right
>>place (support open source, make their own code open source, and even
>>give away free accounts), but I'm not yet sure if they'd fall down in
>>some areas we'll need.
>>
>> -- Owen
>>
>>
>>
>>============================================================
>>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>>lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>>
>>
>>
>
>============================================================
>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
>

--

--------------------------------
Alfredo Covaleda V?lez
Ingeniero Agr?nomo
Programador
********************************
Compre y venda sus libros en:
http://www.loslibrosusados.com
********************************

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Marcus G. Daniels

Hosting + CMS?

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Owen Densmore wrote:
> We're looking into which Hosting service to use, and what web Content
> Management System to use for our new Santa Fe Complex.
How about some Second Life real estate for the complex?

http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/education

That way, when you're sitting in the virtual complex, an agent model can
be running around you in the same room. :-)

Marcus

Douglas Roberts-2

Hosting + CMS?

But,

The agents won't be built on software objects, right?

Just asking...

;-}

--Doug

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droberts at rti.org
doug at parrot-farm.net
505-455-7333 - Office
505-670-8195 - Cell

On Feb 17, 2008 8:56 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> Owen Densmore wrote:
> > We're looking into which Hosting service to use, and what web Content
> > Management System to use for our new Santa Fe Complex.
> How about some Second Life real estate for the complex?
>
> http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/education
>
> That way, when you're sitting in the virtual complex, an agent model can
> be running around you in the same room. :-)
>
> Marcus
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>

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Marcus G. Daniels

Hosting + CMS?

Douglas Roberts wrote:
> The agents won't be built on software objects, right?
In the City Different, it is a natural progression...

Marcus