[PLUG] Web Hosting

[Tim Wescott]

On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 15:28 -0800, King Beowulf wrote:
> On 12/02/2014 02:36 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
> > I've had the job of webmaster for my model airplane club thrust upon me.
> > This is the site I'll be taking over: www.funflyers.org.
> > 
> > Currently it's just a simple static web site, but with a members-only
> > area behind a log-in.  The log-in is kind of a hack: there's only one
> > user name and password.  But there's no real private information in
> > there, and it provides a notice to the honest not to go there.
> > 
> > This whole log-in thing will be new to me (oh joy).
> > 
> > My most important question is -- who shall I go with?  My knee-jerk
> > response is to just go with GoDaddy, because I get all their ads.  But
> > for some reason, I seem to think that the PLUG crew may have some
> > opinions.
> > 
> > If possible I'd rather not get a slice on a server somewhere.  Rather,
> > I'd really like to get an account with a hosting company, to which I
> > just upload HTML files, and do some -- hopefully easy -- messing around
> > to affect the login.
> > 
> > Thank you for your suggestions.
> > 
> 
> Drupal or Django will give you lots of flexibility and better login
> systems/account control.  There are also lots of F/OSS templates for
> these or even plain HTML/CSS.  But whatever you do...egad!  Not
> 
> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">

Authoring will be in HTML under Eclipse.  It may not be the smartest
thing, but no, I'm not using FrontPage on this.

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Tim Wescott
www.wescottdesign.com
Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.
Phone: 503.631.7815
Cell:  503.349.8432