[EdLUG] Hosting for small community website

[Keith Wyse]

Thanks everyone for all your help with this; there's a lot to think about
and organise.

I hope to be sharing a link to the finished site soon.

Keith


On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 15:10, Thomas Kluyver <thomas at kluyver.me.uk> wrote:

> I think Ian had good advice here: work out what the requirements are.
>
> Static sites are neat, but if you want other people to be able to update
> the website, chances are you can't expect them to do so through the command
> line. If you do want to use Wordpress, there are plenty of managed hosting
> services that will keep it up to date for you.
>
> Thomas
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021, at 14:28, Mark Turner wrote:
>
> Hi, firstly WordPress is OK for doing the layout, but so bad for security.
> So make a local WordPress site, and wget it to make a clone of the content
> and upload the static content.
>
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2021, 11:58 Keith Wyse, <kwyse3436 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all;
> I've been 'volunteered' to look after a small community website for
> Grantshouse on the A1.
>
> I am planning to build the website on Wordpress.
> It won't have a lot of traffic, mainly just community activities,
> community council updates, pictures, in a blog sort of fashion.
> After lockdown, it may grow a bit more, but probably not by much.
>
> Does anyone here run a similar site?
> Is there hosting out there for such sites?
> This is my first time deploying a site.
>
> Many thanks
> Keith
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