[webarch-websites] Website - Q & A ??

[Robert Daines]

Brilliant Jonathan

Robert

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Jonathan <jonathan at webarch.net> wrote:

> Sorry I haven't contributed much to the website dicussion overall so far;
> busy time, busy life :) I'm trying today to get back to that and other
> things.
>
> Suggestion: There is a document I've been 'building' by cut-and-paste from
> tech emails, edited a bit, of Q & As about Webarchitects service, blended
> with more general internet/hosting problems solved - could we use it on the
> website?
>
> now runs to 60 .odt pages
>
> Is maybe an FAQs section a good idea generally? - on the POSSE principle?
> Would it drive traffic in a useful way towards us?
> Or should we consider other options like a forum - with some of these
> posted and answered straightaway ("Clients questions answered") or Twiiter
> or whatever?
>
> ?
>
> Just a thought,
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
> PS: Here below are a few random examples from pp31-31:
> in a few cases prices are mentioned but generaly not
>
> ============================================================
>
> Q: In my Wiki Is it possible to lose one of the words from the URL so it
> either have http://mywiki.co.uk/wiki/ or http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/
> because the double wiki at the front and end seems a bit much.
>
> A: Yes we can do this (have on many other MediaWiki sites) even though
> there are dire warning why you shouldn't! See https://www.mediawiki.org/
> wiki/Manual:Short_URL
> Other useful things we can do: Save logo as favicon.ico:
> http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/favicon.ico
> Set a Apple icon: http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/apple-touch-icon.png
> And also set up a robots.txt: http://wiki.mywiki.co.uk/robots.txt
> As suggested here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Robots.txt
>
> Q: We want to sync documents between our workers. We would like to be able
> to back up our documents (presumably with a script) and have some method of
> restoring documents when necessary. We have been past users of Dropbox but
> would like a more co-operative solution. Can you help?
>
> A: We'd suggest an OwnCloud site: - https://owncloud.org/ There are
> clients for all platforms and and we would be happy to host an OwnCloud
> site for you and to set it up. Take a look at the feature it has:
> https://owncloud.org/features/
> You would need a SSL cert on a sub-domain, for example the site could be
> at https://cloud.yourwebsite.coop/ We would need to check your hosting
> plan to see if it's big enough to cover this, in which case it would just
> be the cost of a cert and our time to do the install, perhaps 15 mins. If
> you need a lot of space for OwnCloud then we can add additional space based
> on the backup space prices here: https://www.webarch.net/backups
>
> Q: We are thinking of a backup of our servers using a Synology NAS, can I
> sync to this as a fail safe?
>
> A: Yes, in theory -- their devices run Linux so assuming you have shell
> access you could set up a cronjob to backup your data via FTP from Ecohost
> servers, however then your data would be going over the network unencrypted
> so it might make more sent to set you up on one of the Webarchitects
> servers and then you will have SFTP access and your data would be encrypted
> in transit.
> To set up a OwnCloud server on a Webarchitects server would cost: Database
> S - £60 https://www.webarch.net/shared-hosting#phpmysql or 100GB backup
> storage space - £85  https://www.webarch.net/backups plus SSL cert -
> £22.50 https://www.webarch.net/certs and 30 mins setup (it might only be
> 15 mins) £21 https://www.webarch.net/pricing So, in total, £188.50.
>
> Q: We'd like to set up an intranet and thinking of using a Wordpress based
> system. How much would it be to set up a new database on our hosting
> package with Wordpress installed under intranet.ourwebsite.net? Also how
> soon could this be done?
>
> A: Database L package, say, comes with 3 databases.
> https://www.webarch.net/shared-hosting#phpmysql Also have you considered
> a SSL certificate for the intranet site? This would be an additional £22.50
> p/a but I'd strongly suggest that this would make sense if you want to keep
> your internal communications private, pricing is explained here:
> https://www.webarch.net/certs#certs
>
> Q: on the viability, sustainability of a Host 1 type server I would like
> to know how much bandwidth this service is taking up? Is this info
> available on Munin or in the git repository?
>
> A: See: https://munin.webarch.net/munin/webarch.net/tern.
> webarch.net/index.html
>
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