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

[Jonathan]

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

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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