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

[Jonathan]

That's an interesting idea Nick, re that particular section (News) ... 
in fact one or two things like "Decarbonise your Website" (2012) could 
do with updates and feedback perhaps?

And Chris's more recent guidance on securing WordPress websites is - 
IMHO somewhat "hidden" - Readers have to click "Read more" on a small 
item headed "Brute force attacks on WordPress sites" ... and another 
link there takes ppl to a WordPress page, away from our excellent advice 
on the matter ...

Is there any merit in thinking about an additonal section? FAQs and 
current eco/tech/political issues?

As a customer/potential customer I'd not think to click on a company's 
"News" section much because if I did I'd expect to see things like AGM 
notices, mergers, big new contracts etc... routine stuff.

Just some thoughts ....
Cheers
Jonathan


On 28/11/14 15:11, Nick Hardiman wrote:
> Instead of publishing all at once as a FAQ section, you could feed the
> https://webarch-dev.host1.webarch.net/news/ at the rate of one article
> or QA each day.
>
> That’s the kind of dynamic update that is SEO friendly.
>
>
>
>> On 28 Nov 2014, at 15:05, Jonathan <jonathan at webarch.net
>> <mailto: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
>> <http://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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