From jonathan at webarch.net Tue Jul 19 14:38:48 2016 From: jonathan at webarch.net (Jonathan) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:38:48 +0100 Subject: [webarch-websites] Soft launch of new Webarchitects website In-Reply-To: <20160207130110.GA2897@webarchitects.co.uk> References: <20160207130110.GA2897@webarchitects.co.uk> Message-ID: Yeah sure it sounds all right to me. I've got an Autumn Mailout in mind and this would make the basis of an article, among others : major update of our website and offerings ... Thanks for summing it all up Chris Cheers Jonathan On 07/02/16 13:01, Chris Croome wrote: > Hi > > We have had a couple of external reasons to launch a new > site for Webarchitects: > > 1. Nominet compliance, we agreed the text here with > Nominet at the end of last year and really needed to make > it live then: > > - https://www.webarchitects.co.uk/domain-renewal > > 2. HTTPS certificate expiry -- all the commercial certs > expired on Saturday 6th 2016 and to save a fair amount of > money we wanted to switch to Let's Encrypt certs. > > So due to the above we launched the new site on Friday: > > - https://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ > > Some pages still need more work on the content and I hit > the Let's Encrypt beta limit of 5 certs per TLD per week > before I got all the domain names right, so for the moment > there is an issues if the site is accessed without a www, > but this should be resolveable next week. > > I had to get a new commercial cert for > https://stats.webarch.net/ (some work is needed on the > Apache config to get the logo working). > > The Ecohost site was also replaced with the Webarchitects > site, but set to have a different front page: > > - https://ecohost.coop/ > > And the plan, for after half term, is to probably do the > same for Ecodissident. > > We have updated all the packages and prices on the site > but haven't quite got a new shared hosting server ready to > host anyone wanting to a new site, but hopefully I'll get > the last few issues resolved in the next week. The old > prices have been archived here: > > - https://docs.webarch.net/wiki/Packages_2012-2015 > > The plan is to have the AGM before we ask anyone using any > existing services to pay for things based on the new > prices. > > So, the launch was a "soft launch", > > - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_launch > > because of the issues above, but after half term, when we > have the next AGM date set, we should post of lists and > Twitter etc to announce the new site / prices etc. > > Hope all the above is OK with people -- myself, Adam and > Jonathan have been working on this site for several months > and as people know we have been meaning to launch a new > site with new prices (we lose money on everything, apart > from hourly work, with the old prices) for several years > and it is good to finally have it out there, though we are > not quite ready to shout about it yet... > > Please feel free to post any feedback to this list. > > All the best > > Chris >