I'm just frustrated that it's been an issue twice now in the past three =
months.
Bernadette Roche'
Technology Coordinator
Oakhill Day School
bernadette.roche@oakhilldayschool.org
816.436.6228
=A0
-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for independent school educators =
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Adrian Bica
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 3:24 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Website host
Well... the beauty of this is that if you design your website in such
way that it is easily transferrable you can really move it if your
current provider collapses. (yes - even the crazy CMS solutions)
I actually moved the opposite way: from my local server to a hosting =
service.
My server used to crash like crazy and my linux guru was charging me
an arm and a leg to 'bring it back to life'... for until the power
went back down and left me in limbo again. At least now I have someone
to yell at when the website goes down...
Oh, and if you are not a geek, a hosting service offers you a very
nice interface to try all sorts of stuff:
moodle, drupal, joomla, forums etc, etc... too many to list here which
would take me absolute ages to install configure, update, upgrade,
up-whatever myself... Royal pain in the neck.
I am not sure who has the time to do all these things on their own.
As an educator I am not really interested in the innards of a computer
but in what I can get out of it for the kids to use and learn.
So I would really weigh all these when I would make a decision like =
this.
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Bernadette Roche
<Bernadette.Roche@oakhilldayschool.org> wrote:
> True - unfortunately I wasn't consulted about the decision and now I'm =
left with the pieces. =A0And what you described is what I'm =
experiencing.
>
> Bernadette Roche'
> Technology Coordinator
> Oakhill Day School
> bernadette.roche@oakhilldayschool.org
> 816.436.6228
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for independent school educators =
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Greg Kearney
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 3:04 PM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Website host
>
> I always figure that having a website and not owning the server it is
> on is a bit like owning a newspaper but not owning the press it is
> printed on. You will always be at someone else's mercy =A0in such a
> situation.
>
> Greg
>
> On 04/05/2009, at 1:56 PM, Bernadette Roche wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for assistance from schools that have their website's
>> hosted by an outside company, such as godaddy.com and others.
>>
>> We've had some issues with our website having significant downtime
>> this year. =A0We actually moved our site mid- year from one host
>> company to another. =A0Now we are experiencing more frequent
>> occurrences of downtime with this new company.
>>
>> If you host your website with an outside company and are happy with
>> your company, would you please share the name of the company? =
=A0Also,
>> if you have the names of companies to avoid, that would be helpful
>> too. =A0I don't know if we'll switch (again) or not, but the info =
will
>> be helpful regardless.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bernadette Roche'
>> Technology Coordinator
>> Oakhill Day School
>> bernadette.roche@oakhilldayschool.org
>> 816.436.6228
>>
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Director of Communications
and Educational Technology
Saklan Valley School
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Moraga, CA 94556
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